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The conflict in Sudan is intensifying, with paramilitary forces surrounding Al Fasher

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe asks Sudan-based reporter Zeinab Mohmmad Salih for an update on the violence in Sudan.

Experts say weigh in on what’s next as the war in Gaza shows no signs of slowing down

Nearly seven six months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the conflict seems headed for an open-ended Israeli military presence in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s government has voted to shut down the Al Jazeera office in Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his government has voted unanimously to shut down the local offices of Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy calls God an “ally” against Russia in Orthodox Easter message

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in an Easter address to be united in prayer and called God an “ally” in the war with Russia.

Canadian police arrest 3 suspects in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader

Police said they arrested three Indian nationals in the slaying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India.

One community in Israel didn’t have access to rocket shelters. They say it’s been deadly

Bedouin citizens of Israel are forbidden from building rocket shelters in their homes. The recent wars have made that policy deadly.

India is halfway through the voting season. The ruling BJP is showing signs of worry

India is almost halfway through its six-week-long election season. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attempting to win a third consecutive term by promising his brand of Hindu nationalism.

Senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in ‘full-blown famine’

Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent official so far to declare that trapped civilians in northern Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.

Biden tries get tougher on border security without alienating immigrant communities

The White House is shoring up defenses on one of its most sensitive issues: immigration. Biden is trying to balance border security while protecting vulnerable undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

A trek in the mountain forests of the Azores islands

Far out in the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of volcanic islands — a province of Portugal. We escape tor a mountain trek among the dairy cows and waterfalls of Sao Miguel island in the Azores.

Israel Hamas War Protests Worldwide; Visiting a Donkey Festival in Colombia

As protests over the Israel Hamas war roil college campuses across the U.S., similar protests are happening elsewhere in the world. We hear from some of them. And a quirky festival in Colombia celebrates the donkey.

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