Morning news brief
Donald Trump and Kamila Harris will campaign in Texas. Georgia grapples with heated political climate and potential for violence. LA County’s DA recommends the Menendez brothers be resentenced.
A defiant Putin closes global summit aimed at reshaping global order
Russian President Vladimir Putin neither confirms nor denies the presence of North Korean troops in Ukraine. Putin’s comments came during a press conference at a Russian-hosted summit for the world’s top developing economies.
What’s at stake in the upcoming election in the country of Georgia
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with elections analyst Tamara Sartania in Georgia’s capital, Tblisi, to talk about what’s at stake in the upcoming election and struggle for power.
Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?
This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to check up on their collective progress in slowing biodiversity loss.
Can they successfully turn those plans into action against what the United Nations is calling “humanity’s senseless and suicidal war with nature?”
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Morning news brief
Israel’s military has laid siege to northern parts of Gaza. U.S. says North Korea has sent troops to Russia for training. Many voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania focus on the issue of abortion.
U.S. says North Korea has sent troops to Russia for training
The deployment raises the potential for the North Koreans to join Russian forces in Ukraine and suggests expanded military ties between the two nations as Moscow seeks weapons and troops.
What we know about the North Korean troops that have been sent to Russia
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says North Korea has sent troops to Russia. The U.S. is now trying to determine whether the North Koreans will be heading on to Ukraine to take part in the war there.
Israeli Settlers Want to Permanently Occupy Gaza
Even as the war in Gaza is still on-going, there are calls from inside Israel’s right-wing government for a permanent occupation of the Palestinian territory and to allow Jewish settlements there. While the Prime Minister says this is not the governmen…
Mass trial shines a light on rape culture in France
A harrowing and unprecedented trial in France is exposing how pornography, chatrooms and men’s disdain for or hazy understanding of consent is fueling rape culture.
An attack on a Turkish defense company has killed 4 people
Assailants set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS, causing a number of casualties.
Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever
Their wages have always been low. With rising inflation and falling prices paid by Western companies for clothing, they’re protesting for better pay — and hoping the new government will spur change.
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