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A South African journalist on Trump’s claim that white South Africans are victims

NPR’s Michel Martin talks with South African journalist Redi Thlabi about President Trump’s claim that white South Africans are disproportionately the victims of violence.

Netanyahu says Israeli military will take full control of Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military will take full control of the Gaza territory. The announcement came as a the new military offensive draws international rebukes.

War Crimes

On today’s episode, we travel from the battlefields of the U.S. Civil War, through the rubble of two world wars, to the hallways of the Hague, to see how the modern world has tried to define — and prosecute — war crimes. This episode originally aired a…

Trump tried to shutter Radio Free Europe. The EU threw it a lifeline

EU officials say the broadcaster for years has played an important role providing news to areas where the press can’t operate freely

An Interview with President Trump’s Ambassador to Israel

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says he’s “outraged” at at the leaders of the UK, France, and Canada for condemning Israel’s new military offensive in Gaza. He sat down with NPR to express the U.S. view of the conflict as pressure on Israel fro…

Trump shows South Africa’s Ramaphosa a video montage in tense Oval Office meeting

President Trump meets in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Bilateral relations are at their lowest since the end of apartheid.

Russia sent novice spies to Brazil. Then Brazil exposed them

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jane Bradley of The New York Times about her investigation with Michael Schwirtz into Brazil’s unmasking of Russian spies in their midst.

U.S. Ambassador Huckabee is ‘outraged’ at European leaders for condemning Israel

In an interview with NPR, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said the U.K., Canada and France were “blaming the wrong perpetrator,” and that Hamas is responsible for the suffering in Gaza.

Why Baptists in North Carolina agreed to resettle Afrikaners as refugees

Despite controversy over Afrikaners’ refugee status, a Baptist ministry says they have a religious duty to help settle them in the U.S.

Greetings from Afrin, Syria, where Kurds danced their hearts out to celebrate spring

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international correspondents share moments from their lives and work around the world.

South African president visits the U.S. And, GOP divided over Trump’s tax bill

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to meet President Trump today in an attempt to reset relations between the two countries. And, House Republicans are divided over Trump’s massive bill.

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