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State of the World from NPR

Immerse yourself in the most compelling and consequential stories from around the globe. The world i

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Richard Haass served in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department. For the last 20 yea

Two Russian media outlets have tried to find the true number of Russian soldiers who have died in Uk

Russia has pulled out of a deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain to markets around the world from bloc

NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow tells us about two significant developments between Russia and Ukrain

Though Russian cyberattacks have not been a major factor in the war in Ukraine, Russian cyber-crimin

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg talks about Sweden being admitted to the alliance and what i

At the NATO summit in Lithuania, Ukraine didn't get a pathway to join the alliance as it had hoped.

The Kremlin has revealed President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his

Turkey's president Erdogan said he would not stand in the way of Sweden joining the NATO alliance, e

A young award-winning novelist who retrained as a war crimes researcher to document Russian atrociti

Ukraine and Russia each say the other is planning to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

When Russia launches an airstrike on Kyiv, the first line of defense is parked in a hayfield outside

The Zaporizhzhia region is currently an active frontline in the Urainian counteroffensive against Ru

Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and Internat

NPR Moscow correspondent Charles Maynes explains what we know about the leader of Belarus, Alexander

We hear from US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner on the dramatic uprising and then

A mercenary leader launched a brief uprising against the Russian military and the authority of Vladi

U.S. military support has been crucial to Ukraine throughout the war and is a key component to their

Cheap, widely-available drones have given Ukraine a real advantage on the battlefield. Greg Myre te

Julian Hayda takes us to northern Greece where there is a site, holy to Orthodox Christianity, that