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Iraqi Has Returned To U.S. After ICE Deported Him Against Court Orders

Muneer Subaihani at the airport in Baghdad on Tuesday, waiting to board the first of his flights back to the United States. Ahmed Qusay for NPR hide caption

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Iraqi Has Returned To U.S. After ICE Deported Him Against Court Orders

January 31, 2019 • Muneer Subaihani says immigration agents told him he would be in jail for life if he didn't agree to be deported to Iraq. On Tuesday, in a rare event, he was admitted back into the U.S.

Asylum-Seeker Barred From Entering Australia Wins Its Richest Literary Prize

Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist and asylum-seeker, won two prestigious Australian literary prizes for his debut, a book composed in text messages sent from a detention center on Manus Island. Hoda Afshar hide caption

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Book News & Features

Asylum-Seeker Barred From Entering Australia Wins Its Richest Literary Prize

January 31, 2019 • Behrouz Boochani, who has been detained offshore since 2013, had to compose his debut using WhatsApp messages. Now, that book has earned him the Victorian Prize for Literature

Months-Long Dutch Church Service To Protect Migrants Ends After Policy Shift

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Europe

Months-Long Dutch Church Service To Protect Migrants Ends After Policy Shift

January 31, 2019 • The Bethel Church in The Hague carried on services for 96 days to protect the Tamrazyan family, Armenian migrants who have lived in the Netherlands for nearly nine years, from deportation.

Former Venezuelan Diplomat Discusses Current Political Turmoil

January 31, 2019 • NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with former Venezuelan Ambassador Milos Alcalay about the country's political turmoil. Alcalay served in the Venezuela diplomatic corps for 35 years until 2004.

Former Venezuelan Diplomat Discusses Current Political Turmoil

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Juan Guaidó Claims Police Raided His Home As He Struggles To Consolidate Power

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Latin America

Juan Guaidó Claims Police Raided His Home As He Struggles To Consolidate Power

January 31, 2019 • Juan Guaidó accuses Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro of sending police to intimidate his family. The U.S.-backed opposition leader seeks to oust Maduro and replace him as interim president.

Middle East

World Health Organization Sounds Alarm About Dire Conditions As Syrians Flee Conflict

January 31, 2019 • The World Health Organization says 29 children have died as their families fled from fighting to a camp in northeastern Syria. Most have died from exposure to cold on the trip or at the camp.

World Health Organization Sounds Alarm About Dire Conditions As Syrians Flee Conflict

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Venezuela's Opposition Leader, U.S. Embark On Risky Strategy For Military Uprising

January 31, 2019 • The U.S. government and Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president are calling on the military to withdraw support for Maduro's government. But fomenting a coup could bring unexpected consequences.

Venezuela's Opposition Leader, U.S. Embark On Risky Strategy For Military Uprising

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National Security

Former U.S. Ambassador Says Withdraw From Afghanistan Is Surrender

January 31, 2019 • NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, about why Crocker thinks the American plan to withdraw from Afghanistan is surrender.

Former U.S. Ambassador Says Withdraw From Afghanistan Is Surrender

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National Security

Questions Remain After North Korea Says It Will Dismantle Nuclear Weapon Fuel Sites

January 31, 2019 • The U.S. special representative for North Korea says Kim Jong Un and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed in October that North Korea will dismantle its facilities that make fuel for nuclear weapons.

Questions Remain After North Korea Says It Will Dismantle Nuclear Weapon Fuel Sites

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Business

Does The U.S. Or China Have More Leverage In Ongoing Trade Talks?

January 31, 2019 • NPR's Audie Cornish talks with former China trade negotiator Amy Celico about who has the upper hand in the current round of trade talks, China or the U.S.

Does The U.S. Or China Have More Leverage In Ongoing Trade Talks?

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U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin

A U.S. court has ordered the Syrian government to pay $300 million for killing American journalist Marie Colvin in 2012. Colvin is seen here in London in 2010. Arthur Edwards/ WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption

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Middle East

U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin

January 31, 2019 • The judge ruled that Colvin was killed by Syria and "targeted because of her profession, for the purpose of silencing those reporting on the growing opposition movement in the country."

Technology

Could Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei Put U.S. Cyber-Security At Risk?

Fresh Air

January 31, 2019 • NY Times reporter David Sanger says the world's leading producer of telecom equipment will be central to the spread of a global 5G network — which could pose a major threat to U.S. national security.

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WHO Warns Of Dire Conditions, Deaths Of Children At Refugee Camp In Syria

Displaced Syrians gather inside a tent in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria in December. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Middle East

WHO Warns Of Dire Conditions, Deaths Of Children At Refugee Camp In Syria

January 31, 2019 • More than 20,000 people, mostly women and children, have arrived at the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria in just two months. The World Health Organization says aid workers are struggling to keep up.

Flush With Cash, China Continues to Borrow Billions From The World Bank

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Goats and Soda

Flush With Cash, China Continues to Borrow Billions From The World Bank

January 31, 2019 • From an economic standpoint, China does not need World Bank loans. So why is it still a top borrower?

Opinion: Here's Why U.S. Aid To Palestinians Needs To Continue

A construction worker saws steel rods at the site of a school that was funded by the United States Agency for International Development in the Palestinian village of al-Jabaa, in the West Bank, on Jan. 22. Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion

Opinion: Here's Why U.S. Aid To Palestinians Needs To Continue

January 31, 2019 • Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel B. Shapiro and Washington Institute for Near East Policy senior fellow Dana Stroul warn of the consequences of cutting U.S. assistance.