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This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows a watchtower on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. As many as one million ethnic Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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This Ukrainian grandmother is rebelling against the wartime beach ban

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25 years ago, Princess Diana's shocking death became one of the first viral moments

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Fukushima could provide insight into a potential nuclear disaster in Ukraine

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Former Australian prime minister blames Fox News for America's polarized politics

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Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrives in a hotel with a delegation in Zaporizhzia, Ukraine, on Aug. 31. The delegation will travel to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid the Russia-Ukraine war. Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption

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What inspectors will look for at Ukraine's war-damaged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

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A man stands in front of a crater that was made from a missile strike in Slovyansk on Sunday morning. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Along the front lines in Ukraine, cut off from resources, a resilient city holds on

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People commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Lady Diana Spencer at the "Flamme de la Liberte" monument in Paris on Wednesday. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Princess Diana showed the world how to use celebrity for good

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Luisa García is the director of Profem Tijuana, a Mexican clinic that offers abortions and is near the border with the United States. In July, Americans made up an estimated 50% of patients seeking abortions there. Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR hide caption

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Tuesday

Former U.S. diplomat to Russia Thomas Graham on the life of Mikhail Gorbachev

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The life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco, June 5, 1990. Russian news agencies reported that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91, citing a statement from the Central Clinical Hospital. David Longstreath/AP hide caption

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Revisiting Ukraine's front line in Slovyansk

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What the resignation of popular Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr means in the Middle East

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