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Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year.
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Wilfredo Lee/APA federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas. The administration announced the fee as a way of preventing foreign workers from taking American jobs. -
Has the closure of the Strait of Hormuz set a new — and dangerous — precedent for international shipping lanes?
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More Americans are rethinking where they want to live. Some are heading to Southeast Asia, drawn in part by what they're seeing on TikTok and YouTube. But those videos don't tell the whole story.
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Xi traveled to Pyongyang on Monday in a likely attempt to reassert China's unique influence over its socialist neighbor. -
Israel and Iran's recent exchange of fire is threatening the truce in the Middle East. And, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading at an unprecedented rate, officials say. -
In the first papal address to the Spanish legislature, the American pope said a "moral renewal" was necessary in legislatures and public life to ensure respect for the inherent dignity of all people. -
China's President Xi Jinping is in North Korea, his first trip in seven years, in a bid to reassert China's influence in the region.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at an unprecedented pace, Africa CDC warns. -
The missile exchange marked a major escalation in the already tense region. But Israel and Iran both say they will stop attacking each other, with conditions. -
An offshore magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 32 people, injuring more than 200 others and sending a 3-foot tsunami into nearby coasts. -
Military strikes, sanctions and political pressure are becoming hallmarks of Trump's Latin America policy. NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with historian Greg Grandin about what's driving the shift.
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Shia Muslims from Pakistan say they're being deported from the UAE shortly after the Iran war began.
