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  • Childhood Stamp Collection Opened a Reporter's Eyes to the World

    Childhood Stamp Collection Opened a Reporter's Eyes to the World
    2025/07/15
    Clearing out a closet, attic or garage can be a chore. Old photographs, clothes and books can create clutter, or take up space that's sometimes needed for something else. But every so often, the heirlooms or mementos that you find retain some value: if that's emotional value, it can be hard to part with them. If it's financial, that can make it easier, as Willem Marx hoped it would be with his childhood stamp collection in London.

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  • Syrians in Turkey Decide Whether to Return Home

    Syrians in Turkey Decide Whether to Return Home
    2025/07/14
    Millions of Syrians fled their country during the civil war that lasted more than a decade. Now the dictator has been deposed and the country is trying to recover. Many ex-pat Syrians, including a large number in Turkey, are looking at what they have left in Syria and deciding whether to return.

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  • Russia Intensifies Its Air War in Ukraine

    Russia Intensifies Its Air War in Ukraine
    2025/07/11
    Russia ratcheted up air attacks by drones and missiles on Ukraine this week. The increase comes as President Trump has expressed frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin's seeming unwillingness to enter talks to end the war. Trump indicated the U.S. would resume shipments of weapons to Ukraine that had previously been suspended. Our correspondent in Kyiv gives us the latest.

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  • Syria, Six Months After a Dictator Departed

    Syria, Six Months After a Dictator Departed
    2025/07/10
    Our correspondent goes back to Syria six months after the ouster of dictator Bashar Al-Assad to see the country's growing pains in its new era.

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  • Who Will Become the Next Supreme Leader of Iran?

    Who Will Become the Next Supreme Leader of Iran?
    2025/07/09
    Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is 86 years-old and his political power is weakened following the short war with Israel. Our correspondent explores who, or what, could replace Khamenei upon his death.

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  • What a Long Lost Typewriter Says About Chinese Culture

    What a Long Lost Typewriter Says About Chinese Culture
    2025/07/08
    A typewriter recently discovered in a basement in upstate New York holds important clues about the origins of Chinese computing. And brings up questions about language and culture.

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  • Nigeria's Farmers Face Rising Attacks Amid Land Disputes

    Nigeria's Farmers Face Rising Attacks Amid Land Disputes
    2025/07/07
    In the fertile central region, the fights between herders and farmers for land access has become violent. We go to one village where over 160 people were killed in what villagers say was an effort to drive them off their farms.

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  • China Works to Dominate in AI and EV

    China Works to Dominate in AI and EV
    2025/07/03
    The reality of China's efforts to lead in two important tech sectors. In artificial intelligence, control of the data needed to train new models could dictate where the industry is able to expand fastest. And a price war in China's electric vehicle industry.

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    9 分