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NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Rania Dagash-Kamara, UNICEF’s Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, about the crisis of food insecurity in Somalia as a result of extreme drought.

The European Union refuses to give Poland COVID stimulus payments worth billions and is threatening to withhold more unless Poland reverses changes limiting the judiciary’s independence.

After helping shore up the deal to allow grain shipments out of Ukraine, Turkey continues to ride the middle road in the war there, as a leading government official explains.

African nations want to increase how much money they receive from schemes that offset greenhouse gas emissions and are looking for ways to address the issue at U.N. climate talks currently underway in Egypt.

The most endangered Senate Democrat portrayed her Republican opponent as an election-denying extremist, defying national headwinds in a race that stayed tight until the end.

President Biden Announces Key Appointments  The White House

Student suspect in custody after 3 football players shot dead and 2 people wounded at the University of Virginia, police say  CNN 3 dead, 2 injured in shooting at University of Virginia & more top stories LiveNOW from FOX  LiveNOW from FOX

Biden and Xi clash over Taiwan in Bali but Cold War fears cool  Reuters Biden says after Xi meeting he doesn’t believe there is ‘imminent attempt’ from China to invade Taiwan  Fox News Hear what Biden and Xi said to each other

BLOOMBERG—Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 US states to resolve an investigation into the company’s location-tracking practices, in what state officials are calling the largest such privacy settlement in US history. The Alphabet Inc. unit

Republicans Pushing to Move Past Trump Face One Big Obstacle: His Voters  The New York Times