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NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks to Sarhang Hamasaeed, director of Middle East programs for the United States Institute of Peace, about popular Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s resignation.

The government has sent evacuation orders to Ukraine’s Donbas region but many remain. One sparsely open city has become a hub for Ukrainian military members taking a break from the front line.

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91, according to Russian media.

Mikhail Gorbachev was a village boy of Russian-Ukrainian heritage who changed the course of 20th century history.

Driving through Sindh province in Pakistan, you expect to see crops of wheat, sugar cane and rice, and mango, date and banana trees.

Gazprom said the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would undergo three days of maintenance, raising worries about a complete shutdown of Russian gas deliveries to Germany.

Anatoly Kurmanaev, a New York Times reporter, recalls a childhood forever changed by a man with a distinctive birthmark.

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents  CNN Jackson water crisis: Mississippi’s largest city’s water system fails  WHAS11 Jackson State’s Deion Sanders says team is in ‘crisis

Biden, in Pennsylvania, touts gun control and hits Republicans  The Washington Post Biden to spotlight fight to protect democracy following jabs at ‘MAGA Republicans’  Fox News President Biden begins barnstorming tour to campaign on midterm election issues  KPIX CBS SF Bay Area Biden

Statement of President Biden On the Passing of President Mikhail Gorbachev  The White House