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  • The Shifting Conditions Confronting The French Hostage Negotiator
    Steve Inskeep speaks with Robert McFadden, a senior vice president of the Soufan Group and a 30-year veteran of U.S. law enforcement, for details on the security situation in and around Paris.
  • Filmmaker Searches For 'White Widow' Of London Bombing
    Documentarian Adam Wishart has spent the last year trying to find Samantha Lewthwaite, who is believed to be involved in terrorist activities. He talks to NPR's Linda Wertheimer about his search.
  • Palestinian artist Mohammed al-Dairi paints a mural of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (right) and late Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (left), in Gaza City. Hamas leaders are divided on what direction to take the Islamist movement, with some calling for reconciliation with Arafat's Fatah movement.
    In Gaza, Calls For Change Put Hamas At A Crossroads
    The Islamist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, is undergoing "fundamental change," according to analysts and the statements of its senior leaders. Hamas leaders say there are divisions among the ranks as they try to grapple with where to push the movement.
  • Most farm injuries come when children are playing or visiting, not working.
    Children Face Dangers On Farms, But Not From Farmwork
    Injuries to children on farms cost the nation $1.4 billion a year, according to a new study. But most of the injuries and deaths happen to children and teens who aren't working on the farm.
  • Chris Roady (as Ben) and Crystal Gould (as Abby) in "The Mercy Seat."
    Two Plays Explore Themes of 9/11
    Along with journalists and historians, playwrights can serve an important role in helping people make sense of national tragedies. And the results can…
  • Three Books On Entering Strange New Worlds
    It can be a frightening feeling, being out of place. Entering someone else's world and having to learn the ropes is a daunting task. Granta editor Ellah…
  • Panel Recommends Paying Eugenics Victims $50,000
    In North Carolina Tuesday, a state eugenics task force has recommended paying $50,000 to people the state sterilized against their will. It's not as much money as the victims had hoped, but it's one of the first times a state has offered any money.
  • Immigrants from Senegal protest against racism in Florence, Italy, on Dec. 17, 2011. Four days earlier, an Italian man killed two African street sellers and wounded three others in a shooting spree in Florence.
    Italy's Bad Economy Leaves Immigrants Vulnerable
    Immigrants say they face increasing hostility on the streets, and legislation would require the government to deport foreigners who don't have jobs.
  • An Israeli survivor is carried on a wheelchair to an ambulance as he leaves a hospital in Burgas, Bulgaria, on Thursday. A suicide bomb attacker killed eight people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport, the country's interior minister said, and Israel pointed its finger at Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants.
    'Shadow War' Between Israel And Iran Creeps Wider
    Almost immediately after a bomb killed several Israeli tourists and wounded more than 30 on a Bulgarian bus this week, Israel blamed Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. It's the latest salvo in a dispute that's simmered since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
  • 'Bath Salts' Drug Suspected In Miami Face-Eating Attack
    The drug has been linked to other crimes in which the suspect becomes irrational and violent. In some ways, they're a "walking dead person," according to the president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police.
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