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WHO cautions disease may kill more people in Gaza than combat. The New York Times sues ChatGPT's OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, and 2023 is expected to be the hottest year on record.

Mansour al-Nogaidan was a radical Islamist in the 1990s who was jailed in Saudi Arabia. He abandoned his extreme beliefs and is now a moderate who advises governments on how to prevent and reverse radicalization.

When Islamic Radicals Turn Moderate

The world has been focused in recent days on Muslims who have been radicalized. Here's the story of a radical who turned moderate.

At a 2015 press conference with President Obama in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn asked the foreign press corps to "help our journalists to increase their capacity."

Freed From Prison, Ethiopian Bloggers Still Can't Leave The Country

Just before President Obama's visit to Ethiopia last year, jailed bloggers and journalists were suddenly released from prison — a welcome gesture of openness. But their freedom goes only so far.

Spurred By Success, Publishers Look For The Next 'Hunger Games'

The Hunger Games has been a huge success, and the film adaptation is only weeks away. Now, publishers are looking for the next big dystopian hit.

Protective gear runs from goggles and head covering to gloves and boots. This health worker was photographed leaving the isolation area at the treatment center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone.

This Suit Keeps Ebola Out — So How Can A Health Worker Catch It?

The head-to-toe protective gear is designed to prevent Ebola from infecting health care workers, yet some do contract the disease. It's not the suit's fault. It's likely a case of human error.

Fetuses in the third trimester responded more often to patterns that resembled faces than to patterns that did not.

Fetuses Respond To Face-Like Patterns, Study Suggests

Fetuses in the third trimester responded more often to patterns that resembled faces than patterns that did not. The findings don't mean fetuses can recognize their parents' faces before they're born.

Iranians walk through the main bazaar in Tehran in January. Sanctions by the EU and U.S., plus political woes related to the Syrian uprising, have created the most serious crisis faced by Tehran since the 1980s.

From All Sides, Iran Under Siege

Iran is facing its most serious challenge since the war with Iraq in the 1980s.

Chef Hugh Acheson has a new book on slow cooking that he hopes will help get people cooking from scratch again.

'The Chef And The Slow Cooker': An Old Technology That's Newly Relevant

Chef Hugh Acheson's new book contains more than 100 recipes for the workhorse kitchen tool of convenience. He says this old standby "really is a gateway to cooking from scratch again."

A Look At The Parallels Between U.S. Relations With North Korea And Iraq

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Charles Duelfer, who led the Iraq Survey Group, about parallels between Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush's assumptions about each other, and Kim Jong Un and Trump's.

Volunteers assemble tens of thousands of sandwiches each day at the Coliseo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chef José Andrés, who is overseeing the massive effort to feed displaced Puerto Ricans, calls it "one of the most effective sandwich lines made by volunteers in history — I'm so proud of them."

Chef José Andrés Has Served Nearly 1.5 Million Meals To Hungry Puerto Ricans

In the capital, San Juan, the coliseum has become the center of a massive effort, led by D.C. restaurateur and celebrity chef Andrés, to feed tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria.

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