Day: June 18, 2024
NPR News: 06-18-2024 10PM EDT
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Biden and Trump trade attacks in an escalating fight over immigration. Plus, one senator is calling the Boeing CEO congressional testimony a moment of reckoning after growing worries over the safety of Boeing airplanes. Also, Kim Jong Un gives Putin a hug and the red-carpet treatment in North Korea as the two countries increase their military cooperation.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s speech at the meeting with senior staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow … Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации
Thanks to a troubled economy and gains by the far right in the European elections, Germany’s sense of identity is in the balance. Could footballing success bring the country back together? Philip Oltermann reports
The last time Germany hosted a major football tournament was the World Cup in 2006. With a multicultural team that won the nation’s hearts, for many it felt as though a new, more open sense of German patriotism was being formed.
Fast forward to 2024 and, with an economy that slipped into recession last year, things feel very different. Last month there were big gains in the European elections for the far-right AfD party – whose popularity withstood some worrying and well-publicised scandals.