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“The situation is really quite volatile,” Capt. Alessandro Crepy, with the Italian contingent of the peacekeeping group UNIFIL, says of the fighting between forces in Israel and Lebanon.

The loquacious donkey in the "Shrek" franchise is actually based on a real live animal, who is now 30 years old and racking up medical bills.

Since mid-April, heat waves have been baking in India, the world's most populous nation. The vulnerable are struggling to cope.

The U.S. Olympic swimming trials are underway in Indianapolis. More than 1,000 athletes are competing. Fewer than 60 will make it to next month's Summer Olympics in Paris.

An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert.

Staff Sergeant Gordon Black is on trial in Russia. He was stationed in South Korea and was about to return to the U.S. when he decided without authorization to enter Russia to see his girlfriend.

For the most vulnerable in New Delhi, it's a struggle to survive. Ishtiyaq, 24, who sells the cooling yogurt drink lassi in a bazaar, says: “What can I say brother? The poor must endure it all.”

The U.S. Olympic swimming trials begin Saturday in Indianapolis. While U.S. athletes aim to qualify for the Paris Games next month, a Chinese doping scandal is overshadowing the events.

Hurricane Beryl is an unusually strong storm for this time of year and it gained strength unusually fast. That's in part because of record high ocean temperatures driven by climate change.

Coal-fired power plants across Germany were scheduled to be shut down by the end of the year. But with Russia cutting gas deliveries, Germany is turning to coal.