Alex Leff
International Digital Editor at NPR
@NPR digital editor, international. Previous journalism in Barcelona, Costa Rica & Boston. Brooklyn born and raised.
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6 days ago |
kpbs.org | Rebecca Rosman |Alex Leff
Updated June 20, 2025 at 17:38 PM ETPARIS — Foreign ministers from the United Kingdom, France and Germany met with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva on Friday, marking the most significant known diplomatic talks between Tehran and Western governments since Israel launched a surprise offensive against Iran one week ago.
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2 months ago |
kpbs.org | Charles Maynes |Joanna Kakissis |Alex Leff
MOSCOW, KYIV and WASHINGTON, D.C. — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine next week to honor the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. A statement posted on the Kremlin website said Putin has ordered a halt in Russian military activity, for "humanitarian reasons," starting May 8 at midnight and lasting three days for Victory Day, a solemn holiday marked by both Russia and Ukraine.
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2 months ago |
nhpr.org | Alex Leff
Updated April 08, 2025 at 12:00 PM ETTEL AVIV, Israel — Iran says it will have indirect talks with the United States this weekend in Oman, opening a possible path to diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program but revealing a potential sticking point about the format for negotiating.
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2 months ago |
opb.org | Daniel Estrin |Alex Leff
Mourners gather around the bodies of eight Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, March 31. Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel’s claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month.
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Mar 29, 2025 |
wfae.org | Alex Leff
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israel military launched a strike on suburban Beirut Friday, saying it was targeting a drone storage facility used by Hezbollah,after early morning rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward northern Israel. The Israeli military said it warned residents to evacuate prior to the strike. Plumes of smoke rose from Beirut's southern suburbs.
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Breaking -- from my colleagues @TBowmanNPR + @Ximena_Bustillo on how the US will use National Guard troops for immigration enforcement
NEW: NPR has obtained a DHS memo requesting some 20,000 National Guard troops to help a wide variety of ICE tasks including "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities. h/t @TBowmanNPR