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On March 20, 2003, the U.S. carried out its first airstrikes in Iraq. (Image credit: Eric Feferberg/AFP via Getty Images) Read More at NPR

Millions of dead fish have been found dead in an Australian river due to dangerously low oxygen levels in the water caused by receding flood waters, government officials said. (Image credit: Samara Anderson/AP) Read More at NPR

Since becoming president in 2017, Emmanuel Macron often has been accused of being out of touch. But government officials are hoping to survive a no-confidence vote because the opposition is divided. (Image credit: Lewis Joly/AP) Read More at NPR

Analysts say China’s role as a mediator in the past suggests limits to what it may achieve when it comes to Ukraine. (Image credit: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP) Read More at NPR

Every year Iranians around the world celebrate Nowruz. The Persian new year is a two-week festival that marks the start of spring. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Pien Huang speaks with Joshua Yaffa, author of the book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia, about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow this week. Read More at NPR

Canada claims China has interfered in its elections – the latest addition to a growing list of grievances between the two countries. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to two Iraqi journalists, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Rasha Al Aqeedi, about the consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq, 20 years ago. Read More at NPR

Young people throughout Greece have staged huge protests following last month’s train crash near the city of Larissa which killed 57 people, many of them students. Read More at NPR

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol in Ukraine. He also visited Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. Read More at NPR