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A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall along Florida's Big Bend region on Thursday. Forecasters warn the storm surge could be as high as 20 feet -- with powerful winds and heavy rainfall.

Over 800 marine species have recently been discovered including a guitar-shaped shark off the coast of Mozambique. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks to marine biologist, Lucy Woodall.

China's global building spree – the Belt and Road Initiative – allows Beijing to build infrastructure across the world and exert its political influence. But things don't always go well on the ground.

As U.S. and Chinese leaders meet this week, the world is watching, and so are residents of Thitu Island in the disputed South China Sea, known in the Philippines as the West Philippine Sea.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the U.S. seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Anita Lee, reporter for the Sun Herald, about the growing national attention in the case Nolan Wells, a teenager found dead off of Mississippi's gulf coast.

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Geraldine Coughlan reports from The Hague that the international war crimes tribunal has handed down indictments related to attacks by Yugoslav forces on the city of Dubrovnik in 1991 during Croatia's war of independence. The court has not revealed the names of the defendants nor released the text of the indictment. The individuals named have been charged with murder, attacks on civilians and destruction of historic monuments -- in breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The medieval walled city of Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast, has been designated a world heritage site by the United Nations.