NPR News: 11-24-2025 4AM EST

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Negotiations continue in Geneva between the U.S., the U.K., the EU, and Ukraine on ending the war with Russia.

Speaker 2 But as those talks are underway, NPR's Hannah Palomarenko reports reports from Kyiv that fighting in eastern Ukraine remains intense.

Speaker 3 Ukrainian open-source analyst Deep State report that Russian forces advanced in Pokrovsk and a nearby village in eastern Donetsk region.

Speaker 3 Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Sirsky noted that Russians continue to attempt to infiltrate residential areas and cut off supply routes.

Speaker 3 But Ukrainian airborne assault forces say that they are holding their positions in the city center, small arms battles are continuing, and the Russians are unable to gain a foothold.

Speaker 3 Earlier, Russia claimed to have occupied several settlements in the area, but neither the Ukrainian general staff nor analysts confirmed this. Hanna Polomarenko, NPR News, Kyiv.

Speaker 2 The holiday travel season is getting underway, and AAA says more than 81 million people will be taking advantage of a few days off from work to visit family.

Speaker 2 The auto agency says 73 million people will be driving more than 50 miles to their destination, while another 6 million will take to the air.

Speaker 2 TSA officer Rico Walker says he and his coworkers are ready for the holiday crunch.

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Speaker 2 Another 2.5 million people will be using other methods of travel, including buses and trains.

Speaker 2 Six airlines have suspended flights to Venezuela following a warning from the FAA about security risks and increased military activity in the area.

Speaker 2 The warning warning follows increased pressure by the U.S. military, including bomber flights and naval deployments to the region.

Speaker 2 The Trump administration does not recognize Venezuela's president as a legitimate leader.

Speaker 2 In Nigeria, officials say 50 of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a boarding school on Friday have escaped and returned home, and Pierre's Jewel Bright has a report.

Speaker 5 Officials of the Christian Association of Nigeria say the 50 students aged 10 to 18 escaped individually after they were taken from their dorms at the St.

Speaker 5 Mary's Catholic School in Niger State on Friday. No group has claimed responsibility for the abduction and authorities say a massive search and rescue operation is underway.

Speaker 5 The attack is one of Nigeria's biggest school abductions since the 2014 kidnapping of 260 Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Hora militants. Nigeria has seen a wave of attacks in recent days.

Speaker 5 targeting schools and places of worship. 25 students were taken from another boarding school in a neighboring state.

Speaker 5 Gunmen also attacked a church where they killed two worshipers and abducted 38 others. Nigeria's president announced today that all worshipers abducted in the church had been rescued.

Speaker 5 Drew Bright, NPR News Zagers.

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Speaker 2 It was a slow start to the trading week in Asia on Monday. Markets were closed in Japan for a holiday.

Speaker 2 South Korea's tech-heavy Cospi Index was up seven-tenths of a percent, while the MSCI's broadcast index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose four-tenths of a percent.

Speaker 2 NASDAQ futures meanwhile were up 0.64% while the SP 500 futures were up 0.45. Eurostox 50 futures climbed 0.78%.

Speaker 2 The U.S. may be facing another rough flu season.
We have more from NPR's Rob Stein.

Speaker 6 This year's flu season is just getting going, but there are already signs that it may be a nasty one.

Speaker 6 The southern hemisphere just ended a long intense flu season and what happens in the southern hemisphere often predicts what's in store for the northern hemisphere.

Speaker 6 And parts of the northern hemisphere, like the UK, are already getting hit hard. And that's not all.

Speaker 6 The strain of the flu that's dominant so far tends to make people sicker and a new variant recently emerged raising questions about how well the vaccines may work.

Speaker 6 Nevertheless, experts say the shots should work well enough so people should get vaccinated right away. Rob Stein and PR News.

Speaker 2 Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has started notifying young people in Australia to download their digital histories and delete their social media accounts.

Speaker 2 The warning comes just ahead of a new law that bans social media in Australia for anyone under the age of 16.

Speaker 2 The government says the platforms must comply with the age restrictions no later than December 10th. Meta is the first social media platform to produce a compliance plan for the new law.

Speaker 2 Meta is a financial supporter of NPR. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

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