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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah Wednesday is expected to be charged with aggravated murder. Authorities say 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was apprehended 10 p.m. local time, 33 hours after he allegedly gunned down Kirk at an outdoor rally on the campus of Utah Valley University. NPR's Frank Ordonez reports President Trump says the person responsible should be given the death penalty. President Trump praised a collaboration between local law enforcement and federal officials. In an interview with Fox and Friends, Trump said, quote, we got him. Well, I hope he was going to be found guilty, I would imagine, and I hope he gets a death penalty. What he did, Charlie Kirk was the finest person that he didn't deserve this.

The arrest follows a widespread search that began soon after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking at a college in Utah on Wednesday. Utah's governor said casings found, along with a rifle, had inscriptions that read, among other things, hate fascist catch. Officials believe the suspect acted alone, but the governor says the investigation continues. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, New York. NPR's Odette Yousef reports the country is seeing an increase in what some call non-ideological extremism, where people with an incoherent jumble of ideological influences carry-out mashers. shootings. However, data show one group continues to pose the biggest domestic threat. The FBI has said

many times over recent years, the most lethal and persistent threat when it comes to violent extremism up till now has come from violent white supremacists. Now, there is concern among extremism analysts that we may be seeing or soon to see a shift toward more violence from the left, but we really don't have enough data at this point. NPR's Odette Yousaf reporting. Russian and Belarus will hold Russian and Belarus forces will hold several days of mass joint military exercises along NATO's eastern flank, starting today. The military drills are taking place at a moment of spiraling tensions with the Western military alliance. Here's NPR's Charles Mains. The military exercises will see thousands of Russian and Belarusian troops respond to a mock invading force and include stagings in the Baltic and Barents seas as well as simulated deployments of nuclear weapons.

While the Kremlin says the maneuvers are not aimed against anyone in particular, they come just days after an apparent breach of Polish airspace by Russian drones, prompting concerns the war in Ukraine could spill over into neighboring states. Poland announced it was shutting its border to Belarus amid the exercises. Fellow NATO members, Lithuania, and Latvia are also stepping up security. The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitri Paskov, accused them of hyping the Russian threat in a moment of what he called emotional overload. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.

It's NPR. Nepal's military has extended its curfew to prevent violence as negotiations continue for an interim government. Comes as a police spokesman tells NPR more than 50 people died in protests at topple the former government earlier this week. NPR's Diyadhid with the latest from Mumbai. The curfew has loosened. Residents are allowed to purchase essentials. Some buses are now operating. But it's expected to live. last as negotiations continue to appoint an interim government. The former Chief Justice, So Sheila Karaki, is widely expected to be announced as interim leader. Those developments

come at whiplash speed. Students only took to the streets Monday to protest against a social media ban which they believed was implemented to thwart their efforts to draw attention to government corruption. Security forces fired on the protesters as they tried to breach Parliament, initially killing 19 people. That led to massive violent protests on Tuesday. The former Prime Minister resigned and is now in hiding. Dear Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai. Hundreds of South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia last week have arrived back in their home country. They reportedly were greeted by relatives and applause. The South Korean nationals were arrested along with 10 people from China,

three from Japan and one from Indonesia. The president of South Korea has warned that the immigration raid may now make South Korean companies more hesitant to invest in the U.S. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington.