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State of the World from NPR
Immerse yourself in the most compelling and consequential stories from around the globe. The world is changing in big ways every day. State of the World from NPR takes you where the news is happening — and explains why it matters. With bureaus spanning the globe, NPR reporters bring you facts and co...
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A glimpse of one Iranian’s life in Tehran during the war
Understanding exactly what is happening inside Iran is difficult. The government rarely gives visas to western journalists and closely monitors those...
While the war in Iran gets attention, what’s happening in Gaza?
Five months ago, President Trump declared ceasefire in Gaza, having negotiated a deal that includes phased Israeli withdrawal from the territory and H...
Another front in the war with Iran: the Israel-Lebanon border
In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah militants backed by Iran have been firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s war in Iran. And Israel has be...
What four years of war in Ukraine looks like from Russia
Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine recently passed the four year mark. And over that time it has become the deadliest conflic...
Does the Iraq war hold lessons for Iran?
As we enter the second week of U.S. combat operations in Iran, NPR’s Leila Fadel considers the similarities and differences with the last time the Uni...
The effects of a widening war in the Middle East
A week ago, the U.S. and Israel began airstrikes on Iran, killing the regime’s leader and starting a war that has now threatens to to expand throughou...
Who will be Iran’s next leader?; How Ukraine might help defend the Gulf
A panel of clerics in Iran are meeting to decide on the next leader of the fundamentalist regime after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in recent air...
New information about the bombing of a school in Iran
New details are emerging about the bombing of a girls’ school in southeastern Iran that killed 165 people, many of them students, according to Iran st...
What is the strategy for regime change in Iran and is it working?
Days after Israeli and U.S. air strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel said it had targeted the building where top Irania...
What the war feels like in Iran and Israel
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran continue. Meanwhile Iran is retaliating, firing missiles Israel, but also U.S. allies in the Gulf like Bahrain,...
The U.S. and Israel launch a major attack on Iran
In an attack the Pentagon has called “Operation Epic Fury”, the United States along with Israel launched a major strike on Iran bombing sites in Tehra...
A crackdown on the online scam epicenter of the world
Cambodia and neighboring Laos have become centers for stealing money via bogus investment opportunities, romance scams and other online cons. The U.S...
The war raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo
It is a war for control over some of the world’s richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ethnic and political tension...
Israel’s far-right has dreams for Gaza
According to the Gaza peace plan President Trump negotiated between Israel and Hamas, Palestinians will not be displaced from the territory. This is...
After four years of war in Ukraine, how does each side see the conflict?
It has been four years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting a war the Kremlin believed would end in a matter of days with...
A wave of violence in Mexico after a drug lord is killed
In Mexico, chaos erupts after a major drug cartel leader is killed in a military raid. Armed men set fire to banks, businesses and vehicles in retali...
What is it like to return to Gaza?
According to the 20-point peace plan for Gaza brokered by President Trump, “No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be f...
Trump inaugurates his 'Board of Peace. Experts try to pinpoint his global doctrine
President Trump announced billions of dollars to rebuild Gaza at the meeting of his newly created organization in Washington, D.C. Foreign policy expe...
Palestinians see Israel's new West Bank security wall cutting off their farmland
Israel’s military says it’s planning a new barrier along the eastern border of the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Palestinian farmer...
Ice fishing is a peaceful retreat for war-weary Ukrainians
Kyiv residents venture onto the city’s frozen Dnipro River for a favorite past-time of ice fishing. The activity is a much-needed respite in Ukraine...
Street markets light up for Ramadan in Cairo and the Lunar New Year in Beijing
In Old Cairo, shoppers prepare for the holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and prayer. In Beijing, the Lunar New Year brings the Year of the Fire...
Storied newspaper makes deep cuts, and closes many international bureaus
The Washington Post laid off most of its foreign correspondents, including some of the last American and Western journalists working in authoritarian...
NATO coordinates Arctic defense plan. Japan’s teary goodbye to last pair of pandas.
NATO launches the mission in response to Russian and Chinese ambitions in the high North, and to President Trump’s threat of a U.S. takeover of Greenl...
Syria’s New Government Returns Property to Syrian Jews Who Left Decades Ago
Syria’s Jewish community fled the country’s repressive Assad regime. Now, a new government is encouraging their return by giving back ownership of syn...
US oil blockade roils life in Cuba. Venezuelans test new freedoms
Cuba hasn’t received an oil shipment since December. The shortage has grounded air travel, and disrupted food production, hospitals and schools. Vene...
The special phrase helping Cubans to get by
Cuba is in economic crisis. Its ally, Venezuela, is no longer sending oil, and the Trump administration is applying pressure. Life for Cubans is hard...
What is the environmental impact of the Winter Olympics?
As the Winter Olympics get underway in Milan and across the Italian Alps, our correspondent looks back at a bold pledge made by the organizers: that t...
Russia’s Hybrid War on Europe
Ever since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, experts say Russia has stepped up its hybrid war on Western Europe. Attacks on critical infrastructure...
Will the U.S. withdraw military forces from Syria?
The United States has been conducting military operations in Syria for more than a decade. Their mission has been to attack ISIS militants and to pro...
Fallout in the U.K. over the Epstein files
While there has been political turmoil in the U.S. over the latest release of photos and emails in the “Epstein files”, the consequences in the U.K. h...
Voices from inside Iran
Protests in Iran have been ongoing for over a month and according to one human rights group, over 6000 people have died. As the internet blackout beg...
China embraces A.I. in the classroom
While debate rages in the U.S. about the merits and risks of Artificial Intelligence in schools, in China, it’s a state-mandated part of the school cu...
Can Mideast peace be treated like a business deal?
President Trump approaches Middle East peacemaking as a business deal. In today’s episode we go to Israel and the Palestinian territory of the West B...
What to know about President Trump’s Board of Peace
In the past year, President Trump has often threatened or turned to military force. Yet he likes to present himself as a peacemaker, and that includes...
What have U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats accomplished?
Despite dozens of lethal U.S. strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, figures show drug flows to the U.S. continue to...
A thorny ethical question: should sperm samples taken from fallen soldiers be used?
In Israel, families whose sons have died in the war in Gaza have the option of having sperm samples retrieved for future offspring. Many have agreed...
Oil, dollars and daily survival: the strange state of Venezuela’s economy
Dollars are trickling back into Venezuela, they’re the proceeds from the oil seized and by the U.S. That is helping to stabilize runaway prices in Ve...
The promise and frustration of a future economic powerhouse on Africa’s west coast
The booming population along coastal corridor from the cities Lagos to Abidjan has the potential to be a bustling West African economic engine, tied t...
India’s black market for human eggs
We meet a woman in India who estimates she has dozens of biological children. And she says there are many more women like her, because India has a th...
How have global relationships with the U.S. changed in the last year?
It has been a year since President Donald Trump took office for his second term. And in that year many relationships between the United States and co...