Category: 4. World

It’s been one week since the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in hopes of negotiating a permanent end to the war that has engulfed the Middle East since late February.

So is the conflict over yet? Not quite. But there’s been some…

Iran’s state media claimed Wednesday morning that a bulk carrier transporting food supplies and an Iranian crude oil tanker had entered Iranian waters after transiting the Strait of Hormuz, hours after a top U.S. military commander said a

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

The moment you board the…

BEIRUT (AP) — Jawad Younes, 11, and his cousins were playing soccer in the lot between their houses, as they often did. His little brother, 4-year-old Mehdi, had joined them but grew tired, so Jawad took…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that the stability and certainty of China-Russia relations are particularly “precious” in the face of an international landscape intertwined…

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A ​Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a Chinese ⁠man to pay a fine of 1 ​million shillings ($7,746) and gave him a 12-month jail term for trying to smuggle live…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Director General Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday that “very detailed” measures to verify Iran’s nuclear activities must be included in a potential agreement to end the war in the Middle East.