<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3000×1997+0+0/resize/3000×1997!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb2%2Ffa%2F8339e4224b7abba026f8860417b9%2Fdikan-center-11.jpg' alt='Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced photography as a career — and was inspired to create a library of photobooks about Africa. Above: Ninson in the Dikan Center in the capital city of Accra, which marked its second anniversary this month. He's holding a copy of the center's oldest book, The Gold Coast Yesterday … Read more

Ferns are growing where there used to be cattle pastures at the El Globo habitat bank and nature reserve in Antioquia, Colombia. In the background are hills that neighbors cleared for cattle pasture. Stan Alcorn/NPR hide caption toggle caption Stan Alcorn/NPR Ferns are growing where there used to be cattle pastures at the El Globo … Read more

The outgoing U.S. national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, has been a top advisor and envoy to President Biden on issues of foreign policy. He talks to NPR about his view of recent events in the Middle East, the U.S. relationship with China and the future of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Source link

Twenty-five years ago, a six-year-old boy named Elian Gonzalez appeared off the coast of Miami. He and his mother had been traveling by boat to the U.S. from Cuba. His mother didn’t survive the journey, but remarkably, Elian did. And almost immediately, his fate became the subject of an international debate: Should he stay in … Read more

Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical and biological protection unit, attends a briefing in Kubinka Patriot park, outside Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2018. AP/AP hide caption toggle caption AP/AP MOSCOW — An explosive device planted near an apartment building in Moscow killed the head of Russia’s nuclear and … Read more