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President Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping shake hands in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30 Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Trump and China’s top leader Xi Jinping held a phone call Monday, the latest in a flurry of diplomatic and trade parries between the two … Read more
People stand near a display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines on gunmen abducting schoolchildren and staff of the St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri community in Nigeria, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. Sunday Alamba/AP hide caption toggle caption Sunday Alamba/AP ABUJA, Nigeria — Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 23. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images PARIS — Ofer Bronchtein was brought to tears as French President Emmanuel Macron delivered his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country must choose between “dignity” and U.S. support as peace deal deadline looms. Source link
A rare earth minerals mine in China’s Jiangsu province, photographed in 2010. /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption /AFP via Getty Images With names like neodymium and dysprosium, rare-earth elements sound exotic — and their perceived scarcity has only added to the mystique. In reality, rare earths aren’t that rare, but just difficult … Read more
Smoke rises over buildings after a fire in Oita, southern Japan, Wednesday. Kyodo News/AP hide caption toggle caption Kyodo News/AP TOKYO — Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring another and forcing more than … Read more
Fans of Curaçao react as they watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier football match between Jamaica and Curacao in Willemstad in Curaçao. The tiny Caribbean nation became the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup on Nov. 18 ANGEL BATTA/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption ANGEL BATTA/AFP via Getty BOGOTA, Colombia … Read more
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a century. These hollow wooden figurines, shaped like squat bowling pins and painted ornately, come in sets that nest neatly one inside another. … Read more
People gathering next of ambulances outside a hospital where they brought the victims of the Israeli strike that hit the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Tuesday. Mohammad Zaatari/AP hide caption toggle caption Mohammad Zaatari/AP SIDON, Lebanon — An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern … Read more
Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai in 2019. Nakadai died at the age of 92 over the weekend. STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images Tatsuya Nakadai, a veteran Japanese actor best known for films such as Ran, High and Low and Harakiri, died on Saturday at the age of … Read more