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Pancho Arena, soccer stadium in Felcsút, Hungary. Rob Schmitz/NPR hide caption toggle caption Rob Schmitz/NPR To the outsider, the Pancho Arena, a massive soccer stadium built to seat 4,000 fans, seems out of place in the tiny Hungarian village of Felcsút. The village, nearly an hour drive from Budapest, Hungary’s capital, has a population that … Read more
At a concert in Budapest, musicians and concertgoers express criticism of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership. Source link
In Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, officials from the US and Iran met to discuss a possible end to the war that’s engulfed much of the Middle East. Source link
Pope Leo XIV leads a vigil for peace inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregorio Borgia/AP ROME (AP) — In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded … Read more
Pedestrians pass election campaign signs for presidential and congressional candidates, before the weekend’s election in Lima, Peru, April 10, 2026. Martin Mejia/AP hide caption toggle caption Martin Mejia/AP LIMA, Peru — Even by the chaotic standards of Peru’s recent politics, this Sunday’s election has the potential to confuse and frustrate the Andean nation’s 27 million … Read more
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) takes a group photo with AI company leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (third from right), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (second from right), Google CEO Sundar Pichai (third from left) and Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang (second from left), at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on … Read more
Children ride a bicycle and play in the Roj camp in a Kurdish-held territory in northeast Syria in March. The detention camp houses wives and children of ISIS members. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR ROJ CAMP, Syria — This isolated detention camp doesn’t look like it would be a legacy of the … Read more
A police officer walks past a billboard regarding the United States and Iran negotiations, outside a media facilitation center in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Anjum Naveed/AP hide caption toggle caption Anjum Naveed/AP ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, is set to host peace talks today with negotiators from Iran and the US, including Vice … Read more
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to hold direct ceasefire talks for the first time in decades in a bid to halt the violence in southern Lebanon. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The ceasefire, so-called, between the United States, Israel and Iran is showing great signs of stress. LEILA FADEL, HOST: That’s especially true because it’s not a … Read more
Iran war-linked shipping disruptions have stranded 8 million kg of tea in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, costing the industry about $8 million a week in mounting losses. LEILA FADEL, HOST: The war with Iran has created a crisis for one of the world’s largest tea exporters. The disruption of shipping routes has stranded nearly … Read more