Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivers a speech as he confirms that Polish forces shot down Russian drones, which violate the country's airspace, in Warsaw, Poland on September 10, 2025. Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images More than a dozen Russian
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani addresses a press conference following Israeli strikes in Doha on Tuesday. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images DOHA, Qatar — Qatar has slammed Israel's attack targeting Hamas leaders on its soil as an act of "state
Esme Nicholson, Jakie Lay /NPR Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. If I'd had my microphone with me, you'd hear the bright coloratura of willow warblers and chiffchaffs, the resonant mezzo counterpoint of blackbirds, the soft rustling of leaves in
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivers a speech as he confirms that Polish forces shot down Russian drones, which violate the country's airspace, in Warsaw, Poland on September 10, 2025. Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images More than a dozen Russian
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani addresses a press conference following Israeli strikes in Doha on Tuesday. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images DOHA, Qatar — Qatar has slammed Israel's attack targeting Hamas leaders on its soil as an act of "state
Esme Nicholson, Jakie Lay /NPR Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. If I'd had my microphone with me, you'd hear the bright coloratura of willow warblers and chiffchaffs, the resonant mezzo counterpoint of blackbirds, the soft rustling of leaves in
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivers a speech as he confirms that Polish forces shot down Russian drones, which violate the country's airspace, in Warsaw, Poland on September 10, 2025. Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images More than a dozen Russian
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani addresses a press conference following Israeli strikes in Doha on Tuesday. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images DOHA, Qatar — Qatar has slammed Israel's attack targeting Hamas leaders on its soil as an act of "state
Esme Nicholson, Jakie Lay /NPR Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. If I'd had my microphone with me, you'd hear the bright coloratura of willow warblers and chiffchaffs, the resonant mezzo counterpoint of blackbirds, the soft rustling of leaves in
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary
Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas' political leadership in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Gambrell/AP Middle East Israel launches airstrike targeting Hamas members in Qatar The Israeli military carried out unprecedented airstrikes Tuesday on senior Hamas leaders in a suburb
This image from a video provided by QDND shows a body being carried on stretcher after a tourist boat capsized in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam on Saturday, July 19, 2025. AQDND/AP hide caption toggle caption AQDND/AP HA LONG BAY, Vietnam — A boat carrying tourists capsized during a sudden thunderstorm in Vietnam on Saturday afternoon
M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption toggle caption Moses Sawasawa/AP DAKAR, Senegal — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels on Saturday signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end decades-long fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press at the Federal Senate in Brasilia on July 17, 2025. MATEUS BONOMI/AFP hide caption toggle caption MATEUS BONOMI/AFP RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The ongoing feud between the U.S. and Brazil escalated on Friday after Brazil's Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro—an ally of Donald
A Venezuelan migrant who was jailed in El Salvador gestures as he gets off a plane at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela on Friday. El Salvador freed scores of Venezuelans deported from the United States to a notorious maximum security prison, the outcome of a highly coordinated prisoner swap between Caracas and Washington.
Enlarge this image Bundit Pantarakon stands along the Sai river in Mai Sai, where the Thai Army is building flood control barriers along the river that forms the border between Thailand and Myanmar. Michael Sullivan for NPR hide caption toggle caption Michael Sullivan for NPR Bundit Pantarakon stands along the Sai river in Mai Sai
Orango National Park on the Bijagós Archipelago off of the coast of Guinea-Bissau is a newly designated World Heritage Site. Hellio & van Ingen/IBAP/UNESCO Nomination File hide caption toggle caption Hellio & van Ingen/IBAP/UNESCO Nomination File Twenty-six sites have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, designating their cultural and natural importance. Locations this year
Israeli soldiers stand guard as Syrian Druze people cross back into Syria at the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, on Thursday. Leo Correa/AP hide caption toggle caption Leo Correa/AP DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian government forces had largely pulled out of the southern province of Sweida on Thursday after days
Executive director of the NGO Cristosal, Noah Bullock (C) speaks next to director of research Rene Valiente (L), Abraham Abrego (2nd R), director of the strategic litigation and Guatemalan lawyer Rafael Cruz (R) during a press conference in Guatemala City on July 17, 2025. JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP hide caption toggle caption JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP PANAMA CITY, Panama
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivers a speech as he confirms that Polish forces shot down Russian drones, which violate the country's airspace, in Warsaw, Poland on September 10, 2025. Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Polish Prime Minister's Office Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images More than a dozen Russian
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani addresses a press conference following Israeli strikes in Doha on Tuesday. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images DOHA, Qatar — Qatar has slammed Israel's attack targeting Hamas leaders on its soil as an act of "state
Esme Nicholson, Jakie Lay /NPR Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. If I'd had my microphone with me, you'd hear the bright coloratura of willow warblers and chiffchaffs, the resonant mezzo counterpoint of blackbirds, the soft rustling of leaves in
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary