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French police have arrested five new people, including a main suspect, over this month’s daring jewellery theft from the Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing on a level with China and Russia – just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator.
It’s unclear how involved the U.S. would be or what the timeline for such a project would be.
Residents of Cortina, Italy, worry about the effects of the 2026 Winter Olympics on their town.
More than 130 people were killed in Rio de Janeiro’s deadliest-ever police raid targeting a major drug cartel.
Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, discusses how the ICRC operates amid renewed violence in Gaza and works to uphold humanitarian principles during the fragile ceasefire.
North Korea has test-fired several sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, according to state media, hours before US President Donald Trump begins a visit to South Korea.
Israel’s military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials.
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Officials are assessing the damage after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5. And, how the government shutdown is impacting air traffic controllers.
President Trump has confidently predicted striking a deal with China’s leader, who he’s set to meet Thursday.
In Greece, fewer babies means difficult decisions, especially on remote islands where low birth rates are forcing some schools to close and raising questions about the future of island culture.
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces took control of El Fasher, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents trapped under RSF control and at risk of being killed.
NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with Sudanese-American poet Emi Mahmoud about the fall of Al-Fashir to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.
Sudan’s army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Dana Sacchetti, the head of the World Food Programme in Jamaica, about how aid organizations will help residents recover from Hurricane Melissa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered air strikes in Gaza. He accuses Hamas of firing on Israeli troops, Hamas denies this. The move threatens Trump’s fragile ceasefire.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica.
North Korea said Wednesday its recent test-firings of sea-to-surface cruise missiles were successful, in another display of its growing military capabilities as U.S. President Donald Trump visits South Korea.
Brazilian police and soldiers launched a raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said.