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The Indian-born head of one of Japan’s most famous snack brands has warned that the country must change its mindset and admit more immigrants to get the economy back to the glory of its boom years.
Britain officially became the 12th member of a trans-Pacific trade pact which includes Japan, Australia and Canada on Sunday as it seeks to deepen ties in the region and build its global trade links after leaving the European Union.
The winner of Venezuela’s presidential election this summer was forced into exile. But he’s promising to return for the inauguration next month despite threats of arrest.
At least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, France’s Interior Ministry said Sunday.
Syrian children in Damascus started up at school today after – the first day back since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa has said that Israel is using false pretexts to justify its attacks on Syria, but that he is not interested in engaging in new conflicts as the country focuses on rebuilding, following the end of Bashar al-Assad’s reign.
Assad’s fall came too late for the father of NPR’s Diaa Hadid, who was briefly detained by Syrian forces during their occupation of northern Lebanon.
Brazilian authorities on Saturday arrested General Walter Braga Netto, a former defence minister and close ally of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, on suspicion of obstructing an investigation into an alleged 2022 coup attempt, a police source said.
NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Syrian-American composer Malek Jandali about the fall of the dictatorship in Syria and his hopes for his homeland’s future.
NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, about the group’s 2025 Watchlist, which warns that more than 300 million people require humanitarian assistance.
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has freed at least thousands of people detained in Syria’s notorious prisons. Some of them have made it back home. Other families are still looking.
Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as the country’s new president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the government over a halt to
South Korea’s parliament impeached Presisdent Yoon Suk Yeol for his attempt to impose martial, the first time such a measure had been imposed on the nation in more than four decades.
South Korean lawmakers on Saturday voted to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office for his failed attempt to impose martial law last week.
South Korean lawmakers vote Saturday on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, in a second parliamentary showdown that remains too close to call.
Lawmakers are set to vote for a second time on an impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol over his controversial Dec. 3 martial law decree.
Travis Timmerman, the missing American found wandering barefoot in the Syrian capital after being released from prison – is going home. NPR were there when for the moment he was welcomed home.
Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen found wandering barefoot in Damascus after being freed from a Syrian prison following the fall of the Assad regime, was handed over to U.S. forces in Syria on Friday.
The U.N. estimates over a 100,00 people have gone missing in Syria under the regime of Bashar al-Assad. And many families never knew the fate of their loved ones. Now that the regime has fallen, the search is on for the missing. We join some Syrians on that search. Sign up for State of the World+ to listen sponsor-free and support the work of NPR journalists. Visit plus.npr.org.
Sweden’s government on Friday said that it was launching a project to chart the different types of racism in society and assess the level of Swedes’ intolerance towards minorities.