NPR’s Elissa Nadworny speaks to Narges Bajoghli, associate professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins, about Iran’s long-term goals.

After briefly reopening the vital economic waterway, Iran has again closed the Strait of Hormuz, saying it will restrict ships from passing through as long as the U.S. continues its blockade.

Robots competed in a half marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, with the winning machine leaving its human rivals for dust.

Police say a preliminary investigation shows it may be a case of an “unlawful disposal of unclaimed corpses”.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launches happened on Sunday morning from the North’s eastern Sinpo area.

The Mariana is a 145-foot dry cargo vessel registered in the U.S. It suffered engine failure Wednesday as a massive typhoon bore down on Saipan and nearby islands.

A life jacket worn by a passenger on the RMS Titanic has sold at auction for 670,000 pounds, which is more than $900,000.

Tehran is blaming a US blockade for its actions, saying it breaches the ceasefire the two reached.

A gunman has killed six people and injured at least 14 in a mass shooting in Ukraine’s capital before he was shot and killed by police.

Construction is expected to continue at the White House until the next hearing which is due to take place in June.

The Mexican president says there were never tension over Spainish colonisation, which had become a thorny issue.

Police are investigating whether jars sold in Spar shops were criminally interfered with.

President Macron blamed the attack on Hezbollah. The Iran-backed armed group denied “any connection” to the incident.

A rare look at one of the world’s most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world’s fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.

BBC Arabic’s correspondent Carine Torbey reports from the border town of Khiam, as the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon goes into its second day.

Ukraine launches political Russian studies program to better understand wartime enemy.

Chinese car company NIO is putting up EV battery swapping stations all around the world. NPR took a ride in one car for the experience.

A man is arrested following a collision in which police say a car mounted a kerb and struck pedestrians.

They grew up amid olive groves in southern Lebanon. The son of one married the other’s daughter. Now they’re living temporarily in a vacant building in central Beirut, displaced many times.

In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, flocks of colorful macaws that once brightened city skies now face disappearing nest sites — and with them, a unique urban bond.

The Congolese government stresses those expelled from the US are only in the country temporarily.