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SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2025, 00:50
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
Israel’s defense minister said “painful strikes have begun” in Damascus.
The hip-hop star’s killing has been linked to a local gangland conflict.
While advancing a bill to claw back $9bn in federal spending, lawmakers spare the Pepfar programme from cuts.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he had launched an investigation into Brazil’s “unfair” trading practices, a week after US President Donald Trump threatened a 50% tariff on imports from Latin America’s largest economy.
Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, while others are homeless and stateless, according to immigration advocates.
Police say they will not stop searching for Peter Falconio’s remains, after the man convicted of his murder died.
Vance Boelter has not entered a plea for the deadly 14 June attacks, for which he also faces state charges.
The strike came as clashes continued in the southern Syrian city of Sweida after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed.
The five people convicted of serious crimes come from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen, the US says.
In Colombia, drug gangs are waging a new kind of war — by air. Armed with cheap drones, they’re targeting rivals in a dangerous escalation.
The British government hid a plan to rescue thousands of Afghans who assisted its troops after a data breach exposed them to Taliban retaliation.
The women, known as “Ms Golf”, allegedly had sexual relations with monks and extorted money from them.
Auctioneers in London say it’s thought to be the only oil portrait the Indian independence leader sat for.
Fauja Singh was out on his afternoon walk on Monday when he was hit by a speeding car. Police have arrested the driver.
South Korea is notorious for its hyper-competitive education system.
Marta Elena Feitó-Cabrera said people going through rubbish were doing so by choice to make “easy money”.
Australian officials have seized more than 10 million illegal vapes in the past year.
Last week, the US president urged Brazilian authorities to end their prosecution of the country’s former President Jair Bolsonaro.
It came as Trump said the attorney general should release “whatever she thinks is credible” on the disgraced financier.
The Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Europe are working with NATO members to ship more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine and release more munitions that were briefly halted.