
Meet the women protecting India’s snow leopards
The women brave biting cold to count and conserve a predator once seen as a threat in their villages.
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The women brave biting cold to count and conserve a predator once seen as a threat in their villages.

The country votes again this weekend after three years of political turmoil.

The expiration of New START means there are no limits on nuclear weapons between both countries for the first time since 1991.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel and Greg Myre about the upcoming meeting between Iran and the United States.
Being the richest person on the planet is apparently not worth it for Elon Musk.

Italy’s Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades.
The son of Norway’s future queen on Thursday denied that he had ever drugged anyone, after a woman he is accused of raping said she had “probably ingested something” beforehand.

Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran’s underground arts scene to the prestigious film festival.

Bezalel Zini, an Israeli military reservist on active duty, is accused of smuggling 14 cartons of cigarettes in exchange for $117,000.

Israel declines to comment on the allegation its planes sprayed glyphosate over an area with extensive farmland.

Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends follows young independent journalists covering Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The talks had appeared to be in jeopardy, with the two countries at odds over the location and parameters.

Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.

As Nigeria battles multiple security crises, a single attack in the west left more than 160 people dead and raises new questions about who’s really in control.
As countries step up their use of internet shutdowns to muzzle dissent, some are also taking advantage of the blackouts to increase censorship firewalls, internet privacy company Proton warned in an interview with AFP.

President Trump’s focus overseas may spare China for now, but Beijing still worries that his “America First” rhetoric hasn’t softened what it calls U.S. “military adventurism.”

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs’ living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work.
A new Michael Jackson documentary airing in the UK on Wednesday features previously unheard audio of him sharing his thoughts on children.

A month after Maduro’s ousting, Venezuela’s Interim leader walks a tightrope between US demands and Chavista hardliners’ expectations.

Are the world’s superpowers back in an arms race now that the new START treaty has expired? NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with arms control expert Rose Gottemoeller.

The last major arms control treaty between Russia and the U.S. will expire on Thursday.