What do people who follow foreign affairs make of the war with Iran and the president’s foreign policy? NPR spoke with a dozen World Affairs Council members in North Carolina to find out.

Pakistan has acted as a mediator between Washington D.C. and Tehran over the last few weeks, and helped broker the ceasefire agreement this week. NPR’s Juana Summers talks to Elizabeth Threlkeld, a senior fellow and director at the Stimson Center, about why Pakistan decided to step into this role.

The announcement came after a massive wave of Israeli strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday which killed 303 people, according to health officials.

The first lady went on to say, ‘I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump’.

The U.S. government long saw giving international aid as a way to build goodwill throughout the world. Did it work? And what does the reducing of foreign aid mean for that effort now?

Attacks persist across the Middle East despite the two-week ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran. And, Bill Gates is set to testify in the investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The new bill will make it easier for provincial governments to allow mining projects in glacier regions.

President Trump met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Wednesday to discuss the future partnership after Trump disparaged the alliance.

President Trump said that any peace deal would not allow nuclear enrichment in Iran, and would need to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, as conflicting messages surface over the terms of the ceasefire.

Trump and NATO chief meet to discuss the partnership, attacks continue across the Gulf region despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire, Iran says ceasefire includes Lebanon, but Israel and Trump say it’s not.

Iran expert Vali Nasr of Johns Hopkins University discusses whether the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has made the Iranian regime stronger.

The four astronauts said they were returning to Earth with “so many more pictures, so many more stories”.

The celebrated mountaineer, who also served as the first full-time employee of the outdoor retailer REI and later as its president and CEO, died Tuesday at his home in Port Townsend, Washington, his family said.

North Korea said its testing spree this week involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, as it pushes to expand nuclear-capable forces.

A man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court and acknowledged his involvement in an attempt to illegally smuggle migrants to the U.S. when a truck crashed in Mexico in 2021, killing more than 50.

The BBC’s Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has spoken to the Artemis II crew ahead of their likely splashdown on Saturday.