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Nigeria has hired a US lobbying firm to help maintain US support and counter what it has called misinformation by Christian Evangelical groups and other US lobbyists about what its government is doing to protect Christians in the country.
Correspondent Jonathan Head says the ‘devastating’ accident is an enormous setback for Thailand’s efforts to modernise its infrastructure.
The newborns died during the long New Year holiday in a Siberian hospital.
The Israeli military said it had killed six militants in an updated toll from an exchange of fire in Gaza the day before, accusing them of violating the ceasefire in the territory.
The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran has surpassed 2,500, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days Tuesday.
NPR’s Steve Inskeep asks Youseph Yazdi, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, about his recent visit to Iran, where thousands have been killed in anti-government protests.
NPR’s A Martinez asks Rufus Gifford, who served as U.S. ambassador to Denmark under the Obama administration, about President Trump’s aspirations to take control of Greenland.
Marine Le Pen, a French far-right leader, was back in court Tuesday to appeal an embezzlement conviction that could put her political ambitions at risk.
Iran’s judiciary chief vowed fast-track trials for suspects arrested over a wave of protests, which the authorities have dismissed as “riots”, state television said.
A construction crane fell onto a moving passenger train, causing a fiery derailment that killed at least 22 people Wednesday in northeastern Thailand. Another 64 people were injured.
Residents of Ukraine’s capital talk about their difficulties keeping warm and enduring power outages, as Russian attacks deepen the energy crisis.
China’s trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s onslaught of higher tariffs.
Actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested Monday on suspicion of assaulting a ride-share driver, according to Los Angeles police.
Leaders of the two East Asian nations played drums to hits from BTS and KPop Demon Hunters.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will meet Denmark’s foreign minister and his Greenlandic counterpart in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Arctic island, at the center of a geopolitical storm.
US senators have introduced a bill aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from seizing NATO territory, including the self-governing Danish island of Greenland.
Experts say that children in conflict with the law are being let down by India’s juvenile justice system.
Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.
Leaders from Denmark and Greenland will meet with top U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday to try to find a way out of a crisis caused by President Trump repeated demands to annex Greenland.
The BBC’s Europe editor Katya Adler hears from Greenlanders, whose island is embroiled in a geopolitical storm.
President Trump calls on Iranians to keep protesting, but the regime is cracking down hard and the death toll is rising.