In this week’s Reporter’s Notebook conversation, we take a closer look at what it’s like to cover the war in Ukraine, and how the war in Iran is changing that.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long been accused of corruption. Sightseers now flock to his hometown as groups aim to raise awareness of what they say are the leader’s excesses.

The far-right party is riding high in the opinion polls in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

In the first weeks of the war, the Chicago-born Leo was initially reluctant to publicly condemn the violence and limited his comments to muted appeals for peace and dialogue. But Leo stepped up his criticism starting on Palm Sunday.

Police fatally shot the assailant after he ignored at least 20 demands to drop the weapon, said NYPD.

India’s satirists are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a punch line — and the government is hitting back.

NPR visits the last detention camp for ISIS wives and children in an increasingly precarious northeastern Syria.

Ismail Omar Guelleh, 78, has extended his already 27-year rule in a poll boycotted by the main opposition candidates.

Hard rock enthusiast Sanae Takaichi beamed as she met the rockers in her Tokyo office.

With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?

The mishap occurred as a tarp was pulled off a bronze figure immortalising Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.

Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, is set to host peace talks today with leaders from Iran and the US, including Vice President J.D. Vance.

The United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement after a day of highly anticipated face-to-face peace talks, Washington’s lead negotiator Vice President J.D. Vance announced on Sunday.

Planet Labs says it is restricting coverage of Iran and parts of the Middle East indefinitely.

Since 2010, Orbán has transformed Hungary into what the European Parliament has denounced as a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”.

The congressman is a leading Democratic candidate who is now facing calls to drop out of the race.

A controversial law to remove protections for the country’s glaciers has passed, opening the doors for mining.

A misfired joke nearly derailed Samay Raina’s comedy career. Now he’s back, reclaiming his voice.

As Péter Magyar’s opposition movement leads in the polls, tens of thousands of anti-Orbán supporters fill Heroes’ Square in Budapest.

Face-to-face talks would mark the highest-level engagement between Iran and the US since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted the head of Taiwan’s largest opposition party in Beijing on Friday — the first such meeting in nearly a decade.