Cigarette smoking is ingrained in Chinese culture. NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to a couple of women trying to change that.

President Trump is in Beijing for his big summit with Chinese leaders. How Asia is reacting to the summit.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with Susan Thornton of Yale Law School about Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Xi’s warnings about Taiwan.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep returns to China’s telecom giant Huawei to see how the company has adapted since facing U.S. sanctions.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep visits Shenzhen, a city in southern China, where skyscrapers and urban villages teem with life.

Tensions about Israel’s participation loom over the annual Eurovision Song Contest.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly visited the United Arab Emirates during the Israeli-U.S. war with Iran, his office said Wednesday. The UAE later denied any secret visit had occurred.

Russia has launched a mass drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killing one person and injuring at least 31. Local authorities report damage across six districts.

Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington, 19, of Taveres, Florida, is the second U.S. soldier who fell off a cliff during a recreational hike in Morocco. The remains of 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. were recovered last week.

As U.S. and Chinese leaders meet this week, the world is watching, and so are residents of Thitu Island in the disputed South China Sea, known in the Philippines as the West Philippine Sea.

Australia’s grain farmers, already strained by war-driven shortages, now face a severe mouse plague that could devastate crops in a key growing region.

The U.S. and Iran remain deadlocked in the Strait of Hormuz, with no clear way forward.

Israel’s participation in the Eurovision song contest once again stirs controversy — and a walkout by five countries.

Spring is snail season in Seville. Caracoles in southern Spain differ from the well-known French escargot — they’re smaller and eaten directly from the shell. And everyone has a favorite tapas bar that serves them.

The woman who was on a virus-hit ship shows “no signs of illness”, the government of Pitcairn Islands, a British Overseas Territory, says.

Two children are among those reported dead after seven cars were struck in separate attacks south of Beirut.

Witnesses say a burst of gunfire has rung out in the Philippine Senate where authorities have tried to arrest a senator who is wanted by the ICC.

Nearly 1,000 climbers will attempt to scale the peak in coming weeks and this has raised safety concerns.

Displaced teenagers Farah and Tala wanted to ‘turn destruction into something useful’.

A court in Bremen has found the manufacturer of the classic Alpine Milk chocolate bar guilty of “shrinkflation”.

The voluntary recall follows an incident on 20 April where an empty Waymo car entered a flooded road in San Antonio, Texas.