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For several days now, President Trump has expressed growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the slow progress towards ending the war in Ukraine.

President-elect Trump said on Sunday he didn't feel "bound by a 'One China' policy," which has governed U.S. diplomatic relations with Taiwan for decades, unless the U.S. and China make a "deal."

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the sentencing this week of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Putin critic was poisoned last year, recovered in Germany, then arrested for violating parole.

The punch of Hurricane Gustav appears to have landed not as hard as expected on the nation's vast energy complex along the Gulf Coast.

After weeks of protests, officials in China are loosening the country's notoriously strict anti-COVID measures. How did protestors succeed despite heavy online censorship?

Saudi women gamers gather at an annual convention, dressing as their favorite characters and exercising freedoms they want to see more of in their lives.

As markets lurched after Great Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, leaders weighed in with worries, expressions of solidarity with the EU — and some soul-searching about its future.

Armed with nothing but a piece of colorful chalk, these kids are celebrating the return of school — and getting the tools and language to advocate for themselves.

Residents of Gaza are being forced to evacuate in unprecedented numbers. Hundreds of thousands have been ordered out of nearly a fourth of the territory and residents are expressing panic and exhaustion in the chaos.

NPR's Scott Simon speak to Nahid Siamdoust, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, about the role of rap in protests and political dissent in Iran.