Accessibility links
World News and International Headlines NPR world news, international art and culture, world business and financial markets, world economy, and global trends in health, science and technology. Subscribe to the World Story of the Day podcast and RSS feed.

NPRWorld

Many Stories, One World

Saturday

Middle East

Recent Attacks Highlight Difficulty In Combating ISIS

ISIS militants continued their deadly attacks this week, evidence that the campaign by Iraq and the U.S. to defeat the group could take years. NPR's Arun Rath talks with correspondent Alice Fordham.

Recent Attacks Highlight Difficulty In Combating ISIS

Listen · 2:59
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/382936117/382936118" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Four Years After Revolution, Libya Slides Into Chaos

Bullet holes from recent clashes riddle an apartment building in Tripoli. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption

toggle caption
Bilal Hussein/AP

Middle East

Four Years After Revolution, Libya Slides Into Chaos

Libya was hopeful after Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown, but today it's a nation torn apart, with two competing governments in two different cities, each with its own parliament and military.

Four Years After Revolution, Libya Slides Into Chaos

Listen · 4:29
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/382812182/382851507" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Just Your Typical Teenagers Helping To Fight World Poverty

They're members of the global-minded teens club: (left to right) Toluwanimi Sola-Adeyemi of Lagos, Chloe McGill of Seattle and Emine Arcasoy of Chapel Hill. Courtesy of Tolu Sola-Adeyemi, Chloe McGill and Emine Arcasoy. hide caption

toggle caption
Courtesy of Tolu Sola-Adeyemi, Chloe McGill and Emine Arcasoy.

Goats and Soda

Just Your Typical Teenagers Helping To Fight World Poverty

Their goal is to make the world a better place 15 years from now. And the U.S. State Department listened to their ideas. But that doesn't mean they are oblivious to Justin Bieber and Gossip Girl.

A Former Child Soldier Finds Escape, Heaven Through His Music

"Through music," says former child soldier Emmanuel Jal, "I was able to become a child again." Courtesy of Gatwitch hide caption

toggle caption
Courtesy of Gatwitch

Goats and Soda

A Former Child Soldier Finds Escape, Heaven Through His Music

Starved, brainwashed and beaten, Emmanuel Jal was a child soldier who escaped Sudan's war. Now he's an actor, musician and activist. But he says he still gets nightmares.

A Former Child Soldier Finds Escape, Heaven Through His Music

Listen · 6:47
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/382482527/382851526" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Friday

Argentine Official Says He Sought Cooperation With Iran, Not Cover-Up

Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman on Jan. 15 shows a letter he said was sent in 2013 to Interpol informing it of an agreement reached with Iran's government to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association that killed 85 people. Timerman says he met with Iran in an attempt to solve the case and denies accusations he was part of a cover-up. Rodrigo Abd/AP hide caption

toggle caption
Rodrigo Abd/AP

Parallels

Argentine Official Says He Sought Cooperation With Iran, Not Cover-Up

In an exclusive interview with NPR, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman says he met Iranian officials as part of the effort to find out who was behind the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

Argentine Official Says He Sought Cooperation With Iran, Not Cover-Up

Listen · 4:11
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/381924288/382717176" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Measles Is A Killer: It Took 145,000 Lives Worldwide Last Year

A Vietnamese boy is treated for measles in a state-run hospital in April 2014. AFP/Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption
AFP/Getty Images

Goats and Soda

Measles Is A Killer: It Took 145,000 Lives Worldwide Last Year

The uproar over the U.S. outbreak glosses over a bigger problem: Measles takes a tragic toll in poor countries. But a vaccine can effectively stop this deadly — and highly contagious — disease.

Measles Is A Killer: It Took 145,000 Lives Worldwide Last Year

Listen · 3:55
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/382716075/382717190" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Close Friend Of Putin Awarded Contract For Crimea Bridge

In Aug. 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and businessman and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg,(right) mourn during a farewell ceremony for Putin's first judo coach, Anatoly Rakhlin, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP hide caption

toggle caption
Mikhail Klimentyev/AP

The Two-Way

Close Friend Of Putin Awarded Contract For Crimea Bridge

The span, to be built across a narrow strait that separates Russia from the newly annexed peninsula, is pegged at $3 billion and scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.