In Hungary, Thousands Of Demonstrators Protest ‘Slave Law’
Protests in the Hungarian capital Budapest have erupted over a controversial overtime law. But government-owned media is keeping the story from being reported beyond the city’s borders.
Germany Agrees To Pay Kindertransport Survivors Who Escaped Nazis As Children
About 10,000 Jewish refugees under the age of 17 were relocated through the rescue operation. Most never saw their parents again. The Claims Conference estimates there are about 1,000 still living.
Herders Vs. Farmers: A Deadly Year In Nigeria
Deadly clashes in the country’s Middle Belt have skyrocketed — and a new Amnesty International report says the government is exacerbating the crisis.
Support For Another Brexit Referendum Grows
Despite fierce opposition from Prime Minister Theresa May, there’s growing clamor for another referendum in Britain over the terms of the U.K.’s exit from the European Union.
As no-deal Brexit risk rises, so do odds of monster traffic jams
From the concrete overpass, Mike Taylor watches the traffic that trundles through the bucolic countryside, bypassing villages like his own. Nearly all the trucks on this four-lane highway, the M26, are headed to and from the southeastern ports that ar…
Venezuela’s Last Nationally Circulated Anti-Government Newspaper Closes
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jorge Makriniotis, the general manager of Venezuela’s only remaining nationally circulated and anti-government newspaper, about publishing its final edition.
Aid Manager for Mercy Corps Shares View From Inside Yemen
NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Dania Alsharif, program manager for Mercy Corps, about conditions in Yemen today, and whether she expects a negotiated cease fire to provide any relief.
Tanzania granted the largest-ever mass citizenship to refugees. Then what?
Thirty-six years ago, when Mr. Nzila was a young refugee from Burundi, he’d planted two tiny green saplings here as a kind of prayer that he would be in one place long enough to see them grow. At school, they wore sweaters in the colors of the Tanzani…
We know Michael Flynn lied to the FBI. But why?
When former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn stands before a federal judge on Tuesday to receive his sentence after pleading guilty to lying to federal agents about his telephone contacts with the Russian ambassador, one unanswered questio…
Miss Universe Has Its First Trans Contestant — While Miss USA Stirs Criticism
“I’m showing that trans women can be whatever they want to be: a teacher, a mother, a doctor, a politician and even Miss Universe,” Miss Spain Angela Ponce said recently.
Goldman Sachs Faces Charges In Malaysia Over Massive Corruption Scandal
The U.S. bank and two of its former bankers face criminal charges in connection with Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal, which involves billions of dollars allegedly stolen from a development fund.
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