President Trump's announcement that US sanctions on Syria would be lifted was met with elation by Syrians. Syria has a long ...

Musician Sami Galbi grew up in the Swiss Alps after his parents migrated there from Morocco. As he puts it in one of his songs, he often felt like a “stranger in both countries, present but absent.” ...

José Mujica was president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 and presided over a period of progressive governance that matched his want-for-nothing lifestyle. He forsook the presidential palace in favor of ...

A court in Zurich has been hearing a criminal case against a woman accused of trying to make her neighbor’s cat her own. The public broadcaster SWI swissinfo reports that the woman systematically fed ...

Germany is a federal parliamentary republic. It has no monarchy, but this week, the German government banned an extremist group that claims otherwise — a fringe movement known as the Kingdom of ...

Israeli missiles have slammed into two Gaza hospitals in recent days, killing more than a dozen patients, according to medical staff at the facilities. Amande Bazerolle, an emergency coordinator for ...

Rival militias in the Libyan capital of Tripoli have clashed this week, damaging parts of the city during intense fighting. The violence follows the assassination of an influential militia commander ...

In India’s bustling cities, as the sun goes down and the worst of the day’s heat is over, an insidious threat looms: high nighttime temperatures. Scorching daytime heat often dominates headlines and ...

H&M, the Swedish fashion giant, is working directly with models and their agencies to create digital replicas of 30 different models this year. The company will be able to use the images for things ...

President Trump’s announcement that US sanctions on Syria would be lifted was met with elation by Syrians, but the country still has a long way to go to recover from years of civil war and brutal ...

Cuba was once known as “the world’s sugar bowl,” but these days, it produces just 5% of what it did at its peak of 8 million metric tons in the 1970s and ’80s. Host Marco Werman speaks with Michael ...

Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis player who’s top-ranked in the men’s game, took a break from the Italian Open today to meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Host Marco Werman has more.