Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Deportation flights to Latin American countries are stoking tensions between the US and its southern neighbors. While the number of flights hasn’t increased, some leaders in the region are angry about ...

American-Israeli Keith Siegel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 after being kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, from a kibbutz in southern Israel. He was finally released last week. His niece shares the ...

A Syrian military defector whose photographs made clear the extent to which torture and killing were taking place inside the prisons of the former Assad regime has revealed his identity. The man ...

Voters in Ecuador will head to the polls for general elections this weekend. The next president will face the enormous task of dismantling well-funded and powerful organized crime groups in the ...

Gun violence in Sweden, the likelihood of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, and the interpreter accused of stealing millions of dollars from Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani. Hosts Carol Hills ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has made clear that despite his musings about Gaza this week, “the president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza.” But Americans ...

Earlier this week, a bomb went off in a quiet Moscow suburb. A man named Armen Sargsyan was killed. He was the leader of a ...

WhatsApp, used by millions of people around the world, says its users were hacked by the Paragon Solutions spyware company.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea's Saemangeum, a tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It was once home to all kinds of birds, ...

Only 60 villagers remain in the Spanish town of Libros. The town's name translates to the word “books” in English, and now, ...

Advancing the human rights of LGBTQ people around the world was part of the Biden administration’s policy agenda. The point person for that effort was Jessica Stern, a US special envoy. She left the ...