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A mystery that has shaken the literary world for years — the theft of hundreds of unpublished manuscripts from distinguished authors — may finally be about to be solved. In New York this week, the FBI arrested Filippo Bernardini, a

The Indian government renewed permission for late Catholic nun Mother Teresa’s charity to receive foreign funds, weeks after rejecting it, the organization said Saturday. On Christmas Day the Narendra Modi government moved to cut off foreign funding to the Missionaries

When Micheal Cohen thinks back on his time at the Washington, D.C. jail, he recalls seeing so many cockroaches some nights “it looked like the floor was alive.” The 43-year-old was detained from the summer of 2018 until April 2020,

What did the world watch on TikTok last year? We round up some favorite videos — including a mukbang ASMR Thai star (don’t worry, we explain it) and a potato chip-crunching Kenyan comedian. (Image credit: TikTok/Screenshot by NPR)

For years, the mayors of many towns in Europe have struggled to prevent their communities from dying out as people have migrated to cities, schools have dwindled and businesses have died out.

Service members block a street with their vehicles in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 7, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over hikes in fuel prices. | Abduaziz Madyarov/AFP via Getty Images Protests that began over gas prices have

The World Bank has approved $90 million in additional financing for Iran, to help fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, a spokesperson said Friday. The Washington-based development lender’s board of directors approved the aid on 21 December, a World Bank spokesperson

(Reuters) – Dozens of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan over the past week during the worst violence seen in the Central Asian nation since it became independent in the early 1990s. Security forces appeared to

At least 56 people have been killed in an airstrike on a camp for internally displaced people in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, according to Reuters.

Bosnian Serb leader responds to new U.S. sanctions saying the days when the U.S. and other Western democracies “modeled Bosnia to their taste” are long gone. (Image credit: Radivoje Pavicic/AP file photo)