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A Ukrainian official said the released POWs included troops who held out in Mariupol during Moscow’s monthslong siege that reduced the southern port city to ruins. (Image credit: LIBKOS/AP)

With a bent back and bare feet in the black soil, Ruben Gutierrez Escobar, 63, uses a hoe to plow his fields in Bella Vista, a hamlet near Cusco in southern Peru at an altitude of 3,500 meters. He has

After decades of criminalization, Australia’s government said Friday that it will legalize the prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for the treatment of two medical conditions, a historic move hailed by researchers who have studied the therapeutic possibilities of the drugs.

With the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaching, Poland’s ambassador to the U.S. Marek Magierowski warns of a prolonged conflict and urges the West to provide Kyiv with more support. (Image credit: H.J. Mai/NPR)

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holding a press conference during the NATO Summit at the IFEMA congress centre in Madrid, Spain, on June 30, 2022. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images President Erdoğan is blocking the quick membership addition

NPR’s Scott Simon talks with Evgeniy Maloletka, an Ukrainian photojournalist, about what it’s been like documenting a year of war in his country.

The Biden Administrations has cancelled Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China, following the appearance of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the US.

US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers,

A Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday, a day after a similar craft was seen in US skies, prompting the scrapping of a rare trip to Beijing by US Secretary of State Antony

A Chinese scientist involved in the first instance of editing babies’ genes admits he moved “too quickly” with the unprecedented procedure. He Jiankui was fired by his university in Shenzhen, found guilty of conducting “illegal medical procedures” and sentenced to