In Cairo, First Steps Taken On Gnarled Path To Gaza Cease-Fire
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Now to Cairo, where Secretary of State John Kerry and other diplomats are trying to bring an end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Kerry made a brief public...
View ArticleKerry Claims Progress In Gaza Cease-Fire Talks
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In the Gaza Strip, the death toll has risen to more than 690 Palestinians - that includes at least 230 women...
View ArticleU.S., EU Try To Turn Up The Heat On Russia
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View ArticleAfrica Summit To Tackle Food Stability And Climate Change
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Dozens of African leaders are here in Washington this week for an unprecedented summit. The Obama...
View ArticleAt Africa Summit, South Sudanese President Resents Pressure From U.S.
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View ArticleSouth Sudan's Leaders Jostle For Power As Prospect Of Famine Looms
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel....
View ArticleU.S. Policy On Syria Mired In Excess Caution, Official Says
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View ArticleIn Syria, The U.S. Weighs A Range Of Unpalatable Options
President Obama said Wednesday that the Islamic State is a cancer that threatens all governments in the Middle East. But that raises the question of what the U.S. could or should do.Two former U.S....
View ArticleMomentum Gathers For The West's Response To Russia
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This afternoon the UN Security Council met in an emergency session. That's amid reports of new Russian...
View ArticleAnalyst: Response To Russian Incursion Will Be 'Defining Moment' For NATO
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View ArticleReport: Violence Against Children Runs Rampant In Nigeria's Northeast
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Since April, a viral social media campaign, called Bring Back Our Girls, has highlighted the mass abduction of...
View ArticleFrom Exile In Switzerland, Ex-Tycoon Relaunches Open Russia
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Russian President Vladimir Putin has not suffered a political hit at home because of the crisis in Ukraine. In...
View ArticleMeeting In Cairo, Nations Pledge $5.4 Billion To Rebuild Gaza
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It has happened before. Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas locked in a violent exchange that...
View ArticleAhead Of Iran Nuclear Talks, Kerry Meets With Russia's Lavrov
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View ArticleNorth Korea Allows Detained American To Leave
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A bit of hopeful news today out of one of the world's most secretive nations - North Korea allowed one of...
View ArticleIn A Remote Corner Of Sudan, An American Takes His Stand
American Ryan Boyette knows there are many crises that compete for world's attention, but he's determined not to let a conflict in his adopted home of Sudan go unnoticed.The young Florida man moved to...
View ArticleIraq's Yazidis Appeal For Help In Finding Their Missing Women
When the Islamic State took over large parts of northern Iraq this summer, including the areas where the minority Yazidi community lives, the U.S.
View ArticleRussia And The West: Close Encounters Of The Cold War Kind
As tensions mounted between Russia and the West over Ukraine back in March, a routine commercial flight had a close encounter with a Russian spy plane.
View ArticleSyrian Opposition Groups Wary Of Russia's Invitation To Moscow
The war in Syria has been raging for nearly four years and it's been challenging for diplomats to get warring sides to agree on even temporary truces.The U.N. envoy is pressing ahead on that front,...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Challenges Obama Administration's New Approach To Cuba
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