With trade in the Red Sea disrupted, tea has a longer journey to British mugs
In Britain, people worry as Houthi attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea threaten supply chains for their national drink.
Europe
Widow of Alexei Navalny takes center stage in Russia's opposition
Yulia Navalnaya appeared on her late husband's YouTube channel in a forceful challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of murder. Navalnaya says she will carry on her husband's work.
Following Navalny's death, mourners are arrested and dissent is not tolerated
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Sergey Radchenko of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who says, when opposition figure Alexei Navalny died, so did all political hope for Russia.
Russia's military forces Ukrainian troops out of a strategically important town
As Ukraine struggles for military supplies and aid, a town in the eastern region of Donetsk that has been on the frontline for 10 years has fallen to Russia.
European leaders are bracing for the possibility of a more isolationist U.S.
NPR's A Martinez talks with Catherine Fieschi, a political analyst and fellow at the European University Institute, about what a more isolationist America would mean for Europe.
Poland's new government deprograms its once far-right public media
Under Poland's Law and Justice party, the country's public broadcaster was turned into a propaganda tool for the far-right government to use as it wished. That era has come to an end.
Morning news brief
Russian forces now occupy a strategically important town in Ukraine's east. Israel still plans an offensive in Rafah. A controversial state military base camp is being built in Texas near the border.
Ukraine withdraws from Avdiivka, in Russia's first major battlefield win in months
It's Russia's first significant battlefield win since last May. The White House said Ukrainian soldiers pulled out because they had "dwindling supplies as a result of congressional inaction."
European countries consider a future without the United States as an ally
How are America's transatlantic allies thinking about its commitment to their security? NPR's Don Gonyea talks with European journalists Dan Sabbagh and Clemens Verenkotte.
In Spain, a years-long drought is pitting locals against the tourism industry
Spain is struggling with a years-long drought. In tourist-centric Barcelona, locals are worried visitors aren't taking it seriously.