NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Georgetown University professor Angela Stent about her book Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest.
Real Kashmir FC is less than three years old and plays soccer in a troubled Himalayan region prone to violence, strikes and heavy snow. Soldiers with machine guns patrol the home stadium.
At least four people have been killed as protesters and security forces clash over efforts to bring humanitarian aid into Venezuela against the orders of President Nicolás Maduro.
Dr. Paul Spiegel of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health tells NPR's Michel Martin how humanitarian aid has been used — or withheld — for political purposes in past conflicts.
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Branded as "religious extremists," dozens of Witnesses were arrested in recent raids in Siberia.
Venezuela's president is refusing to allow tons of U.S. humanitarian aid to enter the country. But thousands of volunteers are trying to bring it in from Colombia.
Indian authorities say at least 93 people have died and some 200 others are hospitalized after drinking tainted alcohol. About 100 people died from the same thing in a nearby state earlier this month.