An estimated 246 migrants have died in January crossing the Mediterranean, part of what advocates call "an undeniable trend of tragedy in the Mediterranean."
NPR's David Greene talks with the BBC's Adam Easton about Poland's Senate's approval of a controversial bill making it illegal to accuse the country of complicity in the Holocaust.
A controversial memo alleging FBI abuses could be released Friday. Also, the Trump administration is releasing a review of nuclear weapons policy and USA Today's Rachel Axon discusses Olympic doping.
Najmeh Bozorgmehr, a Tehran-based correspondent for the Financial Times, talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about why women in Iran are boldly protesting the compulsory hijab.
The South African city of Cape Town could be the first major metropolitan area to run out of water. City officials say that a three-year drought and huge population growth have overwhelmed dams.
A court has overturned the Olympic doping bans of 28 Russian athletes. NPR's David Greene speaks with USA Today's Rachel Axon about what this could mean for this month's winter games.
Authorities say they tried to break up two separate brawls involving more than a hundred Eritrean and Afghan migrants at Calais, the French port that many hope to use to cross over to the U.K.
The second line of "O Canada," which has said the nation inspires patriotism "in all thy sons," will now read "in all of us." The change has passed the country's Senate. The House approved it in 2016.
The rape and slaying of 7-year-old Zainab Amin caused a political crisis aimed at officials who are accused of failing to protect the children of Kasur.
As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.