Turkey is marking the one-year anniversary this week of an attempted coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. NPR has the story of one victim of the Turkish government's sweeping crackdown after last year's attempted coup.
Few people heard of Natalia Veselnitskaya before this week. William Browder was one. He's locked horns with the Russian lawyer at the heart of the Donald Trump Jr. email scandal.
Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died from cancer at age 61. He was serving a jail term for trying to overthrow China's government.
More than 40 others were injured in the attack, which targeted a small town on the border with Nigeria. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but the bombing bears hallmarks of Boko Haram.
It's a dish that Dadisi Olutosin ate as a kid in Atlanta. As an adult he discovered its international roots and came up with a recipe that's true to his mother — and the culinary heritage of collards.
The 61-year-old dissident died after more than seven years in prison. He was a prominent critic of China's government. "There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom," he wrote.
Liu Xiaobo had been imprisoned for subversion, which is the way China's government referred to his calls for an end to one-party communist rule. He was on medical parole when he died of liver cancer.