NPR'S Kelly McEvers interviews Saudi Arabia expert Gregory Gause, professor of international Affairs at Texas A&M University and previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, about Arab countries breaking diplomatic ties with Qatar.
"It is essential that this council address its chronic anti-Israel bias, if it is to have any credibility," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said and noted human rights abuses in Venezuela.
Previous estimates said 90 had died in last week's truck bombing outside the German Embassy. Speaking at a Kabul peace conference, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani did not explain the sharp increase.
France's interior minister says a man yelled "this is for Syria" as he attacked officers with a hammer; the incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack. One officer suffered minor injuries.
Coffee is Uganda's most valuable industry, but climate change could cut production by half by 2050. Small farmers there are already feeling the effects, as they document in these photos.
In recent weeks, protesters have been killed and arrested, an opposition party dissolved and an independent newspaper closed. Some accuse President Trump of prioritizing arms sales over human rights.
Raqqa is the most important stronghold for the militant group in Syria and fell under its control in 2014. This offensive is expected to be difficult and is seen as pivotal in the fight against ISIS.
With Arab armies massed on its frontiers, Israel unleashed a lightning strike on June 5, 1967. Donald Trump is now the 10th president seeking a lasting solution to that brief war.