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Feathers Fly During International Pillow Fight Day

8:17am April 07, 2014

In New York City, people dressed as superheroes battled villains. Feathers flew in London, Paris, Bucharest and Berlin. In Vienna, one woman described being hit kind of hard in the face.

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Rwandan genocide-hunter Dafroza Gauthier on February 4, 2014 at the opening of the trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, Rwanda's former intelligence chief, charged with complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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Fighting For Rwanda's Justice In France

8:00pm April 06, 2014

by NPR Staff

The first Rwandan genocide trial to take place in France sent a man to prison for 25 years last month. Dafroza Gauthier and her organization helped make that conviction possible.

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Afghans Defy Threats To Pick A President

6:19pm April 05, 2014

Despite warnings from the Taliban that they would disrupt the poll with violence, voter turnout in Afghanistan has been good and the day mostly peaceful. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with reporter Sean Carberry about the presidential elections.

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Cleaning Around Barricades, Kiev Protesters Still Camping In Square

6:19pm April 05, 2014

by Ari Shapiro

Dump trucks are carrying away piles of trash from Independence Square in Kiev. But this is not the end of the protests in the Maidan. People who've been camping there for months see it as a transition to the next stage.

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Paul Rusesabagina, who sheltered more than 1,000 people in his hotel during the Rwandan genocide, says the brutal violence in Syria, the Central African Republic and the Congo shows history repeats itself while people fail to learn from it.

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'Hotel Rwanda' Manager: We've Failed To Learn From History

1:38pm April 05, 2014

by NPR Staff

As a hotel manager in Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina sheltered more than a thousand people, saving their lives during the 1994 genocide. Now, 20 years on, he says history is repeating itself.

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For Syrian Refugees, 'Life Has Stopped'

11:18am April 05, 2014

Syrian refugees have flooded into Lebanon since the war began. The UN said this week that 1 million refugees are now in the country. NPR's Scott Simon and Alice Fordham discuss the impact.

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Arcane Chinese Holiday Honors Integrity Before Personal Gain

8:22am April 04, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

Cold Food Day in China commemorates a hermit who 2,600 years ago refused wealth and power. His ruler tried to smoke him out of his mountain hideout, but ended up burning him to a death.

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Democrats: Benghazi Probes Are Wasteful, Politically Motivated

7:53am April 03, 2014

by David Welna

Citing millions of dollars spent already, Democrats argue politics is not a good reason to spend millions more investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya more than a year ago.

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ATF Works To Slow Flow Of U.S. Weapons Across Border

7:53am April 03, 2014

by Ted Robbins

Most of the guns in Mexico come from north of the border. The U.S. has taken steps aimed at slowing gun smugglers, especially since the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives scandal.

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While Warning Of Chinese Cyberthreat, U.S. Launches Its Own Attack

2:54pm April 02, 2014

The NSA managed to penetrate the networks of the giant Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, documents show. Journalist David Sanger says cyber-espionage is an "entirely new field of conflict."

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