In the country's first election since declaring victory over ISIS, 24 million Iraqis are eligible to vote. But at one polling center in Baghdad, journalists far outnumbered voters.
In a statement delivered through state media Saturday, North Korea's Foreign Ministry announced that it will destroy a nuclear test site later this month — and invited journalists to watch.
NPR's Scott Simon muses about how the glamour of this year's red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival masks the struggles of two directors who have been prevented by their home countries from attending.
North Korea's human rights record is one of the worst in the world but the Trump administration has given it scant attention. Scott Simon talks to journalist Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy.
NPR'S Scott Simon speak with author Wajahat Ali about his article in The Atlantic, "A Muslim Among the Settlers," about traveling to Jewish settlements in the West Bank.