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From left, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and European Council President Charles Michel arrive to a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday. "Ukraine is our priority and this agreement will give the credibility, legitimacy and the predictability that is expected from us," Metsola said.

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European Union approves $54 billion aid for Ukraine as Hungary drops opposition

3:45pm February 01, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had vetoed the aid package in December but joined other EU members in approving it at a summit in Brussels. His vote came with conditions the EU did not disclose.

Gaza Strip, Rafah | April 2019| Impressions the Rafah Zoo before the start of the most recent war in Gaza

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Another side effect from war in Gaza? Animals starving in its besieged zoos

3:01pm February 01, 2024

by Mohamad ElBardicy

Dr. Amir Khalil is attempting to coordinate a mission to rescue animals from the war-torn Gaza Strip.

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A bar chart showing that women in lower-income countries are less likely to get breast cancer but far more likely to die from it.

The breast cancer burden in lower income countries is even worse than we thought

2:46pm February 01, 2024

by Nurith Aizenman

The World Health Organization has just released the latest worldwide statistics of the global burden of cancer. Here are five takeaways from WHO's top expert on cancer.

Radio Ajyal producer Mohammed Daher listens to a caller during a weekly radio program in which Palestinians send messages to their relatives in Israeli prisons.

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Reaching hostages and prisoners, through Israeli and Palestinian radio

11:36am February 01, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

An Israeli radio station is broadcasting messages and songs to hostages in Gaza, and a Palestinian station in the West Bank is broadcasting families' messages to relatives recently jailed in Israel.

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Farmers watch French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announcing new measures for farmers on a blocked highway on Thursday in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris.

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France's 2 key farmers unions suspend protests after new offers from the government

10:55am February 01, 2024

by The Associated Press

Farmers have blocked highways for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad. The unions said the new measures represented "tangible progress."

An SAIC Volkswagen plant is seen in the outskirts of Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Thursday, April 22, 2021.

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Rights group warns major carmakers over risk of forced labor in China supply chains

10:23am February 01, 2024

by The Associated Press

Automakers including Tesla, General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota are failing to ensure they are not using forced labor as part of their China supply chains, a report by Human Rights Watch says.

Loudspeakers in a village of Yeonpyeong island, near the Northern Limit Line sea boundary with North Korea, on Jan. 6, a day after North Korean shelling. North Korea fired an artillery barrage near two South Korean border islands on Jan. 5, Seoul's defense ministry said, prompting a live-fire drill by the South's military.

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As North Korea launches missiles and artillery, this island's residents are terrified

5:02am February 01, 2024

by Anthony Kuhn

Residents of a South Korean island attacked by North Korea in 2010 fear it could become a flashpoint again. They hid in air raid shelters in early January after North Korea conducted artillery drills.

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From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza

5:41pm January 31, 2024

by Aya Batrawy

NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip.

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As Israel resumes bombing in the north, thousands of Gazans face desperate conditions

5:21pm January 31, 2024

by Eyder Peralta

Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.

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Supporters of the Alliance Of Sahel States (AES) drive with flags as they celebrate Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Niamey on January 28, 2024.

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After the coups, West Africa's Brexit moment

6:25am January 31, 2024

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have severed ties from a key West African bloc. Four things you need to know about what the break means for a region destabilized by coups and rising jihadist violence.

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