Brazil is fanning out 200,000 troops to battle mosquitoes. It's part of larger efforts to combat the transmission of the Zika virus, which has been linked to brain abnormalities in Brazil.
David Greene talks to James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, about the potential for a lasting cease-fire between the Syrian government and rebels.
The billion-dollar figure (in Australian currency) has drawn scrutiny from critics who say the police are valuing the drugs at a much higher rate than normal.
Alex Wong, originally from Malaysia, introduces his American neighbors to the culinary tradition of Yusheng, a giant salad toss with which people in Southeast Asia greet the Chinese Lunar New Year.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Father Kevin Mullins, a priest in crime-plagued Juarez, Mexico, about what his flock is hoping to hear from Pope Francis this week.
The pope called out "a society of the few and for the few" during an open-air mass in the impoverished and violent Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec on Sunday.
Turkey is shelling Kurdish forces in Syria. Russia is waging air strikes to bolster an advance by Bashar Assad's government. Prospects for a truce aren't looking good.
Rachel Martin speaks with Rod Nordland about his new book, "The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet," the true story of a love affair between a boy and a girl of different backgrounds.