Australia employs one of the most aggressive approaches in the world in dealing with seaborne migrants. It turns their boats back, sinks them, or corrals migrants on an island.
Guatemala's president resigned last week and is waiting trial in a military prison on corruption charges. Renee Montagne talks to Eric Olson of the Latin American program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
In northern Lebanon, sweeping buildings designed by renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer remind people of more peaceful times. (This story first aired on May 26, 20015 on All Things Considered.)
Following the release of the report, parents of the missing students have demanded a meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto, who has been criticized for his handling of the investigation.
The National Reform Council, handpicked by the military junta, spent nine months working on the new charter only to vote it down in what some see as a move to further delay elections.
Thieves are hijacking hives and renting the bees and their queens out to farmers to pollinate their crops. With the global collapse of the bee population, the crime is becoming even more lucrative.
The Rainbow Warrior, on a mission to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific, was destroyed by an underwater mine in New Zealand's Auckland harbor.
Migrants in Hungary are now being allowed on trains that are heading to the Austrian border. NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks to correspondent Eleanor Beardsley, who is boarding a train with them.
Now that Ireland has turned its economy around, some politicians point to its success as a model of the policy of economic austerity. But that's not how it feels to many people living there.