China’s Global Electric Vehicle Boom
Enlarge this image A BYD Brazil factory under construction in Camaari, Salvador, Brazil, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. Tuane Fernandes/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption…
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The Sounds of Ramadan in Gaza
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is coming to an end. It is a holiday marked with fasting during the day and feasts with family…
The Triumph of a Doctrine of Cruelty in El Salvador
Enlarge this image More than 250 suspected gang members arrive in El Salvador by plane, including 238 members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang and…
Israel’s Powerful Finance Minister and the Future of the Gaza Strip
Enlarge this image Israeli Minister of finance and leader of National Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich, speaks to the press during a party meeting on February 5,…
Building a Tech Industry in Syria From Scratch
Some 700 people attended a recent tech conference in Damascus, Syria. Most were Syrian and Syrian-American. Due to the war and sanctions, Syria’s tech industry…
Israel Launches a New Offensive in Gaza
A man overlooks the aftermath of the airstrikes in Gaza. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anas Baba/NPR The two month ceasefire in Gaza has…
Trump and Putin Talk about a Ceasefire in Ukraine
President Donald Trump (left) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands before attending a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in…
Why Are Young Germans Moving to the Extremes?
People, many of them young, attend the final Die Linke election rally at which co-lead candidate Heidi Reichinnek spoke ahead of snap federal parliamentary elections…
What Happened to Syria’s Lost Children?
A children’s bedroom Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption toggle caption Diaa Hadid/NPR In Syria about a decade ago, while the Assad regime was focused on crushing…
India Sees Opportunity in U.S. Tariffs
Employees work on an assembly line in the mobile phone plant of Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt., a unit of Foxconn Technology Co., in Sriperumbudur,…