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Poland is sending more troops to its border with Belarus. Thousands of migrants are trying to cross the frontier there, apparently at the instigation of the Belarusian regime.

The Biden administration has become increasingly concerned about migration being used as a weapon. Belarus has provided a poignant example.

One month after the military removed Sudan's civilian prime minister from power, he has been reinstalled in his position.

Having forced the military to install the prime minister it had ousted, pro-democracy activists in Sudan are pressing to insure civilian control.

Some monkeys make complex vocalizations, others don't. The reason why could help explain how the human brain evolved to produce speech. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on June 21, 2022.)

An ethnobotanist travels into the Sahara Desert to research the vanishing customs of Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center. In the first of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis for the start of a project to document disappearing cultures of the world.

London's always-busy Heathrow Airport is a scene of chaos, as thousands of passengers are caught up in a massive security crackdown following the news of the foiled plot to blow up airliners. Flights are canceled and delayed, hand luggage is banned, and liquids can no longer be taken on board.

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Silas Siakor's reports on illegal logging in Liberia helped persuade the U.N. Security Council to ban Liberian timber exports. That stripped warlords of key income and led to political change. Siakor looks back... and forward.

An Islamist militia says it has seized control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Steve Inskeep talks to John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group about the conflict. The Islamists have been fighting the warlords since the last central government collapsed in 1991.

President Biden is making his first trip to Asia since taking office. Pivoting U.S. foreign policy to the region has been a major goal, often interrupted by crises like the war in Ukraine.