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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sanam Vakil of Chatham House, a British think tank, about a weekend summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

An Italian tribunal convicted 207 people on charges related to their membership in an Italian crime syndicate that is one of the world's most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups.

Poland's foreign ministry is in the midst of a visa-for-money scandal. The deputy foreign minister has resigned and seven other officials have been indicted.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will soon unveil the next stage in his plan to avoid an all-out civil war. President Bush says al-Maliki has discussed granting amnesty to insurgents. How might the government engage insurgents in the political process?

Black churches in Florida are now offering classes in African American history, as state leaders have limited how the subject can be taught in schools.

Entrenched conflicts exist globally and locally. Here's what behavioral science says about working through entrenched divisions.

Migrants rescued at sea are heading to Spain after Italy's interior minister closed all ports to migrants. David Greene talks to David Beversluis, a doctor aboard the ship Aquarius.

In a letter to conservative cardinals, the pope suggested that such blessings for same-sex unions could be studied if they didn't confuse the blessing with sacramental marriage.

China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu hasn't been seen in public for roughly three weeks amid unconfirmed reports he's under investigation.

A dirty deed and official cover-up drive the plot in John le Carre's A Delicate Truth. The novel sets its sights on old-boy corruption and corporate criminality at the heart of the "Deep State," but critic Alan Cheuse finds this latest effort lacks the tension of le Carre's Cold War novels.