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Mukhtar Babayev, has been named to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company.

As gangs vow to topple the government, Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency.

The war in Ukraine is causing a change in the migration path of the Greater Spotted Eagle. This makes conservation efforts more difficult.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

The kitten, which was found in Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, still had fur and whiskers when it was discovered.

Mail carriers and shipping companies will be closed on Christmas Day.

Billions of people around the world voted in elections across more than 60 countries this past year. The results provide an assessment of the state of electoral democracy on a global level.

Hezbollah has a new secretary-general in Naim Qassem. Experts say it's a position he was never intended to hold.

As invasive green crabs wreak havoc on California's estuaries, a new study has found that a restored sea otter population might be the solution.

Uganda's government has used the coronavirus as a pretext to arrest dissidents, including a novelist whose fiction satirizes its strongman president.