Category: 4. World

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

In the one-horse town of…

At least 22 people have been killed and a further 16 injured after two buildings collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez.

The two four-storey residential buildings that came down early on Wednesday morning contained eight families, state media…

French lawmakers approved a social security budget, a major win for Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu that may stave off political chaos, albeit without addressing the country’s spiraling debt problem.

The battle over French pensions has forced…

Four Afghan men were ordered to report to the Taliban government’s department of vice and virtue for dressing in costumes inspired by the TV series Peaky Blinders.

The friends were told that their clothing was “in conflict with Afghan and Islamic…

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Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has…

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