Hungarian American Katalin Karik and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discoveries that helped create the mRNA vaccines to protect against COVID . Some five decades of public and private research laid the groundwork for the quick development of the lifesaving...

   A suspected suicide bomb blast during a procession to commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad has left more than people dead and many more wounded in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. There’s been growing instability in Pakistan caused by ISIS and the Pakistani Taliban. And, the Peace...

   The leader of the breakaway Armenian republic of Nagorno Karabakh says the enclave will dissolve its state institutions on Jan., . Residents have been streaming out of the mountainous enclave since Azerbaijan seized control of it last week. And, China is home to the world’s largest high speed...

   On Wednesday, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, six Portuguese people between the ages of and years old are presenting their case. They accuse the members of the European Union of violating their human rights for what they say is a failure to adequately address climate...

   On the th day of the United Autoworkers strike, President Joe Biden joined the picketers in Wayne County, Michigan. The UAW strike involves American autoworkers but Canada and Mexico play a critical role in the supply chain of the US auto industry. And, billionaire Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai...

   Ethnic Armenians have been fleeing Stepanakert, the capital of the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh, which is now under the control of Azerbaijan, the country that surrounds it on all sides. We look at how this latest crisis fits into a long history of division, displacement and war. Also, US...

   Indigenous communities in Brazil are celebrating after the country’s supreme court rejected a legal policy that would have weakened their ability to claim land. Also, a new book talks about the most powerful woman in North Korean history: Kim Yo jong, the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong un. And,...

   The Biden administration is expanding and extending its temporary protected status order for Venezuela, allowing Venezuelans to work. This includes nearly half a million Venezuelans currently in the US. And, Poland’s prime minister has said that Ukraine will no longer receive weapons because Poland...

   UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres only invited leaders with credible new climate pledges to speak at this year’s UN climate ambition summit. But the UN has limited power to cajole nations when it comes to climate. And, Armenian separatist forces in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno...

   At the UN General Assembly today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy again sounded the alarm over Russian aggression. And, family groups crossing the US border illegally reached an all time high in August. This is a concern for Biden administration officials, as families have always been the...