The floating Olympic cauldron, held aloft by a giant glowing balloon, is still making regular appearances two years after the 2024 Paris Games, showing up all summer long in the nighttime Paris sky.
NPR Staff recommends several non-fiction titles from Books We Love: "Good Movies As Old Books," "Pakistan," "Baldwin: A Love Story," and "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This."
After days of global outrage at Israel's restrictions on aid to Gaza, the Israeli military said it would revive aid airdrops. Israel said it is also pausing fighting for 10 hours a day in some areas.
Some 33 million people are affected by this summer’s floods — the result of what
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calls a “monsoon on steroids.” He calls
the flooding a “climate catastrophe.”
Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks
are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good
too, and helped recover missing children.
Millions of people in Afghanistan are facing hunger and starvation amid a
prolonged drought and economic crash. A World Food Program spokesperson says a
new urban class of hungry people has emerged.
Millions of people in Afghanistan are facing hunger and starvation amid a
prolonged drought and economic crash. A World Food Program spokesperson says a
new urban class of hungry people has emerged.
Students and faculty with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music flew last
week from Doha to Lisbon, where they will start their new lives and reconstitute
their celebrated academy in exile.
This week, members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music flew from Doha
to Portugal, where they’ll rebuild their school — and lives. They describe their
escape from Kabul and future hopes.
This week, members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music flew from Doha
to Portugal, where they’ll rebuild their school — and lives. They describe their
escape from Kabul and future hopes.
