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For the first time, sex slavery is being acknowledged in court as a war crime. The 11 accusers are using the trial platform to condemn this kind of abuse, for fear it could happen again.

With warmer weather comes an influx of refugees and migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, and a shift in the route they're taking. Over the weekend, hundreds of people drowned.

The president has declared a tomato state of emergency in the northern sector.

His family says that Warmbier, 22, has been in a coma since last spring. In March 2016, a North Korean court sentenced him to 15 years in prison and hard labor.

As a symbolic vote nears on President Maduro's plan to replace the constitution, protesters greeted a surprise guest: the police officer who attacked government buildings from a helicopter last month.

The laws were spurred by the criminal case of an emergency room doctor charged with performing the procedure on multiple girls in suburban Detroit. The United States banned the practice in 1996.

The unfolding epidemic in the war-ravaged country "continues to spiral out of control," the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Monday.

Qatar has been isolated by neighboring countries in a heated diplomatic standoff. But Saudi Arabia has announced it plans to open its border to allow pilgrims from the tiny Gulf country.

President Trump has announced new, ramped up sanctions on North Korea. Suzanne DiMaggio of the think tank New America explains the sanctions and their impact with NPR's David Greene.

Turkey issued its first official response since one of its planes being shot down by Syrian air defense. The Turkish foreign minister is charging that the incident was an act of aggression, and he says Turkey will take its case to NATO and to the United Nations. Guest host David Greene talks with NPR's Deborah Amos.