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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies or leaving Iran. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi about the work he manages to produce despite government restrictions.

One tech agency has been making sure communications travel across borders for over a century. Now, Russia and China are in a battle with the U.S. and its Western allies over control of that agency.

Meta's new app, Threads, may be the latest in a long-string of Twitter's competitors, but it appears to have an edge in the game thanks to its ties to Instagram. Over 30 million users have joined.

Artist Emmalene Blake's mural on the wall of a Dublin pub became an iconic image of Gaza's grief. Then one day, she got an Instagram message from the Palestinian woman in the image.

Syrian rebels have entered another major city, in a further blow to President Bashar Assad after they took over Aleppo days earlier.

Dr. Jean Kaseya is now figuring out how to cope with the new foreign aid landscape.

With a ceasefire in place, Hezbollah wants to rebuild Lebanon. But its supply chains across Syria have been weakened by Israeli airstrikes, rebel fighting and the ouster of its ally Bashar al-Assad.

Jeremy Konyndyk, executive director of USAID's COVID task force, shares his perspective on the U.S.' efforts to donate and distribute vaccines to low-income nations.

Here & Now co-host Jeremy Hobson started telling stories on the radio when he was a kid and hasn't stopped since.

Israel takes pride in its high-tech industry — and it brings in big bucks. But one of its star cybersecurity firms, NSO Group, is at the center of a spying scandal, and the government plays a role.