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Omar Alshogre, a Syrian refugee who was tortured as a political prisoner in Syria, now lives in Sweden. He has framed photos of men who he says tortured him that he keeps upside down.

Mounting Syrian War Crime Cases Raise Hopes For Justice Against A Brutal Regime

An unprecedented legal battle against the regime is playing out in European courts, where large refugee communities and prosecutors can bring cases even for suspected crimes committed abroad.

A man stands in his wrecked home in Macomia, Mozambique, after Cyclone Kenneth in April. It was the second intense cyclone to strike the country in six weeks.

U.N. Summit: Climate-Related Disasters Getting Worse, Funds To Help Falling Short

Low- and middle-income nations are still tens of billions of dollars a year short for recovery from the increasing number of disasters, according to a new report.

Aubri Juhasz

Aubri Juhasz is a news assistant for NPR's All Things Considered.

Opera star Plácido Domingo performing in Szeged, Hungary, on Aug. 28.

Met Opera Faces 'One More Catastrophic Crisis' As Employees Must Work With Domingo

One of opera's most popular and bankable stars is scheduled to sing at New York's famed opera house next week. But a number of Met employees say that they find the situation untenable.

ISIS attacks abroad and a series of deadly right-wing attacks in the U.S. have fueled a demand for more information on extremist networks. Understanding them is the first step in fighting them. But there has been little discussion about potential harm to the researchers tasked with looking deep inside the world's most dangerous movements.

'It Gets To You.' Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work

Day after day, researchers are immersed in the propaganda of ISIS and neo-Nazi factions. But there's almost no discussion of the mental toll of examining the world's most dangerous extremists.

A cargo container is rocked by waves as Hurricane Humberto hits Hamilton, Bermuda, on Wednesday, in this still picture obtained from social media video.

'We've Made It Through': Bermuda Endures Hurricane Humberto

Hurricane Humberto knocked out the power for some 80% of Bermuda's electricity customers — but government officials say they're relieved no one died when the Category 3 storm passed by.

Eulalio Barrera Barrera's family was one of 6,000 to receive a monthly stipend funded by USAID that was cut off last month because of President Trump's foreign aid funding freeze. Like many families in the program, he spent the last cash on chickens.

Trump Froze Aid To Guatemala. Now Programs Are Shutting Down

In April, the president put $450 million on hold for Guatemala as well as Honduras and El Salvador over what he described as the failure of their governments to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S.

Mercedes Sues In Dispute With Artists Over Detroit Murals

Mercedes-Benz USA is asking a judge to protect it from legal action over its use of images of murals in Detroit in social media posts.The company says…

'It's Been A Minute' Ponders: Are We In An Influencer Bubble?

The influencer market on Instagram is expected to reach more than $2.5 billion in 2020. What is it like to be an influencer, and what role has this model played in changing the advertising industry?

State Attorneys General Want To Know If Facebook And Google Are Too Big

NPR's David Greene talks to Ohio Attorney General David Yost about the multi-state, antitrust probes into Facebook and the parent company of Google.

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