A view of the metro car during the inauguration event of Bogota's future metro system as a school of culture for public transport, on Aug. 10. Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
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Dancers Saya Date and Shashank Duggal (center couple) perform in the improvised "Tango de Pista" category at the annual Mundial de Tango competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lucas Babic/NPR hide caption
A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina
Mayor Edilberto Molina (right), alongside Lt. Col. Óscar Usme aboard a well-armed Colombian Navy boat, tour the Caguán River which flows past Cartagena del Chairá. Carlos Saavedra for NPR hide caption
Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs
A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here. Eitan Abromovitch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror
Archaeologists dug into a riverbank in Zambia and uncovered what they call the earliest known wood construction by humans. The half-million year-old artifacts could change how we see Stone-Age people. Larry Barham and Geoff Duller/University of Liverpool hide caption
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Writtle University College, an agricultural college in Writtle, United Kingdom, a day after making his announcement about changes to Britain's climate policies. ALASTAIR GRANT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Steve Inskeep (left) interviews Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York City on Wednesday. Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption
Up First briefing: UAW strike deadline; East Coast storm; Zelenskyy interview
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption
Zelenksyy defends Ukraine's spending of Western aid and his refusal to negotiate with Russia
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska, as they arrive at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa, Ontario, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Justin Tang/AP hide caption
Protests over the cost of living, like this one last November in Accra, have become increasingly frequent in Ghana. Police arrested 49 protesters on Thursday, during fresh demonstrations against the cost of living and the economic crisis gripping the country. Once an African success story, Ghana has become locked in a cycle of economic crisis and IMF bailouts. Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images hide caption
The Nigerian music star Mohbad died on Sept. 12 in Lagos at age 27. BANG Showbiz via Reuters hide caption
Fans of a rising Nigerian music star are protesting after his untimely death
Farmer Wilbert van der Post is worried that the Dutch government's new nitrogen reduction rules will force him, a fourth-generation farmer, out of business. He plans to vote for the Farmer-Citizens Movement, known in the Netherlands by its acronym, BBB, on election day in November. Rob Schmitz/NPR hide caption
In the Netherlands, a farmers party taps into widespread discontent with government
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in the U.S. Capitol Thursday alongside House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, foreground, walks past a "Yes" sign, referring to upcoming referendum, as he arrives for a press conference at South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Roy Vandervegt/AP hide caption
Bulbul Aktar, a shasthya kormi, or community health worker, with the malaria elimination program in Bangladesh, goes door to door to treat malaria patients. "This is my job, my duty," says Aktar. "Every single home, I have to know about them and visit them." Fatima Tuj Johora for NPR hide caption
Protesters block a street in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, on Wednesday, after a cease-fire was announced between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Karen Minasyan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Security personnel outside the High Commission of Canada in New Delhi. Both India and Canada have expelled a diplomat as part of escalating tensions over the death of a Sikh activist in British Columbia in June. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn't mince words when he talked about the threat of Russia's war. Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption
As the U.S. mulls more aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says 'we have the same values'
