Jackie Northam

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared to chastise the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a speech Sunday. Zarif had criticized the influence of the Revolutionary Guards.

Citing President Biden's speech to Congress, North Korea says the United States will face a grave situation if it continues to pursue its "hostile policy" toward the country's nuclear program.

Trouble keeps mounting for the massive ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal. Egypt has seized the Ever Given, its thousands of containers and the crew while demanding $1 billion in compensation.

The U.S is withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan to focus on more urgent foreign policy priorities.

Officials in the Biden administration are preparing to issue wide-ranging sanctions against Russia in retaliation for the massive cyber breach discovered late last year.

More than 100 ships of similar size to the Ever Given ply the world's waterways, creating logistical challenges and concerns about mishaps — including "spectacular losses of cargo," one analyst says.

Giant ships are loaded down with cargo, mostly consumer goods during the pandemic, which is causing concern about more mishaps like the one in the Suez Canal, and containers going overboard.

The Biden administration is weighing whether to continue former President Trump's hard line against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. It's part of the broader review of China-related policies.

A massive container ship that has blocked the Suez Canal for six days has been partially freed. Traffic has not yet resumed in the canal, which is among the world's most important waterways.

With one of the world's largest container ships solidly lodged in the Suez Canal, blocking billions of dollars' worth of commerce each day, NPR takes a look at the worldwide implications.

In Egypt, a ship the length of four football fields has run aground in the Suez Canal — backing up cargo and oil tanker traffic on one of the world's busiest routes.

An enormous cargo ship is stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt, blocking one of the world's key shipping routes.

Trials in China for two Canadians charged with espionage are seen as retaliation after Canada arrested a Chinese executive at request of the U.S. Washington wants that exec extradited to the U.S.

President Biden wants to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal that his predecessor pulled out of. It's at a standstill, but analysts say the Biden administration can make gestures to bring Iran to the table.

The tough sanctions that former president Trump slapped on Iran are still in place and President Biden has a few options to use them to bring Iran back to the nuclear deal.

The gene-editing technology is at the center of an ethical debate. Isaacson examines it through the life of Jennifer Doudna, co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for CRISPR's discovery.

The White House might be about to release a damning report on the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but it seems intent on maintaining an alliance with Saudi Arabia.

He was Saudi Arabia's oil minister for nearly 25 years, rising to fame for engineering the 1973 oil embargo and negotiating Saudi control of Aramco from U.S. fuel giants.

Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the storied former Saudi Arabian oil minister who oversaw the 1973 oil embargo and made the kingdom an energy powerhouse has died.

The Biden administration has to decide whether to alienate Germany, a close ally, by continuing the Trump administration's sanctions on companies building Germany's gas pipeline from Russia.