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An officer of the French National Gendarmerie guards an area near the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where two people were wounded Friday in an attack with a sharp object that one witness described as a hatchet.

Paris Police Suspect Terrorism In Attack Near Former 'Charlie Hebdo' Offices

An arrest has been made in the incident outside the building where a dozen people were gunned down in 2015 in apparent retaliation for the publication of cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad.

Ivan Fedorov (third from left), then first deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, attends a meeting on road repairs in southeastern Ukraine in 2020. Fedorov, now the mayor of Melitopol, was abducted by Russian forces earlier this month and later freed.

Ukraine mayor says Russian soldiers who kidnapped him knew nothing about his country

Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was held by Russian forces for five days. They told him they wanted to free his town from Nazis. "I told them in my 30 years in this town I've never seen a single Nazi."

French President Emmanuel Macron is ordering curfews for Paris and other large cities, hoping to slow the coronavirus.A woman wears a protective face mask as she sits in the courtyard of the Louvre museum and the pyramid of Louvre in Paris Wednesday.

Paris Under Curfew: Europe Reacts As Countries See Highest-Ever Coronavirus Numbers

President Emmanuel Macron announced nightly curfews for Paris and other cities Wednesday, part of a wave of new coronavirus restrictions in Europe.

Vice President Harris walks across the tarmac at Joint Base Andrew to board Air Force Two bound for Munich, where she will meet with European leaders to discuss Russian aggression to Ukraine.

Vice President Harris is meeting leaders in Munich to talk about Russia and Ukraine

This is Harris' highest-stakes foreign trip yet. She will meet some 13 heads of state to discuss the threat posed by Russia, and will speak at the Munich Security Conference.

France Recalls Ambassadors To The U.S. And Australia In Objection To Security Pact

France has recalled its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia as it registers its objection to a pact announced this week to build nuclear-powered submarines — a pact France wasn't included in.

Black smoke rises at the front line in southern Ukraine's Mykolaiv Oblast on Aug. 30 amid Russia's military invasion of the country. Ukraine has begun a major counteroffensive to retake areas in the south that Russia seized early in the war.

Ukraine's southern offensive relies on heavy weapons. Soldiers say there aren't enough

Progress has been slow but Ukrainian military officers say U.S.-supplied rockets and training are making a difference from when NPR visited in the spring.

A Nobel diploma and medal are displayed, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York.

3 scientists share Nobel Prize in physics for their work on quantum information

This year's Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to research on how light and matter act on an atomic scale.

The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2022. Catholic churches are leading the opposition to a ballot measure on abortion rights.

Hope and prayer: California churches battle abortion ballot measure

Religious opponents of abortion, led by the Catholic Church, are mobilizing against Proposition 1 on the Nov. 8 ballot.

U.N. Climate Conference President On 'Last Best Chance' To Combat Global Warming

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alok Sharma, president of the United Nations climate change conference COP 26, which is set to take place in Glasgow after being postponed a year.

Palestinian scout bands parade through Manger Square at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, during Christmas celebrations, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Friday.

Once again, COVID means scaled-back Christmas celebrations around the world

From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to Boston, the surging coronavirus put a damper on Christmas Eve for a second year, forcing churches to cancel or scale back services and disrupting travel plans.

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