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Naser al-Shimary, deported this year to Iraq from the U.S., greets his four-year-old son Vincent at Baghdad international airport. Shimary had lived in the U.S. since he was five years old. He agreed to be deported under a practice halted by a U.S. court this summer.

'They Know I'm Different': Deportee Struggles In Iraq After Decades Living In U.S.

Naser al-Shimary, a refugee in the U.S., was deported this year back to Iraq — where he hasn't lived since he was 2 and now fears for his life.

Honor guards attend a flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in 2017. Under President Xi Jinping, China has ambitiously pressed its advantage almost everywhere at once.

China Unbound: What An Emboldened China Means For The World

China has definitely risen. NPR's correspondents set out to find out what that entails, reporting from more than a dozen countries across the globe.

A wildfire raged near the Moria refugee camp, pictured here, on Greece's Lesbos Island. The camp is home to an estimated 9,000 migrants and refugees.

Wildfire Breaks Out Near Camp In Greece, Home To Thousands Of Refugees

A plume of smoke was visible not far from the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The number of migrants and refugees arriving in Greece by sea has soared this year.

French hooded police officers guard the area with other police officers after a knife attack Thursday west of Paris.

2 Killed In Knife Attack Outside Paris

The French interior minister said the attacker had psychiatric problems and authorities are not treating the incident as terrorism, despite a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State.

Lara Alqasem arrived in Israel last Tuesday on a valid student visa but was blocked from entering the country on suspicion of supporting a Palestinian-led boycott campaign.

U.S. Student Detained In Israel

Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old U.S. citizen, was barred from entering Israel last Tuesday and ordered to be deported. She appealed the decision and has been detained ever since.

The X-51A Waverider was a prototype hypersonic missile capable of flying at Mach 5.1 for hundreds of miles. The Air Force is stepping up its development of similar weapons.

Nations Rush Ahead With Hypersonic Weapons Amid Arms Race Fear

The U.S., China and Russia have stepped up efforts to develop hypersonic weapons, which are capable of speeds five times the speed of sound and could change the face of warfare.

Sister Bertha Lopez Chaves applies anti-inflammatory eyedrops to a migrant at a stadium in Mexico City where the caravan is resting. Her order is one of roughly 50 groups giving aid to the migrants in the Mexican capital. "We're just trying to deal with their basic needs so they can continue on," she says.

Health Care For The Migrant Caravan: Flu, Blisters But Definitely Not Smallpox

At a rest stop in Mexico City, adults are treated for respiratory and stomach bugs. Their feet are in bad shape. There's anxiety and fear among adults and children. But ... definitely no smallpox.

Dylann Roof enters the courtroom at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in Charleston, S.C., on April 10, 2017.

Sister Of Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof Arrested After Menacing Social Media Post

After a Snapchat post saying she hoped students participating in a walkout to protest gun violence "get shot," Morgan Roof, 18, was taken into custody on drug and weapons charges.

It's A Date: Facebook Enters Online Matchmaking

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at a developer conference on Tuesday that the social media giant will soon release a dating feature. The news sent shares of Match.com's parent plunging.

President Trump has never foreclosed the possibility he might talk in person with the special counsel's investigators, even though his own attorneys have advised him against it.

The Russia Investigations: Trump Says His Answers For Mueller Are Done. Now What?

The president told reporters that he wrote the answers to questions from the special counsel and that he did so "very easily." He also said he suspected some were designed to be a "perjury trap."

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