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Following riots and attacks in past years, residents of Urumqi, the capital of the western region, now live and work under intense surveillance, and are subject to detention after traveling abroad.

Authorities say the mountain, which last erupted 54 years ago, is poised to go at any time.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho says that under international law, his country can legally shoot down U.S. military planes — even if they're not in North Korea's airspace.

Days after President Trump and North Korean leaders swapped threats, the U.S. made a show of military force near the Korean peninsula. Robert Daly, a former diplomat, talks with David Greene.

North Korea's foreign minister referred to Pyongyang's "nuclear hammer of justice," when he spoke at the U.N. Saturday, the same day the U.S. flew bombers near North Korean shores.

The quake occurred close to the site where the country detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.

Police found the bodies of Orouba Barakat and her daughter, Halla, a U.S. citizen, in their Istanbul apartment. Their deaths have left family and the wider dispersed Syrian community in fear.

Researchers used an innovative method to come up with the data for the years from 2000 to 2015. What's behind the encouraging trend?

China accounts for the vast majority of North Korea's trade. President Trump has accused China of not doing enough to push back North Korea's nuclear program.

The rhetoric between President Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un turned into a volley of insults this week after Trump referred to the dictator as "Rocketman" at the United Nations.

It is the latest in a tit-for-tat between President Trump and the North Korean leader. In a tweet on Friday, the president said Kim Jong Un "will be tested as never before!"

President Trump has announced new, ramped up sanctions on North Korea. Suzanne DiMaggio of the think tank New America explains the sanctions and their impact with NPR's David Greene.