NPR's David Greene interviews Germany's ambassador to the U.S., Peter Wittig, about trade, leadership and diplomacy after the U.S. pullout from the Iran nuclear deal.
The rural region has a long history of cultivating cannabis that goes back 150 years, and on Tuesday the newly formed local government approved using the leaf as the official government symbol.
President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement puts the U.S. at odds with some of its closest allies. Companies rushed to do business in Iran when the agreement took effect.
Foreign Ministers from the U.K., France and Germany, as well as the European Union's foreign policy chief, are meeting Iran's Foreign Minister in Brussels Tuesday to discuss ways to preserve the Iran nuclear deal despite threatened U.S. sanctions.
The day after Israeli troops shot dozens dead during protests on the Gaza border, envoys traded barbs at the U.N., countries confronted ambassadors — and Guatemala readied an embassy move of its own.
David Greene talks to German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger about European and Iranian officials meeting in Brussels to discuss ways of maintaining the nuclear deal following the U.S. withdrawal.
The Open Society Foundations, which promotes democracy and transparency, says it will exit Hungary amid an escalating dispute between Soros and the country's right-wing government.
The festival in London kept running out of pizza. That wasn't the biggest problem: One customer told the BBC the slices looked like something that passed through a cat's digestive system.