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Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones discusses the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union with NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

The Trump administration seems intent on encouraging protest against the government in Iran. But experts doubt that will work create the kind of change the US seeks and could pose risks to the protest movement.

Rice farmers in Nepal are improving yields by more than 50 percent using a technique that sows fewer plants per acre but produces more rice per plant. It also uses less water.

Rachel Martin talks to Anna Fifield, Tokyo bureau chief at The Washington Post, about President Trump's hint on Twitter that 3 Americans held in North Korean labor camps might be released soon.

Ilona and Claude Blouin are among the Americans in U.S. quarantine after going to China. They were visiting their son Craig in Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus epidemic. He stayed in Wuhan.

The Airbus 320 vanished early Thursday about 175 miles from the Egyptian coastline. Renee Montagne talks to Todd Curtis, of the website AirSafe, and NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and Russell Lewis.

Early Monday morning, a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship near Singapore, leaving a number of crew members missing. Ailsa Chang talks to David B. Larter, staff writer for Defense News.

Ethnic minority Rohingyas are once again facing widespread violence from government forces in Myanmar, and thousands have fled across the border to Bangladesh. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Poppy McPherson, who is following the story in Myanmar.

The execution of Ronald Bert Smith, Jr. in Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used as a sedative in lethal injections. According to Kent Faulk, a reporter for the Birmingham News who witnessed the execution, Smith heaved and coughed 13 minutes into his execution.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rukmini Callimachi, who covers terrorism for The New York Times, about the curious silence on the part of terrorist groups following the EgyptAir crash.