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The scene is a safe house somewhere in Britain. And the players are British intelligence agents, diplomats, and one lean, white-haired Libyan man named Moussa Koussa. He's Libya's foreign minister, a senior member of Moammar Gadhafi's embattled regime. Koussa flew to England Wednesday, and the British say he's resigned his post and defected — and that they've spent the day debriefing him.

A major row erupted in Brazil after the government suspended trials of a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine. President Jair Bolsonaro is accused of playing politics with the pandemic.

Brazilians were transfixed as an appeals court upheld former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's corruption conviction. The decision promises a vast impact on ballot boxes later this year.

For the first time since 1979, Jose Eduardo dos Santos is not Anogola's president. The only president generations have known is stepping down. A new leader is being inaugurated in the capital Luanda.

University of Baltimore law professor Charles Tiefer worked in a congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra scandal. He tells Don Gonyea what goes on behind closed doors.

Paul Stanley, lead singer of KISS, looks back on the heavy metal band's legacy and talks about retiring from touring at the end of 2019.

Sometimes, when walking Brooklyn's streets, it doesn't feel as if its literary past is haunting. Rather, its literary soul is still alive and pulsating. Brooklyn is a world unto itself and a writer's enclave. Journalist and critic Evan Hughes has written a literary biography of the leafy borough.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan on the Hamas attacks in Israel and Israeli air strikes.

Alexis Ohanian is co-founder of the popular social news site Reddit. His new book, Without Their Permission, tells the story of the site, from startup to Internet giant.

Dylan Dethier took a year off between high school and college for an unusual quest: He wanted to play a round of golf in each of the 48 contiguous states. His new book, 18 in America, chronicles that year, and he joins NPR's Scott Simon on the putt-putt course to talk about it.