Alice Fordham
Alice Fordham is an NPR International Correspondent based in Beirut, Lebanon.
In this role, she reports on Lebanon, Syria and many of the countries throughout the Middle East.
Before joining NPR in 2014, Fordham covered the Middle East for five years, reporting for The Washington Post, the Economist, The Times and other publications. She has worked in wars and political turmoil but also amid beauty, resilience and fun.
In 2011, Fordham was a Stern Fellow at the Washington Post. That same year she won the Next Century Foundation's Breakaway award, in part for an investigation into Iraqi prisons.
Fordham graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics.
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The city of Cali, Colombia, is known for great salsa music — and, in the past, deadly drug cartels. The two are not entirely separate.
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President Trump says the NATO alliance is "very strong," appearing to reverse his earlier criticism of the organization after meeting other NATO leaders in Brussels.
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President Trump wrapped up his appearance at a NATO summit in Brussels with an unscheduled news conference.
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President Trump held in impromptu news conference in Brussels.
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British police say a couple who were found gravely ill on Saturday had been poisoned with the same nerve agent that was used in an attack earlier this year on a former Russian spy and his daughter.
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Britain is no closer to a post-Brexit trade plan and manufacturers like Airbus are threatening to leave, endangering hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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Voters in Ireland will go to the polls Friday for a referendum that could change the country's strict laws against abortion. Even though the Catholic Church is strongly opposed to changing the law, it has been strangely muted during the fierce national debate.
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Voters in Ireland will decide on Friday whether they want to repeal a constitutional amendment that protects "the right to life of the unborn." -
Hundreds of people left San Jose Calderas for work opportunities in the U.S. They sent back money that helped the village prosper. Things changed when many of them were deported and had to come back. -
Guatemala is the site of a radical, internationally-led experiment in bringing the brutal and corrupt to justice. The project has had some breathtaking successes but is fighting to survive.
