Rob Schmitz

Seventeen-year-old Sophia Park has become the youngest person to pass the California bar exam, following in her older brother's footsteps.

Colder weather and rains hit Gazans living in tents and bombed-out buildings. Most families don't have homes or shelter. We hear from families on the edge of survival.

Capitol Hill staple Charlie Palmer Steak will serve its last porterhouse on Friday. It became a destination for lobbyists and lawmakers.

Volkswagen, Germany's largest employer, is facing backlash over its plans to cut wages, lay off workers, and close factories in Germany for the first time in its history.

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.

Nearly one million Syrians who fled to Germany a decade ago look at events back home with new hope.

BERLIN — The staff of two at the packed hole-in-the-wall Syrian restaurant Yarok in Berlin are swamped making hummus and falafel for a lunch crowd, but

Nazan Rashidi, executive director of human rights group the Syria Campaign, in Berlin, Wednesday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost the confidence vote in parliament. It's the end of his fractious coalition government and it marks an historic transition for Europe's largest economy.

Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in "fish farms"- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water.