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South Beach is just as tantalizing today as it was in the days of Miami Vice. Mix one part Art Deco, one part Cubanita culture, one part surreal fantasy and you've got a book — or three.

Veteran actor rules the screen this summer, appearing in five features between June and August. Among his roles: a mystic in The Love Guru, a corrupt C.I.A. mastermind in War, Inc., and a stoned shrink in The Wackness.

Rodrigo Duterte's repeated provocative statements are straining relations with the U.S. And his disparaging remarks about the U.S. president aren't helping Obama's pivot to Asia.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Philip Reeves about the investigation into how audio of Saddam Hussein's court appearance Thursday was transmitted around the world, despite a ban by an Iraqi judge on audio feeds from the courtroom.

Pakistan's recent crackdown on al Qaeda operatives within its borders has helped strengthen President Pervez Musharraf's ties with the United States. But the efforts put Musharraf's political future in jeopardy in a country with strong Islamist extremism and anti-Americanism. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Philip Reeves.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says this will be the last year of the annual joint military exercises between the allies, but his officials say that's not a final decision.

Voters rejected the historic peace deal signed last week by Colombia's president and the leader of the FARC rebels. It would have disarmed FARC and brought a formal end to decades of hostilities.

Pope Francis reached out to Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Georgia and Azerbaijan, and warned Catholics to stand up against gender theory, which he says is a threat to marriage.

At least a dozen people are shot dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a day before new talks between India and Pakistan on the disputed region. Islamist militants are blamed for the raid on a mountain village. Indian police say the dead are Muslims, and a three-year-old child was among the victims. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves.