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Two Reuters journalists have been detained since Dec. 12. The two had been reporting on the brutal military campaign against the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar.

The opioid epidemic caused U.S. life expectancy to fall for the second year in a row, marking the first time that has happened since the early 1960s. Death rates also continued to rise.

Also: At least four die in a Philippines ferry sinking; a relief group says one million Yemenis may have cholera; and the British parking lot where Richard III's remains were found is now a monument.

"The fire engulfed an eight-story building and trapped dozens inside," NPR's Elise Hu reports from Seoul. "At least 15 of the dead were trapped in a second floor sauna."

The government's case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accuses him of leading an armed standoff over control of U.S. public lands in 2014.

The spending bill keeps the government open until mid-January and extends funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program. Fights over immigration and disaster funding will come in the new year.

The International Committee of the Red Cross announced the terrible landmark Thursday, roughly eight months after the outbreak first took hold in the war-ravaged country.

By a 128-9 vote Thursday, the General Assembly rejected a U.S. decree that recognized the disputed city as Israel's capital. "The United States will remember this day," Ambassador Nikki Haley warned.

NPR foreign correspondents weigh in on the politicians and political forces that helped shape the world in 2017.

The longtime host of All Things Considered will retire in January. NPR had only been on the air for five years when Siegel started in 1976. "So we really could make it up as we went along," he says.