Iraq’s prime minister has said he wants the government to register Internet sites and ban some books. This has raised fears that the door may be closing on what has been one of the most open media landscapes in the Middle East. On Friday, Iraqi journalists, writers and booksellers took to the streets of Baghdad to protest.

Host Guy Raz speaks with NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro about a shootout in Gaza that left 22 people dead this weekend. Rival militiamen from Hamas and an Islamist group known as the Warriors of God exchanged fire for several hours. The Islamist group argues that Hamas has gone too soft.

An American man imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country Sunday after visiting Sen. Jim Webb won his release.

Iran expanded its mass trial of opposition supporters Sunday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pushed ahead with preparations for his next term by announcing he will nominate three women to join his new Cabinet. They would be Iran’s first female ministers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Until recently, 40 Cambodian families with HIV and AIDS were living in the center of the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. Then the government moved them to a site 15 miles outside the city. As NPR’s Doualy Xaykaothao reports, the resettlement is viewed by many as a forced eviction, creating what some are calling an AIDS colony.

An American who was sentenced to seven years hard labor in Myanmar is on his way home Sunday. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia secured the release of John Yettaw of Missouri, who swam across a lake to a home where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was being held on house arrest. Her detention sentence has now been extended, but Webb was granted a visit with her. Guest host David Greene talks to NPR’s Michael Sullivan about the trip.

New York University is in the midst of an ambitious plan to build a campus in the United Arab Emirates. Guest host David Greene talks to NYU president John Sexton about what it means to be a global university.

Guest host David Greene speaks with NPR’s Jackie Northam about the upcoming elections later this week in Afghanistan. Taliban militants have pledged to disrupt the vote, and there are fears of major violence on Election Day.

Guest host David Greene talks to Hayden Boyce, editor-in-chief of the Turks and Caicos Sun, about the takeover of the islands’ government by Britain. The U.K. says the government was rife with corruption.

A ransom demand has been received for the return of a Russian-manned freighter that vanished last month in the Atlantic, Finnish investigators said Saturday. It was not immediately clear if the ransom demand was legitimate. The whereabouts of the Arctic Sea, its 15 crew members and its cargo of timber remain a mystery.