Our government can’t help the kidnapped schoolgirls, says a Nigerian human rights worker

Why is Xinjiang such a problem for China?

Ukrainians will head to the polls this weekend, but will those in the east bother to vote?

Cannes is buzzing over Gerard Depardieu’s performance in ‘Welcome to New York’

US forces are helping Nigeria — but there are limits to what they’ll do

Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks out against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine

Music Heard on the Air for May 22, 2014

Here’s how a Uighur musician was inspired to bring his culture and food to the streets of Boston

Here’s how a Uighur musician was inspired to bring his culture and food to the streets of Boston

This Cumbia band plays covers of the Sex Pistols — in Mexican wrestler masks

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