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Men look at wall graffiti depicting a American drone along a street in Sana'a, Yemen, on November 9, 2013.
Conflict
This Yemeni says US drone strikes are actually helping al-Qaeda
A mural in Monrovia illustrating health instructions for treating the Ebola virus.
Health
Liberians worry that next week’s elections might spread Ebola
Development
How a US aid agency hoped hip-hop might fuel a Cuban revolution
Technology
Facebook annexed Kosovo — and that’s a good thing
An Ecuadorean stray named Arthur who won the hearts of millions after he adopted a team of Swedish trekkers.
Environment
Shaggy dogs, sexy sharks, boozy birds — it’s the top animal stories of 2014
Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan gives an address in Little Rock, Arkansas Luncheon to celebrate the bicentennial of the Mexican Independence Wars and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution in 2010.
Technology
One of the world’s original digital diplomats says Twitter is an ‘unrivaled tool’ for foreign policy
Soldiers from the 35th US Volunteer Infantry subject a Filipino to the ‘water cure,’ a common ‘enhanced interrogation’ technique employed during the war to pacify the Philippines between 1899 and 1902.
Justice
America has used water to torture people for more than a century
The logo of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005.
Justice
There may be reason for optimism following the CIA torture report
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area watched by military police at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in 2002.
Conflict
How the US provides inspiration for terrorists groups like ISIS
In Mexico City, people attach flowers to a mural showing the faces of the 43 missing trainee teachers from he Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos.
Music
A playlist for Mexico’s missing student-teachers
The Digital Diplomat
Global Politics
Kosovo can’t get recognition from the UN, but it can get it from Facebook
Ice scientists Ken Golden and Chris Polashenski drill a plastic tube into the Arctic ice cap north of Alaska as part of their research into melt ponds that form on the ice every spring. The ponds play a key role in the accellerated warming of the Arctic,
Environment
A scientist unlocks one of the mysteries of Arctic ice melt