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Environmental activists hold placards reading "Climatic emergency state" during a demonstration as part of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris.
Environment
After years of stalled talks, a veteran journalist has high hopes for this year’s climate summit
Trekking the Annapurna route near Jomsom. Trekkers are critical to Nepal's tourism industry, but the travel warnings boost the cost of travel insurance for them.
Global Politics
Nepal says it’s open for business, but tourists are still staying away
San Bernardino investigation
Conflict
How I talk to my American kids about mass shootings back home in the US
At the tip of Sagar Island where it meets the Bay of Bengal battered earthen dikes no longer keep the sea at bay.
Environment
Climate change-linked ‘everyday disasters’ are displacing the world’s poorest people
Two British Tornados make a fly past before landing after returning from a mission, at RAF Akrotiri, southern Cyprus December 3, 2015.
Conflict
What will British jets over Syria mean for the fight against ISIS?
A cache of weapons seized from a vehicle from an outbound (southbound) examination at Del Rio International Bridge as seen in this U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) handout photograph taken February 1, 2011. U.S. customs agents in Texas seized 14 h
Conflict
How gun violence in the US casts other nations in stark relief
University of Cape Town student activists Nico Nomyayi (l), Morategi Kale (c) and Zanele Kabane (r). "Black students are tired all over the world," Nomyayi says.
Education
South African students say protests on US campuses validate their battles against racism at home
Rocky Dawuni
Environment
This musician’s quest is for clean cookstoves