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A riverine command boat from Riverine Detachment 23 operates during a maritime air support operations center exercise in the Persian Gulf in this June 12, 2012 handout photo, provided by the U.S. Navy, January 12, 2016.
Conflict
Direct line of communication was key in release of US sailors held by Iran
Kandia Kouyate
Music
It took a generational effort to record Kandia Kouyaté’s new album — and it was worth it
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Global Politics
It’s not Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela anymore, or is it?
People celebrate as they become U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives Museum in Washington.
Belief
Is the US or Europe more welcoming to immigrants?
Cuban migrants say goodbye to their fellow compatriots in Costa Rica as they head to the airport for the first leg of their journey: a flight to El Salvador. Then they'll take a bus to the Guatemala-Mexico border and make their way to the US border.
Global Politics
Why six nations put their heads together and found a way to get nearly 8,000 stranded Cubans to the US
Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix spent two years in Swaziland teaching English.
Business
Netflix goes live in the sub-Saharan, because ‘the future is in places like Africa’
Young migrants and refugees walk through a town in northern Serbia toward the Hungarian border. There's a fear that young men like these might bring violence with them.
Conflict
These men say they’re leaving Syria because they don’t want to fight anyone
Flowers and handwritten signs for the sexual assault victims have been left on the steps of Cologne's Gothic cathedral. Hundreds of women reported being victimized in this area during a chaotic New Year's Eve.
Justice
Men of Arab descent not finding Germany as welcoming as they used to
President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress
Global Politics
Obama, in his final State of the Union, confronts those stoking fear of terrorism