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Conflict
Fear of immigration raids? This Honduran woman says she would cross the border again.
South African Firefighters arrive in Edmonton, Alberta
Environment
South African firefighters dance as they arrive in Canada to help battle wildfires
Arturo Sandoval
Music
How Dizzy Gillespie and Dan Quayle helped this Cuban musician defect
Rescuers try to revive an unconscious refugee who arrived on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos. Two unconscious arrivals were taken to a hospital and were later pronounced dead.
Justice
Not all those refugees are boarding ships voluntarily. Some are victims of extortion.
'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl, featuring illustrations from Quentin Blake
Books
Roald Dahl’s ‘gobblefunk’ words get their own dictionary
A man sits on a crate to weigh vegetables in a field, black and white photo
Justice
A lesson from history about protecting migrant workers
A beaver living in Vancouver's former Olympic Village
Environment
Vancouver’s former Olympic Village is now home to urban beavers
Andy North contracted a rare syndrome that once plagued WWI vets.
Medicine
What it’s like to get the rare, WWI-era autoimmune disorder affecting Zika patients
Avigdor Lieberman (L) and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after agreeing a new coalition deal last week, which gave Lieberman the Defense Ministry
Global Politics
Who is Israel’s controversial new defense minister?
The Arizona-Mexico border fence is seen near Naco, Arizona.
Conflict
The walls that are being built now inside America
Christian Jacobs touches a photograph of his U.S. Marine father, Christopher Jacobs, while visiting his grave on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, U.S., May 30, 2016.
Conflict
‘Thanks for your service’ brings up mixed emotions for US veterans
A woman is helped by medical staff abroad the Italian Navy vessel Vega at the Reggio Calabria harbor, southern Italy, May 29, 2016.
Conflict
Northward toward death: 700 migrants have drowned off Africa in the Mediterranean in the past week
Former Chad President Hissene Habre makes declarations to media as he leaves a court in Dakar, 2005.
Justice
Chad’s former dictator is convicted of crimes against humanity in landmark trial
Yana, 40 (left) with her social worker Olga. Yana has recently been released from prison and Olga helps Yana readjust to the everyday life. Mariupol 2016.
Conflict
Stigma, discrimination, violence: Among the internally displaced in Ukraine with HIV (Photos)
Georgiy Gaidamaka left his native Simferopol, in Crimea, after the Russian government said it would cut end the methadone­ substitution therapy he’d relied on to treat his heroin addiction. Now he lives in Kiev, where he builds amplifiers from old Soviet
Conflict
For Ukrainians displaced by conflict, there’s no going back
Daniel Torres sits on a sofa
Justice
He fought for America. Now he can make it home.
Marlon Williams
Music
Marlon Williams shows that Americana doesn’t belong just to America
A prompt to get an art therapy session started.
Conflict
A promising way to help vets, with poetry, painting, even latch hooking rugs
A soldier walks past concertina wire surrounding the outside of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Delta at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay.
Justice
Are the 9/11 trials at Guantanamo still about 9/11?
Jihad Al-Mohammed in his home in Saida. When he moved in, the centuries-old building was abandoned, but it used to be a Jewish synagogue.
Belief
It took this man 10 years to realize he was living in a synagogue
Sheep graze on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Lifestyle
The home of Sappho could really use some tourist love
19th century period Native American Feathers,leather,and beads
Culture
Paris auction house turns deaf ear to Native American appeals
The Downs family after their rescue. A German U-boat torpedoed the ship they were sailing on in the Gulf of Mexico in 1942.
Conflict
Survivor of WWII U-boat attack: ‘I went under and didn’t think I was ever going to come up’
President Barack Obama and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) attend a ceremony at the Atomic Bomb Dome at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, May 27th 2016.
Conflict
US veterans react to Obama’s visits to Vietnam and Hiroshima
Okonomiyaki.
Food
In search of okonomiyaki, the addictive Japanese pancake
An eye-catching poster from the student group SEALDs, featuring founding member, Wakako Fukuda (right). SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) has changed the image of protesters in Japan, and made it okay to speak out.
Culture
The student group in Japan that’s made it cool to protest
Refugees and migrants with a cup of tea
Culture
A simple cup of tea can mean a lot on the island of Lesbos
Makmoud Nakarch rolls out dough in order to make Syrian flatbread in his bakery under a cargo train parked at Idomeni Camp.
Conflict
The fortune-telling baker who predicted a camp’s end
Bill Cosby and Nelson Mandela, then President of South Africa, appear before the press on March 20, 1997 in Cape Town. During his visit, Cosby gave a benefit performance on Robben Island for then visiting first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mandela and Uni
Global Politics
‘The Cosby Show’s’ legacy in South Africa
Zozan Khaled Musa, 25
Conflict
This Syrian’s decision to pass as a non-refugee came at a personal cost
Arts
How a Hmong song tradition is kept alive in the American Midwest
A group of women on a bus, with drums, singing
Culture
A field trip in California takes kids and parents all the way back to Sudan — on a bus
President Obama making his famous Prague speech in 2009
Global Politics
Obama’s mixed record on fighting nuclear weapons
Environmentalist Emily Kelsall holds up samples of gas pump labels.
Environment
A Canadian city is putting warning labels on gas pumps
Random Swedes will be answering "The Swedish Number" until June 24.
Culture
Call this number and a Swede will answer, any Swede
A vendor displays bananas at his stall in Somalia capital Mogadishu, July 8 2013.
Culture
A banana with your Somali dish? It’s not dessert or an appetizer, as this reporter found out
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Conflict
71 years after Hiroshima, will we see a world free from nuclear weapons soon?
13 suspected members of the 18th street gang are presented to the media after being arrested by the police in Soyapango, El Salvador in March.
Conflict
Salvadoran gangs use Facebook to track down victims
An ornament is seen at the makeshift memorial for the victims of the Paris attacks at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, December 22, 2015.
Conflict
A Bataclan survivor asks a rocker to understand the complexities of terrorism
Afghan boys look a damaged window of a shop after a suicide attack in west of Kabul, Afghanistan May 25, 2016.
Conflict
The new Taliban leader has more experience issuing fatwas than negotiating peace
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Music
The song that helped Okinawa heal after WWII gets an Ethiopian remake
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Education
At this high school, getting a diploma is only part of the answer
Hiroshima atomic bomb app screen capture lead image
Global Politics
Experience Hiroshima — What if the atomic bomb hit your hometown?
A girl holds her sister outside their family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016
Conflict
Where the US fell down in Yemen, as war clouds gathered
Wilmot Collins gestures across table to a woman who he is speaking with
Culture
His message to new refugees in Montana: ‘You have to have thick skin’
A group of indigenous mayors, historians and activists gather for a candlelight vigil in Cuzco's main square to commemorate the 235th anniversary of freedom fighter Tupac Amaru{s death, who was dismembered by Spanish colonists on the square.
Conflict
In Peru’s Inca capital, indigenous leaders struggle for recognition of their heritage
Hiroshima residents release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 67th anniversary of the bombing.
Justice
Japanese and Americans remember the closing chapter of World War II so very differently
Naiara Zerlotini (left) and Sophia Chalabi were disappointed when Hijab Day at Medford High School was called off.
Education
‘Hijab Day’ at this Boston area high school was canceled, but it got people talking
Immigrants leaving Idomeni camp earlier this week in an attempt to cross illegally into Macedonia in order to continue their journey toward Western Europe.
Conflict
Idomeni refugee camp may be emptying, but trauma of crisis is far from over
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with a local resident as he leaves after having a dinner with Anthony Bourdain at a restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam
Culture
Why bún chả was the perfect dish for Obama and Bourdain to eat in Hanoi
Refugees carry their belongings in front of riot policemen during a police operation at a refugee camp at the border between Greece and Macedonia, near the village of Idomeni, Greece, 24 May 2016.
Global Politics
Greek police are moving thousands of refugees out of the Idomeni camp
Smoke rises from the site of U.S.-led air strikes in the town of Sinjar, Iraq November 13, 2015.
Conflict
One served in Vietnam, the other in Iraq. What they think about President Obama’s visit to Vietnam.
A Sapphire Golden Arowana, named "Long Zai" or "Little Dragon" in Cantonese, swims in its tank at its owner's residence in Kajang outside Kuala Lumpur March 5, 2012. Known for its agile body, sleek shiny scales and the "whiskers" that give it a resemblanc
Books
The fish people kill to own
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Sports
Golf lacks diversity — but this course in San Diego is changing that
An engineering professor in South Africa challenged his students to come up with a way to prevent devastating shack fires that displace thousands. One of them came up with this fire detector, Lumkani, that can alert a neighborhood.
Development
A little blue box that might help save thousands of homes in South Africa
​Left-wing independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen smiles out of the window of a car after winning Austrian presidential election in Vienna, Austria,
Justice
What the narrow defeat of Austria’s far right means for Austrians, refugees and Donald Trump
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) chats with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23, 2016.
Economics
International leaders are meeting in Istanbul for the first World Humanitarian Summit
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Conflict
For this refugee of the US war in Vietnam, Obama’s visit to Hanoi is a huge deal
Boniface Mwangi
Justice
Police officers treat this Nairobi neighborhood like an ‘ATM machine,’ residents say
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Music
Old meets new with Argentine singer La Yegros, but that’s only the beginning