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A Syrian Army soldier inspects a damaged emergency room inside National Hospital after explosions hit the Syrian city of Jableh in May.
Conflict
This Syrian American says Western media puts too much faith in ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels
A Colombian police officer sits in the ruins of a police station destroyed by a deadly bomb attack in the municipality of Inza in Cauca province in December 2013, which was blamed on the FARC.
Conflict
This FARC victim in the US voted against Colombia’s peace deal
Trinh Thi Ngo, Hanoi Hannah
Conflict
Anyone who served in Vietnam probably remembers hearing this voice
Mohamad Sheikh Ali and his daughter (center) bake bread at a campfire in Denmark. They fled dangers in Syria before it was too late.
They fled Aleppo. Now they’re starting a new life in rural Denmark.
If the TPP is passed, American dairy farmers could see their cash receipts from butter and cheese exports increase $275 million annually.
Economics
US politicians say they hate the TPP. But farmers love it.
Triptych of Nobel art
Arts
Nobel winners get cash, a gold medal and a piece of original art
A Tsukiji shopkeeper prepares a basket of live eels for sale.
Business
Sadness prefaces the closing of the world’s biggest fish market, Tokyo’s Tsukiji
Saudi Arabia has undertaken drastic spending cuts in response to falling oil prices.
Culture
Saudi Arabia switches to Western-style calendar to cut costs
Anya Cardenas (l) Monica Lozano (right)
Conflict
Colombian women struggle after ‘no’ vote against peace accord
Phosphate deposits on the sea floor off the coast of Baja California could be a feedstock for agricultural fertilizer. But digging them up could put a fishing community, endangered sea turtles and other marine species at risk.
Environment
We need phosphate to grow food. But should we be digging it up from the sea floor?