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Man looking at woman
Conflict
One of the first men stopped by Trump’s immigration ban will attend president’s address
These women spend part of their days running a café and another part reporting on government killings.
Conflict
These women run a cafe by day, and risk their lives to report on their government’s killings by night
Diplomacy and development take a backseat to military spending in President Trump's proposed budget.
Global Politics
Eliminating the State Department entirely still wouldn’t cover Trump’s proposed hike in military spending
President Donald Trump talks to members of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff
Conflict
What Trump’s $54 billion means to the Pentagon
Layne Fostervold and his mother, Kim Sook-nyeon. Fostervold was adopted by an American family when he was about 2 years old. His mother never stopped wondering what happened to him.
Culture
A Korean adoptee meets his birth mother and winds up moving in with her
Contrabanned logo
Music
Contrabanned: #MusicUnites — a SXSW music showcase highlighting artists from banned nations
Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders campaigns for the 2017 Dutch election in Spijkenisse, a suburb of Rotterdam, on February 18.
Global Politics
Why some immigrants in the Netherlands plan to vote for the ‘Dutch Donald Trump’
'RedadAlertas': an App that tells you where there are raids against immigrants.
Justice
Immigration raid alerts are coming soon to your smartphone
A worker walks past the Carrier plant in Santa Catarina, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. One of Trump's campaign promises was to prevent further Indiana-based Carrier jobs from moving to Mexico.
Economics
Mexican officials aren’t so worried about Trump’s vows to bring jobs back to the US
The Nokia 3310 makes a comeback. February 24, 2017.
Technology
Blast from the past: the return of a popular dumbphone
Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi pose with the Oscar they accepted on behalf of Asghar Farhadi, who won the Best Foreign Language Film for "The Salesman".
Arts
Iranian scientist who accepted Oscar says US is turning away the best and brightest
Donald Trump
Global Politics
In Donald Trump’s language, echoes of Russia’s Soviet past
Dutch artist Margriet van Breevoort created the gray tubby creature, "Homunculus Loxodontusa" nicknamed “the one who waits.”
Culture
Meet Zhdun, the tubby gray blob who’s at home on Russian social media
A survivor of the Olathe shooting at a vigil
Justice
A Midwestern medical student on Indian Americans’ ‘failures in solidarity’
Drummer Mickey Hart
Music
Drummer Mickey Hart recalls 30 years of ‘world music’
The Swan Theatre in London, one of the a generation of playhouses that appeared in the 16th century
Arts
Guess what? Shakespeare didn’t start the theater scene in England.
One of the high streets in Boston is dominated by shops aimed at recent arrivals to the town
Culture
Boston, UK: Britain’s Brexit epicenter
A US marine officer is seen in the U.S. MV Cape Ray. Former container vessel Cape Ray, docked in southern Spain, has been fitted out with at least $10 million of gear to let it take on about 560 metric tonnes of Syria's most dangerous chemical agents and
Global Politics
The world’s ‘most sophisticated nerve agent’ was used to kill the brother of North Korea’s leader
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.
Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
Roommates
Arts
Unlikely roommates: A Holocaust survivor and grandchild of Nazis share a home in California
A poll posted on USAPolitics.co, one of the fake news sites started by teenagers in Veles, Macedonia.
Media
Macedonia is infamous for fake news. This woman is trying to combat it with real journalism.
Soviet nuclear test site model
Conflict
Soviet-era nuclear testing is still making people sick in Kazakhstan
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, shakes hands with Mexico's Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray after delivering statements at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 23, 2017.
Global Politics
Mexico rejects US migration reforms as Trump calls deportation effort a ‘military operation’
Help wanted sign on restaurant window
Economics
Like many undocumented restaurant workers, staying in the US is a simple calculation for this waiter
Romanian Army soldiers deploy a ground-to-air missile launch pad during a joint military exercise with the US Army.
Conflict
Obama and Putin fueled the biggest global arms market since the Cold War
Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "
Conflict
Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.
WWII
Culture
Poland’s right-wing government thinks this WWII museum isn’t ‘glorious’ enough
The movie Tanna has been described as a sort of Romeo and Juliet set in Oceania – on the island nation of Vanuatu.
Arts
Watch trailers for all five foreign language Oscar nominees here
A security guard looks out of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in New York, U.S. on August 15, 2012.
Justice
Immigration lawyers: Trump crackdown tactics will see fierce legal challenges
ICE officers detain a suspect as they conduct a targeted enforcement operation in Los Angeles.
Economics
How communities react to immigration restrictions? ‘People are buying tickets back home.’
Father Khalil Jaar sits in St. Mary's church in Marka, 15 minutes outside of Amman, Jordan.
Conflict
This Palestinian priest found his calling at a little church in Jordan
Britain's rules on minimum incomes for international couples have been criticized for ignoring the welfare of children.
Justice
If you’re poor and British, best not to marry a foreigner
Brazil's alt-tropicalia band, Graveola
Music
The World’s music features this week: Bulgaria National Radio, Carlos G Lopes and Graveola
Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff known as Jane Roe in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling
Justice
I knew the real Jane Roe
Scott Pruitt
Environment
EPA chief promised to make life easier for the companies he regulates
A Stollwerck toy phonograph, with chocolate recordd, circa 1903.
Culture
Paris’s museum of recorded sound enjoys a reprieve
Spencer Pensoneau, Ron Klump and Philip Weiss (left to right), of Weiss and Rosenbloom Monument company, work to right toppled Jewish headstones after a weekend vandalism attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Misso
Justice
Asked — again — about anti-Semitism, Trump condemns it as ‘horrible’
HR McMaster meeting with President Trump, Monday
Global Politics
An old Army friend dishes on National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster
Joel Basman as Helmut Morbach and Louis Hofmann as Sebastian Schumann
Arts
Denmark’s dark past is up for an Oscar
A protester holds a Syrian opposition flag during a sit-in against the Syrian regime, in front of the UNDP office in Amman, Jordan.
Conflict
After three years of vetting, this Syrian refugee is giving up on moving to the US
Total ice loss on the Larsen ice shelf, 1960-2008
Environment
Researchers continue to watch a massive rift in Antarctica likely to create a Delaware-sized iceberg
Russian-born musician Pavel Lion performs under the name Psoy Korolenko
Music
Pavel Lion is kind of a cross between Fyodor Dostoyevsky and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
Jim Estil stands with a Syrian couple he's helped resettle in Guelf, Canada. They're pointing out the Danby Applicances logo on their microwave; Estil runs the Danby factory and the couple works there.
Culture
Meet the millionaire teaching Syrian refugees how to be Canadian, his way
H.R. McMaster
Global Politics
An Obama-era national security adviser argues for diversity as Trump appoints McMaster
Airport
Science
Scientists skip international meeting due to fear of US travel
Ecuador election runoff
Global Politics
Leftist Lenin Moreno hopes to avoid runoff in tense Ecuador vote
Pious Huguenots are shown leaving church in the squalor of London in William Hogarth's 'Noon'
Culture
The word ‘refugee’ has a surprising origin
Jim
Conflict
Japanese Americans remember a dark chapter when they were ‘more number than name’
police woman
Conflict
#29. @realDonaldTrump How will you continue to increase the presence of women in national security efforts? #100Days100Qs
The armband of a chief kapo, or "oberkapo" in a Nazi concentration camp
Global Politics
Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel ‘regrets’ Holocaust-related slur
​Members of the media line up to attend a news conference between British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S.
Media
Donald Trump isn’t the only news event on Earth
Israeli tenth-graders are learning cyber security skills. The military won't allow photos that show their faces because many of them may later be recruited to Israel's version of the NSA.
Education
Israel teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers
A congregation at the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church and Community in Berlin.
Conflict
This evangelical church in Berlin is helping Iranians looking for asylum
Latin rockers Locos por Juana
Music
The World’s music features this month: Music for dogs, DJ Panko and Locos por Juana
An extreme case of frostbite suffered by a patient of Dr. Paul Caulford at the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Healthcare
Conflict
Refugees are freezing to flee the US for Canada
Two people in front of large movie poster
Media
With ‘The Great Wall,’ is China buying its way into Hollywood?
Young man making art on a wall
Justice
A 19-year-old undocumented student — authorized to be in the US — was detained and then let go by federal agents
Crustacean
Environment
Trash and toxins found in the most remote corner of the ocean
US President Donald Trump (right) reaches to greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 15, 2017.
Religion
Trump keeps getting asked about anti-Semitism, but he doesn’t seem to have an answer
Day Without Immigrants
Economics
‘Day Without Immigrants’ shutters restaurants and businesses across the country