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Calais
Economics
Migrants are returning to Calais, France, and residents aren’t sure how to cope
The financial district of Paris, La Defense, at dusk on January 5th 2017
Business
French financial companies want a slice of London’s business after Brexit
Hand holding pen taking notes that read "civil disobedience"
Conflict
How to shut down an immigration raid — even if it means getting arrested
ICE raid
Justice
Why one group of Chinese Americans opposes ‘sanctuary’ cities
Farmer
Culture
Nebraska farmers are relying on Ukrainian hackers to fix their tractors
Two men in smile in posed photo in front of small market
Justice
A Muslim immigrant and a Christian pastor find common ground — and try to connect with their Latino neighbors too
Pakistan singer Sanam Marvi in our studios at WGBH
Music
The World’s music features this week: Sanam Marvi, Liber Teran and Les Amazones d’Afrique
Syrian refugee sponsors canada
Culture
Canadians reached out to Syrian refugees. Now they hesitate to let go.
Tsegay
Jobs
Organizations try to fight ‘brain waste’ and get highly trained immigrants back to work
A woman walks along a damaged street in Aleppo, Syria February 2, 2017.
Conflict
Do civilian deaths in Mosul and Aleppo deserve the same scrutiny?
Lee Chang-hoo (l) and Kwon Soon-chul (r) started a baseball podcast, along with another visually impaired baseball fan. But they don't tell their listeners that they're blind. "They probably think we're just average, amateur sports fans."
Sports
The pace of baseball makes it perfect for its blind fans in Korea
Lt. Shachar Erez, the first openly transgender officer in the Israel Defense Forces, speaking in Los Angeles at a local synagogue in June 2016.
Conflict
The Israeli Defense Forces paid for this soldier’s sex reassignment
A Mexican demonstrator holds a corn cob on "Día Nacional del Maíz" (National Corn Day). Mexicans have an expression: "sin maíz, no hay país” (without corn, there is no country). Mexico has been increasingly reliant on US imports since NAFTA took effect.
Economics
Trump’s gamble: Mexico could actually gain more from a NAFTA redo
Siervas
Music
The ultimate supergroup: Rockin’ nuns from Peru
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
At the Camlough Cattle Mart, which serves Crossmaglen. Farmers are worried how competitive their beef will be in a post-Brexit world.
Economics
Farmers in Northern Ireland know Brexit will be bad for them — they just don’t know how bad
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on the right, joined White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for the daily press briefing on Monday, March 27.
Justice
This is the data we no longer get about immigration enforcement under the Trump administration
Darren Grimes, a young Brexit campaigner, making political calls.
Economics
This young, LGBT advocate isn’t your average Brexiteer
Some former Islamic State fighters, like this captive Abdel Rahman in Kirkuk, say if they hadn't agreed to join ISIS they would have been killed.
Conflict
Sitting across from ‘the Ghost of ISIS’
A gourmet dish
Books
One of the world’s best chefs says you can taste the love in really good food
President Trump shakes hands with a coal miner
Environment
Two US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal
Christiana Figueres at the UN
Environment
Former UN climate chief: Trump’s energy order not ‘a big deal’ for climate agreement
Iranian American census
Culture
Arab Americans lobbied for their own US census box. Will it backfire?
An Afghan family walks toward the Hungary-Serbia border on the day the new law takes effect. They will live in a detention center until a decision is made on their claim.
Conflict
‘How will I live there?’ Asylum seekers in Hungary are detained in shipping containers.
Lina Shahab is recovering in a hospital in Erbil, northern Iraq, after surviving an airstrike in Mosul.
Conflict
‘I saw everything burning’: Iraqi survivors of a suspected US coalition airstrike speak
Fourteen wind turbines on the shores of Lake Erie power enough energy for about 10,000 homes. One of the world’s largest steel mills formerly occupied the site.
Environment
Buffalo used to be a city filled with millionaires. It plans to get rich again by betting against Trump.
Eight men behind podium with microphones
Jobs
President Trump, is immigration reform on your legislative agenda?
Back of agent looking over river
Justice
This underground railroad took slaves to freedom in Mexico
Vladivostok protest Russia
Justice
Russia’s weekend protesters were young, organized, and ready to challenge Putin
Nunes, phone
Economics
How a community in Ohio is stepping up when deportations split families
Culture
South Sudanese culture is at risk, but this Lost Boy wants to protect it
Tonantzin Esparza (L) convinced her father, movie producer Moctesuma Esparza to bring Selena's story to the screen. Jennifer Lopez portrayed the Tejano singer.
Arts
The 20-year-old biopic on Tejana star Selena almost didn’t happen
Ladi, Glory and Mary, three of the escaped Chibok girls, stroll through the gardens of the American University of Nigeria, in Yola, Nigeria. They've received scholarships to go to school at AUN.
Education
Some of the Chibok girls are getting an education and a new future
"Homeland" has been working hard to respond to criticism of its portrayal of Muslims.
Culture
How a Muslim lawyer and critic of Showtime’s ‘Homeland’ became a consultant for the show
Conflict
VIDEO: What’s the future of law enforcement in our communities? Experts weigh in on race and policing
A woman takes part in a graffiti painting campaign on a wall in Sanaa, Yemen
Conflict
Listen to Yemenis describe how they’re getting through the war
Newly recruited Houthi fighters ride on the back of a pick-up truck
Conflict
If Yemen’s Houthis weren’t Iranian proxies before, they could be soon
An 18-year-old Israeli dual US-Israeli citizen was arrested in Israel on suspicion of making bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States, Australia and New Zealand over the past three months. He is seen here before the start of a r
Conflict
An unlikely suspect is arrested in connection to over 100 bomb threats against US Jewish centers
iwd
Development
President Trump, what are your plans for the Office of Global Women’s Issues?
A woman waits to be registered prior to a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan.
Conflict
Drought doesn’t cause famine. People do.
Emily Scott Robinson in Wimberley, Texas during SXSW
Music
The World’s music features this week: Emily Scott Robinson, Ondatrópica and music from outer space
Former lawmaker of the Russian State Duma Denis Voronenkov and his wife Maria Maksakova pose for a picture in Kiev, Ukraine February 27, 2017. Voronenkov was assassinated March 23, 2017 in Kiev.
Global Politics
Did Putin put out a contract on a Russian whistleblower and critic?
A woman in Trafalgar Square weeps at a vigil for victims of the London terrorist attack
Conflict
London comes together to remember its victims
Cuban youth
Economics
In Cuba, young people are weighing professional dreams against the allure of the new economy
Um Mohammed, a Syrian refugee hailing from the southern Daraa region, stands in her wedding dress shop in Jordan's Zaatari camp. Expecting another child, Um Mohammed said she opened the shop a year and a half ago to help generate extra income for her grow
Conflict
This refugee camp in Jordan has turned into a frontier town for Syrians escaping war
A police officer carries bouquets of flowers on Whitehall the morning after an attack in London.
Conflict
How alone are ‘lone wolf’ jihadi attackers?
Julia Barton's father
Culture
Returning to the secret government lab where my grandfather worked
Anti-deportation protesters stand outside the White House.
Justice
‘Police were not an option.’ Undocumented women are now more afraid to report crimes.
People light candles at a vigil in Trafalgar Square the day after an attack, in London, March 23, 2017.
Conflict
Candlelight vigil honors victims of Wednesday’s terror attack in London
A combination picture shows the coal-fired Castle Gate Power Plant
Environment
Trump is ending Obama-era emissions cuts. How will CO2 emissions change?
Anu Partanen
Lifestyle
This journalist never worried about health care — until she moved to the US
Hussain Manawer won a trip to space, but gets hassled flying on commercial flights.
Culture
He won a trip to space, but can’t move freely on Earth
Peru
Development
Several cities in Peru are underwater, and the ‘coastal El Niño’ isn’t done yet
Russia Trump US election
Global Politics
Russia agrees with Trump. The hacking investigation is a ‘witch hunt.’
The cabin of a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Passengers flying Qatar Airways will no longer be able to carry on electronic devices larger than a cell phone when flying to the US.
Business
Laptop, tablet bans on flights: Here’s what we know
Culture
Travel to the Colombian island that inspired Ondatrópica’s new album
Lucky Boy
Books
The novel ‘Lucky Boy’ and a timely story of immigration and motherhood
A worker with the community organization PUSH Buffalo weatherizes a home on Buffalo's lower west side. The formerly vacant home was completely rehabbed — with solar panels and other-energy efficient features — and is now rented to a low-income family.
Economics
Green homes in Buffalo are keeping poor people warm. But Trump’s budget could hurt that.
When Yuji Onuma was a kid, he lived in Futaba, a part of Fukushima. Today, he has kids of his own — but they can’t go near Futaba. Here, he wears protective clothing during a visit to his old house.
Books
Photos: See Japan’s nuclear legacy — from Fukushima to Hiroshima
Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Kimberly Palencia
Conflict
Guatemalan tragedy reveals need for better protection for children