The threat of war over Yemen’s main seaport is slowing delivery of food aid

Gift Ngoepe is the first African-born player to join baseball’s major league

The World music features this week: Jah9 and Café Tacvba

Trump officials say the UN supports coercive abortion in China. But does it?

One way to honor Jonathan Demme: learn more about Haiti

North Korean students learn to deal with trauma at this Seoul school

Sometimes, you can’t see change until your neighborhood auto shop is forced out of the neighborhood

Look out Colbert, Armenia’s got funnymen with a few jokes for America

Astronauts are baffled by Trump’s space travel plans

Watch these majestic reindeer in Norway make their summer migration

Texas police may soon act more like federal immigration enforcers

What’s one way to prevent opioid overdoses? Toronto plans three supervised injection sites.

Why some experts want the US to adopt a VAT and other tax lessons from around the world

So we slash US foreign aid. But why?

The world’s most eligible bachelor likes to eat grass and chill in the mud

The proud Pacific nation that preserves its homeland with the Bikini Anthem

Fairy godmother or child trafficker? An American woman stands trial in Guatemala.

Colleges create ‘safe zones’ on campus for undocumented students

A Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and sex

To understand climate change, look at it from a mussel’s perspective

Years after US Iraq intervention, Yazidis are still seeking safety on a mountain

The White House threatens to take Congress to the mat on the border wall

A Guatemalan indigenous land rights activist wins the Goldman Environmental Prize

‘Almost Asian’ is a hilarious look at dealing with adult-onset identity issues

Attack in Afghanistan raises questions about the 15-year-old war — and US role

In South Korea, pretty much everything is a little bit Buddhist. Including politics.

Students ‘study abroad’ with immigrant families in the US

As the election looms, this week’s terror attack weighs on the minds of voters

Why is the world marching for science? It’s local issues, like budgets, education and food security.

In South Korea, being gay is still taboo

French election anxiety is perhaps best expressed in cartoons

A key supplier of Syria’s chemical weapons? North Korea.

One group aims to give Muslim women in France a voice

Immigrants brought illegally to the US as kids have new reason to fear the worst under Trump

The great British taxidermy heist: The animals are back, but the theft is still a mystery

Trump outraged South Koreans by saying Korea used to be part of China. Is he right?

Female genital mutilation is illegal in the US. So why is it still happening?

Some migrants are rethinking the US as their ultimate destination

These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.

What if someone could hack into a driverless car and slam on the brakes?

Here’s how private prisons are being challenged, even as they scale up

Wounded San Diego activist is recovering after disappearing in Mexico

Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania’s Holocaust escape tunnel

A Pakistani journalism student was lynched for alleged blasphemy

Irish singer Imelda May sheds her signature rockabilly sound and style

A tiny Canadian town has a new best friend: This massive, gorgeous iceberg

Coke and Pepsi, gardening together in Mexican mountains to preserve urban water

Fear has not paralyzed Pakistan

Undocumented workers demand rights in a city scarred by a massive raid

A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration

How two Minnesotans turned their online popularity into big money for famine aid

Hemingway’s love letter to Marlene Dietrich goes on the auction block

Driverless cars could either be ‘scary’ or great for the environment

US law students, driven by their own family stories, are helping asylum-seekers

Secret crypt in London: Beware of exploding bishops

Turkish soap operas’ portrayal of women stirs controversy

Turks vote by a slim margin to expand their president’s powers, and dissent erupts on social media

Tensions with North Korea are on the rise, yet again

How ‘adventurer of the year’ Mira Rai went from child soldier to ultrarunner

President Trump, do you plan to prosecute those who give aid or shelter to undocumented immigrants?