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Nancy Polanco Najera
Conflict
As more women are incarcerated in Mexico, so are their babies
A portrait of inmate Carmela Rodriguez Reyes in Mexico.
Conflict
Women filling Mexico’s prisons are the ‘lowest rungs of the drug trade’
Kansas Jayhawks center Udoka Azubuike drives to the basket against Clemson Tigers forward Elijah Thomas during the first half in the semifinals of the Midwest regional of the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
Sports
After six years, this Nigerian mother and son will reunite — at the Final Four
Christian worshippers from around the world along the Via Dolorosa
Conflict
Tensions over Jerusalem palpable during Good Friday, Passover celebrations
Cape Town residents gather to collect water at a spring with makshift spigots ear Table Mountain. It's one of dozens of open springs across the city where residents come to collect extra water to add to their meager daily quota of 13 gallons.
Environment
In drought-stricken Cape Town, parched residents gather at a watering hole
small skillet on stove with ground meat dish cooking
Food
No shame in sisig: Filipino chefs and scholars say they are overcoming a century of stereotypes
Saya Pierce-Jones records a recent report on Cape Town's water crisis for Smile 90.4FM radio. In more than a year on the full-time water beat, Pierce-Jones helped listeners understand the roots of the crisis and find ways to dramatically cut their water u
Culture
Journalist on water beat helped Cape Town avoid ‘Day Zero’
When Dean Huang returned to Taiwan to do his compulsory military service, he had to give up a lot: his job, his apartment, his cell phone, his hair. His autonomy.
Culture
He had a dream life in Seattle. Then Taiwan’s military came calling.
“Cloudfisher” nets erected on Mount Boutmezguida
Technology
These Moroccans are turning foggy days into a solution to their water crisis
Dishes of rice, stew and kimchi on a wooden table
Food
For these superfans, the Instant Pot is not just about easier cooking
People queued to collect water as fears over the city's water crisis grew earlier this year in Cape Town, South Africa.
Business
‘Day Zero’ has been postponed, but Cape Town is still scrambling to deal with its water crisis
Candid Co. sends customers a kit to take impressions of their teeth from home. An orthodontist then remotely comes up with a treatment plan.
Business
Braces from home: The next stage in global dental care?
women at a prison
Lifestyle
As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments
Making habas con dulce
Food
The Good Friday dessert with roots in the Dominican Republic that I will not give up
Anthony Acevedo wearing a POW hat
Conflict
This POW kept a secret diary that showed daily life in a concentration camp
Two men and two women stand together next to a court house.
Justice
Can First Nations Court stop Indigenous women from ending up in prison?
You won't find a lot of wild salmon on menus or in your supermarket anymore, but the Namgis First Nation's group in British Columbia hopes you'll find their tank-farmed Kuterra salmon the next best thing.
Jobs
This Canadian First Nations group wants you to buy salmon raised on land
Woman in crowd looking at camera
Global Politics
Liberia was founded by people enslaved in the US. Advocates say the US should not end an immigration program that helps them.
A teenage boy in a white shirt speaks to a group of people holding signs at an outdoor plaza in front of a building with many stone columns.
Education
US teens around the globe organized March For Our Lives events because ‘it doesn’t have to be this way’
Two young men crouch by a canal feeding swans with camping tents in the background.
Justice
In Paris, volunteers rally to feed and house young people who are migrating to France on their own
A Sisi banner hangs in Cairo for the presidential election.
Conflict
Egypt’s revolutionaries grieve ahead of Sisi re-election
Lizbeth Mateo at US-Mexico border
Justice
How this undocumented lawyer is breaking more ground with no safety net
Camila Duarte rallies her fellow students at Pompano Beach High School
Justice
For immigrant students, joining the ‘March for Our Lives’ is a fight for their own
Students at the all-female Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia participate in a driving skills workshop run by Ford.
Business, Finance & Economics
Will Saudi women drive once ban is lifted? US car companies want to find out.
Supporters of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta cheer during a Jubilee Party campaign rally at Uhuru park in Nairobi, Kenya August 4, 2017.
Global Politics
Cambridge Analytica’s political work extends far beyond the US
Candles burn as a tribute to victims near the site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November, 2015.
Books
A love story set in Paris after terror attacks, ‘when fear threatens to cancel out empathy’
Illustration
Conflict
Women in the global aid sector are saying #AidToo
Some of the newly-released Dapchi schoolgirls wait to board a plane at the air force base in Maiduguri.
Conflict
Over 100 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram return home
South London musician Cosmo Pyke
Arts
Cosmo Pyke and Frank Ulwenya capture the sound of travel with soul and surf rock
Two male and one female internationally trained doctors are listening to a presentation.
Education
Highly trained and educated, some foreign-born doctors still can’t practice medicine in the US
Paul Farren, who's Catholic, and Robert Miller, who's Protestant, hope their new book can get people talking about forgiveness. They say it's the only way to live in true peace.
Belief
Two priests from opposite sides of Northern Ireland’s sectarian divide have something to say about forgiveness
Farm workers repair irrigation pipes during spring planting
Jobs
Undocumented workers fight for wages under the threat of deportation
Conflict
Getting married amid airstrikes in Yemen
Sirintip in a brightly-covered room
Culture
Here’s an album for ‘third culture kids’
A person is bent backward as a bag flies overhead during a game outside a polling place.
Global Politics
Putin wins, surprising no one, but voter turnout rose
Éamonn Ó Ciardha teaches Irish language and history at Ulster University in Derry. The stream behind him marks the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It's on a tiny country road just outside of Derry. Ó Ciardha says that trying t
Conflict
For this city in Northern Ireland, Brexit is a big headache
A crowd of young people are gathered. Two hold up two large signs in Russian.
Global Politics
There are no surprises in Russia’s upcoming elections. Putin will win.
Andrea Carolina and Desikan Sundararajan with Statoil, along with Dirk Richter, founder of Quanta3 (left to right), install a pilot methane detector at a Statoil well pad at the Eagle Ford Shale natural gas site in Texas.
Environment
Engineers compete to detect methane leaks, a powerful climate pollutant
A man is handcuffed.
Conflict
How immigration raids have — and haven’t — changed under the Trump administration
Children at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Conflict
With already tenuous housing, the looming monsoon season threatens Rohingya refugee camps
The Internet Research Agency, or IRA, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Media
A mole among trolls: Inside Russia’s online propaganda machine
Alexander Borodai (C), former prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, poses with delegates during the Union of Donbass Volunteers congress in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 10, 2015.
Conflict
Russia’s shadow armies: Soldiers, mercenaries or volunteers?
Oby Ezekwesili, Bring Back Our Girls campaigner, speaks during a news conference
Conflict
Beset by school violence, US and Nigeria consider each other’s experience
illustration of grim reaper with ICE on the cloak
Conflict
Investigation finds ICE detention center cut corners and skirted federal detention rules
trump cia
Conflict
Trump’s new pick for CIA director has a murky past with torture programs
Kriti Sharma
Culture
Meet Pegg, a gender-neutral robot assistant
Fortuné, 16, used to have a spaghetti-and-coffee kiosk in Bangui. But it was dismantled one night. So now he's pinning his dreams on his singing group.
Music
A teenager from the Central African Republic puts his faith in Divine Efficiency
An aerial view of Baghdad, Iraq March 4, 2018.
Conflict
Fifteen years after the US entered Iraq, Baghdad breathes new life
A man in a military uniform plays the trumpet. Behind him is the blue hull of the icebreaker ship Arktika.
Global Politics
In Russia, a ‘ghost empire’ rises
The statue of liberty and an American flag are on a blue sky, with words in Russian at the bottom of the image.
Culture
A guide to Russian ‘demotivator’ memes
Man at microphone speaking with hands up
Business, Finance & Economics
It’s Trump versus California, but immigrants and employers already feel the fallout
Two college students smile at the camera.
Economics
On a Texas college campus, conservative Latinos explain their opposition to DACA
Mecca pilgrimage
Culture
Muslim women are speaking out against abuse with #MosqueMeToo
This Russian woman sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who has killed by her accurate shooting the magnificent total of 300 Germans before Sevastopol.
Culture
The life and myths of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet Russia’s deadliest sniper
Yoo In-sik in his repair shop in Seoul. Yoo was one of South Korea's first Winter Paralympians.
Sports
A Korean Paralympic skier says other skiers cheer him on now. It didn’t used to be that way.
The delegation and the team of North Korea arrive at The Paralympic Village in Pyeongchang, South Korea, wearing red jumpsuits, March 8, 2018.
Sports
North Korea’s debut at Paralympics could signal improvements for citizens with disabilities
A man rides a bicycle past a collapsed utility pole after Hurricane Maria hit the island in September 2017.
Development
Six months after Maria, Puerto Rico is burdened with challenges
Someone waves goodbye to a bus and a speech bubble says "Bye! Have fun with grandma!" in this cartoon.
Culture
A family tries to immigrate to the US, but first, they must live separate lives
Shannon Mouillesseaux
Conflict
After sexual assault, this former aid worker found little help from UN
buildings reduced to rubble in Eastern Ghouta
Conflict
‘They are trying to to kill us all.’ Desperate Syrians plead for help in Eastern Ghouta.