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Two women in front of school
Business, Economics and Jobs
In Puerto Rico’s coffee country, ‘We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil again’
Man inside van sits next to coffin with Pakistan flag draped over, others standing nearby in close quarters
Education
Her cousin was killed in a school shooting, but this exchange student decided to stay in the US
Putin with a line of soldiers behind him in uniform
Conflict & Justice
Siberian war games send a signal to the West
Zahra, a Hazara, at Dr. Zalmai Khan Ahmadzai's clinic in Kabul. She says she wants to get a nose job.
Untold Afghanistan
Changing your face to disguise your ethnicity? Maybe, for these Afghan women.
rohingya women lined up, carrying large baskets
When reporting sexual assault, Rohingya women are being lost in translation
a collage of photos from Kashyap's dinner
Food
Cross-border meals connect people from countries in conflict
an old building with large DMZ letters out front
Global Politics
More visitors are coming to the DMZ amid thawing relations with North Korea
Feminine hygiene products are seen stacked on a shelf
Women & Gender
Scotland tries to combat poverty by providing free menstrual products
A nurse attends to a newborn at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Untold Afghanistan
She saved a pregnant woman’s life. Now, she works to make childbirth safer for all Afghan women.
Samaneh Nasiri, a student at the American University of Afghanistan in her dorm room. Nasiri survived an attack on the school in 2016.
Untold Afghanistan
After surviving an attack on their school in Kabul, these students show that ‘education prevails’
and old woman in a field
Environment
Despite the risks, holdouts refuse to abandon Ukraine’s radiation hotspots
A woman in a business suit is silhouetted against a bright building
In Japan, working mothers battle overwork culture
Karim Asir performs for school kids in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Arts
Charlie Chaplin on the streets of Kabul? One Afghan takes on the Little Tramp.
Rows of greenish-brown soap sit on wooden racks
Culture
French demand for Syrian soap keeps an ancient art alive
un barco de pesca en el mar de cortez en Mexico
Business, Economics and Jobs
Con ‘zonas de refugio’, pescadores de Baja California restauran el ecosistema marino
Man stands on roof
Environment
Some of the last Puerto Ricans without power got it today. Now, work to build a stronger grid must begin.
A man and a child peer out a window of a building. Next to them is a road sign that says "road closed"
Immigration
Refugees asking for asylum in Canada argue the US is no longer safe
Women from a haberdashery shop hold up their new Pope Francis Ireland flag
Religion
For Irish Catholics, there’s both enthusiasm and anxiety about Pope Francis’s visit
a soldier and policeman face a field with their backs to the camera
Is medical marijuana the antidote to Lebanon’s trade deficit?
Greece exits bailout, but ‘shackles and the asphyxiation continue’
A man poses with small children next to a wooden image of the cartoon character Chebrashka.
Culture
How Cheburashka taught me about my mother’s Soviet upbringing
Saint Patrick Catholic Church is seen in York, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18, 2018
Religion
A new chapter, with the same old words, in the Catholic child abuse scandal
authorities dismantle a meth lab in mexico
Conflict & Justice
Joint US-Mexico effort to focus on drug kingpins’ financial infrastructure
The Sisyphus Stones stretch out along the Hudson in Manhattan. They're the work of one man, Uliks Gryka, who has spent hours almost every day, erecting and maintaining them.
Arts
In New York, a Sisyphean task on the Hudson comes to an end
fishing nets in the sea of cortez
Business, Economics and Jobs
With no-fishing zones, Mexican fishermen restored the marine ecosystem
Two white crosses engraved with names sit in a cemetary
A high school project reunites twin brothers 74 years after they died on a ship in Normandy
People leave messages, flowers and other trinkets on a plywood wall that says "We are Danforth"
Global Politics
More people are dying from gun violence in Canada. Is America to blame?
Glady Lee
Immigration
When it comes to family separation, healing can take decades
steve bantou in front of a large American flag
US Diplomacy
Steve Bannon’s ‘The Movement’ is an umbrella group of anti-establishment, populist parties in Europe
Newlyweds Araminta (Sonoya Mizuno) and Colin
Arts, Culture & Media
What happens when you let everyone in the world audition for a Hollywood studio film
Recyo
Environment
What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture
Boarding school
‘We’ve been there’: Native Americans remember their own family separations
rally
Why Argentinian activists aren’t stepping down after the Senate voted against legalizing abortion
Thet Thet Wai
This woman bodybuilder in Myanmar is using Facebook to advocate for harsher penalties for rape
Paper coffee cups have a thin layer of plastic on the inside to prevent leaking. It’s a well-engineered vessel, but difficult to recycle.
Environment
Starbucks tries to save 6 billion cups a year from the trash … with help from McDonald’s
vinyl records lined up at a record shop
Commentary
Listen to some of the songs that topped the charts around the world in 1968
Boys inspect the wreckage of a bus at the scene of Thursday's air strike in Saada province, Yemen August 10, 2018.
Civilians say ‘time to say no for war’ after dozens of Yemeni children die in school bus attack
CIA director nominee and acting CIA Director Gina Haspel is sworn in to testify at her Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill,
Conflict
CIA Director Gina Haspel’s memos detailing torture declassified
Firefighters blast water in Berlin in mid-August, providing relief from the heat. This is among the few ways to cool off in a city with little air conditioning.
It’s so hot in Berlin that people are cooling down in an old WWII bunker
Climate Change
How people are keeping cool amid record-breaking temperatures
Beachgoers watch the sun set at Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia
The youngest person to travel to 196 countries is giving away his airline miles
band
Music
Ukrainian folk punk band DakhaBrakha sings a decidedly feminist message
Activists dressed up as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" are shown back lit from a low perspective.
The red cloak of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is becoming a symbol for reproductive rights
Smoke rises above a crowd assembled in front of the Ottawa government building
Move over gummy bears. Soon, you can drink weed in Canada.
Sunflower
Why taking a sunflower selfie this year might cost you
President Donald Trump, surrounded by business leaders and administration officials, prepares to sign a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018.
Economics
Economists to Trump: You’re dead wrong on tariff revenues
Mahmood Salem and four of his children on a visit to Djibouti in November 2017.
Immigration
‘There is real suffering’: How the travel ban is tearing some families apart
An older Japanese man hugs former President Barack Obama
Justice
Why this Hiroshima survivor dedicated his life to searching for the families of 12 American POWs
A room of people seated at a table listen to a speaker. A man stands at a podium at the front, with his back to the camera.
Conflict
Can Toastmasters Ramallah stay politics-free?
A man is perched atop a propeller of a small twin engine plane on a tarmac. The plane is bright cherry red.
Climate Change
At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current
asylum-seekers sing in a church choir
Religion
How a small church in Massachusetts became a destination for LGBTQ asylum-seekers from all over the world
dogs at sunset in the surf
Commentary
The time of day when I used to think a dog could turn into a wolf
Man in orang jumpsuit dancing in front of two people in army fatigues
Future Folk
This is a remix? Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ has started a global wave of remix videos