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Iranians shout slogans during a protest
A new year, a new Iran nuclear deal?
A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask attends a Human Rights Day march organized by the Civil Human Right Front, in Hong Kong, China, on Dec. 8, 2019.
Global Politics
Nonviolent protest defined the decade. But is civil resistance losing its impact?
A page from "The Structure is Rotten, Comrade."
Arts, Culture & Media
This surrealist graphic novel delves into architecture and social change
Gay and lesbian newlyweds kiss at a pro same-sex marriage party in Taipei.
Lifestyle & Belief
An LGBTQ rights advocate looks back on the 2010s and ahead to a new decade
The ruins of a bombed base in Iraq.
Conflict & Justice
US responds to deadly attack at Iraq base
A group of people sit around a table with laptops.
Media
Exiled journalists in Germany find ‘hope’ with a magazine that speaks their language
President Magufuli stands in front of a podium.
Human rights
Activists in Tanzania spend the holidays behind bars amid crackdown on free expression
Navalny holds a microphone and speaks
Global Politics
The Kremlin forcibly conscripted an opposition ally. It’s illegal, investigator says.
A woman checks her phone while riding on the back of a motorbike.
Technology
This app is disrupting motorbike taxis in Bangkok. Some are disrupting right back.
A man wears a black shiny outfit and performs with backup dancers
Music
The 7 global music trends from the past decade
A young woman sits in front of a laptop typing.
Global Nation Education
One Latina’s journey to college amid admissions scandals and inequities
A man stands at a counter holding an urn with many urn designs behind him
Religion
Greece’s first and only crematorium opens despite pushback from the church
The cover of "Alma and How She Got Her Name"
This children’s book author explores themes of immigration and identity
Syria conflict
What can the US learn from the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan?
a German flag waves and a protester holds up a sign that says "tolerance Nazi"
Extremism
Is there a ‘Nazi emergency’ in the German city of Dresden?
Trucks carry belongings of people fleeing from Maarat al-Numan, in northern Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 24, 2019.
Conflict
Idlib in northwest Syria is under attack from Russian and Syrian jets. Here’s what one resident told us.
A woman traveling from Guatemala, who is six months pregnant with a boy, is examined by a volunteer medic in a motel.
Immigration
US immigration system is full of hurdles for pregnant women and new mothers
Two men in suits lean in to speak with each other
Ukraine is ‘sending a very clear message to corrupt elites’
An aerial view shows a road-and-rail bridge
Borders
Is Russia’s new bridge to Crimea ‘primarily an image project’?
Agrawal family poses in a shopping center in Morelia, Mexico
Immigration
‘We always FaceTime daddy for presents’: How families celebrate Christmas with their deported spouses
Democrats on stage behind podiums for a debate
Foreign policy
Candidates lay out China policy in Democratic debate
A protester holds peace sign and wears Sudanese flag across his shoulders
Protest
A year after revolution, Sudan celebrates but still faces squeeze of sanctions
Trump-Buhari at White House
Foreign policy
‘More amusing than disgusting’: Why Trump is so popular in Nigeria
Protesters hold Indian flag in Delhi
Protest
Rage against India’s citizenship law rooted in complex history of nation-building
A woman prays during a service
Justice
‘It doesn’t feel very real’: Liberian immigrants in US rejoice at pathway to citizenship
A person wearing a military uniform stands on the street next to a palm tree
Science & Technology
Analysis: Big data may predict where —but not when —conflict happens
A group of military men stand in a line with their weapons.
Critical State
Analysis: Who joins rebel armies?
Two visitors are shown standing a one taking a cell phone photo of the Church of the Nativity with bright white light shining from the windows above.
Religion
Jesus’ Bethlehem birthplace gets a makeover. But will it boost tourism? 
India Citizenship Bill protests
Citizenship law could do ‘irreversible damage’ to India’s secular fabric
American man wearing dark blue suit speaks at podium standing next to Korean man wearing dark blue suit.
Military
North Korea threats loom over tension between the US and South Korea
Flags of many countries carried by protesters fill the frame.
Global Politics
Power outage: How did global leadership change in 2019?
Marco Werman is shown standing holding a red record across from April Peavey with a microphone stand inbetween them
Music
The World’s favorite albums of 2019
Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a rally calling for the former ruling party to be dissolved and for ex-officials to be put on trial in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 21, 2019.
Protest
Protests that rocked The World in 2019
A group of children sit in on carpet inside room surrounded by blue tarp
Education
This school at a refugee camp in Lesbos is a safe haven for children 
1909 Women's Conference
Elections
Remembering Australia’s role in the history of women’s suffrage
A truck carrying a Bougainville flag drives by a man.
Global Politics
The islands of Bougainville may become the world’s newest country
Young climate change activists sit with activist Greta Thunberg in a huddle at the climate talks in Madrid.
Climate Change
Marathon climate talks in Madrid end with disappointment
Protests in Chile
Protesters’ victory: A chance to change Chile’s constitution
A woman in a red coat poses triumphantly in front of a group of happy adults.
Elections
After UK elections, could Johnson face a ‘disunited’ kingdom?
Eloy Rojas Mamani, right, gestures toward his wife Etelvina Ramos Mamani are shown standing next to each other with Eloy wearing a dark suit and Etelvina wearing a white top.
‘October Massacre’ victims’ trial highlights traumas in Bolivia
Two men pose together after one was released from ICE detention.
Refugees
How the US immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart
A demonstrator wearing a red shirt and shorts is shown with a makeshift shield held up protecting themselves from a police water canon.
Conflict & Justice
Amid unrest and rights abuses, Chile protesters say ‘there’s no turning back’
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Protest
French pension reform is one more way to erode the social safety net, activists say
Saudi Arabia Defense Attache arrives to meet with Saudi students at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida
Foreign policy
After Pensacola attack, Saudis pledge ‘whatever measures are necessary’ to prevent another
Protesters wear yellow jackets and sign that speak of climate emergency in Spanish language
Climate Change
Activists enraged by slow pace of climate diplomacy in Madrid
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest to reject the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria, Dec. 12, 2019.
Global Politics
Algerians protesting elections want real reform, not a military junta, analyst says
Gambia's Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou speaks on the first day of hearings in a case against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.
Justice
Gambian minister brought Myanmar to The Hague ‘in the name of humanity’
US Army soldier is show firing a howitzer weapon, the exhaust of which has made piles of rocks fly on opposite sides of the artillary.
Analysis: Why the US is to blame for its own defeat in Afghanistan
Silhouettes of laptop users
Justice
Facebook content moderators sue over psychological trauma
A woman stands and speaks at a podium
Climate Change
As US steps back on climate change, will EU and China take the lead?
A man stands in front of a brick building in rural setting
Conflict
US spending in Afghanistan fueled rampant corruption, reports say
Sign
Energy
Saudi Arabia is selling a portion of its most profitable company
Jose Albeiro Camayo is show in a close-up photograph wearing a red beret.
Global Politics
Photos: Colombia’s Indigenous Guard, defenders of land, the environment and their own lives
Two white men in suits shake hands, the US State Department podium is visible.
Foreign policy
Analyst on Lavrov visit: Russia is ‘running circles’ around Trump
Nataly Alcantara
The U visa is supposed to help solve crimes and protect immigrants. But police are undermining it.
The Apple logo.
Borders
How do maps handle disputed borders?
Two Chinese submarines are shown at surface depth and with Chinese flags flying.
Critical State
Analysis: Is a US-China nuclear conflict likely?
Students at Ettefagh School
A high school reunion for Iranian Americans, 40 years after the revolution
Ambassador Lute
Amb Lute on the war in Afghanistan: The US is ‘taking a very hard look at itself’
Seo Ji-hye and Cho Sung-won watch as their two-year-old son, Han-sol, plays with a toy train in his bedroom in Seoul.
Lifestyle & Belief
Seoul’s subsidized housing gives newlyweds a new lease on the future