Tear gas has been banned in warfare. Why do police still use it?

Is Canada’s health care system a cure-all?

What happened to Italy’s unaccompanied migrant minors?

A Dutch city is turning bus shelters into bee sanctuaries

The Philippines identified as the deadliest country for environmental activists

After budget cuts, asylum-seekers in Italy forced out of cities

How the US-China trade war hurts American entrepreneurs

Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe set to replace Dan Coats as US spy chief

As landmark nuclear treaty fades, its Cold War authors ask ‘What next?’ 

What Western media got wrong about China’s social credit system

Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished KGB training manuals

Protesters disrupt Saudi weapons ships

A large asteroid just ‘snuck up on us.’ Why wasn’t it detected sooner?

Former NBA star Dikembe Mutombo is on a mission to beat Ebola in DR Congo

From measles to the flu, more Turkish parents are saying no to vaccines

The soundtrack of Puerto Rico’s protests

Three sisters’ case highlights domestic violence problem in Russia   

Florida steps up election security in preparation for 2020

A new Trump administration policy could lead to more US citizens being deported

A colony of feral parakeets has invaded London

Poet laureate says despite poverty, Puerto Ricans are ‘very powerful’ in fight against corruption

Mick Jagger wants you to stop throwing away your plastic cups

How Australia helped show the world the live moon landing

How to ‘vote’ in North Korea

Brazil’s first transgender Afro Brazilian lawmaker says she’s a ‘rebuke’ to the country’s history

DR Congo has been fighting Ebola for a year. What does the WHO declaration change?

How the deadly drug fentanyl is making its way to the US

Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims

Mothers and babies lack basic needs in Greek refugee camps

Marine vet denied entry to US for scheduled citizenship interview

When ‘treasure’ is a missing person’s remains

Do armed police officers in schools make kids safer? Brazil’s Bolsonaro says yes.

Cuando el ‘tesoro’ es el cuerpo de un desaparecido

Azoreans long for family abroad with this double-hearted instrument

Khrushchev’s son recalls Sputnik, Gagarin ascent in US-Soviet space race

‘No place for complacency’ as Ebola detected in eastern DR Congo

The memes of the Hong Kong protests

After most recent attack, should US negotiate with al-Shabab?

Journalist who ‘shined light’ on Somalia dies in terrorist attack

Trump administration moves to stop more immigrants from seeking US asylum

Hong Kong pop star fights for ‘our autonomy’ as protests against Beijing continue

Students at this Minneapolis charter school prep for immigration raids

Bolsonaro reignites decades-old fight over land between Indigenous people and farmers

Trump’s hard-line immigration policies build on the history of former US presidents

Tensions rise in Gulf after oil tanker standoff between Iran and the UK

Brazil resettles Venezuelan refugees — with US help

A Syrian mom in Istanbul builds a business from her own kitchen with Whatsapp

Detention centers are ‘worthy of your disgust’ in their own right, says Jewish Latina activist

Photos: The women of Argentina’s abortion debate

There is ‘a grave hole in the international response’ to violence in Cameroon, IRC says

No ordinary saint, St. Sucia is a rebel zine for Latinx feminists

Goodbye, old friend: VW Beetle ceases production

UN envoy to US: ‘We need to keep Yemen out of a potential regional conflict’

These Argentine women fight against a justice system ‘written by men, for men’

Crowds chanted ‘equal pay’ — but that could take centuries

The Gulf sees Qatar as ‘an outlaw,’ but Trump needs everyone to get along

In DR Congo, health workers pioneer new Ebola isolation ‘CUBE’

Activists urge undocumented immigrants to fill out census, regardless of citizenship question

How sex traffickers use modeling contracts to lure young women

Ambassador says UK still looking to salvage Iran nuclear deal