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A woman walks in front of the store Forever 21.
Fashion
Forever 21 closing stores in bankruptcy filing shows limits to fast fashion, author says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Why transcripts of Trump’s calls with heads of state are so hard to get
Trump
Who is responsible for enforcing the US whistleblower law? The president.
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History
From the USSR with love: A sailor’s 50-year-old message in a bottle makes it to Alaska
Syrian refugees embrace after landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport.
Immigration
US refugee agencies wither as Trump administration cuts numbers to historic lows
Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.
Refugees
IRC ‘shocked again’ as Trump slashes refugee resettlement numbers
Journalist Anabel Hernandez poses for a photo on a red background.
Book names those allegedly responsible for disappearance of 43 students in Mexico
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Five years after 43 students disappeared in Mexico, their case remains a grim, unsolved mystery
A man holds a sign that says "we will not leave without Jamal Khashoggi"
Jamal Khashoggi’s last interview with The World
Home lays in ruins.
‘It is a form of injustice’: Caribbean island nations struggle against rising seas
The Misk Foundation, founded and chaired by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, held a controversial event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.
Saudi ‘Youth Forum’ at New York public library canceled after activists’ outcry
Marchers stand behind a large white banner as they move through a street
A year after an LGBTQ activist’s murder in Greece, his memory lives on in ‘our politics and our action,’ protesters say
A person holds a placard with a drawing depicting Brazil's President Bolsonaro with horns during a Global Climate Strike rally in Rio de Janeiro
Climate Change
At UN, Bolsonaro’s nationalist rhetoric clashes with Indigenous leaders
A man holds a sign that says "Let my peoplegault into the public service"
In Québec, teachers return to school under new religious symbols ban
An estimated 100,000 people turned out for the climate strike in Berlin on Sept. 20, 2019.
Climate Change
In Germany, the politics of climate change are shifting beneath Merkel’s feet
A renaissance-era painting shows Jesus surrounded by other people, some of whom are holding swords
Long-lost rare 13th century painting discovered in French woman’s kitchen
Samantha Power sitting The World's studio for a radio interview.
Conflict & Justice
Former Amb Samantha Power stresses ‘political evolution, rather than revolution’
A group of young protesters hold signs and posters.
Health & Medicine
How climate change affects children’s health
A sailboat is shown painted pink with the words, "Tell the Truth," written on the side.
Young climate activists want a seat at the table ‘before it’s too late’
A man in shadow near greenery
Trump administration
Why did Trump withhold military aid from Ukraine?
Mayan Girls
Florida teen girls step up to translate Indigenous Mayan languages
Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres
UN climate summit asks for ‘specific actions’ to hit Paris targets
A white man in a hat laughs into a radio mic
Music
A ‘Pang!’ of emotion, Gruff Rhys drops new album
A film still of a man sitting at a dressing room mirror with lights
In ‘The Humorist,’ Soviet comedy is no joke
A California car smog check center is seen in Los Angeles with an American flag
Climate Change
Top US leadership is ‘missing ingredient’ in climate change action
A judge shakes hands with a man at his citizenship ceremony
Refugees
What it’s like to become a US citizen after a lifetime of statelessness
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Global Politics
Indonesia’s bold plan: Moving its capital to an island paradise
A member of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) talks with Venezuelans as they queue in line to receive a vaccine after showing their passports or identity cards at the Pacaraima border control, Roraima state, Brazil, on Aug. 8, 2018.
US leads global ‘race to the bottom’ in shutting door on refugees and asylum-seekers
Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party react to exit polls in Israel's parliamentary election at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sept. 17, 2019. One sign says "Trump 2020" as well.
Anxiety and fear run high as Israel votes
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Immigrant FBI informant pressured to spy on NYC mosques seeks a way out
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
Climate Change
Why 2020 is a key year for climate action
A picture of a tan building with barriers
Conflict & Justice
Why negotiations between the US and Taliban mostly take place in Qatar
An old Italian town of San Piero Patti is shown from above with the rooftops of homes built into the lush green hillside.
Business, Economics and Jobs
A small town in Italy offers houses for sale for less than an espresso
Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq, on Sept. 16, 2019.
What do attacks on Saudi oil facilities mean for US-Saudi relations?
A man is shown wearing a salmon-colored collard shirt and sunglasses while holding the reins of a horse.
Elections
In Israel’s election, the Arab vote could be pivotal
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers a speech.
New Zealand introduces new gun control bills six months after Christchurch massacre
A supporter of the Israeli Likud party kisses an election campaign poster depicting Israel Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the market in Jerusalem.
For many Israelis, this election is all about Bibi
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Bahamas relief efforts complicated by new storm headed for the islands
Central American migrants stand in line before entering a temporary shelter, after illegally crossing the border between Mexico and the U.S., in Deming, New Mexico, on May 16, 2019.
Immigration
Supreme Court’s asylum decision is a ‘recipe for chaos,’ experts say
Shiyes police
Protest
Eco-protesters fight Moscow’s attempt to ‘trash’ Russia’s north
Facebook
Social media
‘Straight-up debunking’: How a fact-checker vets fake news
People huddle outside glass doors in a big group
How Dorian’s destruction is hurting the Bahamas’ most vulnerable
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Displacement
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
Rubble is highlighted and an American flag is in the foreground
History
Remembering how America experienced 9/11
A woman hold a sign that reads, "stop kidnaping and imprisoning kids."
How disease is used to deny entry at US borders
A woman takes tampon boxes out of a supermarket shelf in Buenos Aires January 16, 2015.  
Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook
A traffic light reading "Free HK" across the red and yellow lights.
Conflict & Justice
How close are Hong Kong’s protests to China’s ‘red line’?
Foreign troops with NATO-led Resolute Support Mission investigate at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 5, 2019.
Trump abruptly canceled Afghan peace talks. What comes next?
A man feeds paper into a machine
Elections
‘Smart vote’ protests in Russia deal Putin’s party a blow in elections
A woman in a red pheran stands holding an image of a woman in a red pheran
Conflict & Justice
Finding resistance in fashion, Kashmiri creator turns to the pheran
A group of three men are photographed against a world map
Folk trio The Young’uns uses music to question British patriotism
A large, white rocket sits on a launchpad at night time.
Women & Gender
Indian women scientists’ lunar mission a ‘giant leap for womankind’
napalm girl
Facebook wants to create a ‘Supreme Court’ for content moderation. Will it work?
A woman in a hijab smiles and poses with three boys ranging in age
Global Nation Education
Campus housing takes on new meaning as US considers more caps on refugee resettlement
Two children are shown wearing matching stripped sweaters and running past a poster featuring a large stop sign.
Discussion: The measles outbreak — why vaccines matter
A Kashmiri woman walks on a deserted road in Srinagar.
One month after crackdown, protests continue in Kashmir
Noam
How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS
A woman wearing a black top poses for a photo.
This new book confronts ‘good immigrant’ stereotypes, rethinks gratitude
Protesters gather with colorful signs
Protest
Puerto Rico’s new land-use zoning map strikes a nerve with fed-up citizens
A protestor casts his shadow at a police barricade outside the government headquarters during a general strike in Hong Kong, China.
Hong Kong leader says she would quit if she could