Stories for

Two young women and a young man stand near each showing desperation on their face expressions.
Turkey says it will no longer stop refugees from reaching Europe amid escalating Syrian war
People attend Ash Wednesday mass in a church in Abuja, Nigeria, Feb. 26, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Christians in Nigeria feel targeted after pastor’s death
A police officer wears a face mask to prevent contracting coronavirus, as Muslim pilgrims pray at Kaaba in the Grand mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 27, 2020.
Saudi Arabia imposes travel ban to Mecca over coronavirus
A gorilla appears sitting on green grass near a tree
Music
Canadian singer delights his gorilla superfans with Christmas songs
A large open area of a train staton is shown crowded with people most of which are wearing protective face masks.
COVID-19
Discussion: The coronavirus outbreak — tracking COVID-19
A large cloud of smoke is shown with several buildings off in the distance on an overcast day.
Top of The World
Turkey won’t stop refugees from going to Europe; Coronavirus now in sub-Saharan Africa; Slovakia and Israel head to the polls
Two men in military uniform walk arm and arm
Conflict
Court decision could speed up visas for US military interpreters
Employees from a disinfection service company sanitize a shopping district in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 27, 2020.
COVID-19
This hotline aims to help ‘exhausted’ health care workers fighting COVID-19
A man picks through a huge heap of plastic trash
Environment
‘More waste, better taste’: This Garbage Café offers food in exchange for plastic
Serge Tougard, 71, is determined to retire from his post as mayor of Fauguernon, a hamlet of 250 people located in Normandy. But less than a month away from France’s upcoming municipal elections, there’s still no one to replace him.
Leaders
For many French towns and villages, recruiting a mayor is a ‘desperate’ situation
US President Donald Trump is shown hiolding a paper in his hand and covering his face.
Top of The World
California coronavirus patient wasn’t tested for days; Sectarian violence in India; Duck, duck, bio weapon?
A group of American voters gathered at a BBQ restaurant in Mexico City to watch the Democratic presidential debate broadcast from Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 25, 2020.
Elections
For overseas voters, a primary of their own
South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar takes the oath of office in front of President Salva Kiir and Chief Justice Chan Reech Madut at the State House in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 22, 2020.
South Sudan’s leaders make peace
Tourists walk next to the display flight information at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, where cases of novel coronavirus has been confirmed in Barcelona, Spain February 26, 2020.
Health & Medicine
Banning travel is not the best way to contain the coronavirus, Ebola expert says
A colorful entrance to a Walmart in Wuhan, China, is shown with several advertisements and two men nearby wearing face masks.
Top of The World
Agencies warn of coronavirus spread in US; EU sees more asylum applications; Jerusalem’s ‘green’ cable car plan
Iranian women wear protective masks to prevent contracting coronavirus as they walk in the street in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25, 2020.
Iranians skeptical their government can handle the coronavirus outbreak
Adela Diaz, who will be a first-time voter in 2020, poses on her campus at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
The top issue for one Arizona first-time voter? Health care.
Dead snakes are preserved in jars at a snake farm in Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang province, China, on Feb. 22, 2013.
COVID-19
China cracks down on wildlife trade amid coronavirus outbreak
The Dome of the Rock is shown in the distance in a wide framed photograph of Jerusalem's Old City.
Borders
Jerusalem’s ‘green’ cable car plan is challenged in Israel’s top court
Several people are shown standing at the counter of a hotel resort with the words, "Check out" on a sign behind the counter.
Top of The World
A hotel in Spain is under lockdown; Hosni Mubarak has died; Rio’s Carnival floats put drama and comedy in motion
A headshot of Trump in shadow
Trump administration
Trump’s hypocrisy on corruption is just what Putin wants
Trump
During India visit, Trump praises Modi, doesn’t mention human rights
Military officers in full fatigues are shown wearing face masks and standing outside Duomo cathedral.
Top of The World
Coronavirus continues global spread; ‘America loves India’; Israel strikes sites in Gaza and Syria
Two men bend over a small fire in the forest
Climate Change
Reviving traditional fire knowledge in Australia: ‘Fire is something we live with’
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director doctor Anthony Fauci speaks about the public health response to the outbreak of the coronavirus during a news conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC.
COVID-19
Controlling the spread of coronavirus is key to stopping a ‘true pandemic,’ NIH head says
Carnival
Rio’s Carnival floats put drama and comedy in motion
US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci and Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic attend the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb.14, 2020.
Trump loyalist Richard Grenell will complicate intelligence gathering, expert says
Internally displaced people stand outside tents at a makeshift camp in Azaz, Syria, Feb. 19, 2020.
Analysis: The walls are closing in on Idlib. We cannot ignore the humanitarian crisis.
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany, on Feb. 15, 2020.
Analysis: Facebook is undermining democracy
Two police officers are shown wearing winter jackets and standing behind yellow caution tape.
Top of The World
Gunman opens fire in Germany; Trump names new Director of National Intelligence; and domestic workers trapped in Lebanon
A man waters a snail in the process of producing cosmetics at a snail farm at Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand, May 11, 2018. 
Lifestyle
Thailand’s beauty craze: ‘Milking’ snails to make facial creams
People gather in a memory of seven-year-old Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett, who went missing and whose body was discovered inside a plastic bag, at an anti-femicide monument, in Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 19, 2020.
Thousands join march to fight against femicide in Mexico
An image of the face of Michael Bloomberg is shown on a large video monitor in an auditorium with empty seats.
Top of The World
Bloomberg to debate, Erdoğan threatens Idlib operation and what’s up with Trump and the DOJ
Two women dance together wearing red clothing.
LGBTQ
One small step: Moscow’s first queer dance festival challenges homophobia
People wearing face masks look for products at a supermarket, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, Feb. 19, 2020.
COVID-19
Airbnb hosts try to navigate coronavirus challenges  
Detained immigrants are seen at Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego, May 18, 2018.
Trump administration retaliates against states trying to lessen use of immigrant detention
A street cleaner is shown wearing an orange, reflective safety suit and a face mask walks on a sidewalk.
COVID-19
What we know and don’t know about COVID-19
A portrait of Antonio Arellano, interim executive director for Jolt Action.
In Texas, youth groups hope to turn the state purple in November
A woman stands in front of a brightly lit restaurant sign
As Lebanon’s economy spirals, foreign domestic workers remain stranded
A woman stands with a photo of her father
Human rights
New data on China’s detention of Uighurs: ‘They could charge you for anything’
Democratic 2020 US presidential candidates (left to right) former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the eighth Democratic 2020 presidential debate.
Environment
For the first time, a climate journalist will moderate a presidential debate
A close-up section of several rows of embroided protest art showing bleeding eyes.
Protest
In Chile, women use traditional embroidery to urge political change
The Hou family in Beijing in January, days before alarm spread about the coronavirus.
Health
A California family went to China to renew their work visas. Once coronavirus hit, they got stuck.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a podium
Global Politics
At Munich Security Conference, is the West ‘winning’ or growing evermore ‘Westless’?
Around 11,400 children were deported from France during the Holocaust. Students at Alliance Pavillons Sous Bois will spend time tracing the history of individual child deportees as part of the school's Holocaust curriculum.
Educators in France advocate for better Holocaust curriculum
People in athletic clothes warm up together on a sidewalk.
Sports
This Palestinian running group in Jerusalem fights for the ‘right to movement’ 
Protesters attend a demonstration in front of the glass pyramid of the Louvre museum before the opening debate on the French government's pensions reform bill at the National Assembly in Paris, Feb. 17, 2020.
Protest
Protests continue in Paris amid pension reform debate
Flowers are seen on the star of late singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez after it was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, on November 3, 2017.
Music
What Selena’s life and legacy tell us about Latinx identity today
Signs direct voters at a polling place in the state's presidential primary election in Greenfield, New Hampshire, Feb. 11, 2020.
MIT researchers sound alarm over voting app’s security flaws
The Parents For Peace team at the Islamic Center of New England in Sharon, Massachusetts. 
They were once extremists. Now, they’re trying to prevent hate.
A police officer stands in front of a red London bus
Conflict & Justice
After attacks, UK rethinks early release law for convicted terrorists
A medical worker in protective suit checks a patient's records at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Hubei province, China, Feb. 13, 2020. 
Climate Change
Climate change will make animal-borne diseases more challenging to predict
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby prays outside the church after attending a special service at the Anglican Church of Kenya St. Stephen's Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya January 26, 2020.
Religion
Church of England must seek ‘justice for all people,’ says priest who sought church apology for racism
Camila Díaz, 29, had unsuccessfully sought asylum in the US before she was fatally beaten in El Salvador in January 2019. 
Immigration
ICE deported a trans asylum-seeker. She was killed in El Salvador.
A woman looks at a man
Community
Nigerian couple ‘heartbroken’ as families face indefinite visa ban
Christine Sun Kim is shown signing and standing in front of her art featuring a pie chart titled "Shit Hearing People Say To Me."
Arts, Culture & Media
Transcript: Artist Christine Sun Kim on ‘deaf rage,’ the Super Bowl and the power of sound
Voters wait in line to cast their votes at the Bicentennial Elementary School in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation US presidential primary election in Nashua, New Hampshire, Feb. 11, 2020.
Despite security concerns, online voting is happening in 2020
A person holds a sign reading 'Latinos for Trump' on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 20, 2016.
Every 30 Seconds
How Republicans are courting the Latino vote
A mural of the Beatles
Music
How the Beatles created a sense of ‘place’ for this Argentinian American
A comic of a sitting man with a black background
Migration
These comics help combat mental health challenges for migrants in Vermont