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Demonstrators with makeshift shields protest against President Evo Morales' reelection, in La Paz, Boliva, Nov. 6, 2019.
Conflict
Embattled Bolivian mayor refuses to step down amid political crisis: ‘Quitting would be a betrayal’
Dr. Georgina Keogh, a doctor at St George’s Hospital in London, stands beside a portrait of her painted by artist Jane Clatworthy as part of an NHS portrait series project.
Coronavirus Art
‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ honors UK’s frontline health workers
People swim near a partially flooded pavilion near banks of Yangtze River
The Big Fix
How China’s nature-based solutions help with extreme flooding
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is shown walking into a room and holding a blue folder.
Top of The World
Hong Kong election postponed for one year; Eurozone economy down more than 12%; Isaias now a hurricane heading toward Bahamas
Former US Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, stands inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia July 30, 2020.
Trump’s stance toward Putin undermines diplomacy in ex-Marine’s case, says former Amb. McFaul
Newborn babies lie in their beds at the Ataturk Children's Hospital a day after they were rescued following a deadly attack on another maternity hospital, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 13, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
A newborn survived an attack at a hospital in Afghanistan. Now the long road to recovery begins.
A man is shown laying in a gurney with a medical professional at the head.
Top of The World
Melbourne struggles with second coronavirus spike; Former US Marine sentenced in Russia; UK’s largest pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
A farmworker, considered an essential worker under the current COVID-19 pandemic, harvests beans, May 12, 2020, in Homestead, Florida.
COVID-19
Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions.
Building reads "climate emergency" with flares of red and orange hues on the front of the building
Climate Change
UN climate chief on coronavirus and climate change: We must ‘address these two fundamental, existential crises together’
Parents wait with their children to enter their elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, May 3, 2020.
Israel’s hurried school reopenings serve as a cautionary tale
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is shown wearing a dark suit and standing behind a microphone with a Turkish flag nearby.
Top of The World
‘Draconian’ social media legislation passed in Turkey; Trump administration issues DACA memo; Tech CEOs testify.
The Facebook logo and binary cybercodes are seen in this illustration dating to Nov. 26, 2019.
Free speech
Turkey passes ‘draconian’ social media legislation
Medical students walk past a Cuban flag as they check door to door for people with symptoms amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in downtown Havana, Cuba, May 12, 2020.
COVID-19
As Cuba battles coronavirus, activists see an opening to protest police brutality
Maria Elena Romero/The World
Every 30 Seconds
Getting out the vote for the 2020 election: Lessons from Bernie Sanders’ Latino outreach
Two people stand outside a window peering inside a facility.
COVID-19
Isolation may be a greater risk than COVID-19 for residents of Canada’s nursing homes
US Attorney General William Barr is shown wearing a dark suit and red tie with his hands outstretched.
Top of The World
Barr testifies on Mueller probe; Former Malaysia PM found guilty; Bush fires killed or displaced 3 billion animals
Siblings Erika and Dwayne Bermudez comfort one another during a short viewing of their mother, Eudiana Smith, at The Family Funeral Home, May 2, 2020, in Newark, New Jersey.
Lifestyle & Belief
The pandemic has disrupted how we grieve. The effects could be long-lasting.
A Black African woman wears a blue face mask and holds a brown sign that reads "enough is enough."
COVID-19
Africa must invest ‘in human capital’ to fight the coronavirus, says Africa CDC director
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer announces to a group of asylum-seekers that they will be crossing illegally into Canada as they wait in line to to enter at the US-Canada border in Champlain, New York, August 7, 2017.
Borders
Canada judge rules sending asylum-seekers back to the US violates their rights
Hong Seo-yoon says travel is a great way to bring down barriers between people with disabilities and the nondisabled.
Lifestyle & Belief
Bringing down barriers for travelers with disabilities in Korea
A woman is shown wearing a tank top and sitting while receiving an injection from a medical professional.
Top of The World
Moderna, NIH coronavirus vaccine study underway; Vietnam back on high alert over coronavirus; UK blindsides travelers from Spain
Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas, center, walks among protesters Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo., during a unity march to protest against police brutality following the death of George Floyd.
Conflict & Justice
Federal agents could drive ‘even further divisions in our city and our country,’ says Kansas City mayor
Pradhyuman is seen in an undated handout image from the Netflix series "Indian Matchmaking." 
Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ stirs conversation about tradition, colorism and caste
Two-year-old Lula-Belle Butler-Wenlock-Simpson, right, who was born with heart problems and underwent open-heart surgery, poses with a Special Friends doll whose scar mirrors her own.
Education
‘Special Friends’ dolls reflect the lives of children with special needs
A person holds a replica of a burning globe in the air with fake flames coming out of it.
The Big Fix
‘The mother of all injustices is climate change,’ says former diplomat and climate change leader
Several security personnel are shown standing in the street and wearing reflective vests next to police motorcycles.
Top of The World
China orders US to close its Chengdu consulate; Turkey purging the Gülenists; Mexico City’s public square storytelling
Residents listen from a bench, background, as Percibald García reads children's books aloud outside the high-rise buildings in the Tlatelolco housing complex, in Mexico City, on July 18, 2020.
COVID-19
This Mexico City architect transformed an empty public square into a storytelling stage
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's supporters rally in Istanbul in 2016 following the failed coup.
Conflict & Justice
Expulsions, pushbacks and extraditions: Turkey’s war on dissent extends to Europe
A young child is shown sitting on a bed with health care workers nearby dressed in full protective suits.
Top of The World
India sees record spike in coronavirus cases; Outrage in Turkey over femicide; Fugitive Chinese researcher hiding in consulate
Onlookers attend the opening of the exhibition on Greek art with the marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos, in front, in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 5, 2014.
Coronavirus Art
Battle of the bums: Museums compete over best artistic behinds
Blue and white flag flutters in the air against the sky
Language
Finland’s national word ‘sisu’ conjures new meanings for tough times
Adam Schiff walks to a briefing.
Elections
Schiff warns Congress must be prepared for foreign interference in 2020 election
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is seen during a ceremony to lower the Brazilian National flag down for the night, at the Alvorada Palace, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Brasília, Brazil, July 20, 2020.
Why is Brazil’s Bolsonaro peddling hydroxychloroquine despite the science?
Divers under the sea
History
Shipwrecked scent: A perfumer re-creates a 150-year-old fragrance
A car and an SUV are shown in blurred motion passing by the China Consulate General in Houston.
US orders Chinese Consulate in Houston closed; Middleman in Malta journalist’s murder in critical condition; Scream into Iceland’s abyss
Jacob Cuenca, 18, a registered Republican, poses outside his home in Homestead, Florida, on May 21, 2020.
Every 30 Seconds
The pandemic upended this Latino teen’s senior year. Now it’s upended his politics.
A nurse talks with police.
Mass arrests in Zimbabwe over coronavirus regulation violations
A woman wearing a white shirt signs a black silhouette during a demonstration for mothers of enforced disappearances
Conflict & Justice
In Mexico, the unending drug war takes its toll with thousands of disappearances 
A man stands in front of the Skogafoss waterfall in Skogar, Iceland, March 8, 2020.
Need to release stress? Scream into Iceland’s abyss. 
A man wearing a red top hat with the Russian hammer a sickle is shown holding a sign that says, "Thanks for the Russian Brexit through.
Top of The World
Britain ‘actively avoided’ looking into Russia meddling; EU reaches stimulus deal; New US sanctions on Chinese companies
A migrant father and child returns to Ciudad Juárez after he had his family's court dates changed by Customs and Border Protection on the Paso del Norte International Bridge after court cancelations amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Ciud
Justice
Why US immigration judges are leaving the bench in record numbers
A large crowd of people are shown with a women featured in the center of the photograph holding a sign that reads, racism kills, mentally. physically. globally.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: How the coronavirus crisis has exposed entrenched health inequities
A general view of the Grand al-Nuri mosque during its reconstruction, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 23, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Documenting ISIS’ crimes is daunting. Coronavirus makes it even harder.
Adults and children swim in water near a large, white building in the background and birds flying overhead
The Big Fix
In Karachi, planting dense urban forests could save the city from extreme heat
Several EU leaders are shown sitting around a long rectangular table.
Top of The World
Tempers flare over EU coronavirus stimulus deal; Oxford vaccine shows promise; Latina artist says goodbye to Goya
Video still from the one-year vigil for Christopher Kapessa.
BLM brings new hope for Wales family seeking justice for Black teen’s death 
People wear face masks as they shop in a main market in Jerusalem, Israel, July 16, 2020.
COVID-19
Israel considers a second lockdown as coronavirus cases surge
Ysabel Turner created an altar in her 2018 exhibit at the New York City Aperture Foundation.
For this Latina artist in New York, goodbye to all that Goya
Two people are shown sitting on park benches with a man walking past on a sunny day.
Top of The World
PM Johnson says Britain will return to normal by Christmas; India joins grim club; US again breaks coronavirus record
Students wearing face masks walk in line to enter a high school as they take part in the annual national college entrance exam, or "gaokao", which has been postponed by one month due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China July 7
Education
Chinese students who once set their sights on US schools now weigh other options 
A helmeted head is blurry in the foreground, behind it, a line of protesters on a balcony
Global Politics
The problem with offers of citizenship to those fleeing Hong Kong
A police officer wearing a face mask asks for identification documents to a driver in one of the neighborhoods where the mayor's office decreed strict quarantine, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Bogota, Colombia, July 14, 2020.
Bogotá tries ‘staggered quarantine’ to slow coronavirus spread
A woman holds a banner that reads "Free abortion covered by social security" during a pro-choice march to celebrate the government ending its plan to reform Spain's abortion law in Madrid September 28, 2014. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Tuesday
Reproductive rights
Abortion is a protected right in Spain. But the govt blocked a website that provides abortion info and pills. 
A row of brick shelters are shown amidst a sandy desert location with three people walking in the distance.
Top of The World
Court rules Shamima Begum can return to Britain for appeal; Russian hackers accused of trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research; Privacy Shield ruled invalid
A man wearing a suit stands at a State Department podium between two flags
Global Politics
US toughens its stance against Chinese aggression in South China Sea
Dallas County voter Maria Cruz, left, along with her daughters Catalina and Susana Cruz, voted in Tuesday's primary runoff in Texas.
Every 30 Seconds
Trump, Biden boost efforts to reach Texas Latino voters
Luke DeBoer, left, and fiancée Ida Marie Rygg on a trip to Kjerag mountain in Norway. Closed borders during the coronavirus pandemic separated them for months.
COVID-19
‘Love is essential’: Some EU countries relax rules for separated cross-border couples
US President Donald Trump is shown standing at a podium and wearing a blue suit and red tie.
Top of The World
Trump ends special status for Hong Kong; Sculpture of a Black protester erected in Bristol; Biden outlines climate plan
Chanthon Bun, who was incarcerated for 23 years, part of that time in San Quentin State Prison in California, shows artwork from an origami course offered in the prison.
Immigration
He’s out of prison and has COVID-19. But he’s still sheltering from ICE.
Two llamas in a field.
COVID-19
Could llama antibodies be the key to a coronavirus treatment?