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A man holds a sign that says "zero COVID" wearing a winter jacket and hat outside in front of chancellery in Berlin.
Language
Vaccine envy? There’s a German word for that.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is shown in a close-up photograph from the side with bright white lights in the distance.
Top of The World
Biden administration launches airstrikes in eastern Syria
A doctor gives a patient the coronavirus vaccine in his office.
COVID-19
France launches citizens’ collective to tackle widespread vaccine hesitancy
Former mayor of London Boris Johnson, right, is seen by a maquette of a statue that stands as a permanent slavery memorial statue at City Hall in London, Aug. 18, 2008.
History
Lloyd’s of London examines its ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade 
Chinese New Years' decorations for sale at Yu Gardens in Shanghai.
COVID-19
Travel for Chinese New Year plummets amid coronavirus concerns  
A police officer is shown looking over her right shoulder and wearing a hat with a portrait of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the wall behind her.
Top of The World
Report on murdered Saudi journalist to be released
A delivery driver wearing a mask organizes food packages outside.
COVID-19
Wary of coronavirus vaccines, some Chinese citizens are ‘opting out’ 
Demonstrators march near the Arch of Triumph during a protest condemning the arrest of rap artist Pablo Hasél in Barcelona, Feb. 22, 2021.
Free speech
Protesters in Spain say rapper’s arrest is an attack on freedom of expression
A large pallet is shown covered in a white wrapping with the logo for COVAX posted on the side.
Top of The World
Ghana receives first vaccines from COVAX
A nurse administers a shot to an elderly man wearing a white T-shirt and black pants at his home.
COVID-19
Dual citizens in Mexico seek vaccine options in the US as rollout lags
A demonstrator displays a picture of the defaced image of the commander in chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, also chairman of the State Administrative Council to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 17, 2021. The UN expert on human
Human rights
UN Human Rights Council starts work to address a ‘pandemic of human rights abuses’
A huge flag of Ethiopia waves with people sitting underneath it
Food
In Ethiopia, a taste of home for displaced Yemenis
A protester is shown holding a large sign the has the words, "Stop China's Genocide" on it.
Top of The World
Canada’s parliament votes to call China’s treatment of Uighurs genocide
Presidential candidate Yaku Pérez greets supporters as he leads a protest march to Quito, in Latacunga, Ecuador, Feb. 22, 2021. Pérez, who came in a close third in the recent elections, has alleged fraud after the results indicated he had fallen just shor
Ecuador’s recent presidential election edges closer to resolution
A woman in shown in shadow bending over near dozens of small red flags in the ground.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Variants, vaccines and the coronavirus pandemic
An Indian British woman wears a face mask and receives a shot in her arm with someone wearing purple gloves.
COVID-19
British celebs, religious leaders fight vaccine hesitancy in minorities
Thousands of people are shown marching in a street with many wearing yellow construction helmets.
Top of The World
Protesters again took to the streets in defiance of military leaders in Myanmar
This Feb. 18, 2021, photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered toward the surface of Mars during its powered descent.
NASA’s first-ever Spanish language broadcast for a planetary landing
Houthi fighters hold images of relatives killed in violent conflict
Conflict & Justice
Yemen’s most stable city threatened by Houthi takeover
President Hassan Rouhani is shown wearing a dark robe and a traditional white turban while sitting.
Top of The World
Biden administration to return to Iran talks
Ethiopian American Musician Meklit Hadero hosts an ongoing series at The World about stories of music and migration.
Movement
Ethiopian American musician Meklit Hadero: ‘We use music to talk about the things that are hard to talk about’
Protesters
Report: Lebanese security used French-made equipment during protests
A close up photograph of a mobile phone showing the Bureau of Meteorology's page on the Facebook app.
Top of The World
Facebook blocks news from its platform in Australia as Google strikes deals
A person paints a sign that says "I can't breathe" on a wall with a purple background.
Human rights
Public art honoring Egyptian American Moustafa Kassem sends universal human rights message
A white woman wearing a face mask also wears a red, white and blue sash around her chest and a man with a black mask stands behind her.
Extremism
Is France ‘sleepwalking’ into voting for the far-right?
Demonstrators gather
Conflict & Justice
In Myanmar’s uprising, some fight for more than just ‘democracy’
A woman is shown bending over with a white propane tank in her hand and wearing a hooded jacket.
Top of The World
Freezing temps wreak havoc on utilities in US and Mexico
Scottish bass player Ben Ellis has performed with Iggy Pop for the past seven years with many concerts at festivals throughout Europe.
British musicians warn of devastating impact of new Brexit rules 
A man rides a bike by a slogan pasted on a wall reading "Avoid a rape trial: Become chief of police," in Paris, Saturday, July 11, 2020.
#MeToo
France’s 2nd #MeToo movement reckons with incest, child rape 
Leandra Silveira’s family was relocated from their ancestral home on the northeast coast of Brazil to Pepital agrovila, a government-built village, when she was a young mother of three.
Displacement
Hundreds of Black families in Brazil could be evicted to make way for space base expansion
Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona is seen only from the head up, blocked mostly by ICC judges standing in the nearground.
Top of The World
Alleged CAR militia leaders reject ICC charges
On the front page of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, one of Germany's largest publications, 185 actors have come out as LGBTQ. 
LGBTQ
Germany’s LGBTQ actors come out publicly en masse to fight discrimination 
The Shell logo of a yellow shell outlined in red on a white background
Top of The World
Nigerian farmers can sue Shell in UK over pollution; Myanmar military extends detention of deposed leader; Israel leads on COVID-19 vaccinations
People wait in a long line at an oxygen distribution warehouse near downtown Mexico City.
COVID-19
Mexico’s COVID-19 wards are full. Many patients who can’t get oxygen die at home.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his fifth State of the Nation Address to a restricted parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. 
South Africa changes course on vaccine rollout after disappointing study
A bakery in the Çukurcuma neighborhood makes a fresh batch of sesame-encrusted rings of bread, called simit. 
Books
New novel offers a window into Turkey’s insular Rum community
A large group of refugees walk through an Afghanistan-Iran border point.
Migration
Afghan returnees struggle with unemployment, violence at home
From left, David Schoen, Bruce Castor and Michael van der Veen, lawyers for former President Donald Trump, arrive at the US Capitol on the third day of the second impeachment trial.  
Top of The World
Trump’s lawyers to deliver impeachment defense; Friday focus on The World’s favorite music stories
Chien Shiung Wu (bottom, right), then-professor of Columbia University New York, receives an honorary degree along with other recipients at Harvard University on June 14, 1974, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Science
‘First Lady of Physics’ Chien-Shiung Wu honored with US postage stamp
A smokestack burns in the distance of a rugged area with dried leaves and grass.
The Big Fix
China launches world’s largest carbon market
Greek Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou poses for a photograph during an interview for The Associated Press, at Agios Kosmas marina in southern Athens, Feb. 4, 2021. Bekatorou is the most successful female athlete in Greek sporting history who rece
#MeToo
Greece ‘finally’ has its #MeToo moment 
A video tweet from former President Donald Trump is shown on a screen next to another video of protesters fighting with security authorities.
Top of The World
House prosecutors set to wrap their impeachment case against Trump
An inmate wearing an orange suit mops near blue plastic bags inside a detention center.
Migration
Immigrants, rights activists call on Biden to end private detention
A man wearing a blue shirt leans his body over a coffin draped with the Algerian flag in a room full of coffins.
History
French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria
Forests cover about 80% of the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada. Around half of that land is owned by smallholders.
The Big Fix
Can carbon offsets preserve Canadian woodlands?
The Rotunda to the Senate is shown looking down from above with the complete circle of the space framing the composition.
Top of The World
Opening arguments set to begin in day 2 of Trump’s impeachment trial
A woman smokes a joint at cannabis coffee shop Prix d'Ami in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 13, 2020.
Lifestyle & Belief
Amsterdam officials move to ban tourists from its cannabis cafés
Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization, is shown wearing a dark suit and tie and holding up a paper with a diagram on it.
Top of The World
WHO team rules out lab leak as origin of the coronavirus
Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region arrive on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Nov. 21, 2020. Huge unknowns persist in the deadly conflict, but details of the involvement of nei
Conflict
Tigray region faces deteriorating crisis 3 months into conflict
Children play in a mud puddle in the section for foreign families at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria on March 31, 2019.
Displacement
Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?
Several rescue workers are shown standing in the muddy collapse of a dam with several pieces of large wood sticking up from the ground.
Top of The World
India glacier collapse leaves more than 100 missing
Nora Vargas is the newly elected vice chair of the powerful San Diego Board of Supervisors.
Every 30 Seconds
This Latina landed a seat on the powerful San Diego County Board of Supervisors — a first for her community
A man is shown carrying a clear umbrella and wearing a face mask while walking with his left hand in his pocket.
COVID-19
Dr. Atul Gawande: Pandemic led to a ‘rethink on what matters’
 Anika Färber is a trainer for The Network for Democracy and Courage, or NDC, one of several organizations in Germany confronting racism.
Lifestyle & Belief
In Germany, fighting against extremism starts at school
Wang Fan, 39, runs several bars and restaurants in Wuhan.
COVID-19
One year after lockdown, Wuhan volunteers say the pandemic transformed their lives
The dark silhouetted of several people are shown with their hands in the air holding up the red, white and black-stripped Yemen flag.
Top of The World
In foreign policy reset, Biden ends US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen
COVID-19
Global leaders cannot treat COVID-19 vaccines as ‘apartheid,’ says former Liberian president
A photo of some of the Grandmothers trained by Friendship Bench who provide mental health advice at the Mbare Clinic in Harare Zimbabwe.
COVID-19
In Zimbabwe, a talk therapy program trains ‘grandmothers’ to lend a supportive ear
A gloved hand holds a needle up-close.
COVID-19
How India’s Serum Institute became a COVID-19 vaccine powerhouse
Dora Melara is an attorney working for Justice in Motion, a US-based nonprofit. She took a road trip recently to track down some family members separated at the US border.
Immigration
This Honduran lawyer reunites families separated at the US-Mexico border. It involves difficult road trips — and detective work.