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Internally displaced Afghan women from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, receive medical care in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
‘We are so afraid’: An Afghan women’s rights activist is left behind in Afghanistan
A mural in Cartagena's Getsemani Neighborhood celebrates the city's Afro-Colombian heritage and the natural hairstyles of Black women
History
Reclaiming Colombia’s Black history, one tour at a time
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro waves to people during a ceremony marking Soldier Day at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 25, 2021. 
Brazil under Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro rallies his base with voter fraud claims ahead of elections in Brazil
A US military officer is shown wearing full combat gear under the green light of a night goggle lens.
Top of The World
Taliban declare victory as last US troops leave Afghanistan
In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. 
Conflict
Havana syndrome is ‘an act of war and we have to stop it’ former CIA agent says
Afghans wait in long lines for hours to try to withdraw money, in front of a Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
‘They’re depending on us’: Afghan interpreter scrambles to help evacuate colleagues in Afghanistan
Several young school children are shown sitting at desks with one girl looking back at the camera while wearing a clear face shield and mask.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Kids return to school amid the surging delta variant
American Village entrance gates on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, the Kurdish defacto capital.
Military
Kurds grapple with US troop drawdown in Iraq
Several people are shown standing around a bombed out car, chared from the explosion.
Top of The World
Rockets targeting Kabul airport intercepted
A close-up photograph shows a woman's hands with lots of golden-colored braclets on her right wrist and a watch on the left wrist.
Afghanistan
Women’s shelters in Afghanistan face an uncertain future
Honduran migrants Bianca Emerita Galvan, 22, left, and Dani Omar Suazo, 21, holding their son 1-year-old sone Daniel Emir, arrive at El Ceibo, Guatemala, Aug. 12, 2021, after being deported by air from the US to Mexico and then shipped into Guatemala by l
Immigration
Mexico expels Central American migrants to rural Guatemala
Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Virginia, Aug. 27, 2021.
Afghanistan
Afghan families are being rapidly resettled in the US. But adjusting to their new lives will take years.  
Hundreds of people, some holding documents, gather near an evacuation control checkpoint on the perimeter of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 27, 2021.
Top of The World
Afghanistan airlift continues after deadly suicide attacks
Hundreds gather at the Kabul airport
Afghanistan
How to help Afghans right now 
Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed on a screen as performers dance at a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing
Education
China’s Xi Jinping Thought curricula teaches students how to ‘unmask enemies’ of the state, author says
Sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a Friday, July 21, 2017, file photo.
Climate Change
Sea ice plays a crucial role in cooling the planet. It’s melting at record-breaking rates.
Several military officers are shown in a line, and heavily armed, walking on an open tarmac area with mountains in the distance.
Top of The World
Explosion outside of the Kabul airport
Enrique Kiki Valera is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, sound engineer and producer. He’s best known as one of the world’s greatest players of the Cuban cuatro, a mid-size guitar with eight strings grouped in sets of two.
Movement
Kiki Valera on Son cubano and how he developed a unique musical perspective
Hundreds of people gather near an evacuation control checkpoint during ongoing evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul.
Afghanistan
As Afghans flee Taliban rule, some find a temporary new home in Uganda
Afghan women walk by posters of Taliban leaders and flags in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 25. 2021.
Afghanistan
Chaos in Afghanistan creates power vacuum for ISIS, al-Qaeda to reorganize, counterterrorism expert says
A military band rehearses for a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, July 1, 2021. Chinese fighter jets, anti-submarine aircraft and combat ships conducted assault drill
Global Politics
Taiwan spokeswoman to China: Quit comparing us to Afghanistan
US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
Top of The World
G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban
US Vice President Kamala Harris takes part in a roundtable at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore
Global Politics
Southeast Asia allies express concern over US commitment amid Afghanistan crisis
Taraf Syriana at Montreal’s Moroccan Centre.
Music
In Québec, musicians play for seniors as pandemic restrictions ease
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's plane makes its landing approach on Pohnpei International Airport in Kolonia, Federated States of Micronesia, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019.
Military
The US is building a military base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Micronesian residents have questions.
A bearded man is shown in profile wearing sunglasses, fatigues and carrying a large gun over his shoulder.
Top of The World
G-7 holds emergency summit on Afghanistan
In this Aug. 22, 2021, image provided by the US Air Force and made through a night vision scope, a US Air Force security forces raven, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, maintains a cordon around a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in s
Afghanistan
Taliban have acquired an ‘overwhelming amount of potential weaponry,’ global security expert says
In this Aug. 21, 2021, image provided by the U.S. Air Force, US Airmen and U.S. Marines guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. 
Afghanistan
Canada faces criticism for its slow evacuation of Afghans who helped the government
Several US military personnel are show standing guard next to the runways of the Kabul airport with two large military vehicles in the distance.
Afghanistan
How the Kabul airport went from calm to chaos
A line of people are shown in the distance in low light with the tail of a large aircraft as the sun sets.
Top of The World
Afghan soldier dies in firefight at Kabul airport
Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 19, 2021.
Afghanistan
This Afghan interpreter helped the US Army Special Forces. He’s desperate to get out of Afghanistan.
In this Nov. 19, 2019, file photo National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. 
Trump impeachment
Alexander Vindman: Accountability is key to building back American unity
A pickup truck is shown flying the white and black Taliban flag in the distance with two people holding rifles in the nearground.
Top of The World
Thousands desperate to be evacuated from Afghanistan
A US soldier with Apache Company of Task Force 3-66 Armor, out of Grafenwoehr, Germany, stands guard at a police checkpoint at Gulruddin pass in Sar Hawza district of Paktika province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2011.
Afghanistan
US biometric devices are in the hands of the Taliban. They could be used to target Afghans who helped coalition forces.
In this photo provided by the US Marine Corps, two civilians during processing through an Evacuee Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. 
Afghanistan
‘If journalists leave a scene, it becomes a black hole,’ VOA journalist in Kabul says
Kpinchilla, a small village in northern Ghana, reels under the impact of the climate crisis.
The Big Fix
Glasgow climate talks: Africa negotiators mobilize for climate finance 
A police officer examines a damaged car at the site of a firing incident, in Karachi, Pakistan
Business, Economics and Jobs
Taliban takeover could mean more security challenges for Chinese projects in Pakistan
A group of heavily armed bearded men are shown riding in the back of a police pickup truck.
Top of The World
The Taliban continue crackdown on protests
Several buildings are shown reduced to rubble on a road with two people passing by on motorcycles.
Natural disasters
Tensions over aid grow in Haiti as quake’s deaths pass 2K
Afghans sit on the wall as people wait for hours to withdraw money, in front of Kabul Bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021.
Afghanistan
Can the Taliban make the ledgers work to govern?
Armin Laschet, chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union, CDU, addresses the media during a press conference at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 17, 2021.
Hacking
A massive security flaw exposed in Germany — then a criminal investigation
The Jaffar Mosque in the Daretu neighborhood of Erbil in 2015 where Imam Shawan preached before he left to join ISIS. 
Sacred Nation
In the wake of ISIS, Kurdish authorities are controlling religious messaging
Taliban fighters patrol in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan
Top of The World
Taliban violently quashes small protest in Jalalabad
In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, foreground, former Khmer Rouge head of state, sits in a courtroom during a hearing at the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Aug. 16
Justice
Last living member of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime tries to overturn genocide, war crimes charges
US Gen. John R. Allen, left, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, listens to US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, before a change of command ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Former Amb to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker: ‘This is not a kinder and gentler Taliban’
Hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 17, 2021.
Conflict & Justice
Afghanistan is under Taliban control. Women are worried about what it means for them.
Several US military personnel are show standing guard next to the runways of the Kabul airport with two large military vehicles in the distance.
Top of The World
A race to evacuate as Taliban asserts authority over Afghanistan
Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021.
Afghanistan
This Afghan man who helped US Army Special Forces pleads for help to escape the Taliban: ‘They will kill us’
In this image made from video, Rwandan and Mozambican police speak to returnees in Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique
Conflict
​​International support bolsters Mozambique’s fight against insurgents in Cabo Delgado
The shoreline of a village on the Greek island of Evia is shown with massive plumes of dark smoke rising in the distance.
Climate Change
Discussion: Climate change and a deepening global health crisis
Ismail Khan
Afghanistan
Former warlord Ismail Khan led a militia against the Taliban. He spoke to The World days before Afghans lost the fight.
Several members of the Taliban are shown atop a tan-color Humvee with a large weapon on top.
Top of The World
Chaos in Kabul as Taliban takes over Afghanistan
Multi-generational Haitian band Lakou Mizik has a new album in collaboration with Grammy-winning electronic music artist Joseph Ray titled ‘Leave The Bones.’
Music
Lakou Mizik’s new album highlights Haiti’s creative spirit
A Taliban fighter stands guard over surrendered Afghan security members forces
Top of The World
Taliban takes over half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals
The outside of an old Jewish home in Mosul.
Sacred Nation
Signs of a forgotten Jewish past in Mosul
Aerial view of the green vegetation of the Darien jungle
Migration
46K migrants risked their lives crossing the Darién Gap in 2021. That’s more than the last three years combined.
Iraqi Christian children prepare for their First Communion in Bartella.
Sacred Nation
One of Iraq’s oldest Christian communities struggles with religious diversity
Several Taliban fighters are shown standing in a street or sitting on blanket-covered motorcycles.
Top of The World
The Taliban take 10th provincial capital in offensive
Blue British National Overseas passports (BNO) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China passports are displayed
Migration
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers have applied for special new UK visas
Four men are shown wearing traditional Afghani robes with two men holding large weapons.
Top of The World
Taliban takes over three more Afghan provincial capitals