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Jun 26, 2025
Starkly different narratives about the Israel-Iran war's results point to multiple unresolved issues and underlying tensions that remain. A central question is whether postwar diplomacy, if and when it resumes, returns to square one.
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Jun 26, 2025
Much has been made of the emerging alliance among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. But the recent strikes on Iran highlight its limits.
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Jun 25, 2025
How it feels to visit my family's refuge from the Holocaust in New Zealand, and find myself separated from my children in Israel, enduring Iranian missile attacks.
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Jun 24, 2025
In France, criminals generally serve concurrent sentences. That's frustrating the many, many victims of convicted rapist Joël Le Scouarnec.
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Jun 24, 2025
Iran trained and armed a network of regional proxies to help it stand up to Israel and the United States. But they were absent from the costly war it just fought. One reason: a preoccupation with their own survival.
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Jun 24, 2025
President Trump has persuaded Iran and Israel to accept a ceasefire that could pave the way for resumed talks on the future of Iran's nuclear program.
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Jun 23, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza say they are contending daily with deadly air strikes and widespread hunger. But they fear the world is looking away, as the Israel-Iran war has pushed the Israel-Hamas war from front pages.
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Jun 23, 2025
Every year, Europe is among the top vacation spots. While tourists flood in for the summer, locals have taken to the streets. Protesters are unhappy with the pressure that overtourism has put on infrastructure and resources such as water and energy.
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Jun 23, 2025
US demands that Iran surrender unconditionally to Washington-imposed limits on its nuclear program are seen as an affront to Iranian national pride.
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Jun 22, 2025
President Trump hopes to bomb Iran to the nuclear negotiating table, but Tehran has shown no sign yet of acceding. Could the U.S. face more fighting?
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Jun 22, 2025
President Trump hopes to bomb Iran to the nuclear negotiating table, but Tehran has shown no sign yet of acceding. Could the U.S. face more fighting?
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Jun 22, 2025
It was not clear whether the United States would continue attacking Iran alongside Israel. President Donald Trump warned Iran that any reprisals against the U.S. would be met with additional strikes. "There will either be peace or there will be tragedy for Iran," he said.
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Jun 21, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program. Mr. Trump will address the nation at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.
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Jun 21, 2025
Key dissendent figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski, longtime radio correspondent Ihar Karnei, and 12 others walked free after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a top U.S. official in Minsk.
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Jun 20, 2025
President Trump has broken with two decades of U.S. policy by approving Israel's ambition to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Could he go further?
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Jun 20, 2025
When the Trump administration slashed funding for international aid, it halved food rations for refugees in Kenya, like Ugandan Martin Komol. As funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped, there are limited resources to fill the gap.
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Jun 20, 2025
In Ukraine's border region of Sumy, Russian forces are making very slow progress, but enough to force Ukrainian civilians from their villages.
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Jun 20, 2025
In Ukraine's border region of Sumy, Russian forces are making very slow progress, but enough to force Ukrainian civilians from their villages.
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Jun 20, 2025
Johannesburg's central library recently reopened after a five-year closure, a signal of the city's revival after years of decline.
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Jun 19, 2025
India and Pakistan are both on campaigns to shape the global narrative about last month's armed conflict. But within Pakistan, no such scrambling is required, as the country rallies around its powerful military.
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Jun 19, 2025
With the West now inhospitable to them, Russian tourists are finding new holiday opportunities in North Korea, Afghanistan, and other unlikely spots.
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Jun 19, 2025
China's campaign to unify Taiwan with the mainland is now extending to a crackdown on Taiwanese who Beijing deems 'pro-independence.'
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Jun 18, 2025
Iran's prewar economy was beleaguered, while Israel's showed signs of recovery. A long conflict will test both their resilience.
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Jun 17, 2025
The United States posed an obstacle to solidarity at the Group of Seven summit. But under Canada's guidance, the group was able to make progress.
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Jun 17, 2025
Despite their competition for regional influence, Arab states are not rooting for the Iranian regime's fall. Led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they are urging President Trump to seek a ceasefire, and a return to business-friendly regional stability.
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Jun 17, 2025
Despite their competition for regional influence, Arab states are not rooting for the Iranian regime's fall. Led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they are urging President Trump to seek a ceasefire, and a return to business-friendly regional stability.
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Jun 17, 2025
With emergency vehicles in short supply in Ukraine, volunteers are building armored ambulances to carry medics and soldiers around the battlefield.
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Jun 17, 2025
The Knowledge, Solutions, Skills, and Kreativity school on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital provides six years of learning for students who would otherwise be unable to afford it.
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Jun 16, 2025
After 20 months of war in Gaza, Israelis had become somewhat accustomed to missile attacks. The barrage from Iran is causing vastly more death and destruction in Israeli cities, but is raising both stress and resilience among civilians.
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Jun 16, 2025
How Iranians are dealing with Israeli airstrikes, which are inflicting unexpected destruction on military and civilian targets.
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Jun 16, 2025
Everyone agrees the justice system in Mexico needs to be revamped. But where the ruling power sees its new reform as a leap forward, others believe Mexico has just moved several steps backward.
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Jun 16, 2025
International students are deleting social media posts and accounts as the Trump administration tightens visa rules and expands digital surveillance. The policy is raising concerns over unfair profiling and pushing young people to self-censor online.
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Jun 16, 2025
Louvre staff launched a strike on June 16 over "untenable" working conditions tied to overcrowding at France's greatest cultural treasure. Every day, more than 20,000 people squeeze into the museum's largest room to snap a picture with the Mona Lisa.
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Jun 16, 2025
China, the largest producer and consumer of seafood, signs a safeguard against illegal fishing. And in Colombia, a program eases adoption of renewables.
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Jun 16, 2025
Relations between Ottawa and Washington have hit the skids. That is presenting Canada an opportunity to rebuild its global influence, including via the G7.
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Jun 13, 2025
U.S.-Israeli foundation GHF claims it has delivered millions of food packs in Gaza. But stories abound of shooting and chaos near distribution points.
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Jun 13, 2025
Israel has long feared Iran's nuclear program was geared toward developing a weapon. Now that Israel has overtly bombed nuclear sites, inviting an Iranian response, is U.S. diplomacy still possible?
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Jun 13, 2025
Keeping songbirds is a source of joy and pride for hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, but the tradition is also wreaking havoc on their ecosystem.
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Jun 13, 2025
Israel said it attacked Iranian nuclear targets to ensure that Tehran never makes a nuclear weapon. But Iran may see such a weapon as its only deterrent.
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Jun 12, 2025
President Donald Trump has cut aid to Africa and insulted one of its elder statesmen. Will that harm his search for rare earths essential to high-tech goods?
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Jun 12, 2025
Hundreds lined the central square in Graz, Austria, for a minute of silence for the 10 people killed in a school shooting on June. In a search of the shooter's home, investigators found a farewell letter, video, and a non-functional pipe bomb.
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Jun 12, 2025
No country recognizes the sovereignty of Somaliland, a self-governing region of Somalia. The Trump administration might soon change that.
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Jun 11, 2025
Syria's Druze community is divided among those wanting to work with the government, those seeking autonomy, and others looking for outside aid.
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Jun 11, 2025
In the United Kingdom, millennials are bonding over an unusual shared touchpoint: the hymns they sang in their elementary school assemblies.
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Jun 10, 2025
With a high-profile political assassination attempt over the weekend, is Colombia getting any closer to "total peace"?
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Jun 10, 2025
Progress roundup: Captive-bred salamander can survive in the wild, and old fynbos seeds will germinate, sowing science's hope for habitat restoration.
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Jun 10, 2025
Judge Omar Weslati helped start a library for students in Bir El Euch, Tunisia. Other libraries soon followed.
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Jun 09, 2025
South Africa's unlikely coalition government has survived a year. Few thought that possible.
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Jun 07, 2025
Israel says the body of Nattapong Pinta was retrieved in a special military operation. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.
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Jun 06, 2025
The election of Lee Jae-myung heralds a foreign policy shift for South Korea as the country seeks to balance its critical U.S. security alliance with a more pragmatic, amicable approach to China.
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Jun 06, 2025
In the wake of the United States' aid cuts, which supported projects in agriculture and food security across Zimbabwe, locals are devising their own solutions. For instance, one community built rainwater storage tanks from chicken wire, canvas, and cement.
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Jun 06, 2025
More than a century after Arab revolutionaries blew up the Ottomans' prized Hejaz Railway, located in the geographic heart of the Middle East, Syria's new government is pushing full steam ahead on its revival.
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Jun 06, 2025
El Salvador's president escalated crackdowns on protest and civil society in May, prompting the question "Why now?"
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Jun 05, 2025
Donald Trump makes the Indo-Pacific the U.S. military's top priority in his "America First" foreign policy, but Asian allies are unsettled by Washington's tariff war.
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Jun 05, 2025
New Zealand legislators suspended three Maori lawmakers on June 5 after they performed a Haka, a chanting dance of challenge. The lawmakers aimed to protest a bill that could endanger Indigenous rights.
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Jun 04, 2025
After a tighter-than-expected presidential election, Lee Jae-myung aims to restore stability to a nation wracked by months of political upheaval. But issues of trust remain.
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Jun 04, 2025
Even as the United States and Iran grapple with each other's nuclear red lines, the simple fact of engagement underscores a pragmatic turn for Tehran regarding President Donald Trump.
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Jun 04, 2025
Ukraine's asymmetric drone attack caught the world's attention and dealt a significant blow to Russia's defense. Peace prospects may hinge on how Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump respond.
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Jun 03, 2025
Poland has enormous potential within Europe. But it seems to be of two minds of how to realize that potential, which may be hindering its progress.
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Jun 03, 2025
The Russian military has turned to a grim strategy in Kherson: targeting civilians in drone attacks. Still, many local Ukrainians refuse to leave.
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Jun 03, 2025
Progress roundup: Antarctica's newest research base lowers fossil fuel use, a medieval Italian village welcomes its bears, and more.
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Jun 02, 2025
Despite taking the lead in pro-democracy protests this winter, South Korean women are struggling to gain political power and gender equality.
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Jun 02, 2025
An eventual return home is an ideal woven into the migration experience. But a trail of migrants leaving the United States under President Donald Trump threatens to exacerbate instability at home.
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Jun 01, 2025
A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia's territory, Ukraine's Security Service said on Sunday, while Moscow pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones just hours before a new round of direct peace talks in Istanbul.
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May 31, 2025
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels. Saturday's report comes at a sensitive time as Tehran and Washington have been holding several rounds of talks over a possible nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to reach.
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May 30, 2025
Israeli and Palestinian peace activists are swimming against the tide, but they are not giving up.
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May 30, 2025
Rice is a household staple in Japan, but supermarkets have been having trouble keeping shelves stocked after a wave of panic buying last summer worsened longstanding problems. The demand has driven up prices and frustrations with government mismanagement.
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May 30, 2025
The latest attempt to hash out an end to the war in Ukraine looks set for Monday, but Russia, Ukraine, and the United States all still seem far apart.
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May 30, 2025
Hind Kabawat, part of Syria's 23-member cabinet, feels hope for Syria's future after U.S. and E.U. sanctions were lifted. Temporary schools and helping internally displaced people return are the top priorities for the government, she says.
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May 30, 2025
Twenty-five years after the seizure of thousands of white-owned farms, Zimbabwe has begun paying back farmers whose land was taken.
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May 30, 2025
As China expands its influence in Latin America, the Trump administration looks to a Monroe Doctrine 2.0 to claim the hemisphere as America's domain.
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May 29, 2025
An avalanche of mud, ice, and rock forced residents of a picturesque Swiss village to evacuate before it buried around 90% of it. The debris from a collapsed glacier also blocked a nearby river, raising concerns of flooding.
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May 29, 2025
As complex and daunting a problem as Iran's steadily advancing nuclear program may be, for now it still may offer President Donald Trump the best option for burnishing his self-image as a deal-maker and peacemaker.
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May 29, 2025
Against the background of war in Gaza, Israelis face questions about their state's identity and future.
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May 28, 2025
Even amid war, Ukrainians are rebuilding their homes. To architects, that reconstruction is a form of resistance against the Russian invasion, too.
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May 28, 2025
An Israel-backed food distribution plan that began in Gaza has left U.N. and other relief experts sidelined and harshly critical. Many Palestinians, desperate and nearing starvation, say the aid is out of reach.
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May 28, 2025
Calin Georgescu, a candidate with a nationalistic bent, has announced his withdrawal from public life. Running as an independent in last year's election, he unexpectedly led the presidential race's first round.
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May 27, 2025
Amid economic and political instability at home and abroad, a growing number of young women in the Philippines are breaking social taboos and making the decision to not have children.
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May 27, 2025
Progress roundup: Art world wakes up to South Asian talent, a Stockholm method of planting keeps trees happy, and clean energy tops fossil fuels in the U.S.
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May 27, 2025
A group known as Yiavha has trained hundreds of youths to organize intergenerational storytelling sessions in their communities.
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May 26, 2025
After U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated suggestion that the U.S. annex Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney invited King Charles III to give the speech that will outline his government's agenda and underscore the nation's sovereignty.
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May 25, 2025
Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta on Sunday to discuss ways to expand trade and investment at what Mr. Li described as "an important crossroads" for the global economy.
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May 24, 2025
According to a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Israel may let aid groups operating in Gaza take charge of non-food assistance, while leaving food distribution up to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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May 23, 2025
A new regional alignment rising in the Middle East shifts power away from Iran's "Axis of Resistance." Moderate Sunnis seeking stability and prosperity now have friendly governments in Beirut, Damascus, and Baghdad.
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May 23, 2025
USAID cuts have hurt international development work - but they're also hampering civil society groups dedicated to preserving democracy.
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May 22, 2025
The U.K. and EU are seeking security amid global economic and geopolitical shifts. But how far can they roll back their testy Brexit divorce?
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May 22, 2025
The two most powerful Americans, Donald Trump and Pope Leo, have very different worldviews. How will each wield his influence, and to what purpose?
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May 21, 2025
After Syrian businesses toiled for years to turn a profit, the announced dropping of U.S. and EU sanctions is sweeping the country with rare optimism. The government's intent to open the long-closed economy is another cause for hope.
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May 21, 2025
A few years ago, the French film industry feted male actors and directors accused of sexual abuse by female peers. But now that seems to have changed.
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May 20, 2025
Israel's military operation in Gaza is facing increased opposition, abroad and at home. Yet even within the Netanyahu government, it's unclear if the assault is focused on conquering territory or affecting negotiations.
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May 20, 2025
Can ancient traditions and new technology coexist? Members of the Indigenous Guarani Kaiowá group in Brazil say yes, creating a virtual reality museum.
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May 20, 2025
Progress roundup: Philippine island boosts incomes and mangrove forests, Colombia protects isolated tribes, and U.S. home care workers thrive in co-ops.
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May 20, 2025
The nonprofit Mango Project is addressing food waste in a village that has a bounty of mangoes.
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May 19, 2025
As the India-Pakistan conflict brings these controversial boarding schools back into the spotlight, Pakistan is trying to improve the quality of madrassa education with new regulations.
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May 19, 2025
Dennis "Typhoon" Mboya gives tours of the Nairobi, Kenya, informal settlement where he grew up, and uses his own story to inspire other young people in his community.
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May 17, 2025
Israel says the operation is intended to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages and comes after U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his trip without a visit to Israel.
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May 16, 2025
With Israel occupying slivers of additional territory in Syria, farmers find themselves cut off from the rest of their country and struggling to live on a geopolitical fault line between Turkey and Israel.
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May 16, 2025
People-power movements can break the grip of authoritarianism. But as is clear in Bangladesh, not everyone in society wins amid the sweeping change.
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May 16, 2025
Pro-democracy students helped oust Bangladesh's autocratic leader. Now the country is grappling with how it sees its past - and defines its future.
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May 15, 2025
President Donald Trump's Mideast agenda indicated that business would take priority. Yet the outlines of an emerging Trump foreign policy are visible.
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