Cuba’s crisis, as told through Cuban voices

Chinese EV giant BYD faces ‘forced labor’ investigation at Hungary factory

From pensions to pastries: Vienna café supports elderly workers

Amid surge in exports to US, Argentina aims to reclaim the glory days of its beef

Cuba’s private businesses navigate a narrow opening

Cambodia’s concrete ‘reefs’ thwart trawling and create new homes for marine life

Cut to USAID funding affects rural regions of Colombia

Newly opened Shein garners criticism in Paris despite fanfare

Ireland hopes to make a program giving artists a stable income permanent

Artisans in Paris revive the old art of handpainted signs

Help wanted: Germany hires its next generation of workers from abroad

Shenzhen: The city that rewrote China’s future

The favela couriers who put their community on the map in Brazil

Amid influx of tourists, Greenland’s capital sees strained infrastructure

Trade pressure from US rallies Brazilians against foreign interference

A bizarre crimewave is taking place in the French capital

Uber partners with Chinese firm to launch robotaxis in Middle East

Spain’s new eviction law may not keep squatters out

Trump vows to lift US sanctions on Syria, expressing confidence in the country’s new leader

President Trump hints at compromise ahead of US-China trade talks

Nearly 3 million immigrants got amnesty under Reagan. Some of them still work on Washington state farms.

As Denmark tears down homes in ‘non-Western’ areas to force assimilation, residents fight back in court

Trump’s sweeping tariffs undermine decades-old global trade system

South Korea says it sent babies abroad for adoption ‘like luggage’

Costa Rican coffee farms struggle with labor shortages because of immigration restrictions

A tiny Himalayan nation’s big crypto gamble

German voters weigh options ahead of election hinging on immigration, sluggish economy

This dying Spanish town is turning to books to put it on the literary map

The drink of India’s Indigenous people gets a modern twist

As Japan’s economy adapts to a tourism boom, so does daily life 

Russia is offering higher pay to lure more military recruits

Traders in Ghana face uncertain future after world’s largest secondhand clothing hub razed in fire

In Japan, an automotive light bulb manufacturer pivots to growing mushrooms 

Is retirement officially dead in Japan?

Struggling economy and youth unemployment weigh heavily on voters as Ghana heads to the polls

Why Indian men are fighting for Russia in Ukraine

India’s Diamond City is reeling from the war in Ukraine

Bougainville: The world’s next new country?

Meet the Jamaicans who harvest the Champlain Valley’s apples

Whaling continues in Japan despite worldwide protests 

Rice shortage shines spotlight on Japan’s agricultural policy

Germany’s culture war over animal welfare 

Paraguay’s soy bonanza leaves small farmers in the cold

Move over Orlando, Brazil’s Balneário Camboriú is on the rise

The precarious state of green tea in Japan

Nearly half of Venezuelans are considering leaving the country in the coming months, poll says

Latvian farmers launch sunflower campaign to support Ukraine’s youth

Japan awakens for the global art market

Motorcycle taxis are increasingly being driven by women in Uganda

Syrian refugees in Lebanon face growing restrictions and deportation

A drought in Spain has dried up all the bubbly

‘We are struggling’: Malawi’s farmers hit hard by fertilizer prices

How Spain’s rent control is failing locals

Capitalists Anonymous: Weary French seek help in buying and polluting less

Nigeria’s low-income communities bear the brunt of faltering economy

Russia’s wartime production fuels its economy 

Brazil’s innovative Pix banking system is replacing cash and credit cards

‘We are helpless’: Protesting farmers in India pose challenges — and demands — to Modi

Lungs of stone: How Silica has sickened a generation of quartz cutters

What rhymes with isosceles triangle? This French math teacher has the answer.