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A rescue boat of the Spanish NGO Proactiva approaches an overcrowded wooden vessel with migrants from Eritrea, off the Libyan coast in Mediterranean Sea August 29, 2016. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis
Development
Why haven’t we heard about migrants all summer?
Protests at the Pretoria High School for Girls.
Education
Until recently this school in South Africa told black girls to chemically straighten their hair
Police advance toward protesters during disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 14, 2016. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Justice
Reporting on police brutality is complicated for some minority journalists
Michael Phelps of the US is seen with a red cupping mark on his shoulder as he competes in the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 7, 2016. . REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler
Sports
Here’s the story behind those purple circles on Michael Phelps’ back
Flag-bearer Todd Lodwick of the U.S. leads his country's contingent during the athletes' parade at the opening ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games February 7, 2014. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: OLYMPICS SPORT)
Sports
Why won’t Team USA dip its flag at Olympic opening ceremonies?
Flag-bearer Todd Lodwick of the U.S. leads his country's contingent during the athletes' parade at the opening ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games February 7, 2014. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: OLYMPICS SPORT)
Sports
Why won’t Team USA dip its flag at Olympic opening ceremonies?
A damaged window is pictured at the police headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, July 18, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
Conflict
The conspiracies and realities of the failed Turkish coup
Police stand guard outside the Olympia shopping mall, where last week's shooting rampage started, in Munich, Germany July 23, 2016
Conflict
How will Germany deal with lone wolf terrorism, the invisible enemy?
War Resisters Support Campaign
Global Politics
US resisters to the Iraq War are living under threat of deportation in Canada
Relative mourns over death after military coup in Turkey
Justice
What happens after a failed coup?
Mourners react during a funeral of a victim who was killed in a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area in Baghdad, during the funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, July 3, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
Conflict
Baghdad just suffered Iraq’s worst terror attack since the US-led invasion, and we’ve already forgotten
Amnesty International activists take part in a performance to protest against enforced disappearance in downtown Rome, Italy July 13, 2016. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
Conflict
Just as Egyptians point at US police brutality, a new report slams Egypt’s horrifying record
Beatrice Mategwa/United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)/Handout v
Conflict
The world’s youngest country couldn’t even celebrate its independence
Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami poses in front of a poster for his film "The Wind Will Carry Us" at the Portuguese film museum in Lisbon February 27, 2004.
Arts
Snubbed at home, director Abbas Kiarostami made the world his audience
Bangladeshi army personnel place a U.S. flag on a coffin of a victim who was killed in the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery and the O'Kitchen Restaurant, during a memorial ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 4, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Conflict
Bangladesh attackers’ privileged backgrounds represent a new kind of threat
People leave Turkey's largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey, following a blast June 28, 2016.
Conflict
Can an airport ever be truly secure?
REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Global Politics
Some Turks in the US are now too afraid to visit their homeland
A friend of Gulsen Bahadir, a victim of Tuesday's attack on Ataturk airport, mourns during her funeral ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey, June 29, 2016.
Conflict
Why is ISIS attacking Turkey, a Muslim country?
A sign is seen at the Polish Social and Cultural Association after graffiti was painted on the side of the building calling on Poles to leave the United Kingdom, in Hammersmith, London, Britain June 27, 2016.
Global Politics
Anti-Polish attacks shot up after the UK’s Brexit vote. Is globalization to blame?
Reacting to the Brexit vote
Global Politics
How will Brexit change life in the UK, Europe and elsewhere?
Participants are silhouetted while holding a rainbow flag during the annual gay pride parade in central Nicosia, Cyprus May 29, 2016.
Belief
Gay and Muslim: Can Orlando tragedy lead to acceptance, tolerance?
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Belief
Turkey’s president went to Kentucky to speak at Ali’s funeral. But then he couldn’t.
Soldiers patrol ahead of the UEFA 2016 European Championship in Nice, France, June 8, 2016
Conflict
France will party under the watchful eyes of 90,000 security guards