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María Elena Romero

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Maria Elena Romero is a former Social Media Editor for The World.
New York City urges migrants to find shelter elsewhere
Senegalese prepare for joyful Muslim holiday
A music year-end favorite
Mexican singer/songwriter Armando Manzanero passed away after COVID-19 diagnosis
Panelist for the online event on the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine
LIVE Event: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine
Left to right: Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed; Screen shot form video; Vehicles on fire at an oil depot after missiles struck the facility in an area controlled by Russian-bac
Ukraine
VIDEO: The environmental impact of the war in Ukraine
A graphic with three photos. Left to right: Wheat harvest, Tibisay Zea and a man harvesting wheat in Senegal.
Ukraine
VIDEO EXPLAINER: How the war in Ukraine is affecting wheat exports and food culture in Senegal
Migrants and asylum seekers attend the Sunday Spanish-language service at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, New York.
Immigration
New York City urges migrants to find shelter elsewhere, but many don’t know where to turn
Clothes are on display at the Mar Design tailor shop in central St. Louis in northern Senegal.
Lifestyle & Belief
Muslims in Senegal prepare for Eid al-Adha celebrations
a group of students sitting barefoot on the ground as they go through burned documents
Youth
Young Senegalese feel the impact of the country’s political crisis
Yevdokia, 65, hugs her son Alexander in front of their house, which was heavily damaged by Russia attack, in the retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, on Sept. 14, 2022.
Ukraine
VIDEO: Ukraine’s year of war, displacement and no end in sight
Album covers of some of the allbums from artists included in the end-of-year music playlist with recommendations from The World staff. Clockwise, startiing from the top left corner: Adrian Quesada's "Boleros Psicodélicos," Sillvana Estrada's "Marchita," V
Music
A musical journey around the globe 2022, a playlist
Cover art for albums of multiple artists included on The World's 2021 music playlist. Clockwise, starting from the top left image: 'Suba' by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita; 'El Alimento' by Cimafunk; 'Deja' by Bomba Estereo; 'Seeking New Gods' by Gruff Rhys;
Music
Dance with The World, 2021 edition: A playlist
Swedish musician José González is known for stretching musical boundaries over his 18-year career. 
Music
José González’s ‘Local Valley’ mixes sounds from West Africa, from the Sahel to Ghanaian highlife
A screenshoot of a YouTube video announcing Elvis Costello's new album "Spanish Model."
Music
Elvis Costello’s ‘Spanish Model’ brings back rock-and-roll classics to a Spanish-speaking audience
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
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
Dakota Camacho, dancer and musician, seen in a body of a water unclothed with long hair.
Movement
‘I can speak the language of rhyme:’ Dakota Camacho on Guam, family and hip-hop
Muslims pray in a mosque during celebrations of Eid al-Fitr holiday, a feast celebrated by Muslims worldwide, in Grozny, Russia, on Thursday, May 13, 2021.
Religion
The world celebrates Eid — including some of The World’s listeners
The stories of women ostracized by their family and community after being wrongly accused of witchcraft can be heard on a new album called "I've forgotten now who I used to be." 
Music
New album lifts up the voices of ostracized women in northern Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
MC Fioti during the recording of the remix version of his 2017 hit "Bum Bum Tam Tam," which has become Brazil's COVID-19 vaccine anthem. 
COVID-19
This funk remix became Brazil’s COVID-19 vaccine anthem
In this Jan. 29, 2011 file photo, anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.
Photography
Photos: Arab uprisings began with quest for freedom and led to repression, wars
Album covers on a grey backgound
Tunes that kept The World spinning in 2020: A playlist
Three photos over a blie background announ ce an event
Every 30 Seconds
Discussion: Mobilizing Latino voters — perspectives from Texas and Arizona
A stenciled rat appears to be sneezing.
Arts, Culture & Media
Banksy unveils new pandemic-inspired art featuring rats in face masks
The Dalai Lama speaks while wearing a yellow robe. He is surrounded by two man on red robes in a monastery.
Music
The Dalai Lama makes a bid for music chart stardom
A silhouette of 2 people wearing a mask appears over the night sky of a city.
Coronavirus Art
Drones light up the sky in Seoul with coronavirus prevention messages
Skin lightening creams are exhibited on a shelve while a holds one cream in her hand.
Fair & Lovely cream gets a makeover in India, but will it change prejudice?
a theater. with red carpet is full of plants instead of an audience.
COVID-19
Barcelona opera reopens to full house — of plants
4 photos in black and white over a blue background serve to announce an event.
Every 30 Seconds
Discussion: The Latino conservative vote in the 2020 election
A small drone drops a red package
In fight against coronavirus, Ghana uses drones to speed up testing
a woman in black gym clothes throws a high kick to a makeshift sparing partner
Pro athletes find creative ways to train from home during coronavirus
emojis of a man and a woman in their underwear having a drink.
Lifestyle
Kalsarikännit: Drinking at home in your undies, like Finns
A picture of a robot in a hospital room and a patient laying on the bed sick.
Tommy the robot nurse helps Italian doctors care for COVID-19 patients
two women pose for a photo with a dog in the snow.
Polar
Tips to survive self-isolation from citizen scientists on a remote Norwegian island
A volunteer delivers donated aid to poor families in Rio de Janeiro's slums through Single Centre of Slums (CUFA) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Vila Kennedy slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 2, 2020.
COVID-19
Brazilians protest Bolsonaro’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic
A white goat sits next to a sign that says reserved parking.
COVID-19
Herd of goats takes over deserted resort in Britain amid lockdown
A woman sits on the floor in front of her computer.
How The World listeners are coping with self-isolation
Vietnamese singer Do Nguyen Mai Khoi sings at a performance in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 21, 2016.
Vietnam’s own ‘Lady Gaga’ is a controversial singer who is barred from performing at home
A gorilla appears sitting on green grass near a tree
Music
Canadian singer delights his gorilla superfans with Christmas songs
A man raises his hand while walking through a crowd.
82-year-old British cyclist completes 1 million miles
A protester uses a flagpole to strike the head of a statue that lays in the street
Mapuche Indigenous people in Chile take down symbols of Spanish colonization
picture of four brown spiders on a white background.
Science
Brazilian biologist discovers 4 new spider species and names them after heavy metal icons
People stand on the sand of a beach. Below them, the sand is covered in a dark, black substance.
Scientists rush to rescue sea turtles threatened by mysterious Brazil oil spill
A person holds a placard with a drawing depicting Brazil's President Bolsonaro with horns during a Global Climate Strike rally in Rio de Janeiro
Climate Change
At UN, Bolsonaro’s nationalist rhetoric clashes with Indigenous leaders
A man and woman hug as a child and another woman look on
Identity
A DNA test connected two distant cousins — and filled out a family history that slavery erased
Mirna Nereida Medina Quiñones searches for the remains of her missing son.
Conflict & Justice
When ‘treasure’ is a missing person’s remains
Mirna Nereida Medina Quiñones cuando encontró los restos de su hijo desaparecido
Conflict & Justice
Cuando el ‘tesoro’ es el cuerpo de un desaparecido
Woman wearing overalls and sunglasses holds and ax with both hands while looking at the camera.
‘Hi, I want a job in Antarctica’: Meet the first female researchers to blaze the path
Woman in a red dress laughs and claps her hands in front of a computer screen
Music
This American singer teaches Italian kids to sing like Beyoncé
Young woman on a green gown smiles while sitting on a sofa.
How a high school student’s hand-painted graduation dress went viral
Mount Everest and the Himalayan mountain range covered in snow, seen from above.
Sports
Can this duo blaze the first new route up Everest in 10 years?
Three people smile in identical photos, part of a family tradition to recreate a WWII-era photo in front of Notre-Dame cathedral
Culture
Notre-Dame remembered as a gathering point for The World
A collage of four photos shows women from various travel pictures
Women travelers on why they go solo: ‘I never thought that I couldn’t’
a bald man crouches down next to a graffiti-covered stone. he wears a vest that says "erase the hate"
A Montreal man is #ErasingHate with a power washer and his Instagram account
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Women & Gender
A #MeToo moment for Afghanistan’s women’s soccer: ‘It happened so many times’
A woman poses for a photo surrounded by red Christmas ornaments in Bangkok, Thailand.
Religion
Photos: The world celebrates Christmas
a black and white photo of a woman looking out a car window
Yalitza Aparicio challenges stereotypes in debut role in ‘Roma’