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Valerie Plesch

Virginia bill would give alternate licensing path to foreign doctors
Afghans who fled to the US hope Congress will make their status permanent
Prominent Afghan news organization operates out of Silver Spring, Maryland
Many parts of the United States are desperately in need of doctors, especially in rural and medically underserved areas.
The World's Global Classroom
Virginia bill would give alternate licensing path to foreign doctors
man at podium
Immigration
Afghans who fled to the US hope that Congress will fix their status 
staff in lobby area
Afghanistan
Prominent Afghan news organization reports on life under Taliban rule from Maryland 
A Kosovo police officer crosses the bridge that connects north and south Mitrovica. The Ibar River serves as a natural divider in Mitrovica, where Serbs live on the northern side of the river and Albanians on the southern side.
Culture
There is one place where Serbs and Albanians coexist in Kosovo — in the country’s version of Costco
An Afghan refugee woman sits with her sleeping child as they wait with others to be repatriated to Afghanistan, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Feb. 2, 2015.
Conflict
Pakistan wants millions of Afghan refugees gone. It’s a humanitarian crisis waiting to happen.
Agence France-Presse
A new weapon in the fight against the Taliban: Theater