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Smoke rise from an air defense base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Ukraine
Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe ‘shattered’
Visitors look at the Chinese military's KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province
Top of The World
Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan
A National Guardsman walks along a border fence near the International Bridge where thousand of migrants, mostly from Haiti, have formed a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas
Top of The World
US begins mass deportations of Haitian migrants as Haiti calls for moratorium
In this photo provided by US Navy, the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) returns home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from a deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility
Top of The World
Aukus security pact sparks Chinese and French ire
Three people wearing white biohazard suits look on to a dead relative out of frame
COVID-19
Two siblings, oceans apart, support each other as medics on the COVID-19 frontlines
Young girl holds up hammer as she uses it to break rocks in front of her
Human rights
US Customs and Border Protection monitors imports to curb products made by forced labor
In this file photo taken on Wed. June 24, 2020, Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missiles roll in Red Square during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in Moscow, Russia.
Nuclear
US and Russia extend key nuclear arms reduction treaty
The sun rises on the Statue of Liberty, in New York, November 2nd 2016
Global Politics
Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland critiques Trump’s reported vulgar remarks
Leila Day (left) and Hana Baba (right), co-hosts of the podcast, The Stoop.
Culture
Creators of a new podcast are unpacking black identity
dual black holes
Science
Nobel-winning US astrophysicists bring us closer to the ‘birth of the universe’
UN security council meeting
Conflict
‘We need North Korea to feel the pressure,’ Japan ambassador says at UN emergency security meeting
US Coast Guard icebreaker
Environment
Who controls the Northwest Passage? It’s up for debate.
a boy shows off his handwriting practice
Education
To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters
Women fully covered in black carry jerrycans after they filled them up with drinking water from a charity tap, amid a cholera outbreak, in Sanaa. Graffiti on wall behind them reads "USA kills Yemeni people."
Conflict
‘We don’t have leverage.’ Why the US can’t stop the Yemen war.
Iran rocket launch
Conflict
US, Europeans push UN to react to Iran’s ‘threatening’ rocket launch
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Global Politics
Russia orders the US to cut its diplomatic staff in retaliation for sanctions
People are seen inside Iran's parliament during an attack in central Tehran
Conflict
ISIS has wanted to strike in Iran for a long time
Bashar al-Assad
Conflict
President Trump, can the US act as global police and put ‘America first’?
Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a joint news conference with US President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, Sept. 25, 2015.
Global Politics
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will talk North Korea and trade in first face-to-face meeting
Trump
Conflict
White House leaks raise concerns about Trump’s nuclear arms policy
Ellis Island — which once welcomed millions of immigrants to the US — is pictured here shrouded in fog.
Global Politics
What immigration does for innovation
Prisoners released
Conflict
After being apart for years, four prisoners released from Guantanamo are reunited with loved ones in Saudi Arabia
Afghan female pilot
Conflict
Afghanistan’s first female pilot makes ‘heartbreakingly difficult decision’ to seek asylum in the US
Aleppo
Conflict
Six countries call for immediate ceasefire in Aleppo
Aleppo
Conflict
United Nations urges Syrian government to allow aid deliveries
Syria ceasefire
Conflict
Syria ceasefire seems to be holding — for now
Three teens between a row of purple auditorium chairs
Education
What it’s like to return to Mexico, from the perspectives of three kids who grew up north of the border
hiroshima 70th anniversary atomic bomb attack genbaku dome before slider
History, memory & Hiroshima: Why President Obama’s visit matters
Full Episode
Flowers and expressions of sympathy, at the entrance to the French embassy in Washington.
Conflict
Yes, Paris could happen in the US
Fourth of July neighborhood parade
Is the American Century Over?
Full Episode
The band Dengue Dengue Dengue! performs a set
Arts
As US scrambles to address visa backlog, international musicians are out of luck
US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz addresses a news conference at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna September 22, 2014.
Global Politics
Of course two MIT alums got the ball rolling to the Iran nuclear deal
Arts, Culture & Media
Regina Spektor’s new album has old roots
Arts, Culture & Media
Regina Spektor: Her Russian Roots and New Music
Arts, Culture & Media
Regina Spektor
Arts, Culture & Media
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor