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Access to water is increasingly entangled with conflict situations. (Above) A young girl fills a bottle at a pump station at a camp for internally displaced people in Ain Issa, Syria.
(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

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Politics & Policy

A little optimism, a lot of pessimism: The 2019 outlook for humanitarian crises

The root causes are increasingly a messy mix of conflict, climate shocks, poverty and social inequalities.

7 years ago

A former GMO researcher explains how class plays into flawed perceptions of genetically engineered crops. (Image courtesy of Bigstock)

The Pulse

Science

Why opposition to GMOs is a First World privilege

How public mistrust in GMOs destroyed one scientist's dream of helping farmers in developing countries produce sturdier, higher-yield crops.

7 years ago

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at the conclusion of their first summit in Singapore last year. North Korea says preparations for a second summit are underway. (Susan Walsh/AP)

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Politics & Policy

North Korea prepares for second nuclear summit with U.S.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered preparations for a second summit with President Trump to discuss the prospect of denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.

7 years ago

The United Nations headquarters in New York City. The agency has released the results of a survey on sexual harassment experienced by employees, consultants and volunteers. (Joseph Sohm/Getty Images)

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Politics & Policy

Report says 1 in 3 U.N. staffers has been sexually harassed

It's part of an unfortunate trend in the humanitarian sector: complaints about sexual harassment, bullying and other unacceptable workplace behavior.

7 years ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief, walk from a photo opportunity at the The Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Trump says ‘things are going very well’ with North Korea

Trump said he plans a second summit with leader Kim Jong Un to try to broker a deal that would entice the North to give up its nuclear weapons.

7 years ago

American-born news anchor Marzieh Hashemi sits in a studio in Tehran where she works for Iran's state television. She was arrested Sunday during a visit to the U.S., her family says. She is testifying behind closed doors to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., in an unspecified case, a U.S. judge said Friday. (Press TV/AP)

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Courts & Law

After days of silence, court says detained Iranian-American is testifying

An Iranian-American woman arrested five days ago during a visit to the U.S. is testifying behind closed doors to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., a U.S. federal judge said.

7 years ago

The lunar lander of the Chang'e-4 probe is seen on Jan. 11. The seeds that scientists hoped would thrive within a biodome aboard have all died. (AP via China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency)

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Science

China tried to grow cotton on the moon, but it didn’t work

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency announced the news, simply stating: "The experiment has ended."

7 years ago

A security force member walks outside a shuttered restaurant Thursday in Manbij, Syria, the site of a suicide attack that killed more than a dozen people, including four Americans, a day earlier. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. (Delil Souleiman /AFP/Getty Images)

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Politics & Policy

How strong is the Islamic State in Syria?

The extremist group is still believed to have thousands of fighters who have gone underground.

7 years ago

Karen Paz hugs her daughter, Liliana Saray, 9. They are from San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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Community

‘I’m a survivor of violence’: Portraits of women waiting in Mexico for U.S. asylum

Domestic violence was the leading reported crime in Honduras, according to a March 2015 report by the United Nations' special rapporteur on violence against women.

7 years ago

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a debate before a no-confidence vote on Theresa May raised by opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, in the House of Commons in London on Wednesday. (Mark Duffy/AP)

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Politics & Policy

Amid Brexit chaos, Theresa May’s government survives confidence vote

In the vote, 325 lawmakers said they had confidence in May's government, while 306 voted that they did not.

7 years ago

Honduran migrants wait in line to cross over the border checkpoint into Guatemala in Agua Caliente, Honduras. A new caravan of at least several hundred Hondurans has set off toward the United States on foot or in vehicles. Some have already crossed into Guatemala. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Politics & Policy

Honduran caravan crosses Guatemala, traveling toward U.S.

The group that reached Guatemala on Tuesday is the first wave of a caravan that could consist of thousands.

7 years ago

An explosion damaged a restaurant in Manbij, Syria, Wednesday, shown in a screengrab from the Kurdish Hawar News agency, or ANHA. (ANHA/AP)

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Politics & Policy

U.S. troops killed by blast in Syria; Islamic State claims responsibility

American troops were killed in an explosion in northern Syria, the spokesperson for the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State says.

7 years ago

An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co. works at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to decontaminate the area after the 2011 nuclear meltdown. A Vietnamese laborer in Japan on a training program says he was also put to work cleaning up the site, but with inadequate gear.
(Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Politics & Policy

As Japan tries out immigration, migrant workers complain of exploitation

The Japanese government intends to bring in 345,000 more foreign workers in the next five years, to staff sectors including restaurants, construction, agriculture and nursing.

7 years ago