In a close presidential race, Trump is strategically ambiguous on abortion | US Election 2024 News
Experts say it is not likely Trump’s shifting position will prompt abortion opponents to defect to Harris’s camp. But, they warn, there is a real…
Is Sudan’s army regaining ground lost in the civil war? | Sudan war News
The war in Sudan is entering a new phase as the Sudanese army and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fight over the…
How Israel is trying to generate civil strife in Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Beirut, Lebanon – On October 14, Israel killed 22 people in the northern Lebanese village of Aitou in an air attack. Israel claimed it struck…
Fact check: Can Trump use a 1798 law to carry out mass deportations? | US Election 2024 News
A cornerstone of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has been his promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in United States history. The…
Muslims join Buddhist, Christian fighters to topple Myanmar’s military | Conflict News
Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a…
Suspicion, resentment, trauma, destruction – Beirut on the edge | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Beirut, Lebanon – “No phones!” barks a burly man as he sails past us on his scooter. I’m out in the city working with Al…
Who is lobbying for India’s Modi government on Capitol Hill? | Narendra Modi
On a Wednesday morning in September 2022, a lobbyist reached out to a congressional staffer in Washington, DC. He wanted to set up a meeting…
A second Trump presidency has raised concerns of migrant workers’ rights | US Election 2024 News
On September 20, 2023, Rosa Sanchez went to work picking carrots at Grimmway Farms, one of the largest producers of carrots in the world, located…
Desperate journeys: Syrian refugees fleeing Israel’s assault on Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon
Al-Bara, Syria – Musa Baghdadi paid $6,000 for the privilege of exchanging one bombardment for another. “I paid to escape the shelling in Lebanon to…
Why hasn’t US President Biden made any state visits to Africa? | Joe Biden News
Joe Biden’s planned trip to Angola on October 13 was meant to be historic. It would have been his first visit to Africa during his…
‘A name, a function and a philosophy’: The art of Indonesian batik | Arts and Culture News
Solo, Indonesia – Gunawan Setiawan is the fourth generation of batik makers and sellers in his family, and hails from the historic royal city of…
The Floating Doctors: Mobile medicine comes to Panama’s jungles | Health
‘A true blessing’ At the conclusion of the second day of the clinic, the tired volunteers walk down a muddy hill to bathe in the…
Choosing to be child-free in an ‘apocalyptic’ South Asia | Demographics
Zuha Siddiqui is currently designing her new house in Karachi, creating a blueprint for her future life in Pakistan’s largest metropolis. Her parents will live…
Half-life, half-house: Portrait of a Palestinian family after Israeli raids | Israel-Palestine conflict
Tulkarem, occupied West Bank – In the heart of the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp, in the Hammam neighbourhood that is a frequent target…
From Uzbek disco to Uighur rock: Forgotten sounds of the Silk Road | Music
On an early morning car ride from Tashkent to Samarkand after a performance in 1983, the Uzbek pop singer Nasiba Abdullaeva tuned in to an…
Caught in India-China clashes, Ladakh’s nomadic herders fear for future | Politics
Chushul, Ladakh, India – The bubbling sound of water boiling on the stove and the aroma of spinach dal fill the air in Tashi Angmo’s…
The South African anti-apartheid cathedral that’s now a pro-Palestine hub | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Cape Town, South Africa – At the corner of a main intersection in the heart of Cape Town’s city centre stands the oldest cathedral in…
India’s Ratan Tata, the man who knew how to ‘think big and bold’ | Obituaries News
A greying, slightly bent man asked for a table for two at the Sea Lounge, the iconic coffee shop at the Taj Hotels’ flagship hotel in…
Locked out: Palestinians in Jordan still waiting to return to stolen homes | Israel-Palestine conflict
Amman, Jordan - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", would eventually fade for the hundreds of…
Fact check: Are Haitian immigrants in Springfield in the US illegally? | US Election 2024
CBS News moderators muted vice presidential candidates’ microphones only once during the October 1 vice presidential debate: during a discussion about immigration. Specifically, when they…