Monica Campbell

Yemen? Boko Haram? Syria’s massive refugee crisis? All missed the cut in the president’s speech.

Tuesday evening The World newsroom watched The State of the Union and live tweeted. Follow the hashtag #worldwatches for ongoing takeaways from our producers and reporters.

Inspired by Philadelphia’s South Asian American Digital Archive, and its project that collects immigrants’ stories about their first days in America, we’ve begun gathering similar stories from immigrants throughout the globe. This next installment comes from Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Moscow who has written for Russian and US newspapers. In 1989, he moved to Boston for a journalism fellowship and stayed. He spoke about his early memories of America with The World’s Global Nation editor Monica Campbell.

While Obama administration’s new deportation policy recognizes same-sex couples as family, it only applies to people already in deportation process.

The world of comic books characters created by Latino artists is growing.