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Left to right: Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed; Screen shot form video; Vehicles on fire at an oil depot after missiles struck the facility in an area controlled by Russian-bac

VIDEO: The environmental impact of the war in Ukraine

Damages to the environment are widespread and will continue to impact Ukrainians for decades to come.

VIDEO: The environmental impact of the war in Ukraine
Tattoo artists tattooing their clients.

Ukrainians embrace tattoos as a form of patriotism

Ukrainians embrace tattoos as a form of patriotism
Yevdokia, 65, hugs her son Alexander in front of their house, which was heavily damaged by Russia attack, in the retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, on Sept. 14, 2022.

VIDEO: Ukraine’s year of war, displacement and no end in sight

VIDEO: Ukraine’s year of war, displacement and no end in sight
A man in a crowd wearing a white T-shirt holds up a sign saying 'Russia get out of Georgia."

NATO agreed Georgia would join. Why hasn’t it happened?

NATO agreed Georgia would join. Why hasn’t it happened?
School project of child's hand prints with poem, "When I'm grown and far away, these little hands with you will stay"

As Trump ends Obama-era protections for Salvadorans, a family in Minnesota has few good options to stay together

As Trump ends Obama-era protections for Salvadorans, a family in Minnesota has few good options to stay together
Saber Askar in East Porterville, California

For one Yemeni American, the long wait to bring his family to safety

"They make me bleed inside every time I talk to them," says Saber Askar, a US citizen from Yemen, with family still in the war-torn country. "I don’t know what to do. Every time I call, I’m afraid they're not going to answer anymore."

For one Yemeni American, the long wait to bring his family to safety
Members of the US Army Company "I", 102nd Infantry Regiment circa 1919.

It's the 100th anniversary of the declaration that made America a major world power

When America entered World War I, a century ago this week, the European powers were bogged down in a grinding trench war that had killed millions and ravaged the European continent.

It's the 100th anniversary of the declaration that made America a major world power
FARC rebels pose with an unidentified girl holding a weapon in southern Colombia in this undated photo confiscated by the Colombian police and released to the media on November 12, 2009. Police said that the photo was found on the body of a rebel FARC kil

She misses being a guerrilla, but this former FARC fighter is starting a new life back home

When she was 14, Xiomara picked up a gun and joined Colombia's Marxist guerrilla group, the FARC. She stayed in the wilderness for 15 years. Now she faces the challenges of thousands of other women who have left the rebel group: how to come back.

She misses being a guerrilla, but this former FARC fighter is starting a new life back home
At one point one-third of Laos had a US bomb on it.

How a secret US war created a new generation of Americans who changed foreign policy

How did the US go from being a country that denied secretly bombing Laos to finally taking responsibility, 40 years later?

How a secret US war created a new generation of Americans who changed foreign policy
Al Hamad and Mohamad

Syrian family in California feels post-Paris chill

Life is full steam ahead for this Syrian family, recently resettled in California. But post-Paris, they've noticed stares from strangers and worry that their relatives, hoping to come to the US too, may not be allowed in anytime soon.

Syrian family in California feels post-Paris chill
A woman carries a baby as she talks with other women at a food distribution in Minkaman, South Sudan.

Where's the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?

The African Union report on South Sudan's war, which was published in October, contains details of old and young women who were gang raped and left bleeding and unconscious.

Where's the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?
A vender sells balloons to refugees in Izmir, Turkey who are planning to get to Greece by boat.

Despite the risks, a refugee from Iraq has decided to try to leave Turkey — by jet ski

Amer Mohammad says he has no future in Turkey, where he is not allowed to work or gain refugee status after fleeing ISIS occupation. Like some 2 million other refugees there, he doesn't have many good options and doesn't know when countries in Europe will find a solution.

Despite the risks, a refugee from Iraq has decided to try to leave Turkey — by jet ski
Army 1st Lt. Steven Rose launches an RQ-11 Raven unmanned aerial vehicle near a highway bridge project along the Euphrates River north of Taqqadum, Iraq.

As history shows, future wars will look very different

The basic components of human conflict may never change, but the way we fight certainly will.

As history shows, future wars will look very different
President Barack Obama shakes hands with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tameem bin Hamad Al Thani, while hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David on May 14, 2015.

A royal Saudi 'snub' isn't stopping the flow of American weapons to the Gulf

Saudi Arabia's King Salman wasn't at this week's Camp David summit with other leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, but that didn't stop President Barack Obama from promising to "streamline and expedite" the delivery of weapons to the kingdom — even those being used in Yemen.

A royal Saudi 'snub' isn't stopping the flow of American weapons to the Gulf
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Memories of fleeing Vietnam, landing in Idaho and asking people for candy

After anxious days in Guam, Joshua Nguyen remembers restarting life with his family in Idaho and trick-or-treating until midnight.

Memories of fleeing Vietnam, landing in Idaho and asking people for candy