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President Donald Trump made the decision to drop the program supporting rebels fighting Syria's Bashar al-Assad nearly a month ago, according to The Washington Post. The rebels say they were totally blindsided and disappointed.

The Bavarian city of Traunreut, population 21,000, is working to integrate 600 refugees. Some locals are helping. Others are rallying against the arrivals. One thing is for sure: It's a challenging situation for everyone.

As the Los Angeles Times journalist Ivan Penn explains, California has actually paid neighboring states to take its surplus renewable energy — dozens of times this year.

Monday's episode of the reality show "The Bachelorette" featured Dean Unglert, who introduced Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay to his father — a Sikh convert.

A decade ago, Vladimir Putin appeared to be ignoring the internet. Now he seems to be wildly successful at exploiting it.

Summer is high season in places like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But this year, many businesses there haven't been able to get the H-2B visas they need for their international workers.

The Daas family has been without a home since early 2015. After ISIS invaded their hometown of Palmyra, Syria, they escaped to Turkey, then took a boat to Greece and are now trying to rebuild their lives in Bavaria, Germany. It's one thing to find safety, but they're discovering it's much harder to make a home.

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph roughly 12,000 species for his "Photo Ark."

An unknown group of robbers broke into a British farm and made off with the prized cheddar cheese.

After the US announced its new sanctions, Iran hit back, calling them "worthless" and "illegal" and announcing its own sanctions "against American people and entities that have acted against the Iranian people and other Muslim peoples of the region."

Jack Shaheen, a Lebanese-American, spent decades documenting and criticizing the way the movie and television industry stereotypes Arabs and Middle Easterners. He passed away last week.

When Maytag closed its doors in 2007, it was a rough transition for Newton, Iowa. But a decade later, unemployment sits below 4 percent.

Just weeks into a study to help people lose weight, Dr. Vincent Felitti began to notice that the patients who he had expected to make the most progress were dropping out.

"Night of the Living Dead" creator George A. Romero died on Sunday at the age of 77 after a battle with lung cancer, but he left behind a legacy of zombie films and influence.

Pakistani atheists face death if their beliefs are made known, but their lack-of-faith endures.

Climate change research in extreme environments is a dangerous business, but scientists say getting boots on the ground is vital to understanding where we're headed as we warm the planet.

At a time when a surprising number of young Americans say it's not important to them to live in a democracy, when honest journalists are accused of pedaling fake news, while purveyors of actual fake news are too often taken seriously, spare a thought for a man who thought democracy, freedom of speech and a just society are so worth fighting for, he spent four terms in Chinese prisons and work camps, and died in custody, of liver cancer. Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is being remembered for his tenacity and principled focus, and for believing in the power of peaceful protest and the possibility of change, in the face of authoritarian repression.

In some cases, newspapers even broke with tradition and portrayed Mirzakhani without her hair covered by a hijab — mandatory for women in public since the Islamic republic's 1979 revolution.

Over a third of Venezuelan voters turned out Sunday in an unofficial referendum — and nearly all voted "No" to President Nicolás Maduro's plans to rewrite the constitution. Now the opposition is calling a nationwide strike.

As an investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire in London continues, survivors and others are coming together to crowdsource lists of those found safe, as well as those still missing or presumed dead. The World’s Marco Werman interviews Joshua Vantard, a 26-year-old engineering student who created a database of names of those found, missing and confirmed deceased.

What’s more, you could apply it at home.

Venezuela's food shortages are so severe that many supermarkets aren't stocking even basic staples.

The Washington Post journalist Philip Kennicott says the Kochs’ climate agenda should give arts groups pause.

The Dutch, famous for their system of dikes and their serious approach to flooding, are training engineers around the world to adapt to the global warming risks of floods, torrential rains and storm surges.

President Trump may have decided to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, but America’s airlines are still bound by a separate agreement that regulates global warming gases from international flights. The Trump administration is reviewing the deal, but US air carriers say pulling out would hurt their competitiveness and raise costs.

One year after a terrorist attack in Nice, the city is still on edge.

Mercer Island High School students discuss their interview with US Defense Secretary James Mattis.

She told the world that she was HIV positive — and then she fought for the millions of people like her.

Edwidge Danticat's latest book, "The Art of Death," helped her process her mother's death.

The Turkish government is unveiling new monuments and has already renamed the iconic Bosphorus Bridge, various schools, mosques, a TV studio, bus and metro stops, even entire neighborhoods — all after July 15.

President Donald Trump began his whirlwind trip to Paris on Thursday. And the itinerary is packed with enough grandeur to satisfy even a former pageant king.

A crackdown on kebab shops in France has touched a raw nerve in one particular city.

The Jewish residents of the Polish village of Jedwabne were killed July 10, 1941. For years the village attributed the massacre to German soldiers. In 2000, historian Jan Gross wrote a book that told a different story, that the Jews were killed by their Polish neighbors. The book caused an uproar in Poland and the story of Jedwabne continues to reverberate in Poland today.

Liu Xiaobo was diagnosed with cancer that ultimately killed him. The renowned Nobel Prize recipient was 61 when he died.

“So there are more bears coming onshore than have in the past, and staying there longer. And when they’re on shore, they typically are losing weight, because they are eating minimally or not eating at all.”

The companies hope to stave off revisions to FCC rules governing how data is treated on the internet.

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists who have monitored the growing crack for years said on Wednesday.

This week on The World in Words podcast: swearing around the globe and the bad words our grandmothers teach us.

Two Americans and on Briton volunteering with the Kurdish People's Protection Units appear to be the first foreign volunteers to have died fighting ISIS in Raqqa, Syria.

Adding to a snowballing scandal over government spying on journalists, activists and other public figures in Mexico, computer security experts confirmed that an independent investigation into the disappearance and alleged massacre of 43 students in 2014 was targeted with highly invasive spyware known as Pegasus.

The tech industry is concerned the US will no longer be a destination for highly skilled workers and entrepreneurs, based on an immigration change being pursued by the Trump administration.

More than 120 nations have signed on to a global United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons, despite a lack of support by the nine nuclear-armed nations.

Fifty-five years ago, scientists created the largest man-made crater in America. Milo Nordyke was there.

What does an immigrant look like? The arrest of an undocumented Irish immigrant in Boston is challenging racial bias in immigration enforcement.

Nearly a decade ago, Rachael Cerrotti began a search for a family story that is most often relegated to history books — the journey of a World War II refugee. But with today's political climate, her grandmother's story no longer feels so remote.

The Shinchonji Church of Jesus was founded in South Korea back in 1984 by a man whose followers call him, "the promised pastor." The group has grown in its home country and expanded into Western nations. But not without notoriety.

But the mere suggestion of a partnership has left some leaders in the US and abroad worried.

Eastern Mosul is on its way to recovery, but western Mosul, where Iraqi armed forces are pushing out the remnants of ISIS, is mostly rubble.