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Elisabeth Holland says countries like Fiji are facing a "truly existential crisis."

Robert Mugabe is under house arrest, after 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe. We take a quick look back at how he got to power and how he stayed there, until now.

Even as it makes a big push into green energy and hosts big climate conferences, Germany has remained stubbornly reliant on coal for a big share of its energy. That might finally be starting to change.

President Donald Trump just returned from a 12-day, five-country tour of Asia. He's calling it a "highly successful trip." But the Economist's David Rennie has a different interpretation.

According to a recent Takeaway-Harris poll, more and more people (62 percent) say they feel comfortable speaking out and challenging their abusers. But when digging into those numbers, a different story unfolds.

Zimbabwe's military was in control of the country on Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe said he was under house arrest, although generals denied staging a coup.

Italy has failed to qualify for a men's World Cup soccer tournament for the first time in 60 years. And Italy fans are taking it pretty hard.

“Without question, fossil fuels will continue to be used, and we would argue it’s in the best global interest to make sure that when fossil fuels are used, it’s as clean and efficient as possible,” Banks said.

Ukrainian investigators hope that the news will help them with investigations into a former leader.

The environment coverage from PRI's The World and PRI.org is rebranding itself as Livable Planet.

The government-sponsored US delegation to climate talks in Bonn, Germany, aren't the only ones from the US there.

Wilmont Collins came the US as a refugee. Now he will be the first black mayor of his hometown.

He couldn't stand by while his beloved childhood landscape piled up with trash.

As a result of US sanctions on Iran, you can't donate to Iranian relief organizations directly, unless you have a special license.

Insects work very hard to feed the world’s people. They are also food for birds, bats and frogs, and they pollinate many plants, including food crops central to human civilization. But now civilization is destroying them.

"Wake Up Now" is the latest album from UK singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey. It was written and inspired by both personal and political events from 2016.

A family used part of their compensation funds to restore an old bandstand where their son used to hang out.

“As the Islamic State loses more territory, it needs some way to legitimize itself,” says Charlie Winter, a senior research fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization.

This year's global climate summit is taking place in Germany, but it's being led by the Pacific island nation of Fiji. Here's what half a dozen Fijians think about hosting the conference and life in the cross-hairs of climate change.

Designing propaganda porcelain was a way for artists to make a living after years of struggling to survive and express themselves as Jewish artists in the Russian Empire.

At this year's Miss Peru pageant, contestants delivered statistics about violence against women, instead of statistics about their body.

Saad Hariri, who became Lebanon's prime minister less than a year ago, sparked a national crisis when he resigned on Nov. 4 in a televised address from Saudi Arabia. Then he was not heard from for days.

“For me, the process of turning fear to fascination was relatively [quick], and it was just all about spending time with spiders, watching their behavior, and learning more about them,” Catherine Scott says.

A new analysis finds that most, if not all, marine species will be affected by increasing acidity in the oceans due to CO2 emissions.

The latest iteration of “RoboBee” could someday be used in search and rescue operations, or environmental monitoring projects.

After wildfires in California, the cleanup process poses another health hazard.

“Leonardo was curious to know everything there was to know about everything you could know about creation, including how we fit into it,” Isaacson says.

A Japanese immigrant named Gijiu Kitazawa started his seed company in 1917 in San Jose, California. A century later, it's still in business — but it wasn't always easy.

For two days, chefs who are HIV-positive set up a pop-up restaurant in Toronto to dispel ignorance about people with the disease. The idea was hatched after a survey found that nearly half of Canadians would not eat a meal prepared by someone who's HIV-positive.

Taylor Mac isn’t your typical drag performer. For one thing, Taylor made a 24-hour revue of American pop music that goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

The author was at the end of her summer break when Hurricane Katrina struck her hometown of Delisle, Mississippi.

Turkish shoppers at the popular store, Zara, were recently surprised when some of the clothing came with tags that read, "I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn't get paid for it."

Annie Baker writes plays that are full of awkward silences. Is that why some people love them, while others walk out?

The Social Credit System will be implemented in 2020.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping would focus on stopping "the lethal flow of poisonous drugs in our countries and our communities." Much of that trading is facilitated through the dark web.

Like you’re crashing a party you weren't invited to.

Robert Mugabe has run Zimbabwe for 37 years. He's 93 and his young wife, Grace, is now positioning herself as successor. She’s known as “Gucci Grace.”

As identity politics continues to play out in Catalonia — between Catalans who want independence from Spain and a government that wants to keep it part of Spain — we hear from the band Txarango.

South Korea sent a provocative message to Japan and the US by inviting a former "comfort woman" to a state dinner with President Donald Trump.

In 2000, American poet Jennifer Kronovet began taking Yiddish classes for just one reason: to translate Yiddish poetry into English.

The regulations come at a complicated time for would-be travelers to Cuba. In September, the State Department issued an advisory against travel there in light of apparent acoustic assaults against staffers from the US Embassy in Havana.

Is there a way to prevent mass shootings like the one in Sutherland Springs, Texas? Let's start by treating violence like a disease, says Dr. Gary Slutkin.

Climate change isn’t expected to feature during President Donald Trump’s trip to China. But his meeting with President Xi Jinping does hold symbolic significance as a summit of old and new leadership on climate change.

Trump administration deciding fate of those allowed in years ago due to war, natural disasters.

On Saturday night Saudi Arabia defended its capital by blowing an incoming missile out of the sky. The missile came from neighboring Yemen. But Saudi media blame Iran.

The power plant is being built just 12 miles from the border from Lithuania.

Saad Hariri, who became prime minister for the second time less than a year ago in a government of national unity, cited the dominance of Lebanon by Iran and its ally Hezbollah and threats to his life as being behind his decision to resign.

Ahmet Ustunel lost his sight because of eye cancer when he was a child, but that never kept him away from the water.

Sam Hyde has been accused of being behind mass shootings in California, Florida and now Texas. Not by authorities, but by people on social media.

A former employee raised the alarm about bots and spam accounts originating in Russia and Ukraine, but says nothing happened.