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Some from Latin America say Washington has historically imposed "a sort of imperialism" in its funding for global groups that offer family planning advice, including access to abortion.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.

Back in the 1960s, there were fewer than 10 lion dancer troupes participating in the Lunar New Year parade in New York's China. Today it’s more like 40 or 50.

Boston's Allston neighborhood is a hub for the local Russian community. US-Russia relations have been a source of political intrigue this election season. So with the election of Donald Trump, many in Allston are keeping close tabs on the relationship between the US President and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

America's global leadership over the past century hasn't always been perfect, but it's usually been respected. That may be changing under President Trump. But the new US president's words and actions are also mobilizing those who have a different idea of what makes America great, and who don't want to see it disappear.

After some awkward preparations — the White House misspelled Theresa May’s name a few times — the two leaders survived their first big diplomatic moment together.

Philosopher Aaron James deconstructs why a brash style is embraced amidst chaotic politics.

President Donald Trump isn't the only world leader touting "alternative facts."

Fearful of President Donald Trump wiping public scientific data from federal agency websites, US scientists and researchers are saving data to private servers. And the international community is helping.

Anxiety is running high for Syrians in the US after President Trump's proposed refugee ban might prevent family reunifications.

Ekegusii is spoken by about two million Kenyans but has been losing ground to Swahili and English. Now it is taught in some schools, thanks to local language activists assisted by American linguists.

Khatoon Khider used to sing folk songs about the suffering of her people, the Yazidi religious minority. After ISIS overran her hometown in northern Iraq, she put down her tambur instrument and picked up a gun, forming the first all-female Yazidi peshmerga battalion to fight the militant group.

Thae Yong-ho, who fled his post as North Korea's deputy ambassador to Britain in August, says the elite are "turning their backs" on leader Kim Jong-un.

US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will not be meeting this week after another flare up over the proposed wall.

President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to restrict refugees from entering the US and to build a bigger wall along the US-Mexican border. Mexicans broadly condemn the plan and say they'll refuse to pay for it.

The stated goal of this gargantuan project is to keep out undocumented migrants, drugs and criminals.

Jennifer Ditchburn, editor-in-chief of Policy Options, reflects on what it was like for the press in Canada under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Six years, one prime minister and a president later, it seems American journalists will be asked to put up with a lot of things, she says.

Trump gave a conditional go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline and an equally controversial pipeline crossing in North Dakota — both of which had been put on hold by Obama.

On Monday, President Donald Trump reinstated the "Mexico City Policy," which restricts funding for any group that provides or promotes abortion overseas.

As governments across the planet are aligning behind fighting climate change, more than 700 companies are urging President Donald Trump to keep the US heading along the same path.

During the election campaign, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Donald Trump was unfit to be commander in chief. Now that Trump is commander in chief, Gates has offered to help. He has confidence in Trump's team but still has concerns about national security and foreign policy under Trump.

The Autorennationalmannschaft, or "Autonama," competes against literary teams from across the world.

This Iraqi decided to become an English teacher while US troops were stationed in his town south of Mosul. When ISIS took over, they forced him — with death threats — to keep teaching, but to teach their version of facts.

With Barack Obama, "you always wanted to know what the book was next to his bed and what was on his iPod, right?”

Lalo Alcaraz is a proud progressive, and his cartoons are in-your-face. He wants to bridge the divide in America, but not at his own expense.

Is it over, or is it a movement? Here's what march co-chair Linda Sarsour has to say about keeping the momentum going.

More than 750,000 immigrants brought to the US illegally as children won temporary legal status from the Obama administration. Now under President Donald Trump, many are concerned about the future of the DACA program.

“Congratulations, US media! You’ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your trade and everything you hold dear,” says Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev. “Don’t be fooled.”

Zikra Younis aspired to be a radio journalist, even though her husband forbade it. Then ISIS came along.

The Gambia's long-time leader, Yahya Jammeh has finally left the country — but he took millions of dollars worth of stuff with him.

The new president began his first week in office by signing a series of executive orders — including one withdrawing from the vast Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, which aimed to set trade rules for the 21st century and bind US allies against growing Chinese economic clout.

Bill Foster, an Illinois Democrat, talks Cabinet picks and funding for scientific research.

In early human testing, the weakened parasite triggered a human immune response — and no one got sick

What do all those Hs and Ns in the names of flu strains even mean?

Some varieties of influenza infect both pigs and humans. And a new study finds that huge factory hog farms can influence the flu epidemic in nearby communities.

The price of solar photovoltaic panels is going down. That's good for consumers, solar installers — and the environment. But some manufacturers were selling at a loss in December 2016.

Some of the environmental rules and regulations President Donald Trump has said he'll reverse could take years to overturn.

The Women's March on Washington has a predicted headcount of over 200,000 people — set to be the largest US presidential inauguration demonstration in history. But the rallying cry that "women’s rights are human rights" won’t just be heard on the streets of the nation’s capital this weekend.

On any given night in San Francisco, officials estimate there are at least 6,700 people living on the streets. The city is trying to turn it around — as are other California cities struggling with the problem of homelessness.

President Trump's record with Native communities is not good, say the Native activists who came to his inauguration to protest.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week, we put together the highlights for you here.

Despite all the change anticipated in Washington, we should expect continuity when it comes to nuclear weapons policy, says Ambassador Adam Scheinman, who has served as the State Department's special representative to the president for nuclear nonproliferation since 2014.

Travel writer Jessica Nabongo, whose blog post “Countries To Move To If Trump Becomes President” became a hit, is keeping her options open.

China says it'll invest an additional $361 billion in renewable energy projects by 2020, and in the process create 13 million new jobs. The move's in sharp contrast to Donald Trump's promise to reinvigorate the coal industry in the US. Mary Kay Magistad of The World's "Whose Century Is It?" podcast says China seems to have a clearer vision of the future.

In what might be a first, Israeli settler leaders will be attending the inauguration of Donald Trump on Friday. And these settlers see hopeful signs for big changes in US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.

Barack Obama ended the policy of preventing gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers from serving openly in the military. For many, it was too little, too late. But remembering what it did could make our future decisions better.

India was notably absent from the public chorus of support for the Paris agreement after Donald Trump was elected. The silence has worried experts.

Priya Jayaraman, who grew up in India, was always told to keep her head down. "Follow the rules and don't be vocal about politics," is what her parents instructed. Years later in the US, she finding her voice in other ways.

Some 273 people were pardoned or had their sentences commuted on Tuesday by President Barack Obama. One of them was 75-year-old Oscar López Rivera. His supporters from San Juan to Chicago are greeting the news like it was a national holiday.