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Saudi Arabia plans to invest in Blackstone's fund to update infrastructure in the US — but ultimately, they're both looking for projects that will make them money.

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday extended Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians in the United States. The program will continue to benefit Haitians for six months.

A group of Venezuelan medical students started volunteering to provide first aid at protests in 2014. Now, their help is needed more than ever.

A group of Venezuelan medical students started volunteering to provide first aid at protests in 2014. Now, their help is needed more than ever.

The Asian giant is opening its first overseas military base, in Djibouti. Pay attention to this theme: China’s future foreign military bases will almost certainly begin as appendages to commercial ports.

Meet the Queen of African Rap — Keko. And she has quite the story to tell.

"The sunglasses will hide your fear." That's the advice Halimot was given by her aunt — a boss in the booming sex-trafficking industry between Nigeria and Europe.

Donald Trump gets a lot of attention for what he says and how he says it. Try putting all those quips and tweets through a Russian language filter and seeing what comes out.

In 2017, the level of ambition to tackle the threat of global warming — or even to accept scientific consensus about it — seems to have evaporated in Washington.

The discovery of novel, man-made minerals lends weight to the notion that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man.

Even before Scott Pruitt was sworn in as EPA administrator, conservation groups had a litany of complaints. Now, some conservatives are also expressing displeasure with his performance.

The internet is flooded with comments and critiques of Alex Tizon’s explosive essay in The Atlantic. Here’s a primer on the conversation.

"He hoovers his food. He’s not someone who really enjoys the pleasure of the table," says Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema.

Listening to trees can reveal the connections between us and nature, one biologist writes.

Boko Haram hasn't given up, but it's on the ropes after a push by the Nigerian military last year, and vigilance by regional peacekeepers. Also countering their influence is a regional shortwave radio network, Dandal Kura Radio International, started just over a year ago, as the world's first network to broadcast in Kanuri — the language spoken by 10 million people in the region, and by most members of Boko Haram. Anyone with a cellphone can call in and share information and ideas. This plus news, current affairs, radio dramas and other programming has started to help counter Boko Haram's power to attract, and is helping a bruised and fractured region move toward a less fraught future.

President Trump is using his first trip abroad to touch base with three major religious centers — in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem and Vatican City.

Scandal, secret tapes, obstruction of justice, talk of impeachment — not in Washington, this time we’re talking about Brazil. President Michel Temer says he will not resign.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a 68-year-old moderate cleric who spearheaded a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, has framed the vote as a choice between greater civil liberties and "extremism."

We feature a unique selection of music on The World. Here are a few of the artists we've played recently.

She was forced to work in a sweatshop — now she runs her own shop and helps other women avoid being trafficked.

Kinda Haddad is one of a group of eight people who work daily to document civilian deaths from airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.

It's clear now that Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the US were working on creating a secret back channel between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin specifically designed to bypass the intelligence community.

Today, the practice of apprehending immigrants and holding them in custody has created a shadow prison system, complete with hundreds of federal and private facilities throughout the country.

Dave McNeer spread Donald Trump’s message in Iowa. Here’s what "Make America Great Again" means to him.

In a poor region of western China, hundreds of thousands of people are being relocated in the face of climate change.

Little over eight months since they impeached their last president, now Brazil's Michel Temer is facing demands for impeachment and new elections amid a scandal around alleged illicit payments to a jailed politician.

The killing of a high-profile reporter, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, has sparked outrage throughout the country.

In an interview with The World, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff says, "Everyone is asking quite rightly, 'Where does this all lead?'"

Israeli intelligence officials have told BuzzFeed News that their "worst fears" are coming true. They are furious with President Donald Trump over his sharing of classified intelligence to the Russians.

For 21 years, the Dutch king has flown twice a month as co-pilot without passengers knowing.

Did the Trump leaks to Russian officials damage US intelligence relationships?

Russia never expected Donald Trump to become president, but Russian leaders are probably benefiting from the ups and downs that have filled the president's first months in office.

Presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood side by side at the White House on Tuesday and promised to work through strained ties despite the Turkish leader's stern warning about Washington's arming of a Kurdish militia.

A project underway in Washington, DC, is helping to protect habitats for struggling songbirds coming up from the Caribbean and Latin America. And children whose families come from the same regions as the birds are helping out.

Identity, integration and Islam were critical issues in the Dutch spring elections in the Netherlands. At the heart of the debate was who belongs in the Netherlands.

President Trump "probably out of ignorance or disinterest" told visiting Russians intelligence that "was not ours to share," says a former CIA and NSA chief.

The migrant death rate on the Mediterranean is so far triple that of last year.

What security measures can users take against cyberattacks? And in the event of a successful ransomware intrusion, should users pay for their data?

The malicious "ransomware" virus that first emerged on Friday has left Russians wondering why the attack had disproportionately targeted their country.

How one community group is helping low-income residents — many of them immigrants — realize their tenant rights.

President Truman is the only man in history to have ordered a nuclear attack, in Japan at the end of World War II.

As the permafrost melts in the arctic town of Iqaliut, people are dealing with problems they never saw coming. What are the Canadian and local governments doing to help?

Whether it's a solid line or a dotted line, it's all politics.

Back in the 1850s, the US military created a Camel Corps for exploring desert territory and expanding the American frontier. That's how Philip Tedro, aka Hadji Ali, aka Hi Jolly, came to the US.

The Obama administration rule gave authority to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to regulate hunting in certain areas of Alaska. Congress wants to return authority to the state. Now a lawsuit is pending.

“There are black cosplayers in Canada, black cosplayers in the United Kingdom, black cosplayers in the Netherlands, and it's just so, so beautiful to look at.”

Mary Webster, believed to be a witch, was hanged by members of her early Massachusetts community, in an act that preceded the Salem witch hysteria of 1692. She survived a long night dangling from a tree and inspired the author Margaret Atwood.