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There's a program in Philadelphia that helps inner-city kids deal with trauma and PTSD. What they teach the children can also help you deal with the tragic news this week.

Julia Nekessa Opoti hosts a radio show in Minneapolis called "Reflections of New Minnesotans." She says some immigrants she hears from on her show say they are reliving traumatic days they thought they had left behind.

Some local legislators are now questioning a successful 2002 ballot measure that curtailed bilingual education in the state.

On a trip to Scotland, Chuck Wexler was struck by the fact that police officers there don't carry guns. He wondered whether the police in the US could do the same. So he took a group of police chiefs on a trip to Scotland to learn more.

“It's war of past and future,” says the 26-year-old head of the customs house in Odessa, Ukraine. “A war against corruption, war against this old way of thinking, war against Soviet heritage, and war for a modern Ukraine.”

Seth Moulton was against the Iraq War but still four tours as a Marine Corps officer. Now a Democrat in Congress, Moulton offers his take on political leadership and war.

Many Salvadorans say they're harassed and worse by heavily armed police patrolling poor neighborhoods. But few dare to use the latest technology to hold security forces accountable.

The 90s series of rock festivals, known as The Tibetan Freedom Concert, was a result of a random encounter between a 23-year-old American activist and Adam Yauch.

The Olympics are a month away and there's real concern about security in Rio. Amnesty International just released an app to help people document gun violence.

There was a dispute over money. But instead of making him pay, they started to troll him.

Reverend Lee Wesley of the Community Bible Baptist Church is part of an interfaith group that’s calling for a broad and transparent investigation into the killing of Alton Sterling.

The 2014 police killing of Alex Nieto, a young Mexican American, sparked lawsuits and street protests, but little else. Artists in San Francisco have kept the case alive through a sold-out play.

Kids growing up in Canada used to grab some old hockey sticks, a tennis ball, and a couple of soda cans to mark out goals in the street, and play. Many Canadian cities now discourage or even ban street hockey as unsafe.

President Nicolas Maduro's government is not pushing for reform — it's continuing with policies that are left over from Hugo Chávez.

She was abducted while running for president in Colombia. Now Ingrid Betancourt sees an end to five decades of war in her country.

Meet C.W. Stoneking — an Australian who has put his own spin on the blues.

Pro-Russian teenagers in eastern Ukraine spend their weekends practicing for war and recruiting peers to their separatist cause.

Christine and Peter Brierley cannot forget the Iraq War, or forgive Tony Blair. The former prime minister lead a war charge that ended up killing their son, Shaun, a lance corporal who died serving in the war in 2003.

A year before he was one of 250 killed in last weekend's Baghdad bombing, Adel Al-Jaf said: "One day I'll leave Iraq and go to a place where people love dancing and they're not fighting it."

Giddes Chalamanda is a legend in Malawi. In one his biggest hits, he sings: "If I had enough money, I would go to America." It's finally happening.

Lesnoe Ozero puts an unusual spin on the traditional camp experience: Everything's done in Russian.

European players make the English Premier League great. There are 332 players in the top two divisions in England and Scotland. But Brexit could change all that, threatening to make the league not so premier.

A disagreement over the health affects of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is leading to confusion and delay in the European Union.

Bengali American Sultana Begum knew the two Emory University students, and one UC-Berkeley student, who were killed by militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She says the Bengali presence at Emory is small, but representative of a diaspora with strong cultural and family ties to Bangladesh. And she worries that the secular quality of their country is being threatened.

ISIS didn't claim responsibility for Monday's bombing near the holy city of Medina, but that didn't stop Muslims from denouncing the group for crossing a line.

Unlike others, the filmmaker stayed in Iran for decades after the 1979 revolution, presenting a human, compassionate side of his homeland.

India has a severe shortage of toilets, something the government of Narendra Modi has pledged to address. Anoop Jain is already working on it. He's an American doctoral student who's building public toilets in one of the poorest states in India.

Dhammananda and her flock of 15 female monks are shunned by the all-male Buddhist hierarchy. But "that’s their problem,” she says.

Aki Kumar left his home in Mumbai to work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. But then, Kumar discovered American blues and everything changed.

When Frank Hessenland joined Germany's Alternative für Deutschland, he saw it as a center-right political party. Then it moved far to the right. Even though he quit the party, he couldn't shake its far-right image.

On Friday, half a dozen young men stormed a cafe in Dhaka and brutally killed 20 people. They were from Bangladesh's elite society, had lived in the best neighborhoods, and were educated in the best schools.

Even without a kitchen in their cramped shelter cubicles, some refugees in Germany are able to cook traditional Middle Eastern delicacies during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The calls of Guillemots and terns and the crash of ocean waves surround two puffins nesting at the Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. It is a remote spot, accessible only by boat, but you can watch the puffins close up via two special bird cams operated by the Audubon Society.

The Iraqi capital is no stranger to violence, but observers say the patience of the people is running out.

Nonviolent struggle played an important role in the founding of the United States. During the colonial era, between 1765 and 1775, there were three major campaigns of nonviolent resistance before war broke out.

Black Lives Matter demonstrators say they were protesting "anti-blackness" with a sit-in that stalled Pride Toronto.

As bigger productions head to the South African city, local actors are seeking out accent coaches and tuning into US soaps in order to sound American.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, has announced his resignation from politics. Farage, who had campaigned for years for Britain to leave the European Union, Farage told reporters today that his "political ambition has been achieved."

The Andean mountains will humble you.

The government of the DRC wants to begin construction on the next phase of its Grand Inga Dam. But no environmental or social impact studies have been done on the massive project, which has raised concerns among conservation groups and local communities.

The University of Massachusetts has decided to divest the five-campus system’s endowment from direct holdings in fossil fuels. Mass President Marty Meehan says student activism and a desire for moral leadership led to the decision.

Researchers have long documented the link between air pollution and respiratory illnesses like asthma, but new research from Sweden suggests that air pollution could also impact our mental health.

What if you could take skin cells and turn them into viable human eggs? Scientists have already done the procedure in mice, turning skin cells into eggs and into sperm. And guess what they raised? Baby mice. So how long before that's the norm for human reproduction, given the rate of technological advancement?

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on your reading — maybe while you're lounging on the beach or waiting in those long TSA lines. PRI’s Science Friday has suggestions for great summer science fiction books to help you escape — and maybe even get you thinking.

Searing drought is causing people to rethink water infrastructure in the Western US, including some of the major dams along the Colorado River.

What can you do to make sure you develop resistance to antibiotics as slowly as possible? Wash your hands.

As the Brexit dust settles, listen to these takes from thoughtful people in Berlin, Dublin and London, about what it all means — for them personally, for their country and for the region. And if you like Beethovan's Ode to Joy, listen to the end.

Residents of a sweltering Iraqi port city lost power — and air conditioning — when three Turkish-owned electric generating ships in the harbor shut off the juice.

With Boris Johnson gone, Conservatives are rallying around no-nonsense Theresa May. But the home secretary might not be the first choice for immigrants.

The deadly attack in Istanbul this week raised questions about security measures and protection at airports across the world.