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President Obama has scrapped the Cold War-era US arms embargo against Vietnam.

Some Swiss workers fear automation will reduce the number of jobs for people. On June 5, voters in Switzerland will decide whether to give every adult citizen $2,600 per month. For free. The idea of a guaranteed basic income has been tried before, and places around the world are considering it now.

Coral reefs around the world are under threat. Acidifying oceans due to the rise of CO2 associated with global warming; the El Niño weather system, which has led to massive die-off and bleaching of corals in parts of the Pacific Ocean. And closer to home, commerce also threatens coral: a recent port expansion may have caused serious damage to the reef off of Miami, Florida.

A recent study has thrown new light on the many threats that face the iconic Monarch butterfly and its multi-generational migration from Mexico to the US and Canada and back.

Moroccan cities and desert locales have served as stand-ins for many movies actually set in other Middle East countries. But some in Morocco would like their country to play itself more often on the big screen

Renewable energy may have remarkable cost advantages in the long-term, compared with fossil fuels.

The steep decline in the North American Monarch butterfly population has won this beautiful and popular creature its day in court.

When a CBS news correspondent filmed US Marines setting fire to Vietnamese homes with Zippo lighters, America was stunned.

In 1914, a shipload of would-be immigrants from India were roughly handled and turned away. Canada's government of the time wanted to keep the country white. Finally, a prime minister has acknowledged Canada was wrong on the record.

One of Scotland's most prestigious golf courses has been told it can no longer host the Open Championship after it voted to keep its ban on women.

Some of Eddie Palmieri's earliest fans were members of the violent anti-government group, the Weather Underground.

A call from a potential donor to an international NGO working on access to clean water proved a turning point for both the group and a fight in the US.

Luis says that, out of the 15 closest friends he's had over his lifetime, only three remain in the country.

The past is present in any society; it shapes a sense of identity, purpose and possibility. President Obama, in visiting Hiroshima, attempts to bridge divided memories of old enemies who are now close allies, recognizing the power of respect and remembrance.

Who knew so many paid "likes' came from this nation? Without enough good jobs, liking things on Facebook could actually bring in a fair amount of money, and give people working part-time a bit of freedom.

President Barack Obama will touch down in Hanoi on Sunday. He’s just the third US president to visit since the end of the Vietnam War. This woman escaped that war — and found out that it’s never too late to heal.

For a transgender man and woman, everyday life in North Carolina has become more complicated. They live with real fear when they use a public restroom.

A chaplain quits the US Army in a very public way, with a letter to President Obama.

Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls, has been found in a forest carrying her 4-month-old daughter. She is the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago and today she met with Nigeria's president.

A young Moroccan woman rides Greyhound buses across America to meet people, share her culture and break down stereotypes. She often takes the conversations into people's homes and gets a free place to stay for the night. Now she's turning her ways into a business.

A leading politician has been asked to resign after an investigation into sexual harassment, and the incident may be a tipping point for a culture that has not attacked harassment as strongly as others.

"Heroes aren't born. They're imported."

Desperation with a life in limbo led to clashes between migrants and refugees at an unofficial camp in Idomeni, Greece. Journalist Jodi Hilton is in Idomeni. Here are her images.

Magdi Hanna grew up in Egypt, but when he moved here, he found a calling.

Jihadis accuse Suhaib Webb of being too Western. Islamophobes charge him with fomenting religious hatred. The message of the blond, blue-eyed former hip-hop DJ from Oklahoma City: We can coexist.

Qualifications: Must love sheep.

"I don't deny the hypothesis of a terrorist attack or something technical. It is too early," says Egypt's aviation minister.

No longer just programming, artificial intelligence allows machines to solve problems on their own.

Last year, a US airstrike killed 42 people at a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. A new report suggests that tensions between Afghan forces and Doctors Without Borders may have helped cause the tragedy.

Deborah Smith only started to learn Korean six years ago. But she proved a quick study. Her translation of Han Kang's book "The Vegetarian" just won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.

There are about two dozen specialized high schools in the US that create separate spaces for immigrant students. But some critics say these schools are a form of segregation.

There's only so much time to campaign for office. And only so much money to pay for it. So, candidates need to know: What's the most cost-effective way to win votes?

France is in the grip of some pretty serious unrest. Workers and anarchists are protesting a new labor law that makes it easier for employers to hire and fire. It’s been going on for two months and some schoolkids now accept unrest and clouds of tear gas as normal.

CoCo Avenue is well-known to fans in LA's Koreatown. But Jenny Lyric and Jenna Rose are not Korean American; they're African American. And the duo are currently in Korea, wowing the crowds with their own brand of K-pop.

The urban population is swelling, as government aid becomes increasingly hard to find and the price of housing climbs up and up.

Leonard Tshitenge grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo eating food from the region. But, now living in the US, the dishes he remembers aren't served anywhere. So he and his wife, who is from Nigeria, decided to teach Americans how to eat like they did back home.

Banking in a failed state is a risky business. In Libya, it's hard to figure out who to trust.

The Orlando City FC needs to finance a stadium. So the sports team is using a little known program to lure foreign investment.

Many Hong Kongers see Zhang Dejiang's trip as the latest example of mainland China encroaching on the island's freedom.

A hundred years ago conscientious objectors who refused to take part in World War I scratched messages of protest and pictures into the walls of Richmond Castle, where they were imprisoned. Over the years the walls have been crumbling away, but now they are to be saved as part of a conservation project.

As publishers and dissidents get snatched up after angering Beijing, fear and fury become the new normal.

Inspired by the nonviolent activism of iconic social reformist Mahatma Gandhi, the activists from a group called 5th Pillar are addressing the problem of corrupt officials, one bribe at a time. The key? An innovative tool called the Zero Rupee note. This blatantly false, oversized purple bill, complete with Gandhi's portrait, is handed to any officials who ask for a bribe in order to shame them into changing their behavior.

Venezuela's continuing struggles with economic malaise and the low price of oil are spilling out in the open with serious consequences — babies dying, consumer product shortages and a national leader being threatened with ouster.

Here's why Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is advocating on behalf of Syrian refugees.

Chicken scratches on the wall mark the number of days one Syrian has spent in a camp that is home to 10,000 of the 54,000 refugees in Greece.

The world is facing an unprecedented displacement of people fleeing conflict, economic hardship and persecution. Many of the displaced are children, and a new report says that half of all child refugees are not able to go to school.

Canada's Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has been in the hot seat recently for saying she needs more help to fulfill her duties.

A hundred years ago, two men made a new map for the Middle East. The impact of that decision still reverberates.

In Portland, Oregon, the Somali community is more mixed than in many other cities in the US. Careful not to leave one part of the culture out, the city now offers a program featuring two Somali languages.