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The bloodshed in Sudan is visible from space

The carnage in the Sudanese city of El Fasher has become so severe that the blood stains can be seen from space.  The paramilitary Rapid Support...

11.11.2025 10

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The best way to help Hurricane Melissa survivors may not be what you think

We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Learn more about how to support our work. Hurricane Melissa plowed through...

30.10.2025 10

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Fast fashion lifted some countries out of poverty. What happens when Americans stop buying?

In the heart of southern India’s centuries-old textile industry, tens of millions of garment workers spin cotton fibers into yarn each year.  They...

24.10.2025 10

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What to do when every crisis needs your $20

Cori Jackson — a single mom living in Indiana — took in her two young nieces to keep them out of foster care this summer. It hasn’t been easy. ...

09.10.2025 4

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The world’s biggest back-to-school crisis

It’s back-to-school season and across the US, the aroma of freshly sharpened pencils, pumpkin spice everything, and ultra-processed pizza lunches is...

10.09.2025 10

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The US stopped showing up to disasters. The results are horrifying.

By the time the earthquake struck, flattening mud-brick homes across Afghanistan’s eastern mountains last week, many nearby health clinics had...

09.09.2025 10

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Botswana’s incredible HIV success story, explained in one chart

Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV...

28.08.2025 5

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This hidden tax will drain billions from the world’s poorest families

Immigrant rights activist Guerline Jozef can’t count the number of frantic texts, calls, and emails she gets daily from Haitians in the United...

22.08.2025 200

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Some countries still want to save the world

If the world has had enough of helping others, then somebody forgot to tell Spain.  Yes, Spain. The same country that, a little more than a decade...

03.08.2025 10

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