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Oleksandr, a 45-year-old Ukrainian soldier of the 1st Separate Assault Battalion Da Vinci, who left his unit without permission and later returned to the army, poses for a portrait in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on Dec. 12.

WORLD / Society

Dec 30, 2024

Desertions spark panic, and pardons, in Ukraine's army

By Jonathan BROWN

More than 90,000 cases have been opened into instances of soldiers in Ukraine going absent without leave or deserting since Russia invaded in 2022.

Spanish Red Cross members hold children after a boat with 57 migrants onboard arrived at La Restinga port on the Canary island of El Hierro, on Sept. 14.

WORLD / Society

Dec 27, 2024

Record number of migrants lost at sea were bound for Spain in 2024: NGO

By Daniel Silva

An average of 30 people died per day while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2024, up from around 18 in 2023.

Internally displaced Syrians from eastern Ghouta queue for food in a Damascus countryside in April 2018.

WORLD / Society

Dec 24, 2024

Global hunger crisis deepens as major nations skimp on aid

By Jaimi Dowdell, Kaylee Kang, Benjamin Lesser and Raymon Troncoso

The United Nations says that, at best, it will be able to raise enough money to help about 60% of the 307 million people it predicts will need humanitarian aid next year.

Migrants seeking asylum gather near the border wall between the United States and Mexico after crossing a razor wire fence deployed to inhibit their crossing, as a member of the Texas National Guard escorts them on Dec. 19.

WORLD / Society

Dec 23, 2024

'Bless Donald Trump': Human smugglers cash in

By Diana Baptista and Benjamin Alfaro

"Coyotes," as they are known, are banking on a pickup in trade due to the president-elect's campaign promise to crack down on migrants once he takes office.

People mourn over the graves of relatives who were killed after gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in the Kurram tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Shalozan, Pakistan, on Nov. 22.

WORLD / Society

Dec 23, 2024

Terrorism roars back in Pakistan, 10 years after a campaign to end it

By Zia ur-Rehman

Violence has surged in northwestern Pakistan in the past few years, which experts attribute to the Taliban’s 2021 seizure of power in neighboring Afghanistan.

People walk through Vilnius, Lithuania, on Dec. 17. Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia.

WORLD / Society

Dec 22, 2024

A cultural casualty of the war in Ukraine: ‘The Nutcracker’

By Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross

Many in the art world oppose banning works on the basis of their nationality, believing that culture has the power to unite and should not be contaminated by politics.

An Afghan midwife prepares a report in the nursery section at a private hospital in Kabul on Dec. 10. The Taliban's supreme leader is reportedly behind a ban on women studying midwifery and nursing at training institutes across the country, already among the worst in the world for deaths in childbirth.

WORLD / Society

Dec 16, 2024

Afghan student nurses crushed as Taliban block last hopes of a job

By Bahaar Joya

Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have barred women from university and most jobs, and imposed tight restrictions on their lives.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A man offers prayers at Hebikubo Shrine in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. The shrine is one of several across the country dedicated to the snake.

Shed your skin and reinvent yourself in the Year of the Snake

By Kathryn Wortley

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