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Danilo Andres, 60, outside his home in Lahaina. The fire jumped his home and a surrounding cluster. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Their house miraculously survived the wildfire, but no longer feels like home

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Eduard Skoryk (center) helps lift Viktor Nesterov onto an evacuation train. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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A Ukrainian rescue worker's memories are on pause as he evacuates people

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Friday

Shaimaa Ali Ahmed, 12, lost her leg at age 6 after happening upon an unexploded rocket. Yemeni children like her bear an outsized burden from the civil war, where land mines and ordnance litter the landscape. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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She's 12. A rocket took her leg. She defines the pain and resilience of Yemen

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Tuesday

Yuriy Kopishynskyi stands with a horse at his family's horseback riding school on Khortytsia, an island on the Dnipro River just outside Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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The Cossacks' traditions live on near the front lines in Ukraine

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Saturday

Victoria Amelina stands next to a cherry tree in the backyard of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children's book author, where he buried his diary of living under Russian occupation in Kapytolivka before he was killed. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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She saved the diary of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russia. Then she was killed, too

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Friday

Patrons at a club in Kharkiv hold sparklers in the darkened room in eastern Ukraine. Despite the ongoing war, people are still finding a way release tension in nightclubs in the the battered city. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Abdullah Saif Ahmed Numan and his grandson, Mohammad, stand in the building where they live in Al Dawah neighborhood of Taiz, Yemen. The neighborhood is on the front line of a divided city in Yemen's civil war. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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A front-line city in Yemen is desperate for change after nearly a decade of civil war

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Wednesday

Pipes direct water into an irrigation project held by the University of California. After a few decades of not enough water California water officials are scrambling to catch as much of this year's floodwaters as they can. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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In California's Central Valley, a long-disappeared lake has been resurrected. A power line dangles precariously over the edge of the water now filling the Tulare Lake Basin, and a building on the horizon is caught in the middle of the flood. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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California's epic snowpack is melting. Here's what to expect

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Friday

People view fields of flowers at Carrizo Plain National Monument, California's largest remaining grassland. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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California's destructively wet winter has a bright side. You'll want to see it

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A high-rise building in Kharkiv's Saltivka district, once home to at least 400,000 people, is damaged from shelling during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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This Ukrainian widower's superpower is repairing the home he shared with his wife

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Wednesday

Left: Daniel Bizyayev and his family now live in a suburban neighborhood about an hour north of New York City. Center: Bohdan Semenukha and his mom, Viktoria, look at photos from before the Russian invasion. Right: Sofiia Kuzmina and her family live on the 10th floor in Kharkiv. When the power is out, they have to climb the stairs. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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How the war in Ukraine has forever changed the children in one kindergarten class

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Monday

Viktor and Liubov Lada in the kitchen of their new apartment. The couple was at home when their previous apartment was hit by Russian artillery. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Ukraine's elderly often remain behind; here's how they've survived a year of war

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Thursday

Soldiers spend time swimming in the pool during the course. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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A rehab center revives traumatized Ukrainian troops before their return to battle

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Sunday

A howitzer is fired at a training area in the Volyn region. Ukraine is using this region, quiet for the moment, to train troops for the front line in the east. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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On the border with Belarus, Ukrainian troops prep for a long war — and the front line

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Monday

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A view inside what was the dome of the historic Habib-i Najjar Mosque in Antakya. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Turkey's Antakya is in ruins after the quake, erasing cultural and religious heritage

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Friday

Displaced people from eastern Ukraine spill out of a train station in Lviv, in western Ukraine, last March. At this point, more than 2 million people had fled the country as a result of Russia's invasion. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Wednesday

Employees box up baklava for customers at Imam Cagdas in Gaziantep, Turkey. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Baklava took a break in Turkey's pastry capital after the earthquake. Now it's back

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An empty baby cart in a maternity hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Ukraine's birth rate was already dangerously low. Then war broke out

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