Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is in New York this week to make the case for lifting sanctions on his country.
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In an interview ahead of this week's U.N. General Assembly, Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR that U.S. sanctions against Iran "will not be able to bring us to our knees."
Stefan Krasowski, co-founder of the Reach For The Miles meetup, stands in front of Krak des Chevaliers in western Syria. The war-torn country was the last one that Krasowski, who has since turned 40, had yet to visit.
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Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is in New York this week to make the case for lifting sanctions on his country.
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A coal-fired power plant in central Poland. Global greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2018, and the world is on track for potentially catastrophic climate change in the coming decades.
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