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Tuesday
Ivana Likbiri, an 18-month-old Lebanese baby who got injured during an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, is hospitalized at Geitaoui Hospital's burn unit, in Beirut, on Oct. 18. Ali Khara for NPR hide caption
Saturday
Dr. Richard Cash devoted much of his life to improving health care in poor countries. He played a critical role in the testing and implementation of oral rehydration therapy for patients suffering from diarrheal diseases — giving them a mixture of water, salts and sugar. Discussing this intervention, he said, "Simple doesn't mean second class." Kent Dayton hide caption
Friday
The "Pink Wheels" team in the Pakistani town of Gujranwala consists of female officers who ride pink scooters to respond to complaints from women about domestic violence and sexual assault. The officers stand in front of the "Women's Enclave," a new kind of police station, staffed by women and intended for women who want to file such complaints. At right is Tayyiba Hameed, 32, who is on the staff of the Women's Enclave. Veengas hide caption
Wednesday
Garment workers in Bangladesh protest for better working conditions. Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Bangladesh's garment workers impacted by Western buyers paying 10% less for clothes
This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles funestus mosquito. James Gathany/AP/CDC hide caption
Tuesday
An aerial photograph from 2023 of the Rusayo camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have found refuge around Goma after fleeing fighting further north. Two new reports document a 'staggering' increase in rapes over the past year. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Monday
Stephen Nzioka works on his farm in Miu, Machakos County, Kenya. A changing climate took a toll on his harvests — until a weekly text message gave him insights into the week's weather and the best farming strategies. Khadija Farah for NPR hide caption
Friday
Toyin Salami of Lagos, Nigeria, with her 4-year-old daughter, Kudirat. Her husband, Saheed, tends to two of their other children. "It's hard to get food, let alone nutritious food," she says. Sope Adelaja for NPR hide caption
Thursday
From left: Emma Rady Wanroy and Hannah Johns, who were each adopted from China by U.S. parents. Wanroy, who has become a therapist specializing in working with other adoptees, cautions against narratives that adoption is a happy ending: "Adoptees have all these dangling questions that hang above them that we don't really get answered ever." Johns, raised in Texas after being found on a street corner in eastern China, says, "I can be grateful, and I can have a great, great relationship with my parents. But I can also still be critical of the systems that caused my adoption." From left: Emma Rady Wanroy; Hannah Johns hide caption
China ends transnational adoptions -- some adoptees say they're relieved
Wednesday
Abrar Saleh Ali, 17, arrived at the Milé refugee camp in Eastern Chad in early September, after the civil war in Sudan destroyed her home and she was separated from her family. (Her dad had died earlier from an illness.) It took months for her to walk across the country and reach the camp. Along the way she was robbed of all her belongings and found out that her sister had been killed. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Tuesday
Sister Rosita Milesi is the global laureate of the 2024 Nansen Refugee Award. She calls the honor "a recognition of all the people who helped me, who participated in my journey — especially the refugees that I had the opportunity to assist and accompany and who have always taught me lessons of hope and faith that fueled my own journey." Marina Calderon/UNHCR hide caption
Monday
A young child is restrained before receiving a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sept. 4 during the first round of a massive polio vaccination campaign led by the United Nations. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Left: A woman in Chad has spent 13 days at a malnutrition clinic seeking treatment for her 15-month-old child. Right: Flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Florida. Claire Harbage/NPR; Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
This Diwali Barbie was released on Oct. 4 — and has already sold out on Mattel's website. Does the doll reflect a different view of beauty, as Mattel claims — an Indian view?
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