Maria de los Angeles Tun Burgos with daughters Angela, 12, and Gelmy, 9, in their family home in a Maya village in Yucatán, Mexico. Adriana Zehbrauskas for NPR hide caption
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Flowers representing the 53 countries in the Commonwealth adorn the veil worn by Meghan Markle. Ben Stansall/WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption
A demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark, in support of Syrian migrants. A new study looks at the benefit of offering physical and psychological support to refugees who have been tortured. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
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On May 13, people suspected of having the Ebola virus wait at a treatment center in the village of Bikoro, where the outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. John Bompengo/AP hide caption
A Nigerian sex worker in Italy waits for clients. Antonio Calanni/AP hide caption
Kanye West surprised everyone -- including the U.N. -- by tweeting about the organization's sustainable development goals. Chris Pizzello/AP hide caption
A woman is vaccinated at a health center in Conakry, Guinea, during the clinical trials of a vaccine against the Ebola virus. Cellou Binani /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Dario Garcia, a lawyer in Panama, visits people who are HIV positive to see if they're taking their medications. Garcia himself is HIV positive. "I feel alone," he says. "I believe the most support I have now is from others who have been diagnosed." Jacob McCleland for NPR hide caption
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Families live by a creek in an impoverished neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Stella Nyanzi arrives at the High Court in Kampala, Uganda, in April 2017. She had been jailed for "cyber-harassment" of the president. Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Schoolgirls walk home from school in a rural area in Southern Natal Province, South Africa. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images hide caption
A quarter million Herero are estimated to live in Namibia today, with the population growing in recent years. Harry Hook/Getty Images hide caption
Men walk near the site where the body of an 8-year-old girl who was raped and murdered was found in January. Channi Anand/AP hide caption
This bacterium is the cause of the mystery illness in Liberia. We don't want to give it away ... so you'll have to read the story to find out what it is. BSIP/UIG/Getty Images hide caption
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