An unfinished apartment construction site in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Nov. 2, 2023. Work has stopped because Israel has suspended work permits for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR for NPR hide caption
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A man reacts as he sits near the gate to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the south of the Gaza Strip on November 3, 2023. Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People walk down the narrow streets of the Al-Am'ari refugee camp in Ramallah in the West Bank on Oct. 31, 2023. Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR for NPR hide caption
Ido Dan, an uncle to three children feared abducted by Hamas and taken to Gaza, stands for a portrait with his twin daughters. The remnants of their sixth birthday party, which took place the same day as the incursion, are still around the house. Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for NPR hide caption
Families of hostages taken by Hamas militants are desperate amid threats of execution
Hundreds of people sleep in tents each day outside Bajo Chiquito, the first village that migrants encounter in Panama after making the grueling trek across the Darién jungle. Manuel Rueda hide caption
A record 400K migrants have crossed the treacherous Darién jungle to reach the U.S.
Farmer Wilbert van der Post is worried that the Dutch government's new nitrogen reduction rules will force him, a fourth-generation farmer, out of business. He plans to vote for the Farmer-Citizens Movement, known in the Netherlands by its acronym, BBB, on election day in November. Rob Schmitz/NPR hide caption
In the Netherlands, a farmers party taps into widespread discontent with government
Leaders pose for a group photo at the G77+China summit in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Fifth from left is U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres standing next to Raul Castro and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
Politics took center stage at a gathering of 77 developing nations in Cuba
Newspapers with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police, are seen in Tehran, Sept. 18, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters hide caption
In Iran, women's resistance defies state clampdown a year after Mahsa Amini's death
Bahrain human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja flashes the V-sign for "Victory" after she was released from detention on September 18, 2014, in the city of Muharraq, north of capital Manama. Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The family of a jailed Bahrain activist says he has resumed a hunger strike
In an joint press conference with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi stressed the need for additional support from other countries in the effort to address the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rich countries have to look beyond their own borders, says U.N. high commissioner
A couple in a motorcycle ride in front of a billboard with a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at Ministry of Family Economy in Managua, Nicaragua. Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
A rare look into Nicaragua, a country that shuts itself off to journalists
A team from NPR's Morning Edition visited makeshift refugee homes in Camp Adré, Chad, near the border with Sudan. HJ Mai/NPR hide caption
Border strategy that gives more migrants a legal pathway to the U.S. to go on trial
Russia and India are landing close to the moon's south pole. Researchers believe water ice hidden in craters could one day supply lunar colonies with vital resources. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Russia and India are landing on the moon next week. Here's what you need to know
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko speaks in April during a hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee concerning the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sopko says the U.S. also needs to keep an eye on the billions of dollars provided to Ukraine. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Corruption in Afghanistan offers lessons for billions going to Ukraine
Volunteers from the Marine Mammal Center release California sea lions Quly (L) and Togozees (R) back to their ocean home at Rodeo Beach in Marin County, California, on August 4, 2023. Bill Hunnewell/Giancarlo Rulli hide caption
Hundreds of seals and sea lions are treated each year at the Marine Mammal Center
Shafi Amani and his daughter, Yousra, 3, in Alexandria, Va., on Aug. 3, 2023. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
How one Afghan family made the perilous journey across the U.S.-Mexico border
Climate change is pushing young people in Honduras to leave farming and migrate
A man inspects damage as he walks through the rubble by a destroyed car outside a house that was hit by an artillery shell in the Azhari district in the south of Khartoum on June 6, 2023. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The conflict in Sudan enters its fourth month with no sign of a peaceful resolution
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, right, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday after a joint press conference at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Key takeaways from this week's NATO summit, according to the group's leader
A member of a Ukrainian mobile air defense team scans the sky near the southern port city of Odesa for an incoming Russian attack. Using a mix of old Soviet and new Western air defense systems, Ukraine shoots down the vast majority of Russian missiles and drones and has managed to keep Russia's much larger air force from achieving air superiority. Michael Shtekel / Media Center Ukraine hide caption
To protect against Russian airstrikes, Ukraine's defenders 'shoot and scoot'
Mahsa Amini peers out from a mural by Rodrigo Pradel that covers an entire building side in a Washington, D.C. alley. Amini's death in police custody in Iran last year led to protests and a revolutionary movement. Rodrigo Pradel hide caption