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Conflict

Praying for peace, preparing for war

View of the Arab-Christian village of Mi'ilya, in northern Israel near the Lebanese border

A history of conflict along Israel's northern border with Lebanon colors life for residents there, be they Jewish, Arab or Druze. Hezbollah and the Israeli Army are two of the major players.

Health

Multi-drug resistant TB rises in Eastern Europe

A doctor examines chest X-rays at a tuberculosis clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, (ddp images/AP Photo/Karin Schermbrucker)

TB, which cannot be cured with conventional drugs, is spreading in Eastern Europe. So far, strategies to fight the disease have shown little success because it is closely linked to poverty and exclusion.

Civil Rights

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Fighting extinction

The Kaiowa of Brazil face an uphill battle in their fight for land against the agriculture lobby.

Religion

A priest climbs the stairs at the Mor Gabriel monastery in Turkey. (Photo credit should read TARIK TINAZAY/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkish Christians

Syriac Christians returning to southeastern Turkey say they are suffering from discrimination.

Turkey

Basketball in Diyarbakir

One man has devoted years to bringing basketball to the kids of Turkey's biggest Kurdish city.

Generation Change: Building bridges

In Berlin, Hagar Levin is helping to deconstruct stereotypes about Israel and the Middle East.

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Israeli border communities prepare for the worst

Helping Europe's forgotten Roma minorities

Tunisian women fight back

Kurdish basketballers on the rebound

North Korean satirist pokes fun at the system
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Polio eradication goals almost achieved

Teachers endangered in Pakistan

Helping Bolivian Coca farmers

Conflict over ancient Christian monastery in Turkey

Drugs

Bolivia breaks the mold in 'war on drugs'

A lady picks coca leaves at a plantation in La Asunta, Bolivia

Instead of ruining farmers' livelihoods by eradicating their coca plots, Bolivia is applying "social control." It's led to a drop in the plant's cultivation in a country the US blames for being a source of illegal drugs.