Parallels
Many Stories, One World
Activist group Solidarity with Repeal holds a rally calling for abortion rights outside Belfast City Hall last week in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The rally follows Ireland's vote to repeal a constitutional ban on abortion. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images hide caption
Ireland Voted To Allow Abortion. But It's Still Strictly Banned In Northern Ireland
Protesters demonstrate outside the prime minister's office in Amman late on June 2, as security forces stand on alert. Khalil Mazraawi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Jordan's Prime Minister Resigns Amid Protests Against Austerity
Saudi women wait for their drivers outside a hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
In a secret room located in Florence's church of San Lorenzo the walls are covered in drawings believed to be the work of Michelangelo and his disciples. Claudio Giovannini/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
This Room Is Thought To Have Been Michelangelo's Secret Hideaway And Drawing Board
A view of the luxury Frontier Tower Hotel, built near the ski resort on a Swat Valley peak. Residents often describe their region as the Switzerland of Pakistan because of these views. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
Once Ruled By Taliban, Residents Of Pakistan's Swat Valley Say Army Should Leave
North Koreans watched a video screen in Pyongyang showing Korean Central Television news presenter Ri Chun Hee as she announced that the country had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on Sept. 3, 2017. Kim Won-Jin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
What Summit? On North Korean TV, The News Is All About Rice Farming
A road sign on Hamburg's Max-Brauer-Allee warns motorists that older diesel vehicles are banned from using this stretch of road. Hamburg is the first German city to ban older diesel vehicles. Daniel Bockwoldt/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Could A Diesel Ban In Hamburg, Germany, Cause More Pollution? Some Residents Worry
U.S. and South Korean soldiers sit inside an amphibious vehicle during an annual joint military landing exercise in Pohang, on South Korea's southeast coast, in March 2016. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
An Israeli draped in the national flag walks past an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Jerusalem's Old City on May 13, as Israelis marked Jerusalem Day. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A market on the Strand, a main thoroughfare in Sittwe. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption
'Deeply Disturbing' Conditions For Rohingya In Myanmar, And Those Yet To Return
A man flies the French tricolor flag over crowds marching to the Arc de Triomphe during the Paris students' strike. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption
In France, The Protests Of May 1968 Reverberate Today — And Still Divide The French
U.S. troops wearing new sheep-lined coats march in downtown Vladivostok in November 1918. Robert L. Eichelberger/Rubenstein Library, Duke University hide caption
In Russia, Scant Traces And Negative Memories Of A Century-Old U.S. Intervention
Jewelry shops in Riyadh could be among the businesses to feel the strain after a government edict to replace foreign workers with Saudi ones. Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Saudi Arabian Businesses Struggle With Rule To Replace Foreign Workers With Locals
Italy's designated Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses the media after meeting with President Sergio Mattarella on Sunday in Rome. Conte abandoned efforts to form a government after Mattarella refused to accept his cabinet lineup. Alessandra Benedett/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in speaks during a news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Sunday. He met with Kim Jong Un on Saturday. Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
South Korea's Moon: Kim Jong Un Still Committed To Denuclearization
In this photo provided by the Iraqi government, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (right) and Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a press conference in Baghdad on May 20. Sadr's coalition won the largest number of seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections. AP hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting with Russian and French business people during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. Dmitry Lovetsky/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
In this photo taken and released Friday by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, a Taiwanese Air Force fighter aircraft (left) flies near a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force bomber. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said this week that the island will step up security to respond to military threats from China. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense via AP hide caption
Taiwan Loses 2 More Allies To China And Scrambles Jets To Track Chinese Bomber Drills
People crowd into a church in the town of Henganofi in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea for a meeting to end violence resulting from sorcery accusations. In the Eastern Highlands, the accusation of sorcery is a vigilante's rallying cry. Nationally, it's believed to be responsible for dozens of deaths every year. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
In Papua New Guinea's Sorcery Wars, A Peacemaker Takes On Her Toughest Case
Indonesians from different religious groups take part in a joint prayer for the victims of a bomb attack on a church in Surabaya earlier this month. Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Thousands of abortion-rights opponents demonstrate in Dublin on March 10. NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption