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    Undocumented and on Patrol in Texas

    Fort Worth police are partnering with the immigrants President Trump is threatening to deport — and they don’t intend to stop.

  • Supporters of Kenya's opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader, Raila Odinga celebrate in the streets of Mathare slum in Nairobi on Sepetember 1, 2017. x
Kenya's Supreme Court ordered a new presidential election after annulling the results of last month's poll in a shock decision in favour of the opposition. Joyous celebrations erupted outside the court and in Nairobi slums after the second term victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared "invalid, null and void".
 / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA        (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
    Supporters of Kenya's opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader, Raila Odinga celebrate in the streets of Mathare slum in Nairobi on Sepetember 1, 2017. x Kenya's Supreme Court ordered a new presidential election after annulling the results of last month's poll in a shock decision in favour of the opposition. Joyous celebrations erupted outside the court and in Nairobi slums after the second term victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared "invalid, null and void". / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

    In Unprecedented Reversal, Kenya’s Top Court Throws Out Election Result

    International observers were quick to endorse the results of last month's presidential election. Now they're facing uncomfortable questions.

  • GOTEMBA, JAPAN - AUGUST 24:  A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Type 74 battle tank fires ammunition during a live-fire exercise at the foot of Mount Fuji in the Hataoka district of the East Fuji Maneuver Area  on August 24, 2017 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. The four-day annual live-fire drill takes place amid rising tensions between North Korean and United States.  (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
    GOTEMBA, JAPAN - AUGUST 24: A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Type 74 battle tank fires ammunition during a live-fire exercise at the foot of Mount Fuji in the Hataoka district of the East Fuji Maneuver Area on August 24, 2017 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. The four-day annual live-fire drill takes place amid rising tensions between North Korean and United States. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

    Japan’s Empty Menu of Options to Stop North Korea

    Hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems to have few choices save strong words of condemnation for the Kim regime’s missile tests. But he’s working the long game.

  • Protesters face Indonesian riot police as they move to break up a gathering outside the Indonesian High Court building in Jakarta on May 12, 2017, to demand the release of Jakarta's governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama better known as "Ahok". 
Jakarta's Christian governor was jailed for two years after being found guilty of blasphemy, in a shock decision that has stoked concerns over rising religious intolerance in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. / AFP PHOTO / GOH CHAI HIN        (Photo credit should read GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images)
    Protesters face Indonesian riot police as they move to break up a gathering outside the Indonesian High Court building in Jakarta on May 12, 2017, to demand the release of Jakarta's governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama better known as "Ahok". Jakarta's Christian governor was jailed for two years after being found guilty of blasphemy, in a shock decision that has stoked concerns over rising religious intolerance in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. / AFP PHOTO / GOH CHAI HIN (Photo credit should read GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images)

    Ghosts of Pogroms Past Haunt Indonesia

    After the jailing of Jakarta's former governor, Chinese Indonesians are caught between age-old prejudice and fears of a rising China.

  • A protesting resident pushes a tyre  - past a sign on the road calling for peace in Swahili -  to add to a burning barricade on a road in Kibera Slum in Nairobi on August 9, 2017, as he takes part with others in protests in the Raila Odinga-led opposition alliance National Super Alliance (NASA) stronhhold in the Kenyan capital following the announcement of national election results. 
Police engaged in running battles with a few hundred protesters in Odinga's bastion Kisumu in western Kenya, firing tear gas as his supporters set tyres alight as burning barricades also went up in Nairobi's Mathare slum as ballots from 94 percent of polling stations counted showed Kenyatta leading with 54.4 percent of the over 14 million ballots tallied against Odinga's 44.7 percent.  / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA        (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
    A protesting resident pushes a tyre - past a sign on the road calling for peace in Swahili - to add to a burning barricade on a road in Kibera Slum in Nairobi on August 9, 2017, as he takes part with others in protests in the Raila Odinga-led opposition alliance National Super Alliance (NASA) stronhhold in the Kenyan capital following the announcement of national election results. Police engaged in running battles with a few hundred protesters in Odinga's bastion Kisumu in western Kenya, firing tear gas as his supporters set tyres alight as burning barricades also went up in Nairobi's Mathare slum as ballots from 94 percent of polling stations counted showed Kenyatta leading with 54.4 percent of the over 14 million ballots tallied against Odinga's 44.7 percent. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Opposition Claims Kenya’s Election Was Hacked, Fueling Fears of Unrest

    Preliminary results show incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta winning easily. But the opposition has rejected the results, raising the specter of post-election violence.

  • South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks during the funeral ceremony of South African former president Nelson Mandela in Qunu on December 15, 2013. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95.  AFP PHOTO / POOL / ODD ANDERSEN        (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)
    South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks during the funeral ceremony of South African former president Nelson Mandela in Qunu on December 15, 2013. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ODD ANDERSEN (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

    Will the Party of Nelson Mandela Die So That Jacob Zuma Can Live?

    South Africa’s Teflon president has survived six attempts on his political life. Even if he survives a seventh, the damage to Africa’s most storied liberation movement is done.

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    Scenes From Central Asia’s Forever War

    In Kyrgyzstan’s Fergana Valley, ethnic strife, corruption, and poverty collide in the country’s ongoing fight against extremism.

  • Incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame dances onstage after addresses supporters at the closing rally of the presidential campaign in Kigali on August 2, 2017.
Rwandans go the polls on August 4, 2017 in a presidential election in which strongman Paul Kagame is widely expected to cruise to a third term in office. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI        (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame dances onstage after addresses supporters at the closing rally of the presidential campaign in Kigali on August 2, 2017. Rwandans go the polls on August 4, 2017 in a presidential election in which strongman Paul Kagame is widely expected to cruise to a third term in office. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Even Critics of Rwanda’s Government Are Helping Paul Kagame Stay in Power

    For every problem highlighted by local journalists, Rwanda’s strongman can present himself as the solution.

  • Supporters of Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front party and incumbent president Edgar Lungu cheer during his presidential campaign's closing rally on Aug. 10, 2016 in Lusaka. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)
    Supporters of Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front party and incumbent president Edgar Lungu cheer during his presidential campaign's closing rally on Aug. 10, 2016 in Lusaka. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)

    How to Gut a Democracy in Two Years

    Zambia went from a free and stable country to a dictatorship overnight. I covered it for the country’s only independent newspaper — until the government shut it down.

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