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OscarBCastillo1 Inside Venezuela’s Prison Underworld
Behind bars, a vibrant community of barber shops, DJs, and churches thrives. But the gangs in charge also ensure a consistent flow of drugs and cash.
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BOONE, NC - JULY 29 Ginseng plants belonging to Travis Cornett are photographed on Cornett's land in Boone, North Carolina on July 29, 2016. (Photo by Jacob Biba for Foreign Policy) China’s Gold Rush in the Hills of Appalachia
Buyers in Hong Kong and Beijing are paying top dollar for wild American ginseng, fueling a digging frenzy that could decimate the revered root for good.
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bamford_Top_2 Every Move You Make
Over eight years, President Barack Obama has created the most intrusive surveillance apparatus in the world. To what end?
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IZMIR, TURKEY - JULY 31: People gather during a protest against July 15 failed military coup attempt at Konak Square in Izmir, Turkey on July 31, 2016. Turkish officials accuse U.S.-based Turkish citizen Fetullah Gulen plotting to overthrow the government of President Erdogan as the culmination of a long running campaign to infiltrate Turkish institutions including the military, the police and the judiciary. (Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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78 - Manifa Oilfield_E_SW_V1 The Breathtaking Beauty of Our Planet’s Destruction
From 30,000 feet, the human stain of oil fields, coal mines, and bleached coral reefs looks almost otherworldly.
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FRANCE-ATTACKS-MOSQUE How to Stop a Martyr
France is rolling out an experimental center to deradicalize homegrown extremists. The problem is no one really knows how to stop a terrorist before he picks up a gun.
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A Colombian police officer stands next to a Metro bus burned by criminal gang members in Belen neighborhood, Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on April 1, 2016, during a 24-hour strike enforced by the criminal gang 'Los Urabenos' to the commercial activity and the transport system in different Colombian regions. 'Los Urabeños' handed out pamphlets threatening to kill anyone daring to defy their call to strike. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP / RAUL ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images) Colombia’s War Just Ended. A New Wave of Violence Is Beginning.
As the country declares peace after five decades of war against the FARC, a scramble for territory and control over the drug trade is emboldening new, anarchic gangs.
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Afghan rapper band 143 performs to mark Human Rights week at the French Cultural Center in Kabul on December 9, 2013. The Taliban, who banned all kind of arts as sinful under sharia law while they were in power between 1996 and 2001, are now waging an insurgency against the Western-backed government. AFP PHOTO/Aref KARIMI (Photo credit should read Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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Cover_3 In Pursuit of the African Dream
Two brothers risked everything for a better future thousands of miles from home. Their crushing story of failure reveals a continent’s broken immigration system.
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_A6A6018-copy The Rescuers
Twenty miles off the Libyan coast, a scrappy band of volunteers is saving thousands of lives, locked in a standoff with smugglers on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) The Greatest Divorce in the Jihadi World
Al Qaeda wasn’t about to take ISIS’s defection from its ranks lying down. In Part III of an exclusive series, an Islamic State insider describes the events that led to civil war within the anti-Assad ranks.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) How the Islamic State Seized a Chemical Weapons Stockpile
When jihadists captured a Syrian military base, they found a cache of some of the world’s most dangerous weapons buried in its bunkers. In Part II of an exclusive series, an Islamic State member explains how they eventually fell into the hands of the self-styled “caliphate.”
