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Candles and flowers surround an image of Debanhi Escobar during a protest over her disappearance and other similar cases at the Attorney General's office in Mexico City on Friday.

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13 days after Debanhi Escobar disappeared near Monterrey, her body has been found

8:48am April 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

The case made headlines because of a haunting photo taken by a driver who was supposed to take her home on April 8. Killings of women have increased in Mexico, rising to 1,015 cases last year.

Masks are just one protective measure for these airline passengers arriving in Shanghai from Paris.

The mask mandate is off for U.S. travelers. In other countries it's definitely on

6:05pm April 22, 2022

by Kamala Thiagarajan

In China, for example, not only are masks required on planes but gloves are recommended — and passengers are urged not to touch their face during the flight. Here's what you'll find around the globe.

Supreme Court allows exclusion of Puerto Rican residents from disability benefits

4:28pm April 21, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can exclude residents of Puerto Rico from a federal program that aids low-income elderly and disabled people.

On Nov. 1, 2021, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández delivers his national statement during day two of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Ex-Honduran President Hernández will be extradited to the U.S. on drugs charges

7:48am April 21, 2022

A plane from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is scheduled to arrive in Honduras early Thursday to take former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the U.S. to face drug and weapons charges.

U.S. and Cuba to sit down to talk migration

5:36pm April 20, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Officials from the U.S. and Cuba are talking as migration from the island increases.

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Volunteers unload food aid in Chena, Ethiopia, one of many parts of the world where conflict has fueled hunger.

Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to 'Black and white lives'?

5:52pm April 18, 2022

by Nurith Aizenman

That's what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization and others ask in the wake of the outpouring of money to help Ukrainian victims of the war amid record levels of global hunger.

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How a Brazilian priest got his city to pay attention to its unhoused citizens' needs

4:45pm April 18, 2022

by Philip Reeves

A Brazilian priest has made the mega-city of São Paulo pay attention to its homeless population's needs.

Ukrainian children are being separated from extended family at the U.S.-Mexico border

4:26pm April 18, 2022

by Adrian Florido

Ukrainian refugees arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are enjoying expedited admission to the U.S. But children who arrive with family other than their parents are still being separated and detained.

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Members of the all-female skate crew ImillaSkate in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The athletes wear polleras, skirts traditionally worn by Bolivia's indigenous Aymara and Quechua women, when they skate at tournaments. "Many girls who see us skating feel proud to s

PHOTOS: How this Bolivian all-female skate crew is celebrating their indigenous roots

1:59pm April 17, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

The young women skateboard while wearing polleras, colorful, layered skirts worn by their country's indigenous Aymara and Quechua women. They want to show girls and women it's OK to be themselves.

A woman and a man ride in a vintage car as hot air balloons float behind them in the region of Cappadocia, Turkey.

Sony photo awards: Computers on horseback, magnificent mountains, bathing elephants

3:28pm April 16, 2022

by Jennifer Swanson

The 2022 Sony World Photography Award-winners include a photo of a man in Argentina transporting computers on horseback and twin sisters at a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar.