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Priyanka Gupta | Ecuador | March 12, 2016
It was June 1877 and summer in the Sierra. The dry, Andean wind carried specks of ash that sprinkled down upon the sprawling haciendas and lush swaths of green pastures as hundreds of farm animals grazed at the foot of Cotopaxi, one of the world's highest active volcanoes.
Since the beginning of the year, the majestic snow capped summit,
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Vidya Krishnan | India | March 01, 2016
THE DELHI OFFICE of the controller general of patents, designs and trademarks is situated in the neighbourhood of Dwarka Sector 14, a 45-minute drive from the capital’s centres of power. There is a placid air about the place, and on winter afternoons you’re likely to spot the odd group of junior employees sunning themselves on the
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Armin Rosen | Niger | February 22, 2016
In May 2013, a car bomb detonated near the Somair uranium mine in Arlit, in northern Niger, killing one person. Moments earlier, in Agadez, some 150 miles south, Al Qaeda-affiliated militants waged an assault on Nigerien army positions that killed over 20 people.
That same year, Niger’s two uranium mines produced
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Lucy Kafanov | Myanmar | February 01, 2016
As Aung San Suu Kyi's party assumes control of Myanmar's parliament Monday and ends more than half a century of military rule, who will lead the government and what its priorities will be remain shrouded in secrecy. Video: Bloomberg
After more than five decades of isolation and repressive military rule, Myanmar on Monday swore in hundreds of
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Frederick Bernas | Ecuador | January 28, 2016
On the final day of March 2014, President Rafael Correa was blinking away tears on live television. Extreme close-ups showed the bombastic leader struggling to suppress emotion as he listened to student Daniela Armijo thank him for creating “the hope of a new Ecuador.”
But Armijo was not just any student. And this was not a run-of-the-mill political event.