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Three US military veterans returned home from Afghanistan with more than combat experience. They came back with an idea to make their time in Afghanistan more meaningful by teaming up with some Afghan farmers they met to add a new spice to US life.

A sympathetic police commissioner is the reason why several transgender people in India now have steady jobs at the government-owned railroad. Despite a 2014 Supreme Court ruling recognizing the country’s two million transgenders as the third gender, the community continues to be ostracized. But now that they get up every morning to go to work, at least 23 transgender people in India have reason to feel hopeful about the future.

China’s modern version of its ancient ‘Silk Road’ could bring more than one trillion dollars of infrastructure investment to dozens of countries throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. The ‘One Belt, One Road’ trade routes are supposed to boost the economies of China and the many nations along the routes by making trading easier and cheaper. So far, the project seems to offer major opportunities for Chinese companies, but not so much for outside firms.

A Yazidi woman who was sold several times as a sex slave came to Washington to push for help for the traumatized, displaced Yazidi community in northern Iraq. In an interview with VOA, Shireen Jardo, 25, shares her own remarkable story of torture and survival, and tells how she outsmarted her IS captors to avoid being raped.

There’s a certain kind of tourist that’s easy to pick out in Istanbul. The men with bands around their heads are medical tourists who might do a little sightseeing while they’re in Turkey, but their main reason for visiting is to get affordable hair transplants.

With the 2018 midterm elections coming up, House Republicans are in a tricky situation. The November voting next year determines whether the House’s 239 Republicans get to keep their jobs. As they ramp up their re-election campaigns, the incumbents have to weigh the merits – and the costs – of supporting President Donald Trump.

Students at Stanford University in California don’t hit the books or work on problems in the library for their Hacking for Defense class. Instead, they’re out in the field, tackling real-world problems provided by the Department of Defense and US military, which give them insight into the national security challenges the nation faces.