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Immigrants account for about one-quarter of all residents in Postville, Iowa. VOA takes a stroll through the mid-western town, which is home to Orthodox Jews, Mexicans, Guatemalans and Somalis. That’s a whole lot of diversity in a state where most small towns are 98 percent white. Here’s how mixing it up has transformed the community.

VIDEO: The Iran nuclear deal, Paris climate accord, and US re-engagement with Cuba, were all signature foreign policy initiatives of former president Barack Obama. And they’re all coming under fire from President Donald Trump, who seems intent on dismantling key parts of Obama’s foreign policy legacy.

A mobile phone company is helping Chinese police monitor the movements of migrants on a real-time basis in Guiyang city. It’s the latest example of how China uses big data — blocks of data — to keep the government informed about the debts, earnings, economic and social behaviors of its residents.

A multi-cultural London neighborhood has been rocked by the news that three residents from the community carried out Saturday’s terror attacks. A resident in east London’s Barking district tells VOA that all faiths live in harmony there. But many Muslims fear a backlash amid growing questions about how the extremists were able to operate without being detected.

‘When a new Japanese soldier would come, they raped all three of us.’ In a new documentary, three of the 200,000 girls and young women across Asia who were imprisoned in Japanese military-run brothels and forced into prostitution during World War II, offer painful testimony about the wartime atrocities they suffered. They’re among the last surviving so-called ‘comfort women’ still searching for some kind of justice after all they endured.