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Cubs of the Caliphate are the children recruited and trained by Islamic State to be the generation that conquers ‘Baghdad, Jerusalem, Mecca and Rome.’ The West and many in the Middle East see the youngsters as the deadly legacy of a murderous group of thugs on the brink of military defeat. The threat posed by the cubs worries de-radicalization experts, who fear Western governments are not giving enough thought to what will happen to the Caliphate’s cubs.

You can’t keep a good (young) Afghan woman down. Members of the Afghan all-girls team who were denied visas to come to the US for a robotics contest aren’t letting that setback deter them. The girls mailed their robot into the competition and plan to watch their creation compete via video link. In Afghanistan, VOA speaks with the talented young women who want to show the world what Afghan girls are capable of.

A new lawsuit brought by 114 Iraqi nationals could have far-reaching consequences for thousands of other foreign nationals in the US. Immigration officials have been detaining the Iraqis without court trials and about 1400 nationwide are facing deportation. At issue is whether these Iraqis deserve to be heard in immigration court before being shipped off to a country where they could face persecution, torture and even death.

You’ve never had teachers like these before. People who want to be the next big thing in tech are enrolling in the Startup School. More than 7,000 tech founders from 140 countries signed up for the California company’s first session. Classes are taught by a who’s who in the tech world, including luminaries who helped launch Slack and Facebook.

VIDEO EXPLAINER: President Trump is in Europe for the G20 summit, which is made up of 20 leading industrial and developing nations. Together, this elite group represents two-thirds of the world’s population and 85% of global GDP. If you’re confused about the purpose of the G20, here’s a little primer.

President Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin happens tomorrow on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Germany. Terrorism, Syria and Ukraine will likely be on the agenda. Few expect Trump to raise the issue of the Russian hacking that US intelligence says was aimed at helping him get elected. How the meeting goes could come down to how the two leaders ‘measure’ up.

It’s not exactly something out of a Hollywood movie, but it should have been. In 1924, 14 bison were brought to Santa Catalina Island off the coast of California to film a movie. The animals didn’t end up being in the film, but they stayed on in Catalina and have been part of the landscape ever since. Now Catalina’s bison finally have a starring role. With the island unable to sustain the growing herds, some of the animals are being sent to Native American reservations in hopes of re-establishing the bison populations on lands they vanished from a century ago.