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For generations, young Americans have abandoned rural areas for city life, but some are staying put and moderating the conservative positions of their elders, while staying skeptical of big-city politics. As part of our series Off the Highway – voices from small town and rural America, we speak with these millennials who are bucking the trend.

Turkey was once considered the model of an open, secular democracy in the Muslim world. But the line between religion and state is becoming blurred in a country that’s long been viewed as a bridge between East and West. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is riding a wave of domestic conservatism and tipping his country toward more authoritarian rule.

About 100 Somali children fleeing from al-Shabab have ended up in the coastal town of Adale. Authorities say al-Shabab recruits kids as young as nine to fights its battles. Local families are taking in the unaccompanied children, who have nowhere else to go.

The world’s only stateless former president has turned up in Poland, where he risks being extradited to Georgia, where he was once viewed as a hero, but now faces criminal charges that he insists are politically motivated. Former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who was recently stripped of his adoptive Ukrainian citizenship, tells VOA’s Georgian service about life as a man without a country.

A statue of a Chinese god that marshals people against war is the subject of a battle in Indonesia. Protesters claim the representation of the Confucian deity doesn’t represent Indonesian culture and they want it demolished.

How do you truly redress the wrongs done to victims of genocide? For Cambodians, the wheels of justice churn very slowly. In 2007, five top Khmer Rouge figures were arrested and charged with war crimes against humanity, but court proceedings moved very slowly. While international justice can be a lengthy and expensive proposition, it can serve as an important warning to those in power.