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‘Unbelievable’ is what refugee Hassan Abduraheem calls his odyssey from a crowded prison cell in Sudan to a fixed-up house on a Virginia farm. The former pastor says he spread the gospel at home, but the Sudanese government threw him in jail after accusing him of espionage. Abduraheem’s life took a sharp turn thanks to a Facebook post and US congressman.

Sex, lies and videotape? Cambodia’s crackdown on independent media takes a sordid turn with the publication of pictures purportedly showing a former Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporter filming and participating in pornographic videos. The photos were posted on two pro-government news websites and editors say they got the revealing images from police.

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Lys Isma was brought illegally to the United States from Haiti as a baby and is now one of almost 60,000 Haitians enjoying Temporary Protected Status, a designation that’s allowed Haitians in the US to legally live and work here after a devastating 2010 earthquake on the island. Estimates suggest Haitian TPS holders have 27,000 children who were born in the US. Now that the Trump administration is ending TPS for Haitians, what happens to people like Isma — and those thousands of new young Haitian Americans?

A decade after Nepal abolished the monarchy, the Himalayan nation votes in new elections to complete the country’s turbulent journey to democracy. The two-phase election is the first to be held under a new constitution that turned Nepal into a federal republic. Voters are choosing a new parliament and legislatures for newly carved-out states. In New Delhi, there is both optimism and skepticism after the political drift of the last 10 years virtually brought Nepal to a standstill.

America’s history of racial inequality is a prevalent theme in Hollywood this season. Director Kathryn Bigelow hopes her film, Detroit, stimulates greater conversation, while George Clooney, directing the dark satire Suburbicon, reminds people that racial tension in America is nothing new.