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VIDEO: A 10-year-old coding prodigy in Silicon Valley has been coding since age 6, and now he has created two new board games to teach other kids to code.

VIDEO: This week on Plugged In: A tale of two African countries: Mozambique struggles to recover from the worst cyclone to hit the region in recent memory and Rwanda remembers the victims of genocide. How is the international community responding to the disaster in Mozambique? Has Rwanda set aside divisions that led to the deaths of more than 800,000 people?

The crisis in Venezuela is causing divisions between the Trump administration and EU governments, which have failed to back Washington’s call for tougher sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro.

Small, independent bookstores in neighborhoods across the United States are places to discover new books and make new friendships. But about 20 years ago, they were rapidly closing because of competition from big box chain bookstores and on-line book sales. Then, about 10 years ago, something remarkable happened as indie bookstores came back to life, many thriving and growing every year.

Hungary’s leader, populist Viktor Orbán, will face a serious test of his popularity in May when opposition parties try to coordinate their challenge to his ruling party, Fidesz, in elections for the European parliament.