Pujab

The Punjab provides both a symbolic and practical access point for both India and Pakistan to heal their troubled relationship through the everyday experiences and interests of a people--to find common ground.  View more of Ed Kashi's photo essay from VII here.

Wind Of Changer In Havana

A raft of capitalist reforms from Cuban President Raul Castro is creating something new for many of the island nation's citizens...uncertainty.  Read more from the Wall Street Journal's photo essay.

IDs For India

India hopes to assign each of its 1.2 billion people a unique 12-digit ID number based on digital fingerprints and iris scans, in what many specialists consider the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted.  The sign-up effort is already under way in a handful of districts. In one early registration drive in Nagaram, dozens of people streamed into a government office one recent afternoon to have their fingerprints taken and irises scanned. Sanjit Das/Panos for The Wall Street Journal.

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By David Myers.

An American Civil War

Photo essay by Jeff Antebi.

Birth Pains For Southern Sudan

In three months, Southern Sudan will likely vote to become the world's newest nation. Instead of giddy anticipation, its impoverished tribes are bracing for violent conflict. Read the rest of the story here. Images by Cedric Gerbehaye.

Kashmir

Andy Spyra is a freelance photographer currently based in Germany. He worked for one year as a freelance photographer with a local newspaper in his hometown Hagen before he started to study photography at the Fachhochschule Hannover. In the beginning of 2009, he quit his studies due to both personal and photographic reasons. Since then he has worked as a freelance photographer, focusing on long term in-depth projects of social and political issues worldwide.

Andy first came to Kashmir in the early spring of 2007 at the end of a motorcycle trip across India. He simply fell in love with the region, the people, the light and the atmosphere of this remote place of the world. But as much as he loved it, that much he disliked the political situation of the valley.  View the rest of his photo essay on Kashmir here.

Behind Mugabe's Iron Curtain

A photo essay by Kieran Dodds.

You Support The Troops? Really?

Photo and introduction below by Photojournalist Evan Vucci.  Read the rest of the article here.

Here in southern Afghanistan, I often ask the soldiers what they think about the things folks are saying about the war back home. The question is usually phrased as a simple, "Does the American public get it?"  How can they? The don’t feel the heat, the fear, the flies. Who can understand what it’s like to know the next step may be your last -- unless you’ve been there? Still, it’s a question often on soldiers’ minds.  

Friend Or Foe? In Afghanistan, The Picture Is Unclear

The region around Kandahar city in Afghanistan is the Taliban's birthplace and breeding ground. That makes it a key location in the U.S. military's security efforts. But "securing" a region in which you can hardly distinguish friend from foe is far easier said than done. NPR staff photographer David Gilkey just returned from the region, where he spent time with the 101st Airborne Division. Their mission is two-fold: chase out the Taliban and win the trust of locals...if they can.

Praying For The Rain

Praying For The Rain is duckrabbit’s award winning portrait of one of the many camps housing Kenyans displaced by 2008′s post election violence.

South Sudan At A Crossroad

View the audio slide show narrated by Jeffrey Gettleman here.  Photographs by Jehad Nga.

Power Of One

Malalai Joya, not yet 30, is causing seismic waves in Afghanistan.  The country's youngest member of Parliment, she is lionised by those who love her and demonised by those who fear her.  She has come to epitomize hope for thousands of women worldwide.  Watch the Power of One by Tom Stoddart here.

Borderland

It is real and it is striking. In some places it stands 18 feet tall and looks like the gates of Mordor. In other places, it is barely 10 feet tall and looks like it was put together with a stapler. It runs from the Colorado River directly into the Pacific. It is big, intense and intimidating. And it is unfinished. Gaping holes are everywhere. Physically it’s confusing. Politically it’s puzzling. Ideologically it’s complicated. But for Dick and Ron, who both live within a few miles of the border, defending it is simply a matter of protecting themselves and preserving their own beliefs. Drug smugglers don't come to the United States to make an honest living. As the recent killing of Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas shows, the border is more than a moral line in the sand. The fence is real. We recommend a visit. 

Cannabis Culture

Photographer David Walter Banks explores the legally hazy world of marijuana and its users in this photo essay.