Under Taliban rule, Afghan girls are officially barred from receiving an education beyond the sixth grade. Across the country, however, clandestine classrooms have emerged to defy the ban. Our Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief, Elian Peltier, visited one of these covert schools to meet the young women determined to learn.

Our correspondent Anupreeta Das witnessed the rescue operation following the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet, in which a torrent of debris and water carried away entire villages in just minutes.

Our correspondent Emma Bubola travels to northwest Patagonia, the epicenter of an oil boom that Argentina hopes will revolutionize its economy.

Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never heard of. After a hunger strike, Mosquera obtained a phone and talked with Nicholas Casey of The New York Times Magazine to share what is happening there.