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NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews veteran Andrew Slater and former Iraqi interpreter Nawaf Ashur about why they, along with other American military veterans and refugees, are visiting members of Congress to talk about the travel and refugee ban.

President Trump's offer of refugee status to economically privileged white South Africans has enraged some people in that nation. NPR gets more reaction from South Africans on the issue.

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Mahamat Djouma is one of the millions displaced by the civil war in Sudan. He is part of an especially vulnerable group — unaccompanied minors. Here is his story.

Trump's previous executive order caused chaos at airports and inspired protests and dozens of lawsuits. The new version omits Iraq, doesn't apply to existing visas and isn't in effect immediately.

Israel is severing ties with the main United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians. With the focus largely on Gaza, the move also threatens key services in the occupied West Bank.

Research shows people are more likely to label an attack as terrorism if the perpetrator is Muslim. Terrorist attacks committed by Muslims receive more coverage than those not committed by Muslims.

Daniel talks with NPR's Maria Hinojosa, who covered the economic and refugee crises in Cuba six months ago and returned to the island recently to find significant changes in both Cuba's economy and mood. State-sanctioned farmers' markets are flourishing, food is plentiful and Cubans appear upbeat, Hinojosa says. But with the Castro dictatorship still in power, these changes have no legal protection.

Danny speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb in London about the wrapup today of a 40 nation conference on how to rebuild Bosnia. The meeting set into motion the machinery to deal with such issues as refugee resettlement and finance. Overshadowing the event was a French threat to "hit" the Bosnian Serbs if the Serbs don't return two French flyers who were shot down in a NATO mission last summer.

The heart of Iraq's refugee crisis lies in the country's north, where the Yazidi people, a religious minority, are fleeing the approach of Islamic State militants.