EditorialDowntown Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, on Feb. 27, 2020. North Macedonia and Albania are the farthest along as full-fledged candidates for European Union membership. (Loulou d'Aki/The New York Times)
EditorialSaidullah Karimi, an orthopedic technician from Afghanistan, demonstrating how the robot Athena functions in Athens, Greece on Aug. 26, 2021. He built it largely out of items he picked out of the trash. (Loulou d'Aki/The New York Times)
EditorialPharmacon employees tend to "mother" plants in the company's cannabis growing and extraction facility in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Feb. 28, 2020. (Loulou d'Aki/The New York Times)