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August 14, 2026: MIDDLE EAST

Afghanistan Marks 5 Years Under the Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.

August 14, 2026: WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT

A Punishing European Drought Shrivels Crops from Dutch Potatoes to Bosnian Corn

WOLPHAARTSDIJK, Netherlands (AP) – A cloud of dust billows behind Maarten Janse’s tractor as he spreads a mixture of compost, straw and manure over a field to nourish the parched soil.

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August 2026

Aug 14 Middle East Afghanistan Marks 5 Years Under the Taliban

Aug 14 Weather & Environment A Punishing European Drought Shrivels Crops from Dutch Potatoes to Bosnian Corn

Aug 12 Americas As Blackouts Stretch for Days, Life in Cuba Revolves Around Small Bursts of Electricity

Aug 11 Geopolitics Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Have Signed a Key Defense Agreement

Aug 11 Science & Technology Brazil Uses Forensic Science to Trace Gold’s Origin and Tackle Illegal Mining in the Amazon

Aug 5 Health Issues The Fastest-Growing Ebola Outbreak Is Worsening Hunger in Eastern Congo, UN Warns

Aug 5 Analysis Analysis: How Iran Is Widening Its Pressure Campaign to Force U.S. Concessions

July 2026

Jul 30 International The U.S. and Iran Trade Missile Barrages as Hopes Dim for a Quick Resolution

Jul 28 Weather & Environment Water Hauling Is the New Chore No Rancher Asked For

Jul 22 Europe Ukraine Overhauls Its Military Top Brass for the Fight Against Russia

Jul 1 Analysis Analysis: Russia Pounds on the Gates of Ukraine’s ‘Fortress Belt’

June 2026

Jun 26 Religion Solving the Mystery of Melchizedek

Jun 26 International The Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations

Jun 26 Society & Lifestyles Deadlier Than Fentanyl: Weapons-Grade Carfentanil Surges

Jun 22 Analysis Iran Fallout: A Global Hunger Crisis?

Jun 19 Science & Technology Why Artemis II United Us

Jun 19 Science & Technology How to Vet Health Advice on Social Media

Jun 15 Americas Once Beset by Power Outages, Puerto Ricans Now Hit with Severe Water Shortages

Jun 11 Geopolitics Analysis: North Korea, China Claim Wins from Xi Visit, But Limits Remain

May 2026

May 28 Analysis Analysis: ‘Breakneck’ Ebola Epidemic in Congo Outpaces World’s Response

May 22 Geopolitics Europe Faces a Ukrainian Drone Problem as Kyiv Targets Russian Oil Exports

May 22 Weather & Environment Kansas Farmers Hit Hard by Weather Extremes and Growing Costs, Wheat Crop Could Be Worst Since 1972

May 22 Middle East In Iran’s Capital, Weapons Demonstrations Send a Signal at Home and Abroad as Threat of War Remains

May 15 Education Kids Are in a ‘Reading Recession,’ as Test Scores Continue to Decline

May 13 Analysis Mali at Risk of Splintering After Jihadi and Separatist Attacks

May 12 Weather & Environment Invasive Plant Threatens Livelihoods in Colombia’s Largest Coastal Wetland

May 5 Weather & Environment A Gold-Fueled Mining Rush Scars Brazil’s Amazon, Spiking Deforestation and Mercury Risks

May 1 Science & Technology Hezbollah Adopts a New Weapon: Fiber-Optic Drones, Used Widely in the War in Ukraine

April 2026

Apr 29 Education College Students Are Searching for ‘AI-Proof’ Majors. But No One Knows What They Are

Apr 28 Americas Years of Drought Has Major Energy Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, Wrestling with Water Crisis

Apr 28 Religion Original Sin: What Does the Bible Really Teach?

Apr 27 Religion Did the New Testament Make All Meats Clean?

Apr 24 Americas America at 250: Why the Nation Was Inevitable

Apr 23 Americas Trump Administration Reclassifies Medical Marijuana as a Less-Dangerous Drug in Historic Shift

Apr 23 Science & Technology More Countries Are Turning to Nuclear Power 40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster

Apr 23 Science & Technology Russia’s Internet Crackdown Leads to a Spring of Growing Discontent

Apr 22 Geopolitics Foreign Intervention: Why Nations Cannot Fix Each Other

Apr 21 Middle East Driven by the Pressures of War, Iran Gives Its Field Commanders More Power over Militias in Iraq

Apr 21 Society & Lifestyles Weapons-Grade Chemical Carfentanil Surges as Dangerous Substitute for Fentanyl

Apr 10 Analysis Gaza Marks 6 Months of a Ceasefire That May Offer Lessons for the Iran War

Apr 6 International Aid Groups Warn Iran War Is Hindering Food and Medicine from Reaching Millions

March 2026

Mar 27 Weather & Environment The War in Iran Sparks a Global Fertilizer Shortage and Threatens Food Prices

Mar 27 Analysis Analysis: War Between Hezbollah and Israel Deepens Fractures in Lebanon

Mar 20 Americas Airport Screeners Quitting Instead of Working Without Pay Poses a Longer-Term Problem For TSA

Mar 20 Economy & Personal Finance How the Iran War and Surging Oil Prices Are Affecting Consumers at the Gas Pump and Beyond

Mar 20 Science & Technology ‘Great Crackdown’: Russia Tightens the Screws on the Internet

Mar 17 Americas Islandwide Blackout Hits Cuba as It Struggles with Deepening Energy Crisis

Mar 13 Education Post-Pandemic, U.S. Kids Still Struggle with Reading

February 2026

Feb 26 Holidays Jesus Kept Passover. Why Does Christianity Keep Easter Instead?

Feb 25 Society & Lifestyles A ‘Missing Piece’: Friendship in a Disconnected Age

Feb 25 Society & Lifestyles Sports Betting: The High Cost of Fast Money

Feb 24 Analysis ‘There Are Things Never to Be Done’—Yet Humanity Does Them Anyway

Feb 23 Science & Technology Social Media Companies Face Legal Reckoning Over Mental Health Harms to Children

Feb 20 Europe Life Is Harsh and Dangerous in Russian-run Parts of Ukraine, Activists and Former Residents Say

Feb 20 Asia In Cambodia, Thousands Flood Out of Scam Compounds and Find Little Help

Feb 20 Americas Ecuador Prison Deaths Climb Again Despite President’s Security Strategy

Feb 6 International Egypt’s Drone Deployment to Border Raises Stakes in Sudan’s Civil War

Feb 6 Africa In a Nigerian Village, Extremists Issued a Call to Prayer and Then Slaughtered Those Who Turned Up

Feb 4 Geopolitics The Last U.S.-Russian Nuclear Pact Is About to Expire, Ending a Half-Century of Arms Control

Feb 2 Africa Sudanese Paramilitary Force Abducting Children in Darfur, Witnesses Say

January 2026

Jan 30 Asia Syrian Government, Kurds Agree to International Deal in ‘Historic Milestone’

Jan 8 Geopolitics China and Japan, Uneasy Neighbors in East Asia, Are at Odds Again

Jan 7 Americas Their Homes Survived the Historic LA Area Wildfires. A Year Later, They Fear Living in Them

Jan 2 International President Trump Threatens Iran Over Protest Crackdown as Deadly Unrest Flares

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