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March 24, 2023: ANALYSIS

World Bank Puts Cost of Rebuilding Ukraine at $411 Billion

WASHINGTON (AP) – A World Bank report released Wednesday puts the cost of Ukraine’s recovery and rebuilding from Russia’s invasion at $411 billion over the next decade, with the cost of cleaning up the war rubble alone at $5 billion.

March 23, 2023: AFRICA

Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead in Somalia Drought Last Year

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia’s longest drought on record last year and half of them were likely children under 5 years old.

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Mar 24 Analysis World Bank Puts Cost of Rebuilding Ukraine at $411 Billion

Mar 23 Africa Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead in Somalia Drought Last Year

Mar 22 Health Issues Superbug Fungus Cases Rose Dramatically During Pandemic

Mar 22 Geopolitics China and Russia: A Long, Complicated Friendship

Mar 21 Weather & Environment UN: Months After Pakistan Floods, Millions Lack Safe Water

Mar 20 Africa A Week On, Brutal Cyclone Freddy Still Taxes Southern Africa

Mar 17 Asia Time and Money for Love: China Brainstorms Ways to Boost Birth Rate

Mar 17 Americas Canada Immigration: Why Record Asylum Seekers are Crossing Border from U.S.

Mar 17 Weather & Environment Brazilian Researchers Find ‘Terrifying’ Plastic Rocks on Remote Island

Mar 15 Crime & Punishment FBI: Hate Crimes Showed Another Alarming Rise in 2021

Mar 14 Education Many Kids Need Tutoring Help. Only a Small Fraction Get It.

Mar 14 Health Issues Exodus of Healthcare Workers from Poor Countries Worsening, WHO Says

Mar 13 Americas Sexual Assault Reports Increase at U.S. Military Academies

Mar 10 Asia What Is Happening at Fukushima Plant 12 Years After Meltdown?

Mar 10 Geopolitics Iran, Saudi Arabia Agree to Resume Ties, with China’s Help

Mar 9 Weather & Environment Plastic Entering Oceans Could Nearly Triple by 2040 if Left Unchecked: Research

Mar 8 Health Issues Malnutrition Rises in Pregnant Women in 12 At-risk Countries

Mar 7 Geopolitics Taliban’s Persecution of Women Could Be ‘Crime Against Humanity’: UN Report

Mar 6 Asia China Proffers ‘Peaceful Reunification,’ Taiwan Says Respect Our Democracy

Mar 3 Middle East How Deep Are Egypt’s Economic Troubles?

Mar 3 Middle East Turkey Faces Challenge ‘Almost Beyond Comprehension’ to Clear Earthquake Rubble

Mar 2 Weather & Environment Soils of War: The Toxic Legacy for Ukraine’s Breadbasket

Mar 2 Weather & Environment Plastic Consumption on Course to Nearly Double by 2050: Research

February 2023

Feb 28 Asia As China’s Birth Rate Slumps, Political Advisor Urges Egg Freezing for Single Women

Feb 24 Americas Record 6,542 Guns Intercepted at U.S. Airport Security in 2022

Feb 24 Europe Word War: In Russia-Ukraine War, Information Became a Weapon

Feb 24 Analysis Analysis: Hasty Rebuild Could Leave Turkey at Risk of Another Quake Disaster

Feb 23 Africa Nigerian Cash Crisis Brings Pain: ‘Everything is Just Tough’

Feb 22 Asia Fears, Questions Build About N. Korea’s Growing Nuclear Arsenal

Feb 21 Geopolitics Russia Suspends Only Remaining Major Nuclear Treaty with U.S.

Feb 21 Health Issues Bird Flu Spreads to New Countries, Threatens Non-stop “War” on Poultry

Feb 20 Weather & Environment In Argentina’s Drought-hit Fields, Billion Dollar Losses and Farmers Going Under

Feb 20 Geopolitics President Biden Promises New Military Aid for Kyiv During ‘Historic’ Visit

Feb 16 Health Issues Teen Girls Seeing ‘Dramatic’ Rise in Poor Mental Health: U.S. CDC

Feb 15 Weather & Environment Disease the New Threat as Turkey Faces Post-quake Water Shortage

Feb 15 Geopolitics Philippines, U.S. to Hold Biggest War Games in Years

Feb 13 Religion Church of England Votes to Allow Blessings for Same-sex Couples

Feb 10 Europe Russia Strikes Ukrainian Power Grid and Gains Ground in the East

Feb 9 Europe EU Migration Impasse Leaves Many Refugees Out in the Cold

Feb 8 Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is ‘New Epicenter’ of Extremism, Says UN

Feb 7 Analysis Explainer: Why Was the Turkey-Syria Earthquake So Bad?

Feb 7 Weather & Environment Chile Battles Deadliest Wildfires on Record as Heatwave Grips

Feb 6 Weather & Environment Powerful Quake Rocks Turkey and Syria, Kills More Than 2,600

Feb 3 Religion Psychedelic Churches in U.S. Push Boundaries of Religion

Feb 3 Americas Corruption Rife Across Latin America; Guatemala, Nicaragua Reach All-time Lows: Report

Feb 3 Africa Explainer: Why Has Peace Eluded South Sudan?

Feb 2 Asia North Korea Says U.S. Drills Threaten to Turn Region into ‘Critical War Zone’

Feb 1 International U.S. Accuses Russia of Endangering Nuclear Arms Control Treaty

Feb 1 Europe Day of Disruption in UK as Hundreds of Thousands Join Strike

January 2023

Jan 31 Asia Myanmar, 2 Years After Army Ousted Suu Kyi

Jan 27 Weather & Environment Florida Manatees Dying Off at an Alarming Rate, Experts Say

Jan 27 Crime & Punishment Report: Half of U.S. Mass Attacks Sparked by Personal, Workplace Disputes

Jan 27 Asia FAO: Rising Prices, Food Insecurity Add to Ranks of Hungry

Jan 26 International ‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves to 90 Seconds to Midnight as Nuclear Threat Rises

Jan 25 Americas Fatigue and Despair Build as California Copes with Massacres

Jan 24 Weather & Environment As ‘Skyglow’ Grows, New Study Documents Glaring Global Light Pollution

Jan 23 Geopolitics Explainer: Tensions High Over Isolated Azerbaijan Region

Jan 20 Weather & Environment U.S. Government Sends $930 Million to Curb ‘Crisis’ of Wildfires in West

Jan 20 Europe France: Over 1 Million March Against Raising Retirement Age

Jan 20 Asia Study: Non-infectious Diseases Cause Early Death in Pakistan

Jan 19 Economy & Personal Finance Explainer: A Looming U.S. Debt Ceiling Fight is Starting to Worry Investors

Jan 18 Europe Ukraine Helicopter Crash Kills Interior Minister in Kyiv as Fighting Rages On in East

Jan 17 Americas What Is the U.S. Title 42 Immigration Policy and Why Is It Expanding?

Jan 16 Economy & Personal Finance Household Wealth Optimism Collapses, Global Survey Shows

Jan 13 Asia China Set for Historic Demographic Turn, Accelerated by COVID Traumas

Jan 13 Americas Explainer: Peru Protests: What Is Behind the Violence?

Jan 12 Weather & Environment Explainer: Why Weeks of Rain in California Will Not End Historic Drought

Jan 11 Economy & Personal Finance World Bank: Recession a Looming Threat for Global Economy

Jan 11 Americas U.S. Study: One Year of Road Crashes Cost Society $340 Billion

Jan 10 Europe Europe Has Avoided Energy Collapse. But Is the Crisis Over?

Jan 9 Asia China Holds Large-scale Joint Strike Drills Aimed at Taiwan

Jan 5 Health Issues As Legal Pot Grows, More Kids Sickened by Edibles at Home

Jan 4 Asia North Korea’s Kim Orders ‘Exponential’ Expansion of Nuke Arsenal

Jan 3 Religion Benedict Leaves German Homeland with Complicated Legacy

Latest News

March 24, 2023

World Bank Puts Cost of Rebuilding Ukraine at $411 Billion

March 23, 2023

Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead in Somalia Drought Last Year

March 22, 2023

Superbug Fungus Cases Rose Dramatically During Pandemic
China and Russia: A Long, Complicated Friendship

March 21, 2023

UN: Months After Pakistan Floods, Millions Lack Safe Water

March 20, 2023

A Week On, Brutal Cyclone Freddy Still Taxes Southern Africa

March 17, 2023

Time and Money for Love: China Brainstorms Ways to Boost Birth Rate
Canada Immigration: Why Record Asylum Seekers are Crossing Border from U.S.
Brazilian Researchers Find ‘Terrifying’ Plastic Rocks on Remote Island

March 15, 2023

FBI: Hate Crimes Showed Another Alarming Rise in 2021

March 14, 2023

Many Kids Need Tutoring Help. Only a Small Fraction Get It.
Exodus of Healthcare Workers from Poor Countries Worsening, WHO Says

March 13, 2023

Sexual Assault Reports Increase at U.S. Military Academies

March 10, 2023

What Is Happening at Fukushima Plant 12 Years After Meltdown?
Iran, Saudi Arabia Agree to Resume Ties, with China’s Help

March 9, 2023

Plastic Entering Oceans Could Nearly Triple by 2040 if Left Unchecked: Research

March 8, 2023

Malnutrition Rises in Pregnant Women in 12 At-risk Countries

March 7, 2023

Taliban’s Persecution of Women Could Be ‘Crime Against Humanity’: UN Report

March 6, 2023

China Proffers ‘Peaceful Reunification,’ Taiwan Says Respect Our Democracy

March 3, 2023

How Deep Are Egypt’s Economic Troubles?

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