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March 1, 2021: ASIA

‘How Many Dead Bodies?’ Asked Myanmar Protester Killed on Bloodiest Day

Reuters – The day before he was killed, internet network engineer Nyi Nyi Aung Htet Naing had posted on Facebook about the increasingly violent military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar.

February 26, 2021: EUROPE

Trash Fills Bosnia River Faster than Workers Can Pull It Out

VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Environmental activists in Bosnia are warning that tons of garbage floating down the Balkan country’s rivers are endangering the local ecosystem and people’s health.

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March 2021

Mar 1 Asia ‘How Many Dead Bodies?’ Asked Myanmar Protester Killed on Bloodiest Day

February 2021

Feb 26 Europe Trash Fills Bosnia River Faster than Workers Can Pull It Out

Feb 26 Society & Lifestyles Research: Eating Refined Grains Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Early Death

Feb 26 Africa Gunmen Abduct 317 Schoolgirls in Increasingly Lawless Northwest Nigeria

Feb 26 Weather & Environment Why Mt. Etna's Latest Eruptions Awe Even Those Who Study Volcanoes

Feb 26 Middle East U.S. Bombs Iran-backed Militia in Syria, Retaliation for Rocket Attack

Feb 25 Middle East Iran Supreme Leader: Will Enrich Uranium to 60 Percent Purity if Needed

Feb 24 Middle East Violence Against Civilians Surges in Afghanistan After Peace Talks: U.N. Report

Feb 24 Americas At Least 160 Confederate Symbols Were Taken Down in 2020

Feb 23 Society & Lifestyles Concern Over Rich-Poor Divide Increases During Pandemic

Feb 23 Africa Italian Ambassador Killed in Attack on Congo Convoy

Feb 22 Asia Myanmar Protests Swell After Junta Raises Specter of Force

Feb 22 Weather & Environment Texas Freeze Led to Release of Tons of Air Pollutants as Refineries Shut

Feb 19 Economy & Personal Finance Analysis: Europe Braces for Pandemic Reality to Hit Banks

Feb 19 Middle East Ten Years After Uprising, Some Bahrainis Still Counting the Cost

Feb 19 International Pandemic Woes Seen Swelling Global Ranks of Child Soldiers

Feb 19 Geopolitics Russia Bets on COVID-19 Weakening the West, Report Says

Feb 18 Science & Technology Q&A: What’s Happening Between Facebook, Google and Australia?

Feb 18 Middle East Iran Says U.S. Move to Seize Oil Shipment Is ‘Act of Piracy’

Feb 17 Middle East As War Rages, Over 2 Million Yemeni Children May Starve in 2021

Feb 16 Science & Technology NASA Rover Faces ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ Before Landing on Mars

Feb 16 Americas On Parkland Anniversary, President Biden Calls for Tougher Gun Laws

Feb 15 Terrorism & Security France Fights Hold of Islamist Radicals with Raids, Laws

Feb 15 Politics After Impeachment Acquittal, Could Donald Trump Still Be Held Liable?

Feb 12 Health Issues How Are Experts Tracking Variants of the Coronavirus?

Feb 12 Economy & Personal Finance UK Economy Suffered Its Biggest Drop Since 1709

Feb 12 Middle East Murders of Women Spark Anger in Lebanon as Domestic Violence Doubles

Feb 12 Science & Technology Computer Hack Exposes Vulnerability of Cash-Strapped U.S. Water Plants

Feb 11 Geopolitics President Biden: China Should Expect `Extreme Competition’ from U.S.

Feb 11 International UN Kicks Off Selection of Next Secretary-General

Feb 10 Marriage & Family The Secret to Successful Children? Study Finds It Is Loving Your Spouse

Feb 10 Health Issues In Pandemic, More People Choose to Die at Home

Feb 9 International What Is Behind Haiti’s Political Strife?

Feb 9 Asia How North Korea Skirts Sanctions to Make Billions, Build Nukes

Feb 8 Geopolitics EU Countries Expel Russian Diplomats in Navalny Dispute

Feb 8 Weather & Environment Search On for More Than 200 After India Glacier Fractures, Sweeping Away All Before It

Feb 5 Health Issues Study Finds Childhood Diet Has Lifelong Impact

Feb 5 Middle East Iran Deepens Breach of Nuclear Deal at Underground Enrichment Site

Feb 5 Economy & Personal Finance US Productivity in Q4 Falls by Largest Amount in 39 Years

Feb 5 Health Issues Hard-hit Czech Republic Reaches 1 Million Confirmed Cases

Feb 5 Geopolitics West Concerned by Closer Russia-China Ties, Top NATO General Says

Feb 4 Asia Thousands Flee Hong Kong for UK, Fearing China Crackdown

Feb 3 Africa Ethiopia Conflict: Tigray Opposition Parties Assert 50,000-plus Civilian Deaths

Feb 3 Education Pressure Builds on Schools to Reopen During Pandemic

Feb 2 Asia Russia Arrests Over 5,100 at Protests Backing Kremlin Critic Navalny

Feb 2 Crime & Punishment FBI: 2 Agents Killed, 3 Wounded, Suspect Dead in Florida

Feb 1 Asia Myanmar Military Seizes Power, Detains Elected Leader Aung San Suu Kyi

January 2021

Jan 29 International World Food Program Chief Warns of Vulnerable Supply Chains

Jan 29 Middle East Unrest Grows in Crisis-hit Lebanon amid Coronavirus Lockdown

Jan 29 Science & Technology Empty Seas: Oceanic Shark Populations Dropped 71 Percent Since 1970

Jan 29 Europe Auschwitz Marks Anniversary Virtually as Survivors Fear End of an Era

Jan 28 Middle East Splintered Coalition Reflects Fate of Egypt’s Uprising a Decade On

Jan 28 Asia Explainer: Why India’s Farmers Are Revolting Against PM Modi

Jan 27 Economy & Personal Finance Job Losses from Virus 4 Times as Bad as 2009 Financial Crisis

Jan 27 Crime & Punishment Burned Bodies Found Near Mexico-U.S. Border Thought to Be Migrants

Jan 26 Society & Lifestyles Arizona, 15th State with Legal Pot, Begins Recreational Sales

Jan 26 Asia China Tackles Pandemic with Mass Construction Once Again

Jan 25 Asia China-Taiwan Tensions Rise Days into Biden Presidency

Jan 22 Analysis Tokyo Olympics Q&A: 6 Months Out and Hints of Cancellation

Jan 21 Middle East Twin Suicide Bombings Rock Central Baghdad, at Least 32 Dead

Jan 21 Asia Indian Police Bust Baby-trafficking Ring in Financial Capital

Jan 19 Weather & Environment Changing Color of U.S. Rivers Shows Algae, Pollution Increasing

Jan 19 Africa ‘Extreme Urgent Need’: Starvation Haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray

Jan 18 Americas Guatemalan Security Forces Begin Clearing U.S.-bound Migrant Caravan

Jan 15 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Unemployment Claims Jump to 965,000 as Virus Takes Toll

Jan 15 Health Issues Explainer: What WHO Researchers in Wuhan Are Trying to Learn

Jan 15 Science & Technology Scientists Decry ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’ for World’s Insects

Jan 15 Asia Toxic Air in India Linked to Large Number of Miscarriages

Jan 14 Africa ‘The World is Watching’: Ugandans Vote in Tense Election

Jan 13 Health Issues ICUs Clogged on the Way In, Morgues on the Way Out in California’s COVID Crisis

Jan 11 Geopolitics U.S. Plans to Designate Yemen’s Houthi Movement as Foreign Terrorist Group

Jan 11 Weather & Environment At Risk: Protecting Biodiversity Focus at World Summit

Jan 8 Society & Lifestyles U.S. Sports Bet Revenue Could Hit $3B in 2021

Jan 8 Middle East Gulf Arab Leaders Sign Declaration to Ease Rift with Qatar

Jan 8 Asia Hong Kong Arrests 53 for Plot to ‘Overthrow’ Government in Latest Crackdown on Dissent

Jan 6 Americas Protesters Storm U.S. Capitol, Lawmakers Evacuated

Jan 6 Health Issues Will COVID-19 Vaccines Work on the New Coronavirus Variant?

Jan 5 Europe With Little Ado, a Divided United Kingdom Casts Off into the Brexit Unknown

Jan 5 Geopolitics Iran Starts 20 Percent Uranium Enrichment, Seizes South Korean Ship

Jan 4 International How Can the World Boost Efforts to End Child Labor in 2021?

Jan 1 Africa African Free Trade Bloc Opens for Business, but Challenges Remain

Jan 1 Economy & Personal Finance A Historic Oil Price Collapse, with Worries Headed into 2021

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