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August 28, 2026: WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT

U.S. Declares Drought Disaster for Parts of Puerto Rico as Dry Conditions Persist

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – The U.S. government announced a drought disaster on Wednesday for more than two dozen cities and towns in Puerto Rico as water woes deepen across the U.S. Caribbean territory, with no relief in sight.

August 27, 2026: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

UN and Red Cross Step Up Call for International Rules on ‘Killer Robot’ Weapons Systems

GENEVA (AP) – The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday ratcheted up a joint call for countries to adopt bans and restrictions on use of autonomous weapons systems—often known as “killer robots”—warning that “the risks have intensified.”

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August 2026

Aug 28 Weather & Environment U.S. Declares Drought Disaster for Parts of Puerto Rico as Dry Conditions Persist

Aug 27 Science & Technology UN and Red Cross Step Up Call for International Rules on ‘Killer Robot’ Weapons Systems

Aug 26 Middle East Explainer: What Are Iran’s Options to Escalate Further in Face of U.S. Economic Threats?

Aug 26 Geopolitics U.S. Removes Syria from Terrorism Sponsor List

Aug 24 Geopolitics U.S. Unveils ‘Economic D-Day’ of Sanctions to Isolate Iran

Aug 14 Crime & Punishment California Prisons Fail to Stop Guards from Sexually Abusing Women, Justice Department Finds

Aug 6 Health Issues Afghanistan’s Child Deaths Are Rising as Food Distributions Face Cuts, UN Says

Aug 5 Weather & Environment Record Low Danube Levels Push Some Countries in Eastern Europe to the Brink of Energy Emergency

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July 2026

Jul 30 Science & Technology U.S. Bans Foreign-made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security

Jul 29 Economy & Personal Finance Americans Rewire Their Grocery Shopping Routines While Digesting the Biggest Price Jump in 50 Years

Jul 28 Asia India’s ‘Cockroach’ Movement Ends Protests After Education Minister Resigns

Jul 28 International NATO Member Romania Shoots Down Stray Drones from Ukraine War After Years of Incursions

Jul 21 Profile Andy Burnham Becomes the UK’s Seventh Prime Minister in a Decade After Starmer Resigns

Jul 21 Middle East Israel Is Building a Miles-Long Earthen Barrier Inside Gaza, Entrenching Its Division

Jul 21 Asia India’s Youth-led Cockroach Movement Vows to Keep Demanding Reforms After Police Crackdown

Jul 21 Middle East Iran’s Forces Attack Bahrain and Kuwait After U.S. Hits Iranian Ports and Cities

Jul 16 Weather & Environment Canadian Wildfire Smoke Turns Air Hazardous in the U.S. Midwest. Officials Say Stay Inside

Jul 15 Weather & Environment Busy Wildfire Season Tests U.S. Fire Bosses as They Juggle Resources to Stay Ahead

Jul 15 Geopolitics Ukraine and 9 Other Countries Announce a Coalition to Protect Europe from Ballistic Missiles

Jul 13 International U.S. Begins New Iran Strikes After President Says Ships Will Be Charged to Use the Strait of Hormuz

Jul 7 Americas Cuba Struggles to Restore Power to Island Following Nationwide Grid Collapse

Jul 7 Weather & Environment Wildfires Rage in Portugal, Greece and Spain While Greek Authorities Warn of Toxic Smoke

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June 2026

Jun 29 Weather & Environment Europe’s Record Heat Has Overwhelmed Paris Mortuaries and Left Families in Distress

Jun 29 International The Strait of Hormuz’s Future Is Unsettled in Wake of Latest Strikes

Jun 26 Society & Lifestyles Global Trade in Cocaine, Methamphetamine Is Booming, UN Drug Report Shows

Jun 26 Europe Ukraine Unleashes One of Its Heaviest Drone Bombardments of Russia

Jun 26 Weather & Environment Venezuelans Take Search for the Missing into Their Own Hands as Earthquake Death Toll Climbs

Jun 19 International Ukraine Starts EU Membership Talks and Faces Years of Reforms While Fighting Russia

Jun 19 International Lebanon Ceasefire Agreed After U.S.-Iran Talks in Switzerland Scrapped

Jun 16 Science & Technology The UK Is Banning Children’s Social Media Use. Here Is What Other Countries Are Doing

Jun 15 International Iran and U.S. Reach an Initial Deal to End the War and Open the Strait of Hormuz, but Challenges Remain

Jun 11 International Deadly Pakistani Airstrikes in Afghanistan End a Month of Calm

Jun 10 Europe Ukraine Launches Long-Range Strikes on Military and Energy Sites in Russia

Jun 10 International UN Food Agency Says Millions Are Being Pushed into Hunger by Iran War

Jun 5 International Hezbollah Rejection Clouds Lebanon Ceasefire and Prospects for Ending Iran War

Jun 5 Americas Screwworm Fly Detected in Texas Decades After Cattle Threat Was Largely Eradicated in the U.S.

Jun 5 Europe In Public Letter, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Calls On Putin for Direct Negotiations in a Neutral Country

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May 2026

May 20 Weather & Environment Hawaii’s Worst Flooding in 20 Years Leaves Farmers Struggling and Fewer Veggies at the Market

May 19 Middle East Lebanon Death Toll Reaches 3,000 in Fighting Between Israel and Hezbollah

May 18 Europe Man, Machine and AI Combine in Battle to Clear Ukraine of Mines And Shells

May 18 Americas Bolivia Protesters Allied with Ex-Leader Morales March On Capital as Unrest Widens

May 13 Africa Iran War Is Latest Blow to Somalia’s Malnourished Children

May 12 Americas New Gang Violence in Haiti Displaces Hundreds of People

May 5 Politics Abortion Pill Rulings Bring the Issue Back to the Forefront in a Midterm Election Year

May 4 Geopolitics What to Know About U.S. Military Presence in Europe as President Trump Seeks Drawdown of Troops

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April 2026

Apr 30 Science & Technology The Threat of Light Pollution Puts the World’s Darkest Skies in the Atacama Desert at Risk

Apr 29 Americas Many Elderly Cubans Are Left to Fend for Themselves as Latest Crisis Deepens

Apr 28 Crime & Punishment Violence Escalates in Colombia with Dozens of Attacks Before Presidential Vote

Apr 28 Society & Lifestyles What to Know About Psychedelic Retreats, a Booming Business with Few Safety Guardrails

Apr 27 Terrorism & Security After Attack, President Trump’s Upcoming Public Events Get a Fresh Security Look

Apr 22 Asia Japan Scraps a Ban on Lethal Weapons Exports in a Change of Its Postwar Pacifist Policy

Apr 21 Weather & Environment Record U.S. Drought Sparks Worries About Fires, Water Supply and Food Prices

Apr 16 Middle East President Trump Says Israel and Lebanon Agree on Ceasefire

Apr 13 Analysis Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations Is Growing Even Wider, UN Report Says

Apr 10 Marriage & Family U.S. Fertility Rates Drop to Record Low in 2025 as Births Fall

Apr 10 Politics Era of Political Violence Means Higher Costs for Candidate Security, a New Report Says

Apr 6 Science & Technology Artemis II Moon Mission Breaks Record for Distance from Earth

Apr 3 Asia Food Assistance Slashed for Hundreds of Thousands of Rohingya Refugees Trapped in Bangladesh Camps

Apr 3 Weather & Environment EPA Watchdog Finds Nation’s Most Contaminated Sites Are Vulnerable to Flooding, Wildfires

Apr 3 Americas As Freed Prisoners Celebrate in Cuba, Human Rights Groups Demand Clarity and Release of Protesters

Apr 3 Middle East Iran Downs U.S. Fighter Jet, Raising Stakes in War

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March 2026

Mar 25 Middle East Iran Rejects U.S. Ceasefire Plan, Issues Its Own Demands as Strikes Land Across the Mideast

Mar 25 Society & Lifestyles Jury Finds Instagram and YouTube Liable in a Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

Mar 24 Europe Russia Fires Nearly 400 Drones at Ukraine with Signs Its Spring Offensive Has Started

Mar 16 International Pakistan Says It Hit Militant Hideouts in Afghanistan’s Kandahar as Fighting Shows No Letup

Mar 16 Middle East Israel Steps Up Campaign in Lebanon as Iran Keeps Stranglehold on Shipping

Mar 12 Middle East Lebanon’s Latest Conflict Brings Rare Public Backlash Against Hezbollah as War Flares Again

Mar 11 International Explainer: What Are the Challenges in Securing Shipping Through the Strait of Hormuz?

Mar 5 Analysis Chaos Sown by Iran’s Attacks Across the Persian Gulf Is Key to Its Strategy

Mar 3 Middle East Anxious Travelers Scramble as Iran War Strands Tens of Thousands Across the Middle East

Mar 2 Middle East War in the Mideast Widens as President Trump Says Strikes on Iran Could Last Several Weeks

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February 2026

Feb 27 International Pakistan Is in ‘Open War’ with Afghanistan After Latest Strikes, Defense Minister Says

Feb 26 Europe U.S., Ukraine Discuss Post-War Reconstruction as Fighting Grinds On

Feb 26 Science & Technology Police Are Finding Suspects Based On Their Online Searches as Courts Weigh Privacy Concerns

Feb 26 International U.S. Military Builds Up the Largest Force of Warships and Aircraft in the Middle East in Decades

Feb 23 Economy & Personal Finance What to Know About the Supreme Court Ruling on Tariffs

Feb 11 Middle East Iran Commemorates 1979 Revolution as Nation Is Squeezed by Anger Over Crackdown and Tensions with U.S.

Feb 10 International As U.S. Block of Oil Supply Deepens Energy Crisis, Cubans Ask: What More Can We Sacrifice?

Feb 9 Profile Prime Minister Takaichi’s Party Wins a Supermajority in Japan’s Lower House

Feb 6 Middle East The Gaza Ceasefire Began Months Ago. Why Does Fighting Persist?

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January 2026

Jan 30 Analysis Explainer: How Does Iran’s System of Power Work?

Jan 30 Americas Haiti Faces a Sexual Violence and Abuse Crisis as Gang Violence Spreads, Health Charity Warns

Jan 28 Europe Spain Is Granting Legal Status to Potentially 500,000 Immigrants

Jan 28 Middle East Activists Say Iran’s Crackdown Has Killed at Least 6,221 People, as the Country’s Currency Plunges

Jan 28 International Atomic Scientists Set ‘Doomsday Clock’ Closer to Midnight Than Ever

Jan 23 Americas As Haiti Faces Further Political Turmoil, the UN Signals More Troops on the Way

Jan 23 Weather & Environment Why Freezing Rain Has Millions at Risk of Losing Power—and Heat

Jan 23 Weather & Environment Firefighters Face Attacks, Drones and Arsonists While Battling Deadly Blazes in Chile

Jan 21 Asia How Syria’s Government Has Redrawn the Map with Advances Against the Kurds

Jan 21 Geopolitics Explainer: What Is President Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and Who Has Joined So Far?

Jan 21 Americas Hopeful Yet Wary, Venezuelans Across Latin America Mull Going Home

Jan 16 Africa Nigeria’s Northeast Faces Worst Hunger in a Decade as Aid Cuts Hit Region, UN Says

Jan 16 Middle East Explainer: What Is the Status of Iran’s Main Nuclear Facilities?

Jan 14 Africa Uganda Shuts Down Internet Ahead of Election, Orders Rights Groups to Halt Work

Jan 14 Middle East Iran Signals Plans for Fast Trials and Executions While Promising ‘Decisive Response’ to U.S., Israel

Jan 8 Asia Explainer: What’s Happening in Yemen, and Why Are Saudi Arabia and the UAE Involved?

Jan 7 Asia Civilians Flee Aleppo as Clashes Between Syrian Government and Kurdish Forces Escalate

Jan 7 International U.S. Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker Tied to Venezuela as Trump Widens Oil Push

Jan 5 Crime & Punishment Shackled and Defiant, Maduro Pleads Not Guilty to U.S. Narcotics Charges

Jan 1 Geopolitics Is Peace in Ukraine Any Closer After Trump-Zelenskyy Talks?

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