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September 19, 2023: AFRICA

For a Divided Libya, Disastrous Floods Have Become a Rallying Cry for Unity

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – Zahra el-Gerbi was not expecting much of a response to her online fundraiser, but she felt she had to do something after four of her relatives died in the flooding that decimated the eastern Libyan city of Derna. She put out a call for donations for those displaced by the deluge.

September 19, 2023: INTERNATIONAL

Human Rights in Russia Have ‘Significantly Deteriorated’ Since War: UN Expert

GENEVA (Reuters) – The human rights situation in Russia has significantly deteriorated since it invaded Ukraine in February last year, a United Nations expert said on Monday, describing a “systematic crackdown” on civil society and calling for redress.

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September 2023

Sep 19 Africa For a Divided Libya, Disastrous Floods Have Become a Rallying Cry for Unity

Sep 19 International Human Rights in Russia Have ‘Significantly Deteriorated’ Since War: UN Expert

Sep 15 Weather & Environment U.S. Sets Record for Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in a Year, with 4 Months Still to Go

Sep 15 Geopolitics Analysis: With Defiant Summit, Russia’s Putin and North Korea’s Kim Send Rivals a Warning

Sep 15 Analysis Thirty Years After Oslo, Bleak Outlook for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Sep 13 Weather & Environment Libyans Search for Missing Relatives After Flood Devastates City

Sep 13 Geopolitics The African Union Is Joining the G20

Sep 11 Africa Eastern Congo’s Humanitarian Nightmare

Sep 11 Americas America Marks 22 Years Since 9/11 with Tributes and Tears from Ground Zero to Alaska

Sep 8 Geopolitics A Look at the Uranium-based Ammunition the U.S. Is Sending to Ukraine

Sep 8 Asia New Submarines and Nuclear Drones: Why Is North Korea Developing Its Navy?

Sep 8 Europe King Charles III Shows His Reign Will Be More About Evolution than Revolution After Year on the Job

Sep 7 Geopolitics Analysis: Iran’s Nuclear Slowdown May Prop Up U.S. Hopes to Ease Tensions

Sep 6 Americas Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide

Sep 5 Europe Cluster Munitions: Ukraine Overtakes Syria as Deadliest Battleground

Sep 1 Education Joy Mixed with Sorrow: Ukrainian Children Go Back to School in the Midst of War

Sep 1 Weather & Environment After Maui’s Wildfires, Thousands Brace for Long Process of Restoring Safe Water Service

August 2023

Aug 31 Middle East U.S. Military Calls for End of Fighting in East Syria, Warns It Could Lead to IS Resurgence

Aug 30 Asia UN: Hundreds of Thousands in Southeast Asia Are Victims of Online Scams

Aug 29 Education The Math Problem: How Can Schools Help Kids Catch Up?

Aug 25 Crime & Punishment Scores of Women and Girls Were Sexually Assaulted After Peace Deal in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Study Shows

Aug 25 Analysis Failed Lunar Mission Reflects Deeper Problems with Moscow’s Space Industry

Aug 25 Health Issues Canadian Wildfires Led to Spike in Asthma ER Visits

Aug 24 International BRICS Welcomes New Members in Push to Reshuffle World Order

Aug 23 Europe Blood and Billions: The Cost of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Aug 22 Africa The African Union Suspends Niger Until ‘the Effective Restoration of Constitutional Order’

Aug 21 Economy & Personal Finance Global Food Security Crossroads: Rice Shortages and Surging Prices Hit the Most Vulnerable

Aug 18 Geopolitics UN: Repression and Starvation on the Rise in North Korea

Aug 18 Health Issues U.S. Suicides Hit an All-time High Last Year

Aug 18 Asia Two Years After Fall of Kabul, Tens of Thousands of Afghans Languish in Limbo Waiting for U.S. Visas

Aug 17 Americas Haiti: Rights Group Urges Rapid International Intervention to End Spiraling Gang Violence

Aug 16 Geopolitics Why Tensions Have Been Growing Along NATO’s Eastern Border with Belarus

Aug 15 Europe Russia Launches First Moon Mission in Nearly 50 Years

Aug 14 Weather & Environment Explainer: What to Know About Maui’s Wildfires, Hawaii’s Deadliest Disaster

Aug 10 Weather & Environment Maui Suffers Deadliest U.S. Wildfire in Years

Aug 10 Education Schools Shut, Exams Cancelled: War Shatters Sudan’s Education Sector

Aug 10 Asia War Crimes by Myanmar’s Military ‘More Frequent and Brazen,’ UN Probe Finds

Aug 9 Weather & Environment 2023’s Severe Weather Caused Unprecedented Financial Damage for U.S. Towns and the Insurance Industry

Aug 8 Europe On Ukraine’s Landmine-strewn Front, Even the Corpses Can Kill

Aug 7 Weather & Environment 6 Months After a Devastating Earthquake, Turkey’s Preparedness Is Still Uncertain

Aug 4 Africa Sudan War Crimes Include Attacks on Civilians, Sexual Assault, Rights Group Says

Aug 4 Americas Migrant Surge: Nearly 250,000 Cross Panama’s Darien Gap So Far This Year

Aug 2 Europe Crimea: A Historic Playground and Battleground

Aug 2 Economy & Personal Finance Fitch Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating, Citing Mounting Debt and Political Divisions

Aug 1 Africa Niger Coup Crisis: European Countries Begin Evacuating Citizens

July 2023

Jul 31 Weather & Environment Record Heat, No Air Conditioning: The Plight of America’s Poor

Jul 28 Education A Hidden Crisis: How Homeless Students Slipped Through the Cracks

Jul 28 Americas As Illegal Crossings Drop, Legal Challenges Over U.S.-Mexico Border Policies Grow

Jul 28 Africa Explainer: How the Military Coup in Niger Threatens Stability in West Africa

Jul 27 Health Issues A Meat Allergy Caused by Tick Spit is Getting More Common, CDC Says

Jul 26 Weather & Environment Summer Inferno: Europe Battles Destructive Wildfires and Extreme Heat

Jul 21 Politics Conservatives Go to Red States and Liberals Go to Blue as America Grows More Polarized

Jul 21 Geopolitics Analysis: By Exiting Grain Deal, Russia Risks Alienating Its Few Remaining Partners

Jul 21 Weather & Environment Floods Devastate ‘Heartbroken’ Farmers as Months of Labor Are Swept Away

Jul 19 Health Issues Explainer: The Health Risks of Extreme Heat

Jul 19 Weather & Environment Wildfires Have Burned a Record Amount in British Columbia

Jul 17 Weather & Environment Vanishing Whales Decline Worse than Previously Thought, Feds Say

Jul 14 Health Issues With 735 Million People Hungry, UN Says World Is ‘Off Track’ to Meet its 2030 Goal

Jul 14 Asia China Flexes Military Muscles Ahead of Taiwan’s War Games

Jul 14 International Pentagon Says Cluster Munitions Have Arrived in Ukraine

Jul 12 Africa Number of Displaced by Sudan War Surpasses 3 Million: IOM

Jul 12 International Children in Crisis: UN Reports Alarming Rise of ‘Grave Violations’

June 2023

Jun 30 Middle East UN Warns 90 Percent of Syrians Are Below the Poverty Line

Jun 30 Geopolitics U.S. Flies Nuclear-capable Bombers in Fresh Show of Force Against North Korea

Jun 30 Weather & Environment In Parched Uruguay, Tensions Rise as Water Levels Fall

Jun 27 Health Issues Malaria Cases in Texas and Florida Are the First U.S. Spread Since 2003, CDC Says

Jun 26 Europe Rebellion in Russia: What to Know About Wagner Group’s Short-Lived Uprising

Jun 23 Americas The Struggle to Save America’s Honeybees

Jun 23 Americas Abortion Rights: A Year After the Fall of Roe, What’s Changed?

Jun 22 Geopolitics India’s Ties with Russia: What to Know

Jun 22 Religion In Europe’s Empty Churches, Prayer and Confessions Make Way for Drinking and Dancing

Jun 15 Health Issues Alarming Rise in Youth Suicide and Homicide Rates During Pandemic

Jun 14 Africa Analysis: Sudan Slides Further into War as Diplomacy Flounders

Jun 13 Health Issues Sick Workers Tied to 40 Percent of Restaurant Food Poisoning Outbreaks, CDC Says

Jun 12 Weather & Environment Ukraine Dam Collapse: A Short- and Long-Term Catastrophe

Jun 9 Geopolitics Explainer: What Would It Mean if Ukraine Joined NATO?

Jun 9 Crime & Punishment Thirst, Starvation and Death: The Dire Conditions of Haiti’s Prisoners

Jun 9 Weather & Environment Gasping for Breath: Air Pollution’s Global Impact

Jun 7 Science & Technology Inside South Korea’s Race to Become One of the World’s Biggest Arms Dealers

Jun 7 Crime & Punishment Separation’s Toll: Incarcerated Moms and Kids

Jun 6 Europe Ukraine War Zone Villagers Flee Floods After Massive Dam Destroyed

May 2023

May 30 Africa Uganda Enacts Anti-LGBTQ Law Including Death Penalty

May 26 Europe Scarred by War, Ukrainian Children Carry On After Losing Parents, Homes and Innocence

May 26 Science & Technology Cyber Gulag: How Russia Tracks, Censors and Controls Its Citizens

May 26 Middle East Iran Unveils Latest Version of Ballistic Missile

May 25 International UN Peacekeeping at 75: Successes, Failures and Challenges

May 24 Religion Catholic Clergy Abused Illinois Kids Far More Often than Church Acknowledged, State Finds

May 23 Crime & Punishment After Two Mass Shootings, Can Serbia Rid Itself of Guns?

May 22 Geopolitics G7 Concludes with Ukraine in Focus

May 19 Europe Ukraine’s Spring Offensive Still Hasn’t Begun. Why?

May 19 Economy & Personal Finance Why a Government Default Could Be Worse Than a Shutdown

May 19 Africa A Second Exile: Sudanese Refugees Flee Again to Destitute Chad

May 17 Politics Trust in Supreme Court Fell to Lowest Point in 50 Years After Abortion Decision, Poll Shows

May 15 Economy & Personal Finance Repelled by High Car Prices, Americans Are Holding On to Their Vehicles Longer Than Ever

May 12 International War, Natural Disasters Left Record 71 Million People Internally Displaced in 2022, Report Says

May 12 Middle East ‘We Can’t Afford Anything’: Turkey’s Cost-of-living Crisis Threatens Erdogan’s Re-election

May 11 Americas Migrants Rush Across U.S. Border in Final Hours Before Title 42 Expiration

May 10 Europe EU, Ukraine Together on Europe Day, but Kyiv Remains Outside

May 9 Europe In Victory Day Speech, Vladimir Putin Says West Is Waging a ‘Real War’ on Russia

May 8 Health Issues WHO Says COVID Emergency Is Over. What Does That Mean?

May 5 Economy & Personal Finance The Banking Crisis Isn’t Over. Should You Be Worried?

May 5 Geopolitics Syria and Iran Sign Long-term Oil and Trade Agreements

May 5 Americas Why Nationalities Matter as U.S. Braces for Migration Surge

May 4 Europe What to Know About King Charles III’s Coronation

May 3 Africa Sudan’s Warring Generals Extend Theoretical Truce but Keep Fighting

May 3 Health Issues One-third of U.S. Nurses Plan to Quit Profession: Report

May 1 International May Day: World’s Workers Protest

April 2023

Apr 28 Geopolitics Why China Is Trying to Mediate in Russia’s War with Ukraine

Apr 28 Geopolitics South Korea, U.S. to Share Nuclear Planning to Deter North Korean Threat

Apr 26 Americas Return to Pandemic Hunger Levels Could Signal Economic Fragility

Apr 25 Middle East Israel Marks Memorial Day Plagued by Divisions, Violence

Apr 24 International World Military Spending Rises to an All-time High

Apr 21 Africa UN: Hunger Is Soaring and Spreading Across West Africa

Apr 21 Americas U.S. Must Stem ‘Iron River’ of Guns Flowing to Latin America, Activists Say

Apr 20 Europe U.S.-made Patriot Missile Systems Arrive in Ukraine

Apr 19 Africa What Is Happening in Sudan? Fighting in Khartoum Explained

Apr 13 Health Issues Ukraine War Taking Toll on Civilians’ Mental Health

Apr 13 Europe UN: 2023 Off to a Deadly Start for Migrants Crossing Mediterranean Sea

Apr 10 Asia China Military ‘Ready to Fight’ After Drills Near Taiwan

Apr 7 Europe Births in Italy Hit Record Low in 2022, Population Shrinks Further

Apr 7 Geopolitics Finland Joins NATO in Historic Shift, Russia Threatens ‘Counter-measures’

Apr 7 Society & Lifestyles Distraction, Speeding, Alcohol Drive Up 2021 Traffic Deaths

Apr 7 Geopolitics Saudi Arabia, Iran Restore Ties, Say They Seek Mideast Stability

Apr 3 Health Issues Pandemic Pounds Push 10,000 U.S. Army Soldiers into Obesity

March 2023

Mar 30 Analysis Gun Injuries Sending More Americans, Especially Kids, to Emergency Rooms: Study

Mar 29 Africa ‘What Can We Do?’: Millions in African Countries Need Power

Mar 28 Crime & Punishment Stolen Futures: Baltimore Faces Uptick in Youth Violence

Mar 27 Weather & Environment Tornado Recovery Is Tough in Mississippi, One of Poorest States

Mar 24 Americas Farmers Struggle in Argentina as Drought Withers Their Crops

Mar 24 Asia North Korea Claims ‘Radioactive Tsunami’ Weapon Test at Sea

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

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