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September 11, 2026: INTERNATIONAL

Yemen’s Iranian-Backed Houthis Seize an Island in a Key Strait, Opening a New Front in the Iran War

CAIRO (AP) – Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, two officials said Friday, opening a new front in the Iran war and further threatening Saudi oil exports through one of the world’s key shipping lanes.

September 9, 2026: EDUCATION

Family Interest in Education Falls as Test Scores Drop

Associated Press – Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores, according to newly released results from a standardized test taken by 15-year-olds around the world.

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December 2021

Dec 30 Weather & Environment Thousands of Cranes Killed by Bird Flu in Northern Israel

Dec 28 Asia North Korea Holds Key Conference as Kim Jong Un Marks 10 Years in Power

Dec 27 Asia Photos of Myanmar Massacre Aftermath Fuel Outrage

Dec 22 Crime & Punishment Secret Service: Nearly $100 Billion Stolen in Pandemic Relief Funds

Dec 21 Weather & Environment U.S. Storms Make 2021 One of the Costliest Years for Insurers

Dec 17 Europe Russia Sets Out Tough Demands for Security Pact with NATO

Dec 16 Geopolitics U.S. Imposes Sanctions Against China over Abuse of Uyghurs

Dec 15 Religion What’s Your Religion? In the U.S., a Common Reply Now is “None”

Dec 14 Health Issues New Data Suggests 1 in 44 U.S. Children Affected by Autism

Dec 13 Weather & Environment At Least 64 People Confirmed Dead in Kentucky after Barrage of Tornadoes

Dec 10 Society & Lifestyles 2021 Is Now the Highest-winning Year Ever for U.S. Casinos

Dec 9 Europe Olaf Scholz Replaces Angela Merkel as German Chancellor, Opening New Era

Dec 8 Asia Japan’s Military, Among World’s Strongest, Looks to Build

Dec 7 Americas 101-year-old Returns to Pearl Harbor to Remember Those Lost

Dec 6 Asia Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Convicted in Further Blow to Democracy

Dec 3 Science & Technology Using Mechanical Tools Improves Language Skills, Study Finds

Dec 3 Geopolitics Vladimir Putin Warns West: Moscow Has ‘Red Line’ About Ukraine, NATO

Dec 2 Weather & Environment Wildfires Torched up to a Fifth of All Giant Sequoia Trees

November 2021

Nov 30 Crime & Punishment Three Students Shot Dead, Six People Wounded at Michigan High School; Suspect Arrested

Nov 30 Health Issues Wary, Weary World Slams Doors Shut, Fearing Omicron Variant

Nov 26 Economy & Personal Finance As U.S. Inflation Hits 31-year High, Banks Assess Risks and Opportunities

Nov 24 Geopolitics What Is the Risk of a War Between Russia and Ukraine?

Nov 23 Europe EU Border Agency: Illegal Crossings on the Rise

Nov 22 Crime & Punishment Five Dead, 40 Injured after SUV Hits Wisconsin Christmas Parade

Nov 19 Weather & Environment Flooding Leaves Thousands Stranded, Could Be Canada’s Costliest Natural Disaster

Nov 18 Health Issues U.S. Overdose Deaths Topped Record 100,000 in One Year

Nov 16 Europe ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’ Raises the Stakes with the West

Nov 12 Weather & Environment ‘What Fear?’: Hindus Bathe in Frothy, Polluted Indian River

Nov 12 Terrorism & Security Islamic State Violence Dents Taliban Claims of Safer Afghanistan

Nov 12 Economy & Personal Finance Six Questions that Could Shape the Future of the U.S. Labor Market

Nov 11 Europe What’s Behind the Migrant Crisis at the Belarus-Poland Border

Nov 9 Asia Satellite Images Show China Built Mock-ups of U.S. Warships

Nov 8 Middle East Iraqi Prime Minister Survives Assassination Attempt with Drones

Nov 5 Africa Tigray Forms Alliance with Groups Against Ethiopia’s Leader

Nov 5 Weather & Environment U.S. Government Works to ‘Cocoon’ Site of Most Nuclear Waste

Nov 5 Science & Technology Spiders’ Web Secrets Unraveled

Nov 4 Europe Putin Urges Development of New Hypersonic Missiles, Lasers

Nov 3 Economy & Personal Finance Supply Chain Disruption: Is the Worst Over?

Nov 2 Weather & Environment How Turkey’s Second-largest Lake Disappeared This Year

Nov 1 Economy & Personal Finance Americans Sour on Economy amid Inflation Woes: AP-NORC Poll

October 2021

Oct 29 Health Issues How Hitting the Sleep ‘Sweet Spot’ Will Keep Your Mind Sharp

Oct 29 Science & Technology What Is the Metaverse and How Will It Work?

Oct 25 Africa Sudan Military Seizes Power, Dissolves Transitional Government

Oct 22 Health Issues Russia’s Putin Tells Workers to Stay Home as Virus Deaths Rise

Oct 20 Asia North Korea Tests Possible Submarine Missile amid Tensions

Oct 19 Crime & Punishment ‘A Dangerous Time’: Portland, Oregon, Sees Record Homicides

Oct 15 Economy & Personal Finance ‘Desperate for Tires.’ Components Shortage Roils U.S. Harvest

Oct 15 Europe Why Are the UK and EU Still Fighting Over Brexit?

Oct 14 Middle East 6 Killed in Beirut Clashes as Tensions over Blast Probe Soar

Oct 12 International Poor Countries’ Debt Rose 12 Percent to Record $860 Billion in 2020

Oct 8 Health Issues More Than 120,000 U.S. Kids Had Caregivers Die During Pandemic

Oct 8 Asia With Only Days of Coal Stocks Left, India Faces Power Crisis

Oct 8 Terrorism & Security Taliban Official: At Least 100 Dead, Wounded in Afghan Blast

Oct 6 Society & Lifestyles Researchers: Rise in Single People Who Earn Less

Oct 5 Geopolitics Quest for More Leverage Drives Iran’s Nuclear Stalling Tactic, Analysts Say

Oct 4 Weather & Environment California Spill Came 52 Years after Historic Oil Disaster

Oct 1 Weather & Environment What Kilauea’s History Tells Us About Its Future

Oct 1 Politics What’s in the Bipartisan U.S. $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill?

Oct 1 Society & Lifestyles Military Suicides Rise 15 Percent as Senior Leaders Call for Action

September 2021

Sep 30 Weather & Environment U.S. Says Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 22 Other Species Extinct

Sep 17 Weather & Environment Illegal Marijuana Farms Take West’s Scarce Water

Sep 17 Politics Americans Less Positive About Civil Liberties: AP-NORC Poll

Sep 14 Africa Nigeria Faces One of Its Worst Cholera Outbreaks in Years

Sep 13 Asia North Korea Tests First ‘Strategic’ Cruise Missile with Possible Nuclear Capability

Sep 10 Asia China Chases ‘Rejuvenation’ with Control of Tycoons, Society

Sep 9 Politics Taliban Form Afghan Government of Old Guard Members

Sep 8 Economy & Personal Finance Economic Oddity: Record Job Openings and Many Unemployed

Sep 6 Weather & Environment U.S. Probing Nearly 350 Reports of Oil Spills in Wake of Hurricane Ida

Sep 3 Weather & Environment Birds of Prey Face Global Decline from Habitat Loss, Poisons

Sep 3 Asia Japan’s Prime Minister Suga Steps Down, Sets Stage for New Leader

Sep 3 Society & Lifestyles U.S. Traffic Deaths Up During Pandemic Even Though Mileage Down

Sep 2 Terrorism & Security Explainer: How Dangerous is Afghanistan’s Islamic State?

Sep 2 Economy & Personal Finance Treasury: Pandemic Accelerates Depletion of U.S. Social Security Trust Funds

Sep 1 Asia Explainer: Why and How China Is Drastically Limiting Online Gaming for Those Under 18

Sep 1 Geopolitics President Biden Says Afghanistan Exit Marks the End of U.S. Nation-building

August 2021

Aug 31 Weather & Environment Ida’s Aftermath: No Power, No Flights, Scant Drinking Water

Aug 27 Health Issues Diabetes Surges among American Youth, Study Shows

Aug 26 Americas ‘They Are Hungry’: Haiti Quake Survivors Fear for Children’s Future

Aug 25 Terrorism & Security Taliban Takeover Prompts Fears of a Resurgent al-Qaida

Aug 24 Weather & Environment Dead, Many Missing after 17 Inches of Rain in Tennessee

Aug 20 Weather & Environment Brazil City District Slipping into Sea After River Diverted

Aug 20 Weather & Environment Drought-weakened Bee Colonies Shrink U.S. Honey Crop, Threaten Almonds

Aug 19 Geopolitics Costs of the Afghanistan War, in Lives and Dollars

Aug 19 Economy & Personal Finance Landlords Look for an Exit amid Federal Eviction Moratorium

Aug 18 Americas Why Are Earthquakes So Devastating in Haiti?

Aug 17 Americas Hyperinflation, U.S. Dollars Pricing Out Venezuelan Consumers

Aug 16 Geopolitics ‘Game over’: Westerners Rush to Leave Kabul as Taliban Takes Capital

Aug 13 Weather & Environment First Water Cuts in U.S. West Supply to Hammer Arizona Farmers

Aug 13 Education Pandemic Prompts Changes in How Future Teachers Are Trained

Aug 12 Asia U.S. Says Up to Afghans to Defend Country, but Will Isolate Taliban if They Take Power

Aug 11 Africa Ethiopia Calls ‘All Capable’ Citizens to Fight in Tigray War

Aug 10 Geopolitics Nagasaki Marks 76th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing

Aug 6 Middle East Resurgent Taliban Take Provincial Capital, Kill Afghan Government Spokesman

Aug 6 Weather & Environment Forecasters: Hurricane Season to be Busier than First Thought

Aug 5 Americas Mexico’s Referendum on Trying Ex-presidents Falls Short

Aug 4 Middle East Mired in Crises, Lebanon Marks 1 Year Since Horrific Blast

Aug 3 Africa Burkina Faso Sees More Child Soldiers as Jihadi Attacks Rise

Aug 2 Politics Senate Unveils $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

July 2021

Jul 30 Society & Lifestyles LA’s Venice Beach a Flashpoint in City’s Homeless Crisis

Jul 29 Americas Vigilantes Raid Southern Mexico Town, Abduct 21, Burn Homes

Jul 28 Geopolitics South, North Korea Reopen Hotlines as Leaders Seek to Rebuild Ties

Jul 27 Middle East To Reach a Peace Deal, Taliban Say Afghan President Must Go

Jul 27 Americas Firefighting Demand, Lack of Drivers Bring Airport Fuel Shortages in U.S. West

Jul 26 Health Issues UN Adopts First Resolution on Vision, Aims to Help 1 Billion

Jul 26 Africa Tunisian Democracy in Crisis After President Ousts Government

Jul 23 Geopolitics U.S. Imposes New Cuba Sanctions over Human Rights Abuses

Jul 22 Europe Norway Mourns 77 Dead a Decade After Extremist Attack

Jul 21 Weather & Environment Germany Counts Cost of Floods as Hopes of Finding Survivors Fade

Jul 21 Health Issues India’s Pandemic Death Toll Could Be in the Millions

Jul 20 Weather & Environment Sprawling Oregon Blaze Expands, While Firefighters Gain Ground

Jul 16 Geopolitics Cuba, Haiti Stir Fresh Political Pressures for U.S. President

Jul 16 Africa South Africa Riots Will Push Economy into 3 Percent Contraction, JP Morgan Says

Jul 16 Middle East Iran Insists It Can Enrich Uranium to 90 Percent Purity—Weapons Grade—If Needed

Jul 15 Europe Europe Floods: Death Toll over 120 as Rescues Continue

Jul 15 Health Issues U.S. Overdose Deaths Hit Record 93,000 Last Year

Jul 14 International UN: World Hunger Was Dramatically Worse in Pandemic Year

Jul 13 Americas Cuba Sees Biggest Protests for Decades Amid Shortages, Rising Prices

Jul 12 Asia Police Arrest Bangladesh Factory Owners after Fire Kills 52

Jul 12 Africa Deadly South Africa Riots Erupt over Jailing of Former President Zuma

Jul 9 Europe ‘A New Chapter’: Angela Merkel Aims for UK-Germany Relations Reset

Jul 8 Weather & Environment Is Global Plastic Pollution Nearing an Irreversible Tipping Point?

Jul 7 International Olympics Likely to Open During COVID ‘State of Emergency’

Jul 7 Americas Haitian President Assassinated at Home, Sparking Fears of Widespread Turmoil

Jul 6 International When Is the U.S. War in Afghanistan Really Over?

Jul 2 Asia At Communist Party Centenary, President Xi Says China Won’t Be Bullied

Jul 1 Society & Lifestyles International Tourism May Not Rebound Until 2023

Jul 1 Holidays Drought Woes in Dry U.S. West Raise July 4 Fireworks Fears

June 2021

Jun 30 Middle East Why Are Palestinians Protesting Against President Abbas?

Jun 29 Religion Millions Skipped Church During Pandemic. Will They Return?

Jun 29 Asia Marking 100 Years of Communist Party, President Xi Hails ‘Great Rejuvenation’

Jun 28 Science & Technology Break Them Up? 5 Ways Congress Is Trying to Rein in Big Tech

Jun 25 Health Issues What Should I Know About the Delta Variant?

Jun 25 Americas Death Toll in Florida Condo Collapse Rises; 159 Still Missing

Jun 24 International Russia Warns Britain It Will Bomb Ships Next Time

Jun 24 Crime & Punishment Ransomware Gangs Get Paid Off as Officials Struggle to Fix

Jun 23 Asia Last Pro-democracy Hong Kong Newspaper Shut Down

Jun 23 Weather & Environment Weather Service: Suburban Chicago Tornado Had 140 mph Winds

Jun 22 Middle East Syrian Drought Puts Bashar Assad’s ‘Year of Wheat’ in Peril

Jun 22 Americas Fear Shakes Mexico Border City After Violence Targeting Innocents Leaves 18 Dead

Jun 21 Politics Iran President-elect Takes Hard Line, Refuses to Meet U.S. President

Jun 17 Politics Breaking up Big Tech in Focus as New U.S. Antitrust Bills Introduced

Jun 16 Asia ‘Xi Jinping Is My Spiritual Leader’: China’s Education Drive in Tibet

Jun 16 Economy & Personal Finance Economic Parallels: Will the 2020s Echo the Roaring 20s or Inflationary 70s?

Jun 15 Middle East What Will Change Under Israel’s New Government?

Jun 11 Society & Lifestyles Poll: Millions in U.S. Struggle Through Life with Few to Trust

Jun 11 Weather & Environment Hoover Dam Reservoir Hits Record Low, Sign of Extreme Western U.S. Drought

Jun 11 Europe EU Report: Illicit Drug Sales Moved Online During Lockdowns

Jun 10 Health Issues U.S. Deaths from Heart Disease and Diabetes Climbed amid COVID

Jun 9 Science & Technology Just How Vulnerable Is the Internet?

Jun 8 Society & Lifestyles U.S. Traffic Deaths Soar in 2020 to Highest Yearly Total Since 2007

Jun 4 Weather & Environment Chemical Cargo Ship Sinks off Sri Lanka, Fouling Rich Fishing Waters

Jun 4 Weather & Environment Study: California Fire Killed 10 Percent of World’s Giant Sequoias

Jun 4 Middle East Lebanese Leaders Exchange Barbs as Country Sinks into Crisis

Jun 3 Politics What Is the Senate Filibuster and Why Change It?

Jun 2 Middle East Israel, Egypt Talk Truce with Hamas, Rebuilding Gaza Strip

May 2021

May 28 Americas Why Romanian Migrants from Europe Are Taking Rafts from Mexico to Enter the U.S.

May 28 International Battleship Diplomacy: Britain’s New Aircraft Carrier Joins NATO, Has Message for China

May 28 Weather & Environment Water Crisis ‘Couldn’t Be Worse’ on Oregon-California Border

May 28 Australia & South Pacific Plague of Ravenous, Destructive Mice Tormenting Australians

May 27 Weather & Environment Cyclone Lashes India, Bangladesh; 6 Dead, Over 1 Million Evacuated

May 26 Crime & Punishment 8 Dead in Shooting at Rail Yard Serving Silicon Valley

May 26 Middle East In Numbers: The Cost of 10 Years of Devastating War in Syria

May 25 Health Issues Pandemic Has Fueled Eating Disorder Surge in Teens, Adults

May 25 Americas Bloody Mexican Election Campaign Exposes Chronic Security Woes

May 24 Geopolitics Top U.S. General for Mideast: As U.S. Scales Back, China May Step In

May 24 Africa Volcanic Eruption, Ensuing Chaos Kill At Least 15 in Congo

May 21 Weather & Environment Sharks Use Earth’s Magnetic Field as a GPS, Scientists Discover

May 21 Africa Forest Rangers Struggle to Prevent Poaching amid Lockdowns

May 21 Asia Myanmar Junta’s Electoral Body to Dissolve Suu Kyi Party

May 21 Americas Partisan Politics in Honduras Fuels Exodus, Migrants Say

May 20 Health Issues Irish Health System Struggling to Recover from Cyberattack

May 19 Health Issues India Sets Global Record for Daily Coronavirus Deaths

May 19 Asia U.S. Hits China for Repressing Religious Freedom

May 18 Asia China to Relax Birth Policy but Wary of Social Risks

May 18 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Budget Deficit Hits Record $1.9 Trillion So Far This Year

May 14 Weather & Environment Oregon-California Border Water Crisis Turns Catastrophic

May 13 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Pipeline Outage Causes Gas Crunch, Panic Buying

May 12 Education U.S. Schools Fight to Keep Students amid Fear of Dropout Surge

May 12 Americas Corruption, Economic Woes Spark Deadly Protests in Colombia

May 11 Middle East Dozens Dead as Israel and Hamas Escalate Bombardment

May 11 Middle East France Using Air Power to Root Out ‘Underground’ ISIS

May 10 Americas America’s Biggest Gas Pipeline Crippled by Ransomware, Days from Restart

May 7 Geopolitics China Suspends Economic Dialogue with Australia as Relations Strain

May 7 Asia Myanmar’s Anti-Junta Unity Government Forms ‘Defense Force’

May 6 Africa Ethiopia ‘at a Crossroads’ amid Spiraling Ethnic Conflict

May 5 Science & Technology Coral Reefs Prevent More Than $5.3 Billion in Flood Damage, Study Finds

May 5 Americas As Pandemic Ebbs, an Old Fear is New Again: Mass Shootings

May 4 Americas Mexico City Metro Overpass Collapse Kills 23

May 3 Society & Lifestyles ‘Mountain of Opioid Pills’ from Distributors Fueled Crisis, Lawyer Says in Case Against Big Pharma

May 3 Europe At 100 Years Old, Northern Ireland Is Still in an Identity Crisis

April 2021

Apr 30 Weather & Environment Scientist: Extent of DDT Dumping Off California Coast Is “Staggering”

Apr 30 Middle East Afghan War Map Shows Taliban Stronger After 20 Years

Apr 28 Australia & South Pacific Amid Threats from China, Australia Spends Half a Billion on Defense Upgrades

Apr 28 Health Issues ‘Cannon Fodder’: Medical Students in India Feel Betrayed

Apr 26 International Surge in Violence Rattles Haiti as Poverty, Fear Deepens

Apr 23 Health Issues Why India Is Facing an Oxygen Crisis as COVID Cases Mount

Apr 23 Weather & Environment U.S., Other Countries Deepen Climate Goals at Earth Day Summit

Apr 23 Geopolitics UK Lawmakers Pass Motion Saying China Committing Genocide

Apr 22 Middle East Syrian Missile Explodes in Area Near Israeli Nuclear Reactor, Israel Retaliates

Apr 21 Geopolitics Vladimir Putin Warns West of Harsh Response if it Crosses Russia’s ‘Red Lines’

Apr 20 Africa Rebels Vow to Take Capital after Chadian President Killed

Apr 19 Geopolitics China Says U.S.-Japan Actions Are Stoking Division

Apr 19 Crime & Punishment Riot Declared in Portland Protests After Police Kill Man

Apr 16 Geopolitics End of an Era: Raul Castro Confirms His Resignation

Apr 16 Crime & Punishment Police: 8 Dead in Shooting at FedEx Facility in Indianapolis

Apr 15 Geopolitics U.S. Sanctions Russia for ‘Malign’ Acts, Moscow Reacts Angrily

Apr 15 Middle East Iran’s President Rouhani Says 60 Percent Enrichment is an Answer to Attack at Natanz Site

Apr 14 International U.S. Intel Report: Virus Impact to Cause Global ‘Aftershocks’

Apr 13 Weather & Environment Save Farmers or Fish? West Coast Drought Forces Decision for Scarce Water

Apr 12 Americas Protests Erupt After Police Shoot Black Man in Minneapolis Traffic Stop

Apr 12 Middle East Iran Blames Israel for Sabotage at Natanz Nuclear Site, Vows Revenge

Apr 9 Middle East Iran Has Produced 120 Pounds of 20 Percent Enriched Uranium Since January

Apr 9 Africa For Locust-weary Africans, a Dry Spell Brings Hope

Apr 9 Politics President Biden Orders Gun Control Actions—But They Show His Limits

Apr 8 Europe Northern Ireland Leaders Call for Calm After Violence Escalates

Apr 8 Science & Technology Study: U.S. Pesticide Use Falls but Harms Pollinators More

Apr 7 Europe Vladimir Putin Signs Law That Could Keep Him in Kremlin Until 2036

Apr 7 Weather & Environment Indonesia Landslides Death Toll Rises to 140, Dozens Missing

Apr 6 Middle East Benjamin Netanyahu Asked to Form New Government, But Faces Long Odds

Apr 6 Africa Gunmen Free More Than 1,800 Inmates in Attack on Nigerian Prison

Apr 5 Terrorism & Security Capitol Attack Raises Questions of Security Versus Public Access

Apr 5 Weather & Environment Global Rainforest Loss ‘Relentless’ in 2020

Apr 2 Weather & Environment Another California Drought Four Years After Last

Apr 2 Geopolitics U.S. Trade War Pushing China to Steal Tech, Talent, Taiwan Says

Apr 2 Health Issues COVID Pandemic Increased Stillbirth and Maternal Death Rates

Apr 1 Religion First Time Since World War II: Less than Half of Americans Are Members of Houses of Worship

March 2021

Mar 31 Africa ‘You Don’t Belong’: Land Dispute Drives New Exodus in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Mar 31 Health Issues Anti-Smoking Progress Slows Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Mar 30 Geopolitics Iran and China Sign 25-year Cooperation Agreement

Mar 29 Middle East Before the Ever Given: A Look at the Crises that Closed Suez

Mar 29 Asia “Mass Murder”: Funerals Become Scenes of Myanmar Resistance and Violence

Mar 26 Weather & Environment Tornado Outbreak Rips Across Deep South; At Least 5 Dead

Mar 26 Americas Washington Steps up Family Expulsions as U.S.-Mexico Border Arrivals Keep Climbing

Mar 26 Weather & Environment Africa’s Elephants Now Endangered by Poaching, Habitat Loss

Mar 25 Europe Brexit Reality Stokes Fears for the Peace in Northern Ireland

Mar 25 Weather & Environment Forecast for Spring: Nasty Drought Worsens for Much of U.S.

Mar 25 Geopolitics What Do North Korea’s Missile Tests Mean for U.S. Relations?

Mar 24 Weather & Environment Volcano Erupts Near Iceland’s Capital

Mar 24 Politics After Israel’s Tight Election, Who Matters and What Happens Next?

Mar 23 Analysis Analysis: U.S. Sanctions on Russia Will Send a Signal, If Not Deter

Mar 23 Asia Several Dead, Thousands of Homes Burn as Fire Sweeps Rohingya Camp

Mar 23 Crime & Punishment Colorado Shooting Leaves 10 Dead in Latest Mass Tragedy

Mar 22 Weather & Environment Is it Snowing Microplastics in Siberia? Russian Scientists Take Samples

Mar 19 Science & Technology Scientists in U.S. and Canada Set to Battle Murder Hornets

Mar 19 Weather & Environment With ‘Big One’ Coming, Quake Alert System Expands West Coast Coverage

Mar 19 Middle East Taliban Expect U.S. Withdrawal, Vow to Restore Islamic Rule

Mar 19 Politics What Is the Senate Filibuster and Why Change It?

Mar 19 Geopolitics U.S., Chinese Diplomats Clash in First High-level Meeting of Biden Administration

Mar 18 Middle East More Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered in Israel

Mar 17 Crime & Punishment Georgia Massage Parlor Shootings Leave 8 Dead

Mar 17 Europe Britain to Expand Nuclear Warhead Stockpile by Over 40 Percent as Global Threats Rise

Mar 15 Asia China’s Worst Sandstorm in Decade Symptom of Deforestation

Mar 12 Politics President Biden’s First 50 Days: Where He Stands on Key Promises

Mar 12 Asia Ten Years On, Grief Never Subsides for Some Survivors of Japan’s Tsunami

Mar 12 Health Issues Global Rise in Childhood Mental Health Issues amid Pandemic

Mar 12 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Budget Deficit Hits Record $1.05 Trillion After 5 Months

Mar 12 Middle East Syrian Youth Still Paying High Price for Decade of War

Mar 12 Science & Technology New Space Race: China, Russia to Build Lunar Research Station

Mar 12 Asia 'Shoot Till They Are Dead'—Some Myanmar Police Say Fled to India After Refusing Orders

Mar 10 Marriage & Family Brazil Women Suffer in Silence as COVID-19 Sparks Domestic Terror

Mar 9 Weather & Environment Two-thirds of Tropical Rainforest Destroyed or Degraded Globally

Mar 8 Africa At Least 20 Dead, 600 Wounded in Equatorial Guinea Blasts

Mar 5 Religion Pope Visits Iraq amid Christian Persecution by ISIS

Mar 5 Society & Lifestyles Despite Less Drivers on Roads, U.S. Traffic Deaths Spike

Mar 5 Middle East Report: U.S. Wasted Billions on Cars, Buildings in Afghanistan

Mar 5 Geopolitics Pew Survey: American Attitudes Toward China Hardening

Mar 4 International 17 Percent of Food Production Globally Wasted, UN Report Estimates

Mar 4 Asia North Korea May Be Trying to Extract Plutonium, Photos Show

Mar 3 Africa U.S. Is ‘Gravely Concerned’ by Reports of Abuses in Ethiopia

Mar 2 Africa Thousands Flee Rebel Violence in Central African Republic

Mar 2 Middle East Israeli PM Netanyahu Accuses Iran of Attacking Cargo Ship

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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