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January 16, 2026: AFRICA

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

LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Thousands of people in Nigeria’s strife-torn northeast are facing the risk of catastrophic food shortages for the first time in nearly a decade, as aid cuts deepen malnutrition across the region, the UN World Food Programme warned on Friday.

January 16, 2026: MIDDLE EAST

Explainer: What Is the Status of Iran’s Main Nuclear Facilities?

VIENNA (Reuters) – Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters would not be executed, but he is keeping “all of his options on the table,” the White House said.

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December 2022

Dec 29 Middle East Israel Swears in Benjamin Netanyahu for Sixth Term as Prime Minister

Dec 29 Europe Russia Fires Barrage of Missiles, Ukraine Condemns ‘Senseless Barbarism’

Dec 29 Africa Abduction, Torture, Rape: Conflict in Congo Worsens, Says UN

Dec 28 Americas Caught in the Crossfire, Peru Protest Deaths Keep Anger Burning

Dec 27 Weather & Environment ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ Blizzard Kills Over 30 in Western New York

Dec 26 Weather & Environment Deep Freeze Breaks Pipes, Creates Water Crisis Across South

Dec 23 Politics Explainer: Undoing of Roe Quickly Shifts Abortion in States

Dec 23 Americas Migrants Near U.S. Border Face Frigid Wait for Key Asylum Ruling

Dec 22 Europe Explainer: What Is the Patriot Missile Defense System?

Dec 20 Australia & South Pacific Australia’s Housing Crisis, Largely Hidden, Is Getting Worse

Dec 20 Society & Lifestyles U.S. Study: Over Half of Car Crash Victims Had Drugs or Alcohol in System

Dec 19 Middle East Floods in Lebanon Leave Syrian Refugees Counting Their Losses

Dec 16 Asia As Regional Threats Rise, Japan Eases Defense-only Strategy

Dec 16 Science & Technology Explainer: Why Fusion Could Be a Clean-energy Breakthrough

Dec 15 Health Issues Canada Prepares to Expand Assisted Death Amid Debate

Dec 14 Europe Free for a Month, Kherson Still Toils to Clear Russian Traps

Dec 1 Americas Study: U.S. Gun Death Rates Hit Highest Levels in Decades

Dec 1 Health Issues Avian Flu Outbreak Wipes Out 50.54 Million U.S. Birds, a Record

November 2022

Nov 30 Religion Census: Christians a Minority in England; Non-religious Grow

Nov 30 Weather & Environment Tornadoes Fueled by Record Highs Wrecked Homes Around South

Nov 28 Asia China Eases COVID Rules After Wide Protests of Lockdowns

Nov 25 Education School’s Out: Pakistan Floods Raise Education Fears for Millions

Nov 25 Health Issues UN: Children in Haiti Hit by Cholera as Malnutrition Rises

Nov 22 Asia North Korea Warns U.S. of ‘a More Fatal Security Crisis’

Nov 22 Europe Cold and Dark: Kyiv Readies for ‘Worst Winter of Our Lives’

Nov 21 Weather & Environment Indonesia Quake Kills Over 160, Search for Survivors Continues

Nov 18 Health Issues Schools Struggle to Staff Up for Youth Mental Health Crisis

Nov 17 Europe A ‘Barbed Wire Curtain’ Rises in Europe amid War in Ukraine

Nov 16 Economy & Personal Finance Rising Food Costs Take a Bite Out of Thanksgiving Dinner

Nov 15 Politics Democrats Defy ‘Red Wave’ Forecasts to Keep Senate Control, Eye Georgia

Nov 14 Middle East Israel’s Netanyahu Officially Tapped to Form Government

Nov 11 Europe Explainer: How Important Is a Russian Retreat from Kherson?

Nov 11 Health Issues U.S. Now Providing Abortion Access for Detained Migrant Youths

Nov 10 Asia Suspected Chinese Rocket Debris Found in Philippine Waters

Nov 9 Europe Inflation Strikes Disrupt Trains, Flights in Greece, Belgium

Nov 8 Health Issues Alcohol Death Toll Is Growing, U.S. Government Reports Say

Nov 7 Politics How Long Will It Take to Know Who Won in U.S. Midterm Elections?

Nov 4 Middle East Benjamin Netanyahu Set to Return to Power in Israel After PM Concedes

Nov 4 Politics Like U.S., Mexico Faces a State-by-State Divide Over Abortion

Nov 3 Asia North Korea Keeps Up Missile Barrage with Launch of ICBM

Nov 2 Asia 3 Tragedies in Asia Take Hundreds of Lives in 1 Month

October 2022

Oct 31 Australia & South Pacific U.S. Plans to Deploy Nuclear-capable B-52s to Australia amid China Tensions

Oct 28 Economy & Personal Finance Explainer: How Will We Know If the U.S. Is in Recession?

Oct 27 Middle East Gunmen Attack Major Shia Holy Site in Iran, Killing 15

Oct 26 Politics Explainer: Why the British Public Is Not Choosing Its Leader

Oct 21 Weather & Environment Report: Hurricane Ian Farm Loss Could Reach $1.56 Billion

Oct 20 Americas Months After Floods, Brazil’s Amazon Faces a Severe Drought

September 2022

Sep 30 Politics As Political Division Ramps Up, Clergy Struggle to Unify Congregants

Sep 30 Science & Technology House Approves Antitrust Bill Targeting Big Tech Dominance

Sep 29 Weather & Environment People Trapped, Millions Without Power After Ian Pummels Florida

Sep 29 Asia 3 Million Children May Miss a Semester in Flood-hit Pakistan

Sep 28 Europe Russia Poised to Annex Occupied Ukraine after “Sham” Vote

Sep 27 Weather & Environment Hurricane Ian Nears Cuba on Path to Strike Florida as Category 4

Sep 22 Europe Europe’s Vegetable Farmers Warn of Shortages as Energy Crisis Bites

Sep 21 Middle East Iranians See Widespread Internet Blackout amid Mass Protests

Sep 20 Americas Hurricane Fiona Hits Turks and Caicos, Puerto Rico Still Stunned

Sep 16 Society & Lifestyles Queen’s Death Is Reminder of Disappearing World War II Generation

Sep 15 Economy & Personal Finance As ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Plans Grow, So Do Delinquencies

Sep 13 Europe Armenia Says 49 Soldiers Killed in Attacks by Azerbaijan

Sep 12 International Modern Slavery on the Rise as Crises Fuel Poverty—UN Report

Sep 8 Science & Technology Navy Wants New Destroyer with Lasers, Hypersonic Missiles

Sep 7 Europe Explainer: Europe Struggles with Crisis as Russia Cuts Gas

Sep 2 Asia India Launches New Aircraft Carrier as China Concerns Grow

Sep 1 Media Survey Finds Young People Follow News, But Without Much Joy

August 2022

Aug 30 Europe German Leader Outlines Vision for Bigger, More Coherent EU

Aug 26 Europe Explainer: Where Ukraine War Stands After 6 Months

Aug 24 Health Issues WFP: People Facing Acute Food Insecurity Reach 345 Million Worldwide

Aug 23 Weather & Environment Study: Europe Facing Its Worst Drought in 500 Years

Aug 22 Europe ‘Time Stopped’: Ukrainians Long to Go Home as War Drags On

Aug 19 Weather & Environment Crisis Looms Without Big Cuts to Over-tapped Colorado River

Aug 18 Europe Could Germany Keep Its Nuclear Plants Running?

Aug 17 Americas Mexico’s Week of Drug Violence Shakes Administration

Aug 15 Asia Afghanistan Marks 1 Year Since Taliban Seizure as Woes Mount

Aug 12 Asia At 75, India’s Democracy Is Under Pressure Like Never Before

Aug 12 Middle East Beirut Bank Standoff Exposes Desperation of Economic Crisis

Aug 9 Asia Taiwan Warns China Drills Show Ambitions Beyond Island

Aug 8 Middle East Explainer: What Is Driving the Current Israel-Gaza Violence

Aug 5 Africa In a First, Somalia-based al-Shabab Is Attacking in Ethiopia

Aug 4 Weather & Environment A Race to Save Fish as Rio Grande Dries, Even in Albuquerque

Aug 3 Terrorism & Security Al-Qaida Will Pursue Attacks Undeterred by Zawahiri Loss, Experts Say

Aug 2 Americas ‘VIP Trips’ Cost Migrants Their Lives in Texas Smuggling Tragedy

Aug 1 Weather & Environment More Rain in Appalachian Floods, Curfews Imposed Due to Looting

July 2022

Jul 29 Middle East What Is Behind the Storming of Iraq’s Parliament?

Jul 29 Asia Kim Jong Un Threatens to Use Nukes amid Tensions with US, South Korea

Jul 28 Economy & Personal Finance From Grain to Gasoline: A Brief World History of Rationing

Jul 26 Africa Liberia Marks Bicentennial Amid Challenges

Jul 25 Society & Lifestyles Study: Millennials Did Not Stray Far from Where They Grew Up

Jul 22 Economy & Personal Finance Analysis: Ukraine War Rekindles Europe’s Demand for African Oil and Gas

Jul 21 Weather & Environment Monarch Butterflies Now Listed as Endangered

Jul 20 Geopolitics Vladimir Putin, in Tehran, Gets Strong Support from Iran over Ukraine

Jul 18 Religion U.S. Houses of Worship Increase Security After Shootings

Jul 15 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Inflation Surges Again in June, Raising Risks for Economy

Jul 15 Africa Outbreaks from Animals in Africa Surge by 60% in Last Decade

Jul 14 Weather & Environment Giant Sequoias May Benefit from Fire in California’s Yosemite, Official Says

Jul 13 Asia Sri Lanka in Crisis: President Flees and Ire Turns to Prime Minister

Jul 12 Science & Technology NASA Telescope’s 1st Image: Deepest Look at Cosmos Yet

Jul 11 Economy & Personal Finance Ships Get Older and Slower as Emissions Rules Bite

Jul 8 Politics Inflation, Expenses Rise Sharply as Priorities: AP-NORC Poll

Jul 8 Asia Assassination of Japan’s Shinzo Abe Stuns World Leaders

Jul 7 Politics What’s Next for UK after Boris Johnson’s Resignation?

Jul 6 Asia Taiwan Touts New Air Force Advanced Training Jet’s Abilities

Jul 1 Asia President Xi Defends Vision of Hong Kong on 25th Anniversary of Return

June 2022

Jun 30 Geopolitics Explainer: How Was Turkey’s Veto of Nordic NATO Bid Avoided?

Jun 29 Europe U.S. to Boost Military Presence in Europe for Russia Threat

Jun 28 Americas 50 Migrants Die in Trailer Abandoned in San Antonio Heat

Jun 27 Asia Sri Lankan Prime Minister: Island’s Economy ‘Has Collapsed’

Jun 24 Middle East Explainer: Why Is Israel Always Holding Elections?

Jun 23 Europe Germany Faces Natural Gas ‘Crisis,’ Raises Warning Level

Jun 22 Asia Afghanistan Quake Kills 1,000 People, Deadliest in Decades

Jun 21 Weather & Environment Sweltering Streets: Hundreds of Homeless Die in Extreme Heat

Jun 20 Weather & Environment Yellowstone Flooding Rebuild Could Take Years, Cost Billions

Jun 17 Health Issues EPA: ‘Forever Chemicals’ Pose Risk Even at Very Low Levels

Jun 16 Africa Congo Official: Rwanda Will Have War if It Wants War

Jun 15 International WTO Chief Warns of Rocky Road to Deals amid ‘Polycrisis’

Jun 13 Science & Technology Newest Galaxy Data a ‘Gold Mine’ for Astronomy

Jun 10 Americas Explainer: Crime, Impunity Surge in Amazon’s Javari Valley

Jun 8 Asia China, Cambodia Break Ground on Port, Dismiss U.S. Concerns

Jun 6 Africa Nigerian Forces Hunt for Gunmen Who Killed 50 at a Church

Jun 3 Europe Russia May Be in Ukraine to Stay after 100 Days of War

Jun 3 Health Issues Melatonin Poisoning Reports Are Up in Kids, Study Says

Jun 2 Health Issues Pathogens Jumping from Animals to Humans Becoming More Frequent

May 2022

May 31 Economy & Personal Finance Analysis: How the Ukraine Conflict Is Reshaping Global Oil Markets

May 27 Economy & Personal Finance Worry About Stagflation, a Flashback to ‘70s, Begins to Grow

May 27 Asia 1.1 Million Afghan Children Could Face Severe Malnutrition

May 26 Crime & Punishment A Grim Chronology of Mass Shootings in the United States

May 26 Geopolitics Explainer: What Turkey’s Erdogan Could Gain in NATO Debate

May 25 Health Issues EXPLAINER: What Is Monkeypox and Where Is It Spreading?

May 24 Health Issues Report: Dramatic Rise in Pesticides in EU Fruits, Vegetables

May 23 Europe After 3 Months of War, Life in Russia Has Profoundly Changed

May 19 Europe Russia Uses New Laser Weapons in Ukraine

May 18 Geopolitics NATO Chief Hails ‘Historic Moment’ as Finland, Sweden Apply

May 17 Middle East Hezbollah, Allies Lose Majority in Lebanon Parliament

May 16 Crime & Punishment New York Supermarket Shooting Probe to Weigh if Warning Signs Were Missed

May 13 Science & Technology Scientists Unveil Image of ‘Gentle Giant’ Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center

May 11 Europe Britain Pledges to Come to Sweden’s Aid if Attacked

May 10 Europe Sinn Fein Calls for United Ireland Debate after Historic Win

May 6 Europe Vladimir Putin to Send ‘Doomsday’ Warning to West at Russia’s World War II Victory Parade

May 5 Asia For Sri Lankan Tea Pickers, Economic Crisis Shatters Dreams

May 4 Europe Ukraine Says It Is ‘Ready’ if Belarus Joins Russian War Effort

May 3 Health Issues UN: Obesity Levels in Europe at ‘Epidemic Proportions’

May 2 Weather & Environment Vegas Water Intake Now Visible at Drought-stricken Lake Mead

April 2022

Apr 29 Asia North Korea’s Kim Calls for Stronger Military as Nuclear Test Work ‘Well Underway’

Apr 28 Society & Lifestyles Four Months after Tornado, Kentucky Focuses on Rebuilding

Apr 26 Europe Russia Hits Faraway Targets; Diplomat Warns of Risk of WWIII

Apr 25 Politics French President Macron Reelected: What Is Happening Next?

Apr 21 Europe Russia’s Chernobyl Seizure Seen as Nuclear Risk ‘Nightmare’

Apr 20 Society & Lifestyles ‘We’re Done with Dead Kids’: U.S. Bars Hand Out Free Fentanyl Tests

Apr 19 Europe ‘It’s Not the End’: The Children Who Survived Bucha’s Horror

Apr 18 Middle East Clashes Erupt Near Flashpoint Jerusalem Holy Site

Apr 15 Weather & Environment Expanding Drought Leaves Western U.S. Scrambling for Water

Apr 14 Religion For Jews Fleeing Ukraine, Passover Takes on New Meaning

Apr 13 Europe Chemical Weapons Use from Syrian War Stokes Ukraine’s Fears

Apr 12 Americas Mexican Cartels Swap Arms for Cocaine, Fueling Colombia Violence

Apr 11 Europe France Presidential Election Again Pits Macron Versus Le Pen

Apr 8 Americas U.S. Speeds Entry for Ukrainians as More Reach Mexico Border

Apr 8 Geopolitics Can War Massacres Sway China’s Support of Russia?

Apr 5 Geopolitics Australia, UK, U.S. Alliance to Develop Hypersonic Missiles

Apr 4 Health Issues WHO Says 99 Percent of World’s Population Breathes Poor-quality Air

Apr 1 Europe War in Ukraine Fuels Fears Among Draft-age Russian Youths

March 2022

Mar 31 Asia Taliban Hardliners Turning Back the Clock in Afghanistan

Mar 30 Geopolitics Prince William Hints at Backing Caribbean Nations Breaking from Crown

Mar 25 Asia What Made North Korea Test Its Biggest ICBM Yet?

Mar 23 Crime & Punishment Not ‘Your Mother’s Spring Break’: Miami Beach Shootings Draws Curfew, Concern

Mar 22 Europe Europe Struggles to Meet Mounting Needs of Ukraine’s Fleeing Millions

Mar 21 Asia Exclusive: U.S. Admiral Says China Fully Militarized Contested Isles

Mar 18 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Grew Wealthier, Better Educated in 2nd Half of 2010s

Mar 17 Africa A Green Island Turns Red: Madagascar Struggles Through Long Drought

Mar 16 Geopolitics Israel’s PM Bennett Emerges as a Mediator in Russia-Ukraine War

Mar 15 Asia As World Watches Russia, Myanmar Army Steps Up Attacks

Mar 14 Europe Russia-Ukraine War: Key Things to Know about the Conflict

Mar 11 Europe Russians Pounding Ukraine, but Mariupol Is No Aleppo—Yet

Mar 11 Asia Japan Marks 11 Years Since Quake, Tsunami, Nuclear Disaster

Mar 10 Asia North Korea to Launch Satellites to Monitor U.S. and Its Allies

Mar 9 Science & Technology Antarctic Explorer Shackleton’s Ship Found after a Century

Mar 8 Economy & Personal Finance President Biden to Ban Russian Oil Imports over Ukraine War

Mar 7 Geopolitics China Lashes U.S. over Its Military Ties with Asian Nations

Mar 4 Education No More Extra Credit? Schools Rethink Approaches to Grades

Mar 3 Europe Russia’s War in Ukraine after One Week—Cities Besieged as Refugees Flee

Mar 2 International Global Food Supply at Risk from Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Mar 1 Australia & South Pacific Thousands Evacuate Worst Australian Floods in Over a Decade

February 2022

Feb 25 Weather & Environment UN Body Weighs a Global Treaty to Fight Plastic Pollution

Feb 25 Europe Ukraine Invasion: What to Know as Russian Forces Target Kyiv

Feb 24 Europe Russia Attacks Ukraine; Peace in Europe ‘Shattered’

Feb 23 Education ‘Kids Are Broken’ with Online Teaching as Hong Kong Upsets Parents with Early School Break

Feb 23 Geopolitics Why Russia Won’t Leave Ukraine Alone

Feb 22 Geopolitics Explainer: What Is the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline?

Feb 21 International Beijing’s Olympics Close, Ending Odd Global Moment

Feb 18 Asia Six Months of Taliban: Afghans Safer, Poorer, Less Hopeful

Feb 17 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Accuses China of Backing Away from Free-Trade Commitments

Feb 17 Geopolitics Russia’s Olympic Doping Case Helps China Skirt Dicey Topics

Feb 16 Americas Ottawa’s Police Chief Ousted amid Truck Protest in Canada

Feb 15 Crime & Punishment DNA Analysis of Elephant Ivory Reveals Trafficking Networks

Feb 14 Europe U.S. Says Russia May Create Pretext to Attack Ukraine

Feb 11 Politics ‘Nobody Is Ready’: Many U.S. Cities Lack Resources to Chase $1 Trillion Infrastructure Windfall

Feb 10 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Inflation Jumped 7.5 Percent in the Past Year, a 40-year High

Feb 9 Middle East Iran Unveils Long-range Missile as Vienna Nuclear Talks Resume

Feb 7 Asia Fearing Junta, Hundreds of Myanmar Parents Disown Dissident Children

Feb 4 Profile ‘Elizabeth the Steadfast’: Queen Marks 70 Years on Throne

Feb 3 Weather & Environment The Race Is On to Save the Great Salt Lake: Will It Be Enough?

Feb 2 Middle East Islamic State Hits Back, Aided by Power Vacuum in Iraq and Syria

Feb 1 Africa Millions at Risk as Drought Threatens the Horn of Africa

January 2022

Jan 31 International Explainer: Can the UN Do More than just Talk About Russia, Ukraine Crisis?

Jan 27 International World Remembers Holocaust as Antisemitism Rises in Pandemic

Jan 25 Science & Technology New Space Telescope Reaches Final Stop Million Miles Out

Jan 24 Middle East UAE, U.S. Intercept Houthi Missile Attack Targeting Abu Dhabi

Jan 21 Health Issues Study: Drug-resistant Bacteria Kill 1.2 million Globally

Jan 20 Weather & Environment U.S. Plans $50B Wildfire Fight Where Forests Meet Civilization

Jan 19 Geopolitics Russia Says It Will Take Nothing Less but NATO Expansion Ban as It Moves Troops West

Jan 18 Middle East Around 20 Killed in Deadliest Coalition Strikes on Yemen’s Sanaa since 2019

Jan 14 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. Grocery Shortages Deepen as Pandemic Dries Supplies

Jan 13 Europe EXPLAINER: How Europe Is Trying to Deal with Its Gas Crisis

Jan 11 Asia Kazakh Leader: Russia-led Security Group to Pull Out Troops

Jan 10 Americas NYC Building Space Heater Malfunction Sparks Fire that Kills 19, Including 9 Children

Jan 7 Education Families Despair over Post-holiday Return to Remote Learning

Jan 7 Europe EXPLAINER: What Does Record Inflation Mean for the Eurozone?

Jan 5 Asia Protests Escalate in Kazakhstan; President’s Home Set Ablaze

Jan 4 Geopolitics Iran Vows Revenge for Soleimani Killing if Donald Trump Not Put on Trial

Jan 3 Weather & Environment ‘So Many Memories’: Nearly 1,000 Homes Destroyed by Colorado Fire

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