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August 6, 2026: HEALTH ISSUES

Afghanistan’s Child Deaths Are Rising as Food Distributions Face Cuts, UN Says

ROME (AP) – Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support, the UN World Food Program said Tuesday.

August 5, 2026: WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT

Record Low Danube Levels Push Some Countries in Eastern Europe to the Brink of Energy Emergency

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis as record low water levels on the Danube River have forced power plants to the brink of shutting down.

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Oct 4 Middle East What to Know About Fighting in Lebanon and Gaza

Oct 2 Economy & Personal Finance When the Dollar Store Closes, U.S. Families on Food Benefits Lose a Lifeline

Oct 1 Americas Hunger in Haiti Reaches Famine Levels as Gangs Squeeze Life Out of the Capital and Beyond

Oct 1 Asia China Marks 75 Years of Communist Party Rule as Economic Challenges and Security Threats Linger

September 2024

Sep 30 Weather & Environment Hurricane Helene Kills at Least 90 in U.S., Homes and Memories Washed Away

Sep 25 Health Issues Severe Obesity Is on the Rise in the U.S.

Sep 25 Middle East What to Know About the Growing Conflict Between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah

Sep 20 Americas Railroads and Regulators Must Address the Dangers of Long Trains, Report Says

Sep 19 Weather & Environment Portugal Declares a State of Calamity as Wildfires Rage Out of Control

Sep 18 Middle East What to Know About the Two Waves of Deadly Explosions that Hit Lebanon and Syria

Sep 17 Politics Democracy Declined for 8th Straight Year Around the Globe, Institute Finds

Sep 16 Americas 5 Things to Know About the Apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump

Sep 13 Asia What to Know About North Korea’s Unveiling of Its Uranium Enrichment Facility

Sep 12 Middle East The Palestinian Economy Is in Free Fall and Will Require Billions to Rebuild, the UN Says

Sep 11 Science & Technology Cyberattacks on U.S. Utilities Surged 70 Percent This Year, Says Check Point

Sep 10 Science & Technology A Robot Begins Removal of Melted Fuel from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. It Could Take a Century

Sep 10 Weather & Environment During Brazil’s Worst Drought, Wildfires Rage and the Amazon River Falls to a Record Low

Sep 6 Weather & Environment Pakistan Has Not Learned Lessons from 2022 Deadly Floods, Experts Say

Sep 6 Americas Cocaine Trade in the Rugged Micay Canyon Threatens Colombia’s Peace Efforts

Sep 5 Americas Hunger in U.S. Continued Multi-year Rise in 2023, Government Report Says

Sep 5 Asia Students in Bangladesh Forced Out the Country’s Leader a Month Ago. Where Do Things Stand Now?

Sep 3 Society & Lifestyles New Unproductive Forces: The Chinese Youth Owning Their Unemployment

August 2024

Aug 30 Science & Technology Explainer: Why South Korea Is on High Alert over Deepfake Sex Crimes

Aug 29 Middle East Iran Has Further Increased Its Stockpile of Uranium Enriched to Near Weapons-grade Levels, UN Says

Aug 28 Weather & Environment Drying Lakes and Thirsty Trees: In Drought-hit Greece, Water Trucks Are Keeping Crops Alive

Aug 27 Science & Technology Older Americans Prepare Themselves for a World Altered by Artificial Intelligence

Aug 23 Weather & Environment As Drought Breeds Hunger in Guatemala, Farming Program Aims to Help

Aug 23 Asia In Myanmar’s Jungles, Young Volunteers Train Hard to Fight Junta

Aug 23 Health Issues Cholera Spreads as Sudan Grapples with Rains and Displacement

Aug 22 Africa Libya’s Instability Will Worsen Further Without a Unified Government and Elections, UN Envoy Says

Aug 20 International UN Says a Record Number of Aid Workers Were Killed in 2023 and This Year May Be Even Higher

Aug 16 Education Taliban Have Deliberately Deprived 1.4 Million Afghan Girls of Schooling Through Bans, Says UNESCO

Aug 16 Health Issues Explainer: Why Is Mpox an Emergency Again, and How Worried Should You Be?

Aug 12 International On Geneva Conventions’ 75th Anniversary, Fighters in Gaza, Ukraine and Beyond Ignore Rulebook of War

Aug 9 Africa U.S. Warns a Famine in Sudan Is on Pace to Be the Deadliest in Decades as the World Looks Elsewhere

Aug 9 Weather & Environment Heat Deaths of People Without Air Conditioning Underscore Energy Inequity

Aug 7 Africa U.S. Hands Over Its Last Military Base in Niger to the Ruling Junta

Aug 6 Weather & Environment Severe Drought Has Returned to the Amazon. And It Is Happening Earlier than Expected

Aug 5 Asia Protests Toppled Bangladesh’s Government and Drove Powerful PM into Exile. How Did They Get Here?

Aug 2 Europe F-16s Have Arrived to Help Ukraine Fight Russia. What Is Their Possible Impact?

Aug 2 Weather & Environment Rain, Debris, Leeches: India Landslide Survivors Recall ‘Night of Horrors’

Aug 1 Weather & Environment Extended Drought Parches Sicily, and Farmers Worry About Being Forced to Sell Off Animals

July 2024

Jul 31 Crime & Punishment Extortion and Gang Violence Hit Even Big Corporations and Business Leaders in Mexico

Jul 31 Middle East Killing of Hamas Chief in Iran Stirs Fears of Retaliation, Israel Stays Silent on Incident

Jul 30 Africa Rights Group Says Sexual Violence Is Rampant in Sudan’s Conflict

Jul 29 Middle East Explainer: Why the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Is Heating Up Again

Jul 26 Health Issues Drive to End Global Hunger Has Stalled, UN Warns

Jul 25 Australia & South Pacific Inquiry Finds 200,000 People Were Abused in Care in New Zealand Over Decades in ‘National Disgrace’

Jul 24 Geopolitics Hamas and Fatah Agree to Form a Government. What Does It Mean and Who Are These Palestinian Groups?

Jul 23 Asia Myanmar’s Civil War Has Seen a Devastating Increase in Attacks on Schools, Researchers Say

Jul 23 Terrorism & Security With AI, Jets and Police Squadrons, Paris Is Securing the Olympics—and Worrying Critics

Jul 22 Geopolitics President Biden’s Withdrawal Injects Uncertainty into Foreign Policy Challenges

Jul 19 Science & Technology Pagers and Drones: How Hezbollah Aims to Counter Israel’s High-tech Surveillance

Jul 18 Americas Mexico’s Efforts to Seize U.S.-bound Fentanyl Drop Sharply, While Seizures of Meth Soar

Jul 18 Middle East U.S. Military Pier for Carrying Aid to Gaza Will Be Dismantled After Weather and Security Problems

Jul 17 Weather & Environment With Sewage Gushing into Sea, U.S. and Mexican Border Towns Plead for Help

Jul 15 Americas What to Know About the Donald Trump Assassination Attempt and Investigation

Jul 10 Middle East The Taliban’s Morality Police Are Contributing to a Climate of Fear Among Afghans, UN Says

Jul 9 Geopolitics What to Know About the NATO Military Alliance and How It Is Helping Ukraine

Jul 9 Society & Lifestyles Support for Legal Abortion Has Risen Since Supreme Court Eliminated Protections, AP-NORC Poll Finds

June 2024

Jun 27 Africa 755,000 People at Risk of Famine in Coming Months in War-torn Sudan, Experts Warn

Jun 27 Americas States Fail to Track Abuses in Foster Care Facilities Housing Thousands of Children, U.S. Says

Jun 26 Geopolitics With Niger Exit, U.S. Intelligence Dims on Growing West Africa Insurgencies

Jun 26 Europe Ukraine Starts EU Membership Talks in Midst of War

Jun 21 Middle East The Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Militant Group Warns Archenemy Israel Against Wider War

Jun 20 Africa Jihadis from Africa’s Sahel Have Crossed into Nigeria’s North, a New Report Says. A Lot Is at Stake

Jun 19 Geopolitics Russia and North Korea Sign Partnership Deal That Appears to Be the Strongest Since the Cold War

Jun 19 International UN: World Falling Behind on Environment, Health and Hunger Goals

Jun 18 Marriage & Family Thailand to Be First Southeast Asian Country to Recognize Same-sex Marriage

Jun 17 Science & Technology U.S. as Many as 15 Years Behind China on Nuclear Power, Report Says

Jun 14 Science & Technology Bird Flu Is Highly Lethal to Some Animals, but Not to Others. Scientists Want to Know Why

Jun 14 Middle East In Northern Gaza, Starved Families Survive on Bread Alone

Jun 13 Weather & Environment Mass Fish Death in Mexico’s Chihuahua State Blamed on Severe Drought

Jun 13 Europe Russia Broadens Tactical Nuclear Weapons Drills

Jun 10 Africa The UN Says More Than 10 Million People in Sudan Have Now Fled Their Homes as War Continues

Jun 7 Economy & Personal Finance A Quarter of the World’s Children Under 5 Have Severe Food Poverty, UN Says

Jun 6 Americas New Reality for Migrants at U.S.-Mexico Border as Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect

Jun 6 International D-Day 80th Anniversary Sees Dwindling Number of Veterans, Shadowed by Europe’s New War

Jun 5 Economy & Personal Finance The UN Says Global Public Debt Hit a Record $97 Trillion in 2023. Developing Countries Are Hard Hit

Jun 4 Middle East As Gaza Hostage Crisis Drags On for Israel, Here Is What We Know

Jun 3 Science & Technology China Lands on Moon’s Far Side in Historic Sample-retrieval Mission

May 2024

May 31 Europe Berlin Lets Ukraine Use German Weapons Against Targets in Russia After the U.S. Also Eases Stance

May 30 Middle East Israel Seizes Gaza’s Entire Border with Egypt, Presses with Raids into Rafah

May 30 Health Issues Dengue Cases in Americas Surpass Last Year’s Record High, WHO Says

May 29 Middle East Syrians in Lebanon Fear Unprecedented Restrictions, Deportations

May 29 Middle East Nearly 3 Out of 10 Children in Afghanistan Face Crisis or Emergency Level of Hunger

May 24 Economy & Personal Finance Borrowers, Especially the Young, Struggle with Credit Card Debt in Potentially Bad Sign for Economy

May 24 Geopolitics China Sends Dozens of Warplanes and Ships Near Taiwan to Show Anger Over Island’s New Leaders

May 24 Weather & Environment It Is So Hot in Mexico, Howler Monkeys Are Falling Dead from the Trees

May 23 Society & Lifestyles Daily Marijuana Use Outpaces Daily Drinking in the U.S., a New Study Says

May 22 Geopolitics Spain, Ireland and Norway Say They Will Recognize a Palestinian State. Why Does That Matter?

May 21 Science & Technology U.S. Says Cyberattacks Against Water Supplies Are Rising, and Utilities Need to Do More to Stop Them

May 17 Economy & Personal Finance Taiwan Is Selling More to the U.S. than China in Major Shift Away from Beijing

May 17 Health Issues Obesity and High Blood Sugar Play Ever-growing Role in Ill Health, Study Shows

May 17 Americas San Diego Is the Latest Hot Spot for Illegal Border Crossings. But Routes Change Quickly

May 15 International Migration Tracking Group Says 76 Million People Were Displaced Within Their Countries in 2023

May 14 Americas As Gang Conflict Rages, Violence Is Traumatizing Haitian Kids

May 13 Europe Grit, Humor, Grief and Gloom Mix as Ukrainians Face New Phase in the War

May 10 Crime & Punishment Guns Are Being Stolen From Cars at Triple the Rate of 10 Years Ago, Report Finds

May 9 International Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Spread Across Europe. Some Are Allowed. Some Are Stopped

May 8 Religion United Methodist Delegates Repeal Their Church’s Ban on its Clergy Celebrating Same-sex Marriages

May 8 Analysis Analysis: In Myanmar War, Crucial Window Looms for Junta and Rebels

May 7 Americas As the U.S. Moves to Reclassify Marijuana as a Less Dangerous Drug, Could More States Legalize It?

May 6 Science & Technology China Sends a Probe to Get Samples From the Less-explored Far Side of the Moon

May 3 Weather & Environment E-waste Is Overflowing Landfills. At One Sprawling Vietnam Market, Workers Recycle Some of It

May 2 Americas At Least 2,000 People Arrested in Pro-Palestinian Protests on U.S. Campuses, AP Tally Shows

May 2 Geopolitics About 4 in 10 Americans See China as an Enemy, Pew Report Shows

May 2 Health Issues Improve Your Sleep With 5 Tips From Experts

May 1 Weather & Environment 5 Takeaways From the Global Negotiations on a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution

April 2024

Apr 30 Middle East Why Israel Is So Determined to Launch an Offensive in Rafah. And Why So Many Oppose It

Apr 25 Education A Look at the Gaza War Protests That Have Emerged on U.S. College Campuses

Apr 25 Health Issues UN: 282 Million People Faced Acute Hunger in 2023

Apr 19 Middle East Israel, Iran Play Down Apparent Israeli Strike. The Muted Responses Could Calm Tensions—For Now

Apr 19 Africa The West African Sahel Is Becoming a Drug Smuggling Corridor, UN Warns, as Seizures Skyrocket

Apr 17 Middle East Israel Will Defend Itself, Netanyahu Says, as West Calls for Restraint

Apr 16 Americas Colombia’s Capital Starts Rationing Water After Reservoirs Hit Historically Low Levels

Apr 15 Middle East The Shadow War Between Iran and Israel Has Been Exposed. What Happens Next?

Apr 12 Middle East More Aid Is Supposed to Be Entering the Gaza Strip. Why Isn’t It Helping?

Apr 12 Africa Sudan’s War Began a Year Ago. Children Are Among Its Most Fragile Survivors

Apr 11 Americas U.S. Border Security: What Could President Biden, Congress and Texas Do?

Apr 9 Weather & Environment Russia, Kazakhstan Evacuate Over 100,000 People amid Worst Flooding in Decades

Apr 9 Weather & Environment U.S. Wildfires Are Getting Bigger and More Complex, Prompting Changes in Firefighting Workforce

Apr 5 Americas Haiti’s Surge in Gang Violence Has Led More Than 53,000 to Flee the Capital in Less Than Three Weeks

Apr 5 International Explainer: Could the Palestinians Become a Full United Nations Member?

Apr 5 Health Issues U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Were at the Highest Level in a Decade in 2023

Apr 4 Science & Technology What to Know About Next Week’s Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S., Mexico and Canada

Apr 3 Middle East Analysis: Many Iranian Options to Retaliate Against Israel, But All Carry Risk

Apr 1 Health Issues Dengue Is Sweeping Through the Americas Early This Year

March 2024

Mar 29 Geopolitics Analysis: Russian Veto Points to ‘Grim Future’ for North Korea Sanctions Enforcement

Mar 28 Crime & Punishment Haiti Gang Violence Deaths Surge in 2024, UN Report Says

Mar 28 Crime & Punishment Southeast Asia Human Trafficking Now a Global Crisis, Interpol Says

Mar 28 Americas Baltimore Bridge Collapse Highlights Need to Protect Critical Foundations

Mar 27 International 783 Million People Face Chronic Hunger. Yet the World Wastes 19 Percent of Its Food, UN Says

Mar 25 Europe How the Deadliest Attack on Russian Soil in Years Unfolded Over the Weekend

Mar 22 Weather & Environment E-waste From Trashed Electric Devices Is Piling Up and Recycling Is Not Keeping Pace, UN Says

Mar 22 Marriage & Family Global Fertility Rates to Decline, Shifting Population Burden to Low-Income Countries

Mar 22 Americas Drug Overdoses Reach Another Record with Almost 108,000 Americans in 2022, CDC Says

Mar 21 Africa Taps Have Run Dry Across South Africa’s Largest City in an Unprecedented Water Crisis

Mar 20 Americas More Than 60 Percent of U.S. Abortions in 2023 Were Done by Pill, Study Shows

Mar 19 International Gaza and Haiti Are on the Brink of Famine, Experts Say. What Does That Mean?

Mar 15 Weather & Environment Chemicals in Plastics Far More Numerous Than Previous Estimates, Report Says

Mar 15 Crime & Punishment Nigeria Kidnappings Break Up Families, Keep Children Out of School

Mar 14 Economy & Personal Finance Many Countries Are Bouncing Back From the Pandemic but the Poorest Are Not, UN Says

Mar 13 Profile Vladimir Putin Is Set to Win 6 More Years in Power. Here’s How It Will Affect the War and Russia’s Relations

Mar 11 Weather & Environment 13 Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan Remembers the Dead and Vows to Keep Rebuilding

Mar 8 Middle East Turkey Struggles to Stop Violence Against Women. At Least 71 Have Been Killed This Year

Mar 7 Geopolitics Sweden Officially Joins NATO, Ending Decades of Post-World War II Neutrality

Mar 6 International Over 8,500 Migrants Died Worldwide Last Year, a Record Since the UN Started Counting in 2014

Mar 5 Crime & Punishment ‘Everybody Is Traumatized’: Haiti’s Violence Renders Thousands Homeless

Mar 4 Health Issues More Than a Billion People Worldwide Are Obese, WHO Study Finds

Mar 1 Middle East A Quarter of Gaza’s Population Is One Step From Famine, UN Says

February 2024

Feb 29 Europe Vladimir Putin Warns West of Risk of Nuclear War, Says Moscow Can Strike Western Targets

Feb 29 Americas The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Donald Trump Is Immune From Federal Prosecution. Here’s What’s Next

Feb 28 Marriage & Family Japan Had the Fewest Babies It Has Ever Recorded Last Year. Marriages Dropped Steeply, Too

Feb 26 Africa UN: Rape and Sexual Violence in Sudan’s Ongoing Conflict May Amount to War Crimes

Feb 23 Europe With Lives Shattered by War, Ukrainian Teens Build New Dreams

Feb 23 Society & Lifestyles Greece Just Legalized Same-Sex Marriage. Will Other Orthodox Countries Join Them Anytime Soon?

Feb 23 Science & Technology U.S. Achieves First Moon Landing in Half-Century with Private Spacecraft

Feb 21 International Attacks on Ships and Drones Show Yemen’s Houthis Can Still Fight Despite U.S.-led Airstrikes

Feb 20 Economy & Personal Finance Gambling Boom: U.S. Casinos Set New Revenue Records in 2023

Feb 19 Africa Why Are Aid Groups Warning of a New Humanitarian Crisis in Eastern Congo?

Feb 16 Crime & Punishment Prison Deaths Report Finds Widespread Missteps, Failures in Latest Sign of Crisis in Federal Prisons

Feb 15 Education Cough? Sore Throat? More Schools Suggest Mildly Sick Kids Attend Anyway

Feb 15 Americas Antisemitism and Safety Fears Surge Among U.S. Jews, Survey Finds

Feb 14 Science & Technology Cyberattacks on Hospitals Are Likely to Increase, Putting Lives at Risk, Experts Warn

Feb 13 Analysis A New Report Says the World Faces a ‘Dangerous Decade’ as Instability and Military Spending Rise

Feb 12 Weather & Environment Nearly Half of the World’s Migratory Species Are in Decline, UN Report Says

Feb 9 Health Issues Sleep Deprivation Epidemic Takes a Heavy Toll on Health

Feb 9 Economy & Personal Finance A Record Number of Americans Can’t Afford Their Rent. Lawmakers Are Scrambling to Help

Feb 8 Economy & Personal Finance Mexico Overtakes China as the Leading Source of Goods Imported by U.S.

Feb 7 Geopolitics The Logistics of War: How Washington Is Preparing for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

Feb 6 Middle East Surrounded by the Ruins of Last Year’s Earthquake, Turkey Mourns Tens of Thousands Dead

Feb 6 International What to Know about the U.S. Strikes in Iraq and Syria and Its Attacks with the UK in Yemen

Feb 5 Americas Resilience and Uncertainty: One Year After East Palestine’s Derailment

Feb 2 Asia India Begins to Flex Naval Power as Competition with China Grows

Feb 1 Americas No Diploma, No Problem. Navy Again Lowers Requirements As It Struggles to Meet Recruitment Goals

January 2024

Jan 31 International Global Anti-Corruption Efforts Are Faltering, Survey Finds

Jan 31 Health Issues The U.S. Hasn’t Seen Syphilis Numbers This High Since 1950. Other STD Rates are Down or Flat

Jan 29 Middle East From Houthis to Hezbollah, a Look at the Iran-Allied Groups Rallying to Arms Around the Middle East

Jan 26 Weather & Environment Groundwater Depletion Accelerating in Many Parts of the World, Study Finds

Jan 26 Middle East Top UN Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza but Stops Short of Ordering Cease-Fire

Jan 25 Crime & Punishment Haiti’s Gang Wars Death Toll Doubles to Nearly 5,000 in a Year: UN

Jan 25 International Antisemitic Acts Have Risen Sharply in Belgium and France Since Israel-Hamas War Began

Jan 23 Crime & Punishment What Is Happening in Ecuador?

Jan 23 Science & Technology Japan Joins an Elite Club by Landing on the Moon. What Are Other Countries Doing?

Jan 22 Americas Fueled by Unprecedented Border Crossings, a Record 3 Million Cases Clog U.S. Immigration Courts

Jan 19 Middle East At Over 100 Days, the Israel-Hamas War Has Transformed the Region. Here are 5 Takeaways

Jan 18 Asia China’s Population Falls for a 2nd Straight Year as Births Drop Even After End of One-Child Policy

Jan 18 Geopolitics Could It Escalate? A Look at What Is Behind Iran and Pakistan’s Airstrikes

Jan 17 International What a New President in Taiwan Means for the Island, China, the U.S. and the World

Jan 16 Weather & Environment Almost 100,000 Afghan Children Are in Dire Need of Support, 3 Months After Earthquakes, UNICEF Says

Jan 12 Religion U.S. Pastors Struggle with Post-Pandemic Burnout. Survey Shows Half Considered Quitting Since 2020

Jan 12 International U.S. and Britain Strike Yemen in Reprisal for Houthi Attacks on Shipping

Jan 12 Geopolitics South Africa Says Israel’s Campaign in Gaza Amounts to Genocide. What Will the UN Do?

Jan 10 Science & Technology Scientists Find About a Quarter Million Invisible Nanoplastic Particles in a Liter of Bottled Water

Jan 9 Religion How to Deal With Same-Sex Unions? This Question Is Fracturing Major Christian Denominations

Jan 9 Politics Explainer: What Republicans and Democrats Want to Do on U.S.-Mexico Border Security

Jan 8 Geopolitics Analysis: In Threatening Shift, North Korea Moves to Redefine Relations with South

Jan 3 Economy & Personal Finance U.S. National Debt Hits Record $34 Trillion

Jan 2 Health Issues U.S. Seizes More Illegal E-cigarettes, but Thousands of New Ones Are Launching

Jan 1 Geopolitics North Korea’s Kim Says Military Should ‘Thoroughly Annihilate’ U.S., South Korea if Provoked

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