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April 16, 2026: MIDDLE EAST

President Trump Says Israel and Lebanon Agree on Ceasefire

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Lebanon and Israel had agreed on a 10-day ceasefire and said the next meeting between the United States and Iran may take place over the weekend, adding to optimism that the Iran war could be nearing an end.

April 13, 2026: ANALYSIS

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

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises, a UN report concludes.

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December 2025

Dec 26 International U.S. Launches Strikes Against Islamic State Group in Nigeria After Attacks Target Christians

Dec 17 Middle East Explainer: What’s Next for the Gaza Ceasefire, and Will the Truce Last?

Dec 16 Health Issues Afghan Hunger Crisis Deepens as Aid Funding Falls Short, UN Says

Dec 11 Europe Bulgaria’s Government Resigns After Mass Protests

Dec 9 Asia Cambodia Vows Fierce Fight Against Thailand in Escalating Border Conflict

Dec 8 Weather & Environment ‘Everything Destroyed’ as Indonesia’s Aceh Grapples with Disease After Floods

Dec 3 Geopolitics Explainer: Why Is Fate of Donetsk Region a Sticking Point in Talks on Ending War in Ukraine?

November 2025

Nov 26 Africa Sudan’s Top General Rejects U.S.-Led Ceasefire Proposal, Calling It ‘The Worst Yet’

Nov 26 Middle East Gaza Truce Progress Slow as Israeli-Hamas Violence Persists

Nov 21 Analysis What Is in the U.S. Peace Plan for Ending the War in Ukraine?

Nov 21 Africa Explainer: What’s Behind Nigeria’s Latest School Abductions and Church Attack?

Nov 21 Weather & Environment A Drying-Up Rio Grande Basin Threatens Water Security on Both Sides of the Border

Nov 19 Education The Education Department Is Dismantling. Here’s What That Means

Nov 14 Africa Women in Darfur Report Rape, Lost Children amid Sudan Violence, UN Says

Nov 12 International Explainer: Are the Deadly U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Vessels Legal?

Nov 11 Education Some States Now Require Public Schools to Teach Kids About Gun Safety

Nov 10 Asia China Rolls Out Its Version of the H-1B Visa to Attract Foreign Tech Workers

Nov 7 Geopolitics UN Approves U.S.-backed Effort to Lift Sanctions on Syria’s President

Nov 7 Weather & Environment Piles of Garbage and Seeping Sewage Pollute Devastated Gaza

Nov 7 Americas U.S. Travelers Scramble to Adjust as Airlines Cut Flights Because of Shutdown

Apr 25 Religion Explainer: What Happens After a Pope Dies?

Apr 25 Americas Northern Mexico Farmers Fight Drought Amid Water Dispute with the U.S.

Apr 25 Africa Congo and Rwanda Sign Pathway to Peace in U.S.-Brokered Agreement

Apr 23 Asia Disputed Kashmir Witnesses Deadliest Attack on Civilians in Years, Sparking Fears of Rising Tensions

Apr 22 Europe Pope Francis’ Body to Lie in State Before Funeral on Saturday

Apr 21 Crime & Punishment Billion-Dollar Cyberscam Industry Spreading Globally, UN Says

Apr 15 Americas Haiti’s Government Adopts a ‘War Budget’ as Town After Town Falls to Gangs

Apr 11 Africa Thousands of Children Have Been Raped and Sexually Abused in Eastern Congo, UNICEF Says

Apr 11 Economy & Personal Finance Crumbling Bridges Slow Traffic and the Economy in Germany. Can More Money Fix the Problem?

Apr 11 Africa Sudan Faces the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis as Second Anniversary of War Nears, UN Says

Apr 8 Weather & Environment As Bolivia Floods, Cows Swim Where They Once Grazed

Apr 4 Weather & Environment Nearly Half of National Weather Service Offices Have 20% Vacancy Rates. Experts Say It’s a Risk

Apr 4 Asia A Week After Catastrophic Earthquake, Focus Turns to a Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar

Apr 4 Asia Yoon Suk Yeol Removed as South Korea’s President Over Short-lived Martial Law

Apr 1 International China Launches Military Drills Around Taiwan, Calls Taiwan President a ‘Parasite’

March 2025

Mar 31 Geopolitics Iran Rejects Direct Negotiations with the U.S. in Response to President Trump’s Letter

Mar 28 Economy & Personal Finance Myanmar Rebels Disrupt China Rare Earth Trade, Sparking Regional Scramble

Mar 28 Weather & Environment What to Know About Earthquakes Like the One That Hit Myanmar

Mar 28 Middle East How Will the Latest Strikes Between Israel and Lebanon Affect a Tenuous Ceasefire?

Mar 25 Europe Ukraine’s Most Dangerous City Craves Respite from Killer Drones as Peace Talks Run On

Mar 24 Asia What to Know About the Reinstatement of South Korea’s No. 2 Leader and the Yoon Ruling to Come

Mar 21 Science & Technology What Is Next for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant After It Was Highlighted in Ukraine-U.S. Talks?

Mar 21 Education President Trump Has Ordered the Dismantling of the U.S. Education Department. What Does That Mean?

Mar 21 Africa Sudan’s Military Says It Has Retaken Khartoum’s Republican Palace, Seat of Country’s Government

Mar 20 Science & Technology AI Is Turbocharging Organized Crime, EU Police Agency Warns

Mar 18 Middle East Israel Warns More to Come as Airstrikes Kill Over 400 in Gaza After Two Months of Truce

Mar 17 International President Trump Warns Iran It Will Face ‘Consequences’ of Further Attacks from Yemen’s Houthi Rebels

Mar 14 Asia Syrian Leader Signs Constitution that Puts the Country Under an Islamist Group’s Rule for 5 Years

Mar 14 International Global Displacement to Rise by 6.7 Million People by End of Next Year, Aid Group Says

Mar 14 Geopolitics Armenia and Azerbaijan Agree to Treaty Terms to End Almost 40 Years of Conflict

Mar 13 Weather & Environment Ducks Were Once a Conservation Bright Spot. Now They Are Declining in the U.S.

Mar 12 Asia What Is Behind the Surge in Attacks and Train Hijacking in Pakistan’s Restive Southwest?

Mar 11 Weather & Environment Majority of the World’s Population Breathes Dirty Air, Report Says

Mar 10 Asia Syria’s Worst Violence in Months Reopens Wounds of the Civil War

Mar 7 Weather & Environment First National Analysis Finds America’s Butterflies Are Disappearing at ‘Catastrophic’ Rate

Mar 4 Economy & Personal Finance President Trump Triggers Trade War with Tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico

February 2025

Feb 28 Europe Clashes Erupt in Greece as Hundreds of Thousands Protest Deadly Train Crash

Feb 28 Africa Sudan’s Military Is Making Advances to Retake the Capital. What Is Changing in the Nearly 2-Year War?

Feb 27 Geopolitics Economic Deal Between U.S. and Ukraine Will Tie the Countries Together for Years

Feb 18 Africa Why Have Rwanda-Backed Rebels Seized 2 Congolese Cities and Is There an End in Sight?

Feb 11 Middle East Explainer: Why President Trump’s Proposal on Gaza Is Ringing Alarm Bells in the Region

Feb 11 International Corruption Survey Gives Many Nations Their Worst Scores in Over a Decade

Feb 7 Americas Mexican Border Cities Are in Limbo as Tariff Threats Spark Fears of a Recession

Feb 7 Weather & Environment The Swarm of Earthquakes Shaking Santorini Prompts Greece to Declare an Emergency

Feb 7 Asia Two Years On, Survivors of Turkish Earthquake Still Struggle with Loss and Hardship

Feb 4 International Tariff Threats Take Aim at Fentanyl Trafficking. Here Is How the Drug Reaches the U.S.

January 2025

Jan 30 Americas Collision Between Helicopter and Jetliner Kills 67 in Nation’s Worst Air Disaster in a Generation

Jan 29 Middle East Huge Health Challenges Face Gaza Residents Returning to Their Homes

Jan 29 Asia What to Expect After South Korea’s Impeached President Was Indicted on Rebellion Charges

Jan 28 Asia The Discovery of Brutal Mass Graves in Syria Reveals a Legacy of Horror

Jan 28 Africa What Is Happening in Eastern Congo, Where Rebels Claim They Captured a Key City?

Jan 24 Weather & Environment Nearly 250 Million Children Missed School Last Year Because of Extreme Weather, UNICEF Says

Jan 23 Americas Mexican Border States Prepare Migrant Shelters as President Trump Begins Deportation Campaign

Jan 23 Africa A Rebel Group Is Advancing on Eastern Congo’s Largest City and Over 100,000 People Have Fled

Jan 17 Asia China’s Population Falls for a Third Straight Year, Posing Challenges for its Government and Economy

Jan 17 Geopolitics Russia and Iran Sign a Partnership Treaty to Deepen Their Ties in the Face of Western Sanctions

Jan 15 Middle East After Economic Meltdown and War with Israel, Lebanon’s New Prime Minister Vows to Rebuild

Jan 13 Weather & Environment What to Know About the Devastation from the Los Angeles-area Fires

Jan 10 Africa U.S. Determines Sudan’s RSF Committed Genocide, Imposes Sanctions on Leader

Jan 10 Americas The UN Says More Than 5,600 People Were Killed in Haiti Last Year as Gangs Rampage

Jan 9 Crime & Punishment Number of Ghost Guns Recovered at Crime Scenes Has Surged Since 2017, Study Shows

Jan 8 Weather & Environment Los Angeles Wildfires Rage Out of Control, Testing Firefighting Resources

Jan 8 Weather & Environment A Quarter of Freshwater Animals Are Threatened with Extinction, New Research Shows

Jan 7 Geopolitics Indonesia Is Admitted to the BRICS Bloc of Developing Nations

Jan 6 Politics Canada’s Trudeau to Resign as Prime Minister After Nine Years

Jan 2 Health Issues Dengue Cases Set a New Record in the Americas in 2024 as Deaths Also Surge

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