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April 17, 2024: MIDDLE EAST

Israel Will Defend Itself, Netanyahu Says, as West Calls for Restraint

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran.

April 16, 2024: AMERICAS

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

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Luis Soler is caring for water as if it were the most expensive ingredient at his restaurant in Colombia’s capital.

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April 2024

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 18 Middle East As Civil War Enters Its 14th Year, Violence in Syria Is on the Rise While Aid Is Flagging

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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April 17, 2024

Israel Will Defend Itself, Netanyahu Says, as West Calls for Restraint

April 16, 2024

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

April 15, 2024

The Shadow War Between Iran and Israel Has Been Exposed. What Happens Next?

April 12, 2024

April 11, 2024

April 9, 2024

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April 4, 2024

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

April 3, 2024

Analysis: Many Iranian Options to Retaliate Against Israel, But All Carry Risk

April 2, 2024

Extreme Drought in Southern Africa Leaves Millions Hungry

April 1, 2024

Dengue Is Sweeping Through the Americas Early This Year

March 29, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

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