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June 14, 2024: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bird Flu Is Highly Lethal to Some Animals, but Not to Others. Scientists Want to Know Why

NEW YORK (AP) – In the last two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. It has killed legions of seals and sea lions, wiped out mink farms, and dispatched cats, dogs, skunks, foxes and even a polar bear.

June 14, 2024: MIDDLE EAST

In Northern Gaza, Starved Families Survive on Bread Alone

CAIRO (Reuters) – In the north of the Gaza Strip where Palestinians have been hit hardest by hunger, residents say acute shortages of vegetables, fruit and meat means they are surviving on bread alone.

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June 2024

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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