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Nearly half, according to Doctors Without Borders, are women and children.
The situation in Syria is fluid, brutal, and complex. Plus: Ethiopia’s prime minister resigns, and in Germany, a new collective bargaining agreement gives 900,000 metal workers the right to 28-hour work weeks.
Leader Kim Jong-un’s sister personally delivered an invitation to South Korean president Moon Jae-in to attend talks in Pyongyang. Plus: an Israeli air attack on Syrian and Iranian military positions inside Syria may mark a new phase in the conflict.
Evidence mounts for Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Plus: in the face of food and supply shortages, Venezuela’s unrest grows, and Zimbabwe’s new president reverses Mugabe’s policy on land-leasing to white farmers.
With new tariffs on solar panels and washing machines, and demands to renegotiate longstanding trade deals, President Trump is inching toward a trade war. Plus: US military looks the other way on child sexual abuse in Afghanistan.
Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria could strain its relationship with the US. Plus: in 90 days, Cape Town will be the world’s first major city to run out of water, and the European Union tries to eliminate plastics.
Trump’s “shithole” remark further isolates him in the international community. Plus: The White House waives Iran sanctions one final time, relations between North and South Korea appear to be thawing, and Trump calls off his London trip.
The move comes after high-level talks between the two countries, and may signal a relief of tension after many terrifying months. Plus: the US tries to grandstand about Iran’s protests, and fails.
Despite current US policies, the world continues to work toward responsible climate policies, including important ocean protections. Plus: North Korea gets sanctioned again (and again and again and again), and the global back-and-forth between the US and Russia gets more complicated.
The backlash against Trump's decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem intensifies, and the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar continues. Plus: Canada's got a cannabis boom, and China builds refugee settlement ahead of a potential Korean conflict.
Iraq declares victory over ISIS, Rex Tillerson sends mixed signals on North Korea, and Brexit lurches forward. Plus: Duterte's war on drugs gets its day in court and Honduras continues its presidential crisis.
North Korea's big new missile ups the stakes, Trump mulls recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and Honduras is on the brink of a civil conflict as an opposition leader calls for a new presidential election.
Plus: Trump designates North Korea a state sponsor of terror, Saudi Arabia eases its blockade of Yemen, and "the butcher of Bosnia" gets life in prison.
Top lawyers for Facebook, Twitter, and Google were on Capitol Hill this week to testify about the Russian propaganda efforts on their sites during the 2016 election. What happens next will transform American politics.
Trump's EPA pulls the plug on the Clean Power Plan (but it won't bring coal back), Puerto Rico deals with tweetstorms as it tries to recover from Hurricane Maria, and North Korea discovers what it had long feared through cyber espionage.
Puerto Ricans are mostly without electricity and water after Hurricane Maria, North Korea claims the US has declared war, and Republicans turn to tax reform after a last-ditch effort at healthcare fails. PLUS: the Russia investigation turns to social media.
Hurricane Maria annihilates Puerto Rico’s power grid, Donald Trump delivers a bellicose, nationalistic address to the UN General Assembly, and Mueller turns the screws on former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. PLUS: a new healthcare bill gains momentum in the Senate.
Hurricane Irma devastates parts of Florida, North Korea fires another missile over Japan, and the various investigations into Russian meddling turn to Michael Flynn and to cyber warfare.
Hurricane Irma devastates the Caribbean and threatens Florida, North Korea detonates its “most powerful ever” nuclear bomb, and Trump announces he’ll end DACA (although he hopes Congress finds a way to save it).
Hurricane Harvey devastates the Houston area, North Korea shoots a missile over Japan, and Mueller lasers in on Manafort as the US retaliates against Moscow.
