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October 6, 2025: EUROPE

French Government Collapses in 14 Hours, Deepening Political Crisis

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Mr. Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.

October 6, 2025: MIDDLE EAST

Situation for Mothers and Babies in Gaza Has ‘Never Been Worse,’ says UNICEF

GENEVA (Reuters) – Mothers and newborn babies in Gaza face dire conditions as Nasser hospital in the south of the enclave is overwhelmed with patients fleeing the north and medical resources running out, UNICEF said on Friday.

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October 2025

Oct 6 Europe French Government Collapses in 14 Hours, Deepening Political Crisis

Oct 6 Middle East Situation for Mothers and Babies in Gaza Has ‘Never Been Worse,’ says UNICEF

Oct 6 Society & Lifestyles WHO Estimates at Least 15 Million Teenagers Use E-Cigarettes Worldwide

Oct 1 Asia Myanmar’s War-Torn Rakhine Faces a Hunger Catastrophe, Aid Groups Say

Oct 1 Americas What Happens Now That a Government Shutdown Is Underway?

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September 2025

Sep 29 Geopolitics What to Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program as UN Reimposes ‘Snapback’ Sanctions

Sep 26 Analysis Russian Forays into NATO Airspace Are Causing Alarm. Here’s Why They Might Be Happening

Sep 25 Health Issues ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Cases Are Increasing in the U.S.

Sep 22 International Four Major Western Nations Recognize a Palestinian State, to Fury of Israel

Sep 19 Geopolitics Pakistan Says Its Nuclear Program Can Be Made Available to Saudi Arabia Under New Defense Pact

Sep 18 Education The Rise of AI Tools Forces Schools to Reconsider What Counts as Cheating

Sep 15 Americas They Witnessed Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. Now Students Reckon with the Trauma

Sep 11 Crime & Punishment As Fighting Escalates, Kidnappings of Aid Workers Surge in South Sudan

Sep 10 International Poland Downs Drones in Its Airspace, Becoming First NATO Member to Fire During Ukraine War

Sep 9 Africa Shelling, Hunger, Humiliation: Escaping Residents Describe Siege of Sudan’s Al-Fashir

Sep 8 Europe French Parliament Ousts Prime Minister, Deepening Political Crisis

Sep 5 Crime & Punishment UN Decries Crimes Including Gang Rape, Murder, Torture in Congo Conflict Over Last Year

Sep 5 Weather & Environment Third Quake Strikes Southeastern Afghanistan After Series That Killed Over 2,200

Sep 4 Science & Technology How North Korean Hackers Are Using Fake Job Offers to Steal Cryptocurrency

Sep 4 Asia China’s Military Parade Reveals New Hypersonic Missiles, Drone Submarines and ICBMs

Sep 4 Weather & Environment Half a Million People Flee Their Homes in Pakistan’s Punjab to Escape Flooding

Sep 2 Geopolitics China’s Xi Hosts ‘Old Friend’ Putin, North Korea’s Kim in Challenge to West

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August 2025

Aug 29 Geopolitics What to Know About the U.S. Warships Sent to South America and the Reaction in Venezuela

Aug 29 Asia Tensions Soar in Indonesia as Protests Over Police Brutality and Lawmakers’ Allowances Continue

Aug 29 Americas New Orleans Marks 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Solemn Memorials, Uplifting Music

Aug 26 Crime & Punishment Spate of Hoax Calls About Active Shooters Stirs Fear at College Campuses Around the U.S.

Aug 19 Asia Historic Drought, Wheat Shortage to Test Syria’s New Leadership

Aug 15 Crime & Punishment Sexual Violence in Conflicts Worldwide Increased by 25 Percent Last Year, UN Says

Aug 14 Crime & Punishment War Crimes Likely Committed in Syria’s Coastal Massacres, UN Commission Says

Aug 13 Society & Lifestyles U.S. Alcohol Consumption at Record Low as Health Concerns Rise, Survey Finds

Aug 12 Asia Myanmar Security Forces Involved in Systematic Torture, UN Report Says

Aug 11 Australia & South Pacific Australia Will Recognize a Palestinian State, Prime Minister Albanese Says

Aug 8 Weather & Environment Osprey Came Back from the Brink Once. Now Chicks Are Dying in Nests, and Some Blame Overfishing

Aug 8 Middle East What to Know About Israel’s Plan to Retake Gaza City

Aug 7 Health Issues Americans Get More Than Half Their Calories from Ultra-Processed Foods, CDC Report Says

Aug 6 Health Issues China Fights Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus with Drones, Fines and Nets as Thousands Fall Ill

Aug 4 Middle East Afghanistan Has Its ‘Sharpest Surge’ Ever of Child Malnutrition, UN Agency Says

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July 2025

Jul 31 Geopolitics Canada Will Recognize a Palestinian State in September in Latest Push Against Israel’s Gaza Policies

Jul 31 Africa Sudan’s Paramilitaries Announce a Parallel Government, Deepening the Country’s Crisis

Jul 29 Middle East Britain Warns Israel It Will Recognize Palestinian State as Gaza Starvation Spreads

Jul 29 Asia Thailand and Cambodia Agree to a Ceasefire in their Deadly Border Clashes

Jul 28 Health Issues Southern China Hit by Outbreak of Mosquito-Borne Infection Chikungunya

Jul 25 Americas Ranchers in Southern Mexico Are Struggling Against a Flesh-Eating Parasite Infecting Livestock

Jul 25 Africa Nigeria Faces Hunger Crisis as Food Needs Rise Across West and Central Africa, UN Says

Jul 25 International Why Is France Recognizing Palestinian Statehood and Who Else Has?

Jul 24 International Thailand Launches Airstrikes on Cambodia as Border Clash Leaves at Least 12 Dead

Jul 23 Europe Ukrainians Are Protesting a Law Targeting Anti-Corruption Agencies. Here’s Why

Jul 16 Middle East UN Finds Rising Child Malnutrition in Gaza, Where Officials Say Israeli Strikes Kill 93 People

Jul 16 Middle East Israel Strikes in Damascus as Clashes Between Government and Druze Minority Rage On

Jul 16 Weather & Environment World Risks Up to $39 Trillion in Economic Losses from Vanishing Wetlands, Report Says

Jul 10 Middle East What to Know as Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Launch New, More Violent Attacks on Ships in the Red Sea

Jul 8 Weather & Environment What to Know About the Flash Floods in Texas That Killed Over 100 People

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June 2025

Jun 23 International What to Know About the Conflict Between Israel and Iran, and the U.S. Intervention

Jun 19 Economy & Personal Finance Credit Scores Decline for Millions as U.S. Student Loan Collections Restart

Jun 19 Health Issues Older Adults in the U.S. Are Increasingly Dying from Unintentional Falls

Jun 17 Middle East How Else Could Iran Retaliate Over the Ongoing Israeli Strikes Targeting the Country?

Jun 13 Middle East Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Sites and Its Top Military Leaders. Iran Retaliates with Drones

Jun 12 International NATO Chief Calls for ‘Quantum Leap’ in Defense and Says Russia Could Attack in 5 Years

Jun 12 Geopolitics Iran Announces a New Nuclear Enrichment Site After UN Watchdog Censure

Jun 11 Americas Protests Over Immigration Raids Pop Up Across the U.S. with More Planned

Jun 9 Americas What to Know About President Trump’s Deployment of National Guard Troops to LA Immigration Protests

Jun 6 Politics President Trump Announces Travel Ban and Restrictions on 19 Countries

Jun 6 Crime & Punishment Brazen Murders Threaten Mexico City’s Image as Pocket of Safety in Violent Nation

Jun 6 Analysis China’s Rare Earth Weapon Changes Contours of Trade War Battlefield

Jun 3 Europe Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russian Warplanes Was a Serious Blow to the Kremlin’s Strategic Arsenal

Jun 3 Profile Lee Jae-myung Elected South Korea’s President, Closing Period of Political Tumult

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May 2025

May 30 Health Issues A New Cholera Outbreak in Sudan Has Killed Over 170 People in a Week, Officials Say

May 30 Marriage & Family U.S. Children of Divorce Have Reduced Earnings, Increased Chances of Teen Births and Jail, Study Says

May 30 Education The U.S. Academic Partnership with China, Under Strain for Years, Faces Its Biggest Threat

May 27 Africa Boko Haram’s Resurgence: Why Nigeria’s Military Is Struggling to Hold the Line

May 27 Science & Technology India and Pakistan’s Drone Battles Mark New Arms Race in Asia

May 22 Economy & Personal Finance Why Are More Shoppers Struggling to Repay ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Loans?

May 21 Education Half of U.S. States Now Have Laws Banning or Regulating Cellphones in Schools, with More to Follow

May 20 Weather & Environment Syria’s Driest Winter in Nearly 7 Decades Triggers a Severe Water Crisis in Damascus

May 19 Geopolitics The UK and the EU Hail a New Chapter as They Sign Fresh Deals 5 Years After Brexit

May 19 Economy & Personal Finance Moody’s Cuts America’s Pristine Credit Rating, Citing Rising Debt

May 16 Middle East Israel Expands Attacks in Gaza and Yemen as President Trump Wraps Up Trip to Region

May 14 Geopolitics What Would Lifting U.S. Sanctions on Syria Mean to the War-torn Country?

May 9 Geopolitics ‘Friends of Steel’: Xi and Putin Pledge to Stand Together Against U.S.

May 8 Religion Prevost Surprises as First U.S. Pope, Takes Name Leo XIV

May 7 International India Fires Missiles on Pakistan. Islamabad Calls It an ‘Act of War’ and Says It Downed Indian Jets

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April 2025

Apr 29 Asia Lacking Aid, Syrians Do What They Can to Rebuild Devastated Aleppo

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’

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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

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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.

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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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Latest News

October 6, 2025

French Government Collapses in 14 Hours, Deepening Political Crisis
Situation for Mothers and Babies in Gaza Has ‘Never Been Worse,’ says UNICEF
WHO Estimates at Least 15 Million Teenagers Use E-Cigarettes Worldwide

October 1, 2025

Myanmar’s War-Torn Rakhine Faces a Hunger Catastrophe, Aid Groups Say
What Happens Now That a Government Shutdown Is Underway?

September 29, 2025

What to Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program as UN Reimposes ‘Snapback’ Sanctions

September 26, 2025

Russian Forays into NATO Airspace Are Causing Alarm. Here’s Why They Might Be Happening

September 25, 2025

‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Cases Are Increasing in the U.S.
‘Children Are Bound to Die’: Corruption, Aid Cuts and Violence Fuel a Hunger Crisis in South Sudan

September 22, 2025

Four Major Western Nations Recognize a Palestinian State, to Fury of Israel

September 19, 2025

Pakistan Says Its Nuclear Program Can Be Made Available to Saudi Arabia Under New Defense Pact

September 18, 2025

The Rise of AI Tools Forces Schools to Reconsider What Counts as Cheating

September 15, 2025

They Witnessed Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. Now Students Reckon with the Trauma

September 11, 2025

As Fighting Escalates, Kidnappings of Aid Workers Surge in South Sudan

September 10, 2025

How ‘Gen Z’ Protests Over Corruption and Jobs Ousted Nepal PM Oli
Poland Downs Drones in Its Airspace, Becoming First NATO Member to Fire During Ukraine War

September 9, 2025

Shelling, Hunger, Humiliation: Escaping Residents Describe Siege of Sudan’s Al-Fashir

September 8, 2025

French Parliament Ousts Prime Minister, Deepening Political Crisis

September 5, 2025

UN Decries Crimes Including Gang Rape, Murder, Torture in Congo Conflict Over Last Year
Third Quake Strikes Southeastern Afghanistan After Series That Killed Over 2,200

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