Jun 29 Watch 6:16 How the climate crisis is changing family planning and reproductive health in Bangladesh By John Yang, Claire Mufson, Andrew Corkery Few places in the world are suffering more from the effects of climate change than Bangladesh. Most of the country is no higher than 50 feet above sea level, making it vulnerable to severe flooding after monsoon rains. As a… Continue watching
Jun 29 Tropical Storm Beryl forecast to become a major hurricane as it approaches Caribbean islands By Dánica Coto, Associated Press Tropical Storm Beryl chugged toward the southeast Caribbean on Saturday as forecasters warned it was expected to strengthen into a dangerous major hurricane before reaching Barbados late Sunday. Continue reading
Jun 29 Attacker shot dead after firing crossbow at police officer outside Israel’s embassy in Serbia By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia’s Interior Ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant. Continue reading
Jun 29 Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election By Jon Gambrell, Amir Vahdat, Associated Press Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. Continue reading
Jun 28 U.S. removes Gaza pier due to weather. It may not return unless aid flow resumes, officials say By Tara Copp, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard and that area is almost full. Aid agencies have had difficulty moving the food further… Continue reading
Jun 28 Putin aims to resume Russian production of previously banned intermediate missiles By Associated Press Putin said Russia has not produced such missiles since the 2019 treaty scrapping, but he said that the U.S. has not only produced such missile systems but also deployed them. Continue reading
Jun 28 As his supporters rally, Bolivia’s president lambasts accusations of a self-coup as ‘lies’ By Paola Flores, Isabel DeBre, Associated Press Bolivian President Luis Arce has denied being behind an attempted coup against him and said the general who apparently led it “acted on his own,” lashing out at accusations that he had asked for the mutiny in a plan to… Continue reading
Jun 28 Amid rising tensions in Mideast, polls close in Iran’s presidential election after hard-liner’s death By Jon Gambrell, Nasser Karimi, Associated Press The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters faced a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian. Continue reading
Jun 27 Mongolians cast votes to elect expanded 126-seat parliament By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press Voters in Mongolia are electing a new parliament on Friday in their landlocked democracy that is squeezed between China and Russia, two much larger authoritarian states. Continue reading
Jun 27 EU leaders appoint top officials to serve as the face of world’s largest trading bloc By Ella Joyner, Samuel Petrequin, Lorne Cook, Associated Press European Union leaders signed off on a trio of top appointments for their shared political institutions on Thursday, reinstalling German conservative Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission for another five years. Continue reading