Mar 27 Croatia’s abortion rights are under threat after 50 years of protection By Darko Bandic, Associated Press Abortion remains legal but access to the procedure is often denied, sending many women to neighboring Slovenia to end a pregnancy. Continue reading
Mar 27 They fled kibbutzim after Hamas attacked. Now, many Israelis must decide whether to go back By Adam Geller, Associated Press Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty. Continue reading
Mar 27 Firefighters battle drought and high winds as wildfires rage across Mexico By Felix Marquez, Associated Press The National Forestry Commission reported 58 active fires in 15 states, including in protected nature reserves in Morelos, Veracruz and Mexico states. Continue reading
Mar 27 Project documents more than 63,000 migrant deaths a decade, immense danger of fleeing home By Renata Brito, Kerstin Sopke, Associated Press Despite the rise of border walls and heightened surveillance worldwide, smugglers always seem to find lucrative alternatives, leading migrants and refugees on longer and more perilous routes. Continue reading
Mar 27 In Nigeria, parents finally able to see children who were abducted from school in early March By Chinedu Asadu, Associated Press The children's abduction from their school in the remote town of Kuriga was one of several mass school abductions that have shaken the West African nation in recent years. Continue reading
Mar 27 Around 19 percent of food is wasted globally as 783 million people face chronic hunger, UN says By Carlos Mureithi, Associated Press Besides leaving people hungry, food waste means needless greenhouse gas emissions and amounts to a misuse of the land and water required to raise crops and animals. Continue reading
Mar 27 7 in Lebanon, 1 in Israel killed in exchange of violence along border By Mohammed Zaatari, Melanie Lidman, Associated Press An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon killed seven of its members early Wednesday and triggered a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed one person in northern Israel, officials said. Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch 3:52 Pentagon presents alternative to Israel’s plan to assault Rafah By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn At the Pentagon Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin presented an alternative vision to Israel’s stated plan to assault Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than one million Gazans have fled. The discussion between Austin and Israeli Defense… Continue watching
Mar 26 Watch 8:21 War reporter Rod Nordland on his memoir ‘Waiting for the Monsoon’ and facing death By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi After decades of covering war, traveling the world and being estranged from his family, journalist and author Rod Nordland was in New Delhi when he was struck by a grand mal seizure and given a diagnosis of incurable cancer. Nick… Continue watching
Mar 26 China to challenge Biden’s electric vehicle plans at the World Trade Organization By Associated Press The Chinese Commerce Ministry said Tuesday that the U.S. formulated discriminatory policies for new energy vehicles in the name of responding to climate change. Continue reading