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The escalating conflict in Yemen is choking off aid shipments and driving fresh displacement, including to nearby Djibouti, with UN agencies reporting on Tuesday that nearly 100,000 people have been displaced since fight...
Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.
Our chuffed daily links: Train-stopping moose, China travel clampdown, moar food supply freakout, Supremes rule v. Trump on mailed ballots, 10 year Treasury yield >5%, 2.5 million Ukrain war dead? Kushner = lobbyist? uni...
Today's Iran war news: Ansar Allah makes biggest Saudi attack so far, hitting the Yanbu port and a key refinery as 10 year Treasury yields top 5%
The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo continues to spread across the vast country despite some success in containing it, aid officials said on Tuesday, in a renewed call for international support to help responders...
The notion that a majority of Mexicans would support US military action is beyond risible, and clashes with the findings of other recent polls.
As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.
When UNICEF’s Representative in Haiti Geetanjali Narayan stepped into a classroom in Port-au-Prince at the start of the new school year, she asked the children a simple question: What did they most need from the UN child...
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.
In an underground classroom in Sumy, Ukraine, children sit quietly at their desks, busy with the day’s lessons. For the moment they are shielded from the horrors of nearly five years of war, but just barely.
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on popul...
The formal removal of Gen. Zhang Youxia and Gen. Liu Zhenli in August marks the latest and most consequential stage of President Xi Jinping’s prolonged