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Why children in Gaza are losing their ability to speak

An estimated 1.1 million children in Gaza now need mental health and psychosocial support, as a growing number lose their ability to speak due to trauma and war-related injuries from Israeli attacks.

Al Jazeera

Gaza faces battle against disease-carrying rats

Al Jazeera

People in food crisis around globe doubles

Some 266 million people in 47 territories were in a state of food crisis or worse last year, with experts warning that ongoing conflicts, climate variability and global economic uncertainty risk worsening the situation.

The Independent

2026 global food crisis: funding cuts, access gaps and the crises we are losing sight of

YouTube

Global hunger more concentrated, more severe

Devex

Report warns of rising malnutrition, famine

Famine was confirmed in two places in 2025 — areas of the Gaza Strip and Sudan — the first such dual confirmation since formal famine reporting began, according to the Global Report on Food Crises 2026.

Al Jazeera

Sudan war fuels child hunger crisis

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN: Israeli strikes may breach international law

The U.N. human rights office said it has documented patterns of attacks on civilians in populated areas and residential buildings in Lebanon and Israel that may amount ‌to serious violations of international humanitarian law.

Reuters

Hezbollah says ceasefire ‘meaningless’ as fighting continues in south

Yahoo! News

Kenya appeal court overturns right to abortion

A court of appeal in Kenya overturned a ruling that affirmed the right to access abortion, setting up a legal clash that is likely to be appealed again to the Kenyan Supreme Court.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Gazan city holds its first election in 21 years

Residents of Gaza’s Deir el-Balah are heading to the polls for the territory’s first municipal elections in more than two decades, hoping to restore local governance while still reeling from Israel’s devastating war.

Al Jazeera

Mexico leans into cartel ‘kingpin strategy’

Under pressure from the U.S., Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has authorized military operations to arrest cartel leaders. But what are the costs?

Al Jazeera

What is NATO and which countries are in it?

The U.S. is considering options for punishing NATO allies that it considers to have failed to offer support during the Iran war, according to a Pentagon memo seen by Reuters.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Fresh clues found in search for life on Mars

A study in Nature Communications reports the Curiosity rover may not have only found conditions that could have hosted life, but chemicals that, on Earth at least, are building blocks of biology.

Time

Iranians leave country just to access internet

Since the beginning of the war, Iran’s government has blocked its citizens from accessing the global internet, leaving only a few phone lines and select, government-approved “white SIM” phone cards functioning.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

194 children dead in a month in Bangladesh

At least 194 children succumbed to a measles outbreak in Bangladesh since March and 28,000 suspected to have the disease have been hospitalized, officials in Dhaka said.

The Independent

The ‘miracle’ drug rollout that could end AIDS

A groundbreaking new drug to prevent HIV infection — the closest the world has to a vaccine — is being rolled out in some of the worst-hit countries in the world.

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Renewable energy overtook electricity demand

Record growth in solar, especially in China and India, was a driving factor for clean energy sources surpassing the world’s strong demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new global power analysis.

Associated Press

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Inside Burundi’s fast-growing refugee camps

Since early 2025, clashes have intensified in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Tens of thousands have fled to Burundi, one of the world’s poorest countries.

Guardian

Congolese refugees return from Burundi to take advantage of improved security

Associated Press

UN calls for solidarity, kindness amid cuts

The world needs to re-find a sense of “human solidarity and kindness” if it is to repair the damage caused by “cataclysmic” overseas aid cuts from the U.S., U.K. and other countries, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief has said.

The Independent

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Iran war could create gas demand destruction

The natural gas demand destruction currently resulting from the Iran war as governments implement measures to mitigate the crisis risks becoming structural.

Yahoo! News

World’s worst energy crisis? Iran war sparks scramble for alternative to Gulf oil

YouTube

Iran war fuels crisis for Africa’s aviation sector

The Iran war is pushing up jet fuel prices, forcing African airlines to raise ticket prices, cancel flights and rethink operations to stay financially viable.

Deutsche Welle

Airlines cut routes in response to rising jet fuel costs amid Iran war

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

A bold move to leave oil, gas behind proposed

At an unprecedented meeting in Colombia, delegates from more than 50 countries want to chart a practical path to wean the world off fossil fuels. Can they succeed where the U.N. climate talks have failed?

Deutsche Welle

Divers use speakers to help dying coral reefs

Divers are installing waterproof speakers in the ocean to help pull a coral reef near Jamaica back from the brink.

Guardian

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Mohammed recovers from malaria at a Burundian-run clinic in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. (Photo by Tobin Jones/AU UN IST) Photo used under CC BY

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