Spain's Socialist Party secures the backing of Junts, a Catalan separatist party, to form a new government. / Reuters Guinea's former president, Moussa Dadis Camara, nearly broke out of prison last weekend. / Africa Is a Country An argument for Taiwan as China's "best province.
The European Commission recommends that formal talks should begin with Ukraine on joining the European Union. / BBC News At least 45 American service members may have been injured in Iran-linked attacks. / NBC News Five takeaways from last night's off-year elections, where abortion rights fueled big Democratic
US Marines with heavy artillery deployed to fight the Islamic State returned with a strange set of symptoms—which may have been caused by the very weapons they were using. / The New York Times [+] Around the US, cities are trying to enact laws to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat—
Iran, Russia, and China are mounting anti-Israel disinformation campaigns that are "larger than anything seen before." / The New York Times [+] Retail workers and thieves explain what's going on with all the shoplifting, a problem the businesses don't seem to care about enough to
By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African, "a seismic change that's already starting to register." / The New York Times [+] South Africa's rugby team, which recently won the World Cup, is said to be among the few things holding the
Hamas says it's prepared to repeat October's attack on Israel over and over until the country no longer exists. / The Toronto Sun In the first days of the Israel-Hamas war, 15 people have been killed every hour in Gaza, six of whom are children. / Al
The world's largest fusion reactor fires up in Japan and produces plasma. / Science China's first domestic gene-therapy breakthrough restores natural hearing pathways for deaf children. / MIT Technology Review Unrelated: The British Navy ends its tradition of "Chinese laundrymen on warships," and will now
David Remnick reports from Israel. "The only way to tell this story is to try to tell it truthfully and to know that you will fail." / The New Yorker "It's not even one house in Gaza that they don't have death." On
The United Auto Workers have now reached a tentative deal with GM, effectively ending a 40-day strike against the big three Detroit automakers. / Reuters Shouting antisemitic slogans, a mob storms a Russian airport in search of passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv. / BBC Retail analysts say chains are
Ethiopian-born scientist Gebisa Ejeta receives the National Medal of Science for his contribution to plant genetics. / BBC News A 2021 study predicted there would be a surplus of 8,000 emergency physicians by 2030 in the United States—and it had ripple effects. / STAT Colorectal cancer is highly curable
