IBADAN, Nigeria – Feb. 19, 2024: Demonstrators hold placards during a protest against the hike in price and hard living conditions in Ibadan on February 19, 2024. Samuel Alabi | Afp | Getty Images Nigeria is battling to contain a historic currency crisis and soaring inflation, with the International Monetary Fund on Monday warning that … Read more
You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. The disaster that unfolded Thursday marked a new low in the Gaza Strip’s unfolding calamity. Local authorities said more than … Read more
You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. As much as the White House may be seeking restraint, events on the ground in the Middle East are accelerating … Read more
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city … Read more
More details are emerging about a data breach the genetic testing company 23andMe first reported in October. But as the company shares more information, the situation is becoming even murkier and creating greater uncertainty for users attempting to understand the fallout. 23andMe said at the beginning of October that attackers had infiltrated some of its … Read more
A pedestrians at a bus station in Vientiane, Laos, on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Valeria Mongelli | Bloomberg | Getty Images An alarming debt crisis has unfolded in Laos in recent years, raising worries about the tiny nation’s obligation to its biggest creditor — China. China became the largest foreign investor in Laos in late … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A human rights group urged the worldwide group on Monday to intervene rapidly to finish spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti because it detailed the brutal rapes and killings dedicated within the troubled nation’s capital. The decision by Human Rights Watch comes as Haiti awaits a response from the … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.N. Secretary Normal António Guterres warned Monday that Haiti’s “tragic state of affairs” is threatening the safety of the Caribbean area and past as he pressed the worldwide neighborhood for a response. Guterres spoke after assembly behind closed doorways with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness in his first go to … Read more