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Governments around the world executed more people in 2025 than at any point since 1981.
How a rare Ebola strain spread across two countries before anyone knew about it.
On May 15, Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakba. The count of land Israel has taken keeps growing today.
For 18 years, Israel has enforced a naval blockade around the Gaza Strip.
The first 1,000 days of a child’s life decide how they will grow up. Today, 35 million children spent those days hungry.
Somali pirates peaked in 2010, vanished by 2013, and are back in 2026.
Americans worked 50 days in 2025 to fund war. Contractors got twice the tax money that US troops did.
Israeli attacks have killed at least 57 medical workers in Lebanon since early March. It is a pattern lifted from Gaza.
Every day, over the last three years in Sudan, 53 people on average are killed.
Who got hit in the war on Iran? The attacks, the damage and the people caught in between.
