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  • Global Health

Experts predict the global buzzwords that will shape the year ahead

2024 will be awash in new (and sometimes familiar) buzzwords that point up the polycrises (another buzzword) around the planet. Here's a guide for the perplexed.

January 22, 2024
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  • Andrew Connelly
In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, rescue workers search through rubbles in the aftermath of a landslide in liangshui village in southwestern China's Yunnan Province on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024.

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  • Asia

Landslide in mountainous southwestern China buries dozens of people

The disaster struck in the early morning in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan province. Rescue efforts were underway to find victims buried in houses, officials said.

January 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Europe

Sarah, the Duchess of York, diagnosed with skin cancer

The melanoma was found after several moles were removed while she was undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. Doctors are analyzing it to see if it was caught early.

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
This undated photograph released by the U.S. military's Central Command shows what it described as the vessel that carried Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen's Houthi in the Arabian Sea.

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  • National

2 Navy SEALs who went missing off Somalia's coast are dead, the U.S. military says

After a 10-day search, the SEALs have not been found and their status is now deceased, U.S. Central Command said. They went missing during a U.S. operation to seize weapons headed for the Houthis.

January 21, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
Smoke rises following Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Palestinian death toll passes 25,000 as Israel announces the death of another hostage

Since the war started on Oct. 7, 25,105 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, while another 62,681 have been wounded, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said.

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by Telegram Channel of Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko fire fighters extinguish the blaze at Russia's second-largest natural gas producer, Novatek in Ust-Luga port, 165 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. Local media reported that the port had been attacked by Ukrainian drones, causing a gas tank to explode.

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  • Europe

At least 27 people were killed in an attack on Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Russian-installed authorities in Donetsk said that the shells had been fired by the Ukrainian military and called it a "terrorist attack."

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans pay attention to the health of the planet. The woman pictured above is one of the nomadic Wodaabe people — cattle herders who live mainly in Chad and Niger. Their lifestyle is affected by higher temperatures, shifting winds and changing precipitation patterns due to climate change.

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  • Opinion

Readers' wishes for 2024: TLC for Earth, an end to AIDS, more empathy, less light

As a new year dawns, we asked our readers to send us their global wishes. Here's what they're hoping for.

January 21, 2024
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  • Gisele Grayson
Building cranes tower over a new Hindu temple that will be consecrated with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in attendance on Monday.

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  • World

India's Modi to inaugurate Hindu temple in Ayodhya, where rioters destroyed a mosque

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help consecrate the unfinished temple on Monday, on the site of a 16th century mosque destroyed in 1992. Critics say the rushed ceremony is a political stunt.

January 21, 2024
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  • Omkar Khandekar and
  • Diaa Hadid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday Jan. 7, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Israel's Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty post-war, rebuffing Biden

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he "will not compromise on full Israeli control" over Gaza and that "this is contrary to a Palestinian state".

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
People gather as they protest against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. Sign reads "never again 1933".

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  • Europe

Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right

Tens of thousands of people protested the far right in cities across Germany on Saturday, attending events with slogans such as "Never Again is Now," "Against Hate" and "Defend Democracy."

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Microsoft logo is shown at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2, 2023. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said state-backed Russian hackers broke into its corporate email system.

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  • National Security

State-backed Russian hackers accessed senior Microsoft leaders' emails, company says

Microsoft says hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of its leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.

January 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A displaced Palestinian woman prepares bread inside a tent at a makeshift camp in Rafah near the Gaza-Egypt border earlier this month.

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  • Middle East

Flour for Gaza to be shipped through the Israeli port in Ashdod, the White House says

Humanitarian groups had called for Israel to open the port to help alleviate the food crisis. All of Gaza's 2.2 million residents are at imminent risk of famine, the U.N. warns.

January 20, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israeli airstrike on Damascus killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, state media say

A strike on the Syrian capital destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. One of those killed was a local Hezbollah commander

January 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
President Biden leaves a White House event on Jan. 19, 2024.

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  • Elections

Biden is being tested by politics in Israel and at home with the Gaza conflict

President Biden takes the long view on Middle East peace. But in an election year where Democrats are divided on the issue — and as Gaza casualties mount — his support for Israel could cost him.

January 20, 2024
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  • Asma Khalid
Michal Brody-Bareket attends a rally in Jerusalem on Dec. 29 calling for a cease-fire and release of the hostages held in Gaza. She is a longtime activist whose son is a soldier deployed in Gaza and founded The Mothers' Cry, a group of mothers of soldiers and other concerned Israelis calling to end the Gaza war.

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  • Middle East

Israel's anti-war movement includes mothers of soldiers serving in Gaza

A group of Israeli mothers, whose sons are fighting in Gaza, is calling to end the war. They hold a minority view, but draw inspiration from a successful protest by Israeli mothers in a previous war.

January 20, 2024
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  • Daniel Estrin
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