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Members of a Lebanese NGO clear debris from their office that was damaged in an Israeli strike on a nearby building, in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday.
WORLD / Society
In Lebanon, people with disabilities isolated and abandoned by war
More than 900,000 people in Lebanon are classified as living with disabilities, according to the United Nations Development Program.
WORLD / Society
'We have a lost generation': Lebanon's education crisis
At least 500 public schools in Lebanon, roughly one in two in what is a badly underfunded sector, were converted into shelters in recent months to house people.
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Russia's labor shortage spreads as defense sector poaches staff
A growing labor shortage is affecting all areas of life since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Afghan women sew clothes at a handicraft workshop in Kabul on Nov. 10. Many women have launched small businesses in the past three years to meet their own needs and support other Afghan women, whose employment sharply declined after the Taliban authorities took power in 2021, imposing rules that squeezed women from many areas of work and public life.
WORLD / Society
Nov 25, 2024
Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban
By Aysha Safi
Though some businesses are a lifeline, salaries cannot cover all costs and many women are still stalked by economic hardship.
While the ETH Zurich is an outlier for now in Switzerland, the decision has shone a spotlight on how universities in the German-speaking world are attempting to balance national security concerns with academia’s imperative to pursue open scholarship and collaboration across borders.
WORLD / Society
Nov 23, 2024
Swiss university applies stricter measures to Chinese students
By Paula Doenecke and Laura Alviz
Switzerland’s top technical university justified the move as complying with laws to counter international espionage.
Migrants gather at the CATE (temporary assistance center for foreigners) in San Andres on the island of El Hierro, Spain, on Oct. 28
WORLD / Society
Nov 22, 2024
In Spain's Canaries, rescuers exhausted as new migrant routes open
By Joan Faus and Horaci Garcia
Nearly twice as many migrants as residents have landed this year on the southernmost part of Spain's Canary Islands.
Messages from so-called Active Clubs surged on Telegram over the past month.
WORLD / Society
Nov 22, 2024
Extremists on Telegram pose as fight clubs, raising alarms in U.S.
By Jeff Stone
The loosely organized network in the U.S. and Canada consist of men who say in online forums they’re working to stop the elimination of the white race.
Family members hug each other in front of the bus to Minsk, Belarus, at the Warsaw West bus station on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Society
Nov 20, 2024
Ukrainians brave arduous journeys to Russian-occupied homeland
By Ola CICHOWLAS
For a year now, Russia has only been letting Ukrainian citizens travel to occupied zones through a special checkpoint set up in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
From left: Pakistani education activist and producer Malala Yousafzai, U.S. actress Jennifer Lawrence, producer Justine Ciarrocchi and director Sahra Mani attend the Los Angeles premiere of "Bread and Roses" on Nov. 14.
WORLD / Society
Nov 19, 2024
Phone documentary details Afghan women's struggle under Taliban rule
By Romain FONSEGRIVES
Exiled Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani reached out to a dozen women after the fall of Kabul in 2021, tutoring them on how to film themselves for the purpose of the film.
A University of Lisbon banner reads "From Lisbon to the World." Talent flight to wealthier countries of the north is a problem Portugal shares with several others in southern and central Europe.
WORLD / Society
Nov 15, 2024
Borderless Europe fights brain drain as talent heads north
By Sergio Goncalves, Giselda Vagnoni, Gergely Szakacs and Charlie Devereux
Workers moving to other nations within the bloc exacerbates regional labor shortages and deprives poorer countries of tax revenues.

South Korea's Yoon backs down after parliament rejects martial law
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday evening.
BOJ weighs case for first triple hike since Japan’s bubble burst
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reiterated in an interview published Saturday that authorities will raise rates if the economy performs in line with projections.
Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
Nomura CEO takes pay cut after former employee charged with attempted murder
Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
Activated on Wednesday, U.S. Space Forces Japan — a component similar to the one established at South Korea’s Osan Air Base in 2022 — will operate out of Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa, western Tokyo, with a staff of about 10.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
Don’t worry, you can still use your Japan health insurance card — for now
A My Number card reader at a pediatric clinic in Tokyo. While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, most people will remain unaffected by the move in the short term as existing health insurance cards can still be used for another year.

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