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Migrants take part in an activity organized by the nongovernmental organization Proem-AID's Water Project to overcome the traumatic experience of a dangerous sea crossing, on Las Teresitas beach in Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Spain, on Wednesday.
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Volunteers help migrants reverse water trauma in Spain's Canaries
Many migrants barely survived their crossing, and others lost family members or friends to the ocean.
WORLD / Society
IVF mistakes are opening a new front in the fight over reproductive rights
The $40 billion U.S. industry is expected to triple in size over the next decade as more people delay having babies until later in life.
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Four in five Americans fear country is sliding into chaos, poll finds
Eighty percent of voters surveyed — including similar shares of Democrats and Republicans — said they think the country is spiraling out of the control.
An AR-15 on display at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston, Texas, in May 2022
WORLD / Society
Jul 16, 2024
The AR-15: One of America's most popular and deadliest guns
The rifle has been a common denominator in some of the country's worst mass shootings.
People walk through the Petionville street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 2. Unable to work, Haitian families depend on food rations and hygiene kits brought in by nongovernmental organizations.
WORLD / Society
Jul 4, 2024
Camping in schools, hungry Haiti families ask: When will normality return?
By Ricardo Arduengo and Carlos Carillo
Five million people in Haiti, nearly half its population, are struggling to feed themselves due to conflict.
Palestinian woman Nisreen holds the hand of her son Majd Salem, a six-month-old malnourished Palestinian baby who weighed 3.5 kilograms when he was born and gained just 300 grams in six months, at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on May 9.
WORLD / Society
Jun 25, 2024
Gaza faces the threat of famine: How children starve
By Adolfo Arranz, Mariano Zafra, Tom Perry, Mahmoud Issa and Jitesh Chowdhury
More than 1 million of Gaza's inhabitants face the most extreme form of malnutrition — classified by the IPC as "Catastrophe or Famine."
Anti-abortion protesters outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 14.
WORLD / Society
Jun 19, 2024
'Unthinkable' normalized two years after U.S. abortion ruling
By David Sherfinski
From medics to single mothers to abused minors, Americans from all walks of life have been affected.
An Israeli tank maneuvers inside the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Gaza's environment was already suffering from recurring conflicts, rapid urban growth, and high population density, before the most recent conflict began on Oct. 7.
WORLD / Society
Jun 18, 2024
Gaza conflict has caused major environmental damage, U.N. says
By Gloria Dickie and Alison Withers
Water, sanitation, and hygiene systems are now almost entirely defunct, the report found, with Gaza's five wastewater treatment plants shut down.
Displaced Sudanese families wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in the city of Omdurman, Sudan, in April.
WORLD / Society
Jun 14, 2024
Famine watchdog says many Sudanese face starvation in coming months
By Giulia Paravicini and Steve Stecklow
About 3.6 million children in Sudan are acutely malnourished, according to a joint statement by U.N. chiefs.
Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva on Feb. 7
WORLD / Society
Jun 13, 2024
U.N. agency says record 117 million people forcibly displaced in 2023
By Nina LARSON
The United Nations refugee agency on Thursday said the number of people forcibly displaced stood at a record 117.3 million as of the end of last year, warning that this figure could rise further without major global political changes.

Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
Yen rally could help end crushing wage decay in Japan
Some economists say a sticky weak yen trend would have a negative impact on Japan's real wage growth.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Terunofuji, as he tends to do, returns to stamp his authority on sumo pretenders
Terunofuji (left) throws down Kirishima on Tuesday to build on his perfect record at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.
Japanese startups advised to internationalize to get some global mojo
Entrepreneurs who participated in the Beyond Japan Zero to X program last year share their experiences in the United States during a meeting in May in Tokyo.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

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