Category: Trends

Comment on this story Comment NAIROBI, Kenya — As one deadly conflict in Ethiopia begins to calm, another is growing, challenging a government that’s eager to persuade the international community to lift sanctions and revive what was once one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. Even as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends the U.S.-Africa summit this […]

Comment on this story Comment China has stopped releasing a daily count of asymptomatic coronavirus cases and tightened the criteria for what counts as a covid-related death after criticism that the earlier method was failing to capture a wave of infections that came with the sudden pivot away from a “zero covid” policy. The Chinese […]

ST. GEORGE, Utah — The meth was expensive. The federal agents were running out of money. They had been buying loads of drugs in undercover operations, trying to trace the pipeline of methamphetamine and fentanyl into this sleepy city of retirees, out-of-town hikers and Mormon churches. Brady Wilson, one of just two Drug Enforcement Administration […]

Comment on this story Comment BRUSSELS — The de facto capital of the European Union is being rocked by explosive allegations that World Cup host Qatar bribed current and former European Parliament officials to try to influence decisions at the highest levels. After at least 20 raids across Brussels since Friday morning, including within the […]

Comment on this story Comment NEW DELHI — For months, Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, claimed his innocence in courts and pleaded for medical care, but Indian authorities denied him bail. He died at a hospital in July 2021 after spending more than eight months in jail on terrorism charges. Now, an examination of […]

After Somalia’s government put its backing behind the clan militias, they began to retake territory from al-Shabab December 14, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST A Danab vehicle travels in Masjid Ali Guduud, an area recently taken back from al-Shabab control by the military in Somalia. (Malin Fezehaif for The Washington Post) Comment on this story […]

Comment on this story Comment KYIV, Ukraine — If Kyiv is struck by a nuclear bomb, Serhiy Dmytruk’s biggest fear is that he will survive the blast but die anyway from hunger, thirst or cold. So he has assembled what he calls his “nuclear backpack,” crammed with enough provisions and survival paraphernalia to sustain him […]

Comment on this story Comment New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern suffered a rare lapse in composure on Tuesday, when she was caught on a hot mic referring to a rival lawmaker using a pejorative word to compare him to a part of the male anatomy. The young, liberal leader has been feted globally for […]

107,622died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021. Fentanyl was responsible for two-thirds of those deaths. The number of Americans killed by the drug has jumped 94 percent since 2019. On average, one person dies of a fentanyl overdose in the United States every seven minutes. Updated Dec. 13 at 3:00 p.m.Originally published Dec. […]

Long COVID—a condition with symptoms ranging from respiratory to neurological, from crushing fatigue to chronic pain—can be debilitating. And in some cases, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Long COVID may even be fatal. From January 2020 through June 2022, Long COVID contributed to more than 3,500 deaths […]