Category: World

UN Votes 164-1 to Ditch the Map That Shrinks Africa — America Says No The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1, with six abstentions, to adopt a resolution promoting the Equal Earth projection and other equal-area maps over the 16th-century Mercator projection, which visually shrinks Africa and other equatorial regions relative to northern landmasses.…

Nepal’s Flood Death Toll Hits 1,252 as Workers Are Still Pulled From Buried Tunnels The death toll from catastrophic flash floods that struck the Nepal-Tibet border region last month has risen to 1,252, with 4,216 people still listed as missing, according to Nepali government data released this week. Chinese state media separately reported 16 deaths…

Milei Threatens Oil Firms Over Falklands as Trump Muddies the Waters Argentine President Javier Milei said late Thursday he will send Congress an urgent bill imposing tougher sanctions on oil companies operating near the Falkland Islands, extending penalties beyond the firms themselves to their suppliers, shareholders and directors. The move targets companies tied to the…

Cholera Tears Through Sudan’s West Kordofan While the Front Lines Block the Cure At least 10 people have died and more than 40 have been infected with cholera in Sudan’s West Kordofan state, according to the Kordofan Human Rights Observatory, with cases recorded over the weekend in El Idai locality and the disease spreading into…

Xi and Sisi Sign a Nile Water Pact That Ethiopia Never Got Invited To Chinese President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued a joint statement on September 3, the closing day of Xi’s first state visit to Egypt in a decade, in which China recognized the Nile’s “vital importance to Egypt as…

Vance Calls Iran’s Wedding-Strike Claim “Extremely Skeptical” as Missiles Fly Over Kuwait and the UAE Iran’s military said on September 3 that it struck the Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait and the Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates with missiles and drones, targeting satellite communications systems, equipment warehouses and a fighter…

Xi Jinping Lands in Cairo, Handing China a Foothold in Washington’s Oldest Arab Ally Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo on a state visit at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, his first trip to Egypt in a decade and his first to the Middle East’s most populous nation in that span.…

Germany Shuts Russia’s Last Consulate After Blaming Moscow for Leipzig Airport Drone Plot Germany announced on September 2 that it will close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn by September 18, Russia’s last remaining consulate general in the country, and terminate an agreement covering the Russian House in Berlin, requiring staff at both institutions to…

US and Iran Trade New Strikes Across the Middle East as the War Widens Into Jordan and the Gulf The U.S. military launched a fresh barrage of strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran this week, escalating a six-month conflict that has already driven global energy prices higher. The strikes followed a weekend…

US Strikes Near Strait of Hormuz Hit an Iranian Wedding, Tehran Fires Back at Bases Across the Gulf US Central Command began fresh strikes on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets near the Strait of Hormuz around midday on September 1, 2026, saying the action followed an IRGC attempt to mine the strait and a missile…