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WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly confirmed famine at one of the sprawling camps for war-displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region is growing uncontrolled as the country’s combatants block aid, and it threatens to grow bigger and deadlier than the world’s last major famine 13 years ago, U.S. officials warned on Friday. The U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.N. World Food Program and other independent and government humanitarian agencies were intensifying calls for a cease-fire and aid access across Sudan. That’s after international experts in the Famine Review Committee formally confirmed Thursday that the starvation in at least one of three giant makeshift camps, holding up to 600,000 people displaced by Sudan’s more than yearlong war, had grown into a full famine. Two U.S. officials briefed reporters on their analysis of the crisis on Friday following the famine finding, which is only the third in the 20-year history of the Famine Review Committee. The U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity as the ground rules for their general briefing. The last major famine, in Somalia, was estimated to have killed a quarter of a million people in 2011, half of them children under 5 years old.

US warns a famine in Sudan is on pace to be the deadliest in decades as the world looks elsewhere

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Over 10 million people in Sudan, or 20 per cent of the population, have been displaced since the beginning of the war in April 2023, according to the International Organisation for Migration.Millions have fled to neighbouring countries like Chad and South Sudan, in what has quickly become the world’s worst displacement crisis.The conflict has left half of Sudan’s 50 million citizens facing severe hunger, with nearly 18 million experiencing acute food insecurity and in desperate need of humanitarian aid.Award-winning photographer Peter Caton recently visited Majok Yinthiou on the South Sudan border to document the hardships of families fleeing violence and poverty.Awel...

Spotlight on Sudan: the world’s worst displacement crisis

Nigeria has one of Africa's largest economies but is seeing record rates of child malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis. Africa's largest economy is also home to the world's largest number of food-insecure people. In northern Nigeria, children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis. Here's NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu.

Children in northern Nigeria are suffering from acute malnutrition, aid groups say

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in non-English language). EMMANUEL AKINWOTU, BYLINE: A few hundred protesters have gathered here on a main expressway in Lagos, and this is just one of several demonstrations happening across the city and the country, organized today in response to the economic crisis in Nigeria, which is one of the worst in decades. Food inflation is more than 40% and is rising. Fuel costs have more than tripled in the last year. The cost of transport, the cost of electricity have all gone up significantly. And so many people who I have spoken to here have said enough is enough.

'Enough is enough' : Nigerians take to street in protest over a cost-of-living crisis

The remains of a teacher and four soldiers were found in an operation in Khan Younis on Wednesday.

Israeli military recovers five hostages' bodies in Gaza

Lucia Moris of South Sudan toppled to the ground in agony during a preliminary heat of the women's 100-meter race at the Paris Olympics on Friday. But before medics arrived, someone else rushed to her side: fellow competitor Silina Pha Aphay of Laos. Moris, in Lane 1, was keeping pace...

An Olympic sprinter fell during a race. The first person to help was her opponent

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

The civil war in Sudan has pushed a camp housing about 500,000 displaced people near the besieged Darfur city of el-Fasher into famine, an independent group of food security experts says. The 16-month conflict and restrictions on aid deliveries were to blame, the Famine Review Committee (FRC) concluded after looking...

Big Sudan camp pushed into famine - experts

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has budgeted millions of dollars to protect small, unauthorized Jewish farms in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, underwriting tiny outposts meant to grow into full-fledged settlements, according to an anti-settlement monitoring group. Documents uncovered by Peace Now illustrate how Israel’s pro-settler government has quietly...

Israeli government quietly sends millions to unauthorized West Bank settler outposts

For nearly a century, the “Screaming Woman” mummy found in Luxor, Egypt, haunted viewers with her open-mouth facial expression. Now, new evidence by researchers in Egypt suggest more harrowing details. On Friday, Cairo University radiologist Dr. Sahar Saleem and anthropologist Samia El-Merghan reported that the woman may have...

New evidence suggests 'Screaming Woman' mummy died in pain

An intended limited operation in Rafah has turned into a decimation of the area and the closure of what was once a main evacuation route for aid workers and injured Palestinians.

A CNN analysis shows major artery for aid in Gaza is destroyed

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen early Sunday, hours after Israeli warplanes struck several Houthi targets in the Arabian Peninsula country. The Israeli airstrikes — in response to a deadly Houthi drone strike on Tel Aviv — were the first time Israel is known to have responded […]

Israel shoots down a missile fired from Yemen hours after a deadly Israeli strike on Houthi rebels

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

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Israel's military must reconsider its mistakes and blindspots after a long-range Houthi attack drone struck inside Tel Aviv in mid-July.

A deadly Houthi attack on Tel Aviv is forcing Israel to rethink its drone defenses

In Nigeria, even two meals a day is becoming unaffordable to many. Demonstrators are protesting food inflation of more than 40 percent, and fuel costs that have tripled. And in China, live-streamers digitally clone themselves, raising questions about the future of labor in the age of A.I.

"We are hungry!" Nigerians Protest Soaring Food and Fuel Costs

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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Aurora’s pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness, which only allow a maximum 30-day stay, have been cycling the same individuals in and out, city staff told council members Thursday. Many return to street encampments when their time in the pallet shelter runs out, Jessica Prosser, homeless services director for the city, said. Then, the city sweeps the encampment again, and they get to come back to the shelter for another 30 days, Prosser explained. This process can repeat multiple times.

Aurora pallet shelters a revolving door for homeless

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A post from the Israeli military acknowledged that Ismail al-Ghoul was a journalist – and also accused him, without evidence, of being a terrorist.

‘ELIMINATED’: Israel Brags Of Killing Noted Al Jazeera Journalist In Gaza

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Africa's largest economy is also home to the world's largest number of food-insecure people. In northern Nigeria, children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis. Here's NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu.

(SOUNDBITE OF MACHINE BEEPING) EMMANUEL AKINWOTU, BYLINE: At a packed hospital ward, scores of babies and toddlers fight to stay alive. There are about 70 children,...

Africa's largest economy is also home to the world's largest number of food-insecure people. In northern Nigeria, children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis. Here's NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu.

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