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U.S. Will No Longer Fund Peace-Building Programs For Palestinians

The U.S. has cut hundreds of millions of dollars for Palestinians, to pressure Palestinian leaders to work with the U.S. on peace efforts.

Typhoon Slams Philippines

A powerful typhoon is making its way from the Philippines to China. The storm is expected to remain strong as it enters the South China Sea.

Committee Recommends Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency Be Reinstated

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s compliance review committee made the call, despite protests from international athletes that they “will no longer have faith in the system.”

Which Foreign Aid Programs Work? The U.S. Runs A Test — But Won’t Talk About It

USAID has launched a series of experiments to see how traditional aid compares to giving people cash. The first results are in. And they’re proving controversial.

September Is Peak Hurricane Season. Why Is That?

September 10 is the day you’re statistically most likely to find a tropical cyclone somewhere in the Atlantic basin. The reason has to do with both wind and water.

In Jordan, ‘house of safety’ offers hope and freedom to at-risk women

Dar Amneh, literally the “house of safety,” is a unique joint project by civil society groups and the Jordanian government to help women at the risk of violence from their own families build new lives. In Jordan, some two dozen women are killed each y…

Russians Allegedly Targeted Lab Studying Chemical Weapons

Russian agents were allegedly planning to hack into a Swiss laboratory that was analyzing nerve agents used in March against a former Russian spy and his daughter.

A golden lesson from the 2008 financial crisis

Ten years ago on Sept. 15, the financial firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, triggering the worst global recession in decades. Largely unnoticed on this 10th anniversary, however, is the fact that it also awakened an improved culture of prudenc…

Syria’s next battle: the jockeying for influence by outside powers

Only two grisly questions remain in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fight against his civil war rivals: how long before the last major armed resistance, in the northwestern province of Idlib, is crushed; and how many of the estimated three million c…

Mexico City Keeps Sinking As Its Water Supply Wastes Away

“We are depleting volumes of water that took hundreds, thousands of years to store. Sooner or later it will run out,” says Mexico City’s outgoing water system director.

Putin’s war games send signal to West, but Russia-China alliance unlikely

The exercises, kicked off this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a summit in Vladivostok, have led some Russian commentators to suggest hopefully – echoed, fearfully, by some in the West – that the two g…

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