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28 articles Updated 31 Jul 2026 Page 2 of 2

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Displaced families queue for food rations at a camp in northeast Nigeria. Photo: Ifeatu Nnaobi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Borno's Hungry Millions Left Exposed as Aid Money Runs Dry in Northern Nigeria

A UN-backed analysis places more than 17 million people across nine northern Nigerian states in acute hunger, with the WFP able to reach only a fraction of those in need as funding collapses.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Child stands amid homes destroyed by flooding in Pakistan's Sindh province in an earlier monsoon season. Photo: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Pakistan's Opening Monsoon Spell Kills Eight as Walls and Roofs Give Way

Torrential early-July rains during Pakistan's first organized monsoon spell of the season killed at least eight people and injured more than two dozen across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to Arab News, as authorities warned of flash floods through the week.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Sudanese army soldiers in Jebel Moya during the ongoing war. Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sudan's War Reaches Into Central Africa as Rebels Storm Am-Dafok

The dawn seizure of a remote Central African border town has widened the geography of Sudan's civil war, drawing Bangui's Russian partners and UN peacekeepers into a fight that no longer stops at the frontier.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Aerial view of Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment complex after strikes. Photo: Parsa 2au, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Iran Seals Bombed Nuclear Sites From Inspectors, Reviving a Familiar Standoff

Senior Iranian officials confirmed that UN inspectors remain shut out of the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan facilities struck during the 12-day war, reopening a verification standoff over Tehran's near-weapons-grade uranium.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Chinese President Xi Jinping in an official portrait. Photo: Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation / R, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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China's Central Military Commission Hollowed to Two as Xi Elevates Fresh Generals

An anti-corruption campaign has thinned China's top military body from seven members to two, and Xi Jinping's new promotions appear to set up who fills the gaps.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Street blockade in La Paz during an earlier round of Bolivian protests. Photo: Carwil Bjork-James, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Fuel Shocks and Dollar Drought Drive Bolivia to Military Rule of the Roads

President Rodrigo Paz has placed Bolivia under a nationwide state of emergency, sending the army to clear road blockades as a fuel and dollar crisis paralyzes supply routes and fuels demands for his resignation.

6 Jul 2026 ·7 min read