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Focusing only on emergency planning, disaster response, and recovery after each climate catastrophe is no longer enough in Europe. Policymakers urgently need to start mapping Europe’s long-term future, which will require a fundamental overhaul of its infrastructure, energy system, and major economic sectors. LONDON—Between June 20 and 28, a powerful heat wave hit Europe, creating the conditions that have fueled the wildfires now raging across large swathes of France and Spain. Soon after the June heat wave, city officials in Rome announced a new, scientifically informed operational strategy to prepare for a hotter world. As with other such efforts in…

Nearly eight decades after the establishment of Israel, the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state remains the defining question of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Wars have been fought, peace treaties signed and diplomatic initiatives launched, yet this central strategic issue remains unresolved.Today, Saudi Arabia is at the forefront of the efforts to establish a Palestinian state and deliver a lasting peace arrangement with Israel. Its commitment to the issue is made clear by its decision to cosponsor the creation of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution in 2024, which is currently meeting in Rome.King Salman and Crown…

Andy Burnham has said the assisted dying debate needs to wait until palliative care and social care are fixed, as he set out his path to resolving one of the most intractable problems in British politics.The prime minister said he was not opposed to having the debate on assisted dying, but told reporters it would be “very challenging” to introduce the controversial legislation until the care system was in a better place.The new prime minister’s remarks about assisted dying came during a major speech at a care home in north London about social care reform, an issue on which he…

One served eight years as the nation’s first lady. The other holds a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court. Both made history as the first Black women to serve in their respective high-ranking roles.But when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Michelle Obama’s podcast released on Wednesday for their first extended public conversation, their discussion steered clear of politics and the work of the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, where Justice Jackson, a liberal, serves as its most junior justice.Instead, they commiserated about the stresses of co-parenting young children with an equally ambitious spouse, the adjustment to living with round-the-clock security and…

X has a new argument against sweeping underage social media bans that would limit usage of its platform: They interfere with international law.The social media platform, which sits within Elon Musk’s SpaceX, issued a submission to the Australian parliament published Tuesday that called for the government to drop efforts to strengthen its underage social media ban. It complained that the proposals to increase pressure on sites to demonstrate efforts to crack down on underage access are unnecessary, ill-suited, unfair, and could violate privacy rights.X pushed back against the “highly invasive” information gathering powers the proposed amendment would allow, accusing the…

Source: Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment The Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) agency activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities across the entire state after hackers targeted more than 30 community water systems in “a coordinated cyberattack.” ​The attacks occurred on Sunday and Monday, July 26 and 27, and targeted operational technology (OT) systems at local water utilities. In a statement early Monday, the City of Braham said that the water plant was “offline for an unknown reason.” “Crews are actively troubleshooting the problem and will restore services as soon as possible,” the city said in a communication to its residents. An update…

Untreated cavities send thousands of young children in the United States to emergency departments each year. Because hospital doctors usually cannot repair the underlying dental problem, some children continue to suffer from pain and infection, while others eventually need surgery under general anesthesia. A low-cost liquid known as silver diamine fluoride, or SDF, may offer a much simpler option. Dentists apply it directly to a cavity with a small sponge-tipped applicator, a process that takes only a few seconds for each tooth. The treatment can stop decay without drilling, injections, or sedation. A Long-Used Treatment Gains Stronger Evidence SDF has…

A federal judge in Brazil has given the country’s government 24 months to recognize the traditional territory of the Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna Indigenous people in the northwestern state of Mato Grosso. The court accepted evidence from federal prosecutors that detailed decades of government inaction following massacres, forced displacement and other human rights violations against the Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna people. The ruling, issued on June 11 by Federal Judge Pablo Kipper Aguilar in Diamantino, Mato Grosso, also orders the federal government to issue a public apology and pay 10 million reais ($2 million) in collective moral damages. “It has been a very difficult…

Many countries that graduate from low- to middle-income status soon find themselves stuck in the position of being too rich to qualify for aid, too poor to secure reliable market-based financing, and too indebted to expand public-health spending. But it doesn’t have to be this way. NAIROBI—In the lexicon of development, few words sound as reassuring as “graduation,” which suggests progress past critical milestones and an escape from dependency. In global health, however, graduation increasingly creates a trap. When a country crosses the World Bank’s threshold from low- to middle-income status, it is deemed too rich to qualify for aid,…

CBSNews.com, Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at, et al. Trump Gives Primetime Speech on Elections as White House Alleges Chinese Access to Voter Data. 17 July 2026, https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-primetime-speech-elections-china/.Christensen, Laerke. “Image Claiming to Show Trump with Young Girl during China Visit Is Fake. Here’s Proof.” Snopes, 19 May 2026, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-girl-gift-china-visit/.———. “No, China Didn’t ‘cancel’ US Beef amid Tariffs Tit-for-Tat.” Snopes, 14 Mar. 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/china-cancels-us-beef/.Deng, Rae. “Unpacking Claim Trump Admin Dumped Gifts from China before Leaving Country.” Snopes, 18 May 2026, https://www.snopes.com//news/2026/05/18/trump-dumped-gifts-china/.Ibrahim, Nur. “Fake Image Shows Trump, Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with Fists up in…