Hurricane Florence made landfall early Sept. 14. on the coast of the Carolinas, bringing strong winds, high storm surges and torrential rainfall. Florence developed off the west side of Africa and had...
Aarushi Ahuja, World & Nation Editor
• January 26, 2018
Turkey
Turkey will be extending its current military campaign in Syria to the Kurdish controlled state of Manbij, according to The Guardian. The plan was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 24 by the Turkish...
Aarushi Ahuja, World And Nation Editor
• October 27, 2017
Zimbabwe
On Oct. 22, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, announced the retraction of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s appointment as a goodwill ambassador in response...
Egypt
On Saturday, Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived over 3,500 years ago. The site took around five months to excavate, yielding a humble historical...
Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor
• December 2, 2016
Colombia
A plane carrying the Brazilian soccer team Associação Chapecoense de Futebol, 21 journalists and a crew of nine crashed on Nov. 28 near Medellin, Colombia. Of the 81 people on board, only...
Abe Kenmore, Social Justice and Diversity Coordinator
• September 16, 2016
While the U.S. tentatively debates lessening the penalties on drugs, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has been making headlines since the spring when he was elected on a plat- form of stopping...
Catherine Schurz, World and Nation Section Editor
• December 7, 2012
France
Studies show the sperm count in France has decreased by 32 percent over the past 17 years. Scientists theorize that this decline may lead to a dangerously low sperm count in French males and...
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