The Pivotal Decision That Led to a Resurgence of Polio
In 2016, the global health authorities removed a type of poliovirus from the oral vaccine. The virus caused a growing number of outbreaks and has now arrived in Gaza. Source…
Street Artist Documents War in Ukraine, One Stark Mural at a Time
Using ruins as his canvas, Gamlet Zinkivskyi has captured life in wartime Ukraine in dozens of grim, gripping and harshly beautiful paintings. “Broken, but invincible,” read one captioned work. Source…
Typhoon Yagi Approaches Vietnam After Pummeling Southern China
The storm is on track to become the most powerful to make landfall in northern Vietnam, where one person has died. Two were killed on the Chinese island of Hainan.…
Nurses Win a Bigger Role as Doctors Strike in South Korea
As hospitals struggle from a monthslong walkout, nurses have picked up some of the slack. A new law gives them more responsibilities and, they say, greater recognition. Source link
Twitter Changed Soccer. There’s a Risk X Will Do It Again.
The world’s most popular pastime has been irrevocably shaped by its exposure to social media. That evolution can still go awry. Source link
Indonesia Is One of the World’s Biggest Sources of Catholic Priests
A seminary on Flores, a Catholic-majority island in Indonesia, ordains so many priests that a lot of them go abroad to serve the faithful. Source link
In France Rape Trial, a Daughter Talks of Torment
In court, the woman said she was traumatized not only by what prosecutors said happened to her mother but also by fear that she herself might have been abused. Source…
Aysenur Eygi, American Killed in the West Bank, Was a Campus Organizer
Her trip to the West Bank, where she was shot on Friday, was Ms. Eygi’s latest effort in years of activism that began nearly a decade ago when was still…
New Zealand’s Maori Name a New Queen
Nga Wai Hono i te Po, 27, is the second woman to assume the ceremonial role. She takes the throne as some of the country’s pro-Maori policies are being pared…