TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people around the world in need, and that the suffering will deepen if the violence continues.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks rose after surging on optimism about a ceasefire in the war with Iran. The S&P 500 erased its dip and rose 0.6%. The Dow Jones climbed 0.6%, and the Nasdaq added 0.8% after Israel's prime minister authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon. Oil prices pared some of their earlier gains but remained higher.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippines unveiled a major coast guard base Thursday on an island in the South China Sea to serve as a “steadfast sentinel of our sovereignty” in a disputed region closely guarded by China’s forces.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) – Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program, its government said Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the U.S.
BEIRUT (AP) – Lebanon reeled Thursday after the deadliest day of the renewed war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, with the death toll exceeding 300 people as more remains were pulled out of the rubble and bodies identified at hospitals.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – The Senegalese government has banned all but essential foreign trips for government ministers as part of cost-saving measures triggered by the energy crisis linked to the Iran war.
TSAKANE, South Africa (AP) – Gladys Khoza had missed being able to see her family. Not because they couldn’t visit, but because the 84-year-old had vision problems. Now that has changed. Khoza is one of 133 people whose sight was restored during a “marathon” of free cataract surgeries conducted by doctors in South Africa at two hospitals over two weekends last month.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – Congo on Thursday declared the end of a two-year outbreak of the mpox disease that’s believed to have caused more than 2,200 deaths in the country. Health Minister Roger Kamba told journalists that the government had made the determination that the outbreak was over and no longer a national emergency.
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