Recent droughts and crop failures have exacerbated hunger and malnutrition in Guatemala, prompting aid organizations like the UN's World Food Program to step in with training and financial aid to improve nutrition. Rural communities, like Tecuiz here, are learning new and innovative ways to improve local food production, both traditional and unconventional, such as aquaculture, in the country's rural Dry Corridor.
While the U.S. deals with a crisis at its border with Mexico, it's also moving to curb a sharp increase in illegal crossings of asylum seekers at its northern border with Canada. About That producer Lauren Bird explains why experts say these crossings are straining the system and breaks down the changes the U.S. government is making in response.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reminding Kyiv's allies that his country cannot rely on IOUs to defend its borders, calling on those same partners to follow through on defence provision commitments promptly.
A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with UN agencies appealing for urgent vaccinations of every baby.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew from the ballot in Arizona, as both he and Donald Trump were set to appear miles apart in the Phoenix area on Friday amid speculation that Kennedy could drop his independent presidential bid and endorse the Republican nominee.
The Ukrainian forces' audacious push into Russia's Kursk region has buoyed the hopes of Ukrainians whose lives have been upended by 30 months of all-out war. Yet this optimism is also tempered by concerns about how events could still turn — and not necessarily in Ukraine's favour.
