Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified. With the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday.
The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world’s largest humanitarian disaster, a leading hunger agency says. The major city of El-Fasher has been particularly hard-hit.
Akita Prefecture has Japan’s most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities elsewhere.
Hurricane Melissa devastated much of Jamaica last month. NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Elaine Bradley, whose home lost its roof, about recovery efforts in the town of Negril.
Australia’s first treaty with its Indigenous peoples will be signed in the state of Victoria this month. It will give First Nations more say on laws and policy affecting them.
Israeli police detained a former military prosecutor, the internal security minister said Monday, amid fallout from a leaked video allegedly showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner.
President Trump warns he could send U.S. forces into Nigeria, accusing the government of failing to stop Islamist attacks on Christians. Nigeria’s president says the claim misrepresents reality.
The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, in the western state of Michoacan, was gunned down Saturday night in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said.