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Since 2004, when the system was established, two famines, according to this definition, have occurred. In 2011, the IPC declared famine in parts of Somalia, which had endured decades of conflict. Years of drought have destroyed the agricultural sector and the economy, forcing many people to leave their homes in search of food. At the same time, a group of Islamic rebels blocked the escape of starving people and forced Western humanitarian organizations to abandon them. In all, around 250,000 people died.Six years later, famine was declared in parts of South Sudan. The country has suffered years of drought, but the UN has said the famine was man-made. Millions of people had fled a civil war that was destroying the country's economy, and rebel forces and government soldiers had blo...

The dengue fever epidemic that has swept through Latin America over the past three months is staggering in scale: a million cases in Brazil in a matter of weeks, a huge spike in Argentina, a state of emergency declared in Peru and now a other, in Puerto Rico.It warns of a changing landscape for the disease. The mosquitoes that spread dengue thrive in densely populated cities with weak infrastructure and in warmer, wetter environments, the type of habitat that is expanding rapidly with climate change.More than 3.5 million cases of dengue were confirmed by Latin American governments in the first three months of 2024, compared to 4.5 million in all of 2023. There have been more than 1,000 deaths this year. The Pan American Health Organization warns that this could be the worst year on recor...

Five years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was first jailed in a maximum-security facility in Britain while fighting a U.S. extradition request, the Biden administration has given its clearest signal to date who could abandon the legal proceedings against him.But Mr Assange's wife said on Thursday that her hopes were tempered by the reality that his extradition case had reached a critical juncture.“It's been five years, and now he's closer than ever to extradition,” his wife, Stella Assange, said in an interview, adding: “Obviously with a comment like this from the president, it's a good sign and we receive with hope. But as we know, this does not prevent us from fearing the worst."President Biden, when asked by a reporter on Wednesday about a request from Australia,...

One recent afternoon, I held a bagel in front of me and said, “Look and tell me if this is healthy.”A monotone voice replied that the bagel was unhealthy because it was high in carbohydrates, which could contribute to weight gain.I wasn't talking to a techie obsessed with the ketogenic diet. It was the Ai Pin, a tiny $700 computer equipped with a virtual assistant that pulls data from OpenAI (the research company behind the ChatGPT chatbot), Google, Microsoft and others to answer questions and perform tasks.Shaped like a pin that could be a "Star Trek" throwback, it attaches to your clothes with magnets and is supposed to offload tasks you'd normally do with a smartphone, such as taking notes, searching the Web and taking photos. Instead of a screen, the pin shines a green laser ...

A senior Hamas official said Wednesday that Hamas did not have 40 living hostages in Gaza who met the criteria for an exchange under the proposed ceasefire deal with Israel being negotiated.A senior Israeli official said Israel had been conveyed Hamas's claim, and the senior Hamas official said the group had informed mediators facilitating the negotiations. The Israeli and Hamas officials requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the negotiations.The statement raised fears that more hostages may have died than previously believed and came as talks between Hamas and Israel stalled over disagreements over the continuation of the ceasefire, the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and other issues.International negotiators have proposed an initial six-week ceasefire duri...

Overall, the health needs of women in Bangladesh take a backseat to those of men. “In our male-dominated society, when a man has a problem, he requires immediate attention, but women can wait,” she said.But the effects of declining vision can be especially pronounced for women, who are often responsible for earning extra income for their families on top of childcare and household chores, Ms. Mahjabeen said. “When it takes longer to sew and clean, or you can't get all the kernels out of the rice, domestic violence occurs in some families,” she said.VisionSpring distributes more than two million pairs of glasses per year across South Asia and Africa, up from 300,000 in 2018.The PLOS One study builds on previous research involving tea pickers in India who found a significant increase in...

America's top military commander in Europe warned Wednesday that Ukraine could lose the war with Russia if the United States doesn't send more munitions to Ukrainian forces, and quickly.“The situation is extremely serious,” Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, head of the Pentagon's European Command, told the House Armed Services Committee.General Cavoli, who is also NATO's top military commander, said Ukraine's allies provided much of the equipment and weapons Kiev needed to fight Russia's larger military, including all the fuel donated and 90% of its tanks. But the United States supplies Ukraine with most of two critical munitions that are in short supply: artillery shells and air defense interceptors.“If we do not continue to support Ukraine, Ukraine will run out of arti...

After the birth of her second child, Chelsea Becker took a one-year unpaid leave from her full-time job as a flight attendant. After watching a video on TikTok, she found a side business: training artificial intelligence models for a website called Data Annotation Tech.For a few hours each day, Ms. Becker, 33, who lives in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, sat at her laptop and interacted with an AI-powered chatbot. For every hour of work she was paid between 20 and 40 dollars. From December to March she earned over $10,000.The boom in artificial intelligence technology has put a more sophisticated spin on a type of work that doesn't require you to leave home. The growth of large language models like the technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT has fueled the need for trainers like Ms. Be...

Israeli authorities have improved their aid delivery to Gaza, but “they still need to do more,” President Biden said Wednesday, offering a measured assessment of how well Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is delivering on the promises he made last week.In a phone call with Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden said the United States could withhold support from Israel over its conduct in the war against Hamas unless it does more to protect civilians and ensure adequate supplies to Gaza. On Wednesday he said he had been "candid and direct" with the Israeli leader.Since then, Biden said, Israel has done more to ensure access to food, medicine and other essential supplies, but he added that he still expects further action. Netanyahu has pledged to increase the number of humanitarian trucks entering G...

Arizona's 160-year-old abortion ban, upheld Tuesday by the state's highest court, is part of a wave of anti-abortion laws spurred by some historic twists that might seem surprising.For decades after the United States became a nation, abortion was legal until movement of the fetus was felt, usually until the second trimester. The movement, known as acceleration, was the threshold because, in an era before pregnancy tests or ultrasounds, it was the clearest sign that a woman was pregnant.Before then, “women could try to get an abortion without having to worry that it was illegal,” said Johanna Schoen, a history professor at Rutgers University. After expediting, abortion providers could be charged with a misdemeanor.“I don't think it's been particularly stigmatized,” Dr. Sch...