Environmental

In Togo and across Africa, black‑market tramadol in high doses fuels addiction as workers use it to fight fatigue.

Spain, EU’s second largest country, faces obstacles to its potential from lost Latin American influence, civil war legacy, Catalan separatism, and economic troubles.

In Beijing, soaring rents and low wages push residents into tiny underground bomb‑shelter rooms, forming a hidden “city within a city.”

Over 80% of Europe’s salmon comes from farms, mainly in Norway, but they rely on fishmeal from Mauritania, driving ocean overfishing.

Since ancient times, people have feared asteroid impacts—one wiped out the dinosaurs, and could end us too.

New Delhi’s expansion has driven macaque monkeys into the city, where they now cause major disruption for residents.

Investigations show Ukrainian children taken to Russia under claims of safety are instead indoctrinated, fostered, or adopted—prompting ICC charges against Putin and Lvova‑Belova.

In Mogadishu, Somali dentist Dr. Abdulkadir Adan founded the nation’s only free volunteer ambulance service to save lives amid frequent attacks.

Two years after the ceasefire, Nagorno-Karabakh is under Azerbaijani control, heavily militarized, with displaced Armenians resettling in Baku.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid fifty times stronger than heroin, fuels a deadly U.S. overdose crisis, easily produced in Mexico and spreading across the Americas disguised as pills.