Don’t let yourself grow numb. School shootings are a horror we can’t accept.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/remember-the-children-of-annunciation-add5b127
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Jalalabad injured 2,800 others, the Taliban-run government said. The quake was felt as far as neighboring Pakistan.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/afghanistan-earthquake-death-toll/
Some asylum seekers in Britain spend years housed in hotels with their lives on hold. Their fate has become a matter of rancorous protests and legal challenges.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/uk-asylum-hotels-migration-protests-britain/
Twenty leaders — including from Russia, Iran and India — are in China for a summit designed to promote Beijing as a reliable counterweight to the U.S.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/31/china-xi-jinping-hosts-sco-meeting/
As it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Japanese surrender, China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasizing Moscow’s role.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/china-world-war-2-history/
Kenya’s anti-government protests have inspired a new generation of artists, who have championed the cause through music and murals, graffiti and spoken word.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/31/kenya-gen-z-protests-artists-ruto/
Despite a long history of coups, no Brazilian general or politician has ever been tried in a courtroom for subverting the will of the people. Until this week.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/brazil-bolsonaro-trial-coup-trump/
On the front lines of Ukraine’s grinding trench war, some drones hunt soldiers but others bring them vital supplies.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/ukraine-drones-resupply-trench/
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that the Trump administration was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday.https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/31/ice-deportation-unaccompanied-children-guatemala/
For nearly two decades, Abu Obaida was the face of Hamas’s military operations. Israel says it killed him in a strike Saturday in Gaza City.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/31/hamas-obaida-spokesman-killed-israel-qassam-official/
The main difference between America’s brand of capitalism and elsewhere: a focus on the individual and an incentive to take risks.https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-capitalism-differences-eaecd208
The result comes despite weak economic growth, underpinning expectations that the ECB will leave its key interest rate unchanged next week.https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/eurozone-unemployment-rate-fell-to-match-record-low-in-july-3505b042
Gross domestic product grew 4.8% on year, accelerating from a 2.3% rate in the first three months of the year.https://www.wsj.com/economy/turkish-economy-picks-up-pace-amid-easing-interest-rates-dd43c76d
A loss of independence at the Federal Reserve could have serious consequences for both the U.S. and the global economy, the eurozone’s top central banker warned.https://www.wsj.com/articles/threats-to-fed-independence-are-very-worrying-ecbs-lagarde-says-a759f731
A private gauge of China’s manufacturing activity rose to a five-month high, though questions linger over whether the rebound can be sustained.https://www.wsj.com/economy/china-factory-activity-gauge-signals-rebound-in-manufacturing-92ecb873
South Korea’s export growth slowed sharply in August, with U.S.-bound shipments plunging as President Trump’s tariffs weighed on global trade.https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/south-koreas-export-growth-slowed-in-august-b035fb0d
Unemployment among Black people reaches highest level since 2021. “I am in the fight of my life.”https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/black-american-unemployment-rates-866f2c45
Their display of friendship in China was aimed at projecting an alternative to U.S. global leadership, even as serious differences among them remain.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/asia/china-xi-putin-modi.html
A lurch in policy has shaken the India-U.S. economic alliance against China, leaving India little choice but to consider reversing its own strategy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/business/india-china-trump-tariffs.html
The quake, near the border with Pakistan, injured more than 2,500 people, the authorities said. The death toll was expected to rise.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/asia/afghanistan-earthquake-jalalabad.html