The following are current news stories at the several recommended sites on your Current Events Article Review assignment. These may or may not apply to the current unit being studied in class, but will serve as a good base point. Be aware that only the top five news stories from each source are displayed – many more things are currently happening in the world right now!
New York Times
- Congo Says Baby Girl Is Youngest Survivor of Ebola Outbreak December 16, 2018Congolese are calling the infant named Benedicte, who was admitted to an Ebola treatment center six days after birth, the “young miracle.”ASSOCIATED PRESS
- Lawyer’s Status Throws Genocide Conviction of Khmer Rouge Leader Into Doubt December 16, 2018An international tribunal dismissed a Dutch lawyer who had defended one of Khmer Rouge leaders. The lawyer’s bar membership lapsed in 2016.JULIA WALLACE
- NORWAY Dispatch: Where Reindeer Are a Way of Life December 16, 2018The indigenous Sami people have fought for generations to preserve their identity. The latest battles are against Norway’s limits on reindeer herds.NADIA SHIRA COHEN
- How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments December 16, 2018At a time when democracies and their basic values are increasingly under attack, the iconic American company has sometimes served clients in ways that directly counter American interests.WALT BOGDANICH and MICHAEL FORSYTHE
- Climate Negotiators Reach an Overtime Deal to Keep Paris Pact Alive December 16, 2018The deal puts in place detailed implementation rules, but analysts said it was now up to individual countries to honor their commitments.BRAD PLUMER
The Guardian
- Explosion injures at least 20 people in Japan December 16, 2018The explosion and fire happened at a restaurant in Sapporo in the northern islandA large explosion and fire is reported to have wrecked a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, injuring at least 20 people.Pictures from the scene, following the blast on Sunday evening, showed firefighters searching the building which appeared to have been virtua […]Owen Bowcott
- Macron's ratings fall further after month of gilets jaunes protests December 16, 2018French president will be forced to change his style of governing, say analysts A month of gilets jaunes, or yellow vests, protests have taken a further toll on the popularity of President Emmanuel Macron, a new poll showed on Sunday, with analysts saying he will be forced to change his style of governing.Around 66,000 protesters turned out again on Saturday […]Agence France-Presse
- Former fossil fuels lobbyist to head interior department as Zinke exits December 16, 2018David Bernhardt’s new job means top two US environmental agencies will be helmed by people once paid by industryRyan Zinke’s exit as interior secretary elevates a former lobbyist to the job, meaning the top two US environmental agencies will now be run by people previously paid by industry.The deputy secretary, David Bernhardt, will take over at least tempor […]Emily Holden in Washington
- Boy, five, becomes third family member to die after Nottinghamshire fire December 16, 2018An eight-year-old girl and her mother died on Saturday after blaze at a house in CollinghamA five-year-old boy has become the third member of the same family to die after a house fire in Nottinghamshire.The child was among five people rescued from the property. Police said on Sunday he had died in hospital. Continue reading...Josh Halliday North of England correpsondent
- Scott Morrison: 'West Jerusalem is the capital of Israel' – video December 16, 2018Australia now formally recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, the Australian PM said on Saturday.Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital but holds back on embassy move Continue reading...
National Public Radio
- New Climate Deal Keeps Paris Accord Alive, Draws Path To Implementation December 16, 2018NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with CNN's Senior International Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh about the climate deal recently reached at a major conference in Poland.Lulu Garcia-Navarro
- On Both Sides Of U.S.-Mexico Border, Migrants Face Risks And Long Waits December 16, 2018NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro talks with reporter Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News about the conditions that migrants trying to enter the U.S. encounter when stuck along the border.Lulu Garcia-Navarro
- Aid Will Move Slowly From Yemen Port Ceasefire — If It Lasts December 16, 2018NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to reporter Jane Ferguson about the situation in Yemen, where a ceasefire in a key port city is off to a shaky start.Lulu Garcia-Navarro
- Left Exposed By Middle Eastern Upheaval, Christians Are Fleeing Region December 16, 2018Janine diGiovanni discusses her report in Harper's on the accelerating persecution and uprooting of Christians in the land where the religion was bornLulu Garcia-Navarro
- Journalists And NGOs Face Shutdowns, Beatings As Nicaragua Stifles Dissent December 16, 2018The government of Nicaragua's embattled President Daniel Ortega recently ransacked the offices of human rights organizations and an independent media outlet last week.Carrie Kahn
Al Jazeera
- Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates December 16, 2018Secretary of State says the US with hold those found responsible for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi accountable.
- Turkish FM: EU countries turning blind eye to Khashoggi murder December 16, 2018Mevlut Cavusoglu says it is clear that Saudi hit team planned killing in advance, as UN chief calls for accountability.
- UN calls for 'credible' probe into Khashoggi murder December 16, 2018Antonio Guterres says it is 'essential to have credible investigation and to have punishment of those that were guilty'.
- Turkey says Trump working on extraditing wanted preacher Gulen December 16, 2018Trump said last month he was not considering extraditing the preacher.
- US orders non-emergency staff out of DR Congo before vote December 16, 2018Order comes a week before presidential election in DR Congo that many fear could turn violent.
The Atlantic
- China’s Hottest Bachelors Are Animated Characters December 15, 2018Why millions of women play the mobile game Love and ProducerJessie Li
- Washington Sends the Saudis a Long-Overdue Bill December 15, 2018The Pentagon’s $331 million invoice to the Kingdom and the UAE was another blow after a difficult week.Samuel Oakford
- Tiny ‘Zombies’ Rising from the Tundra December 14, 2018It’s illegal to be buried in Longyearbyen, where a melting permafrost threatens to revive ancient diseases.Emily Buder
- Photos of the Week: Sweet Spill, Bovine Rescue, Miss Universe December 14, 2018Big waves in Portugal, holiday lights in Europe, images from the asteroid Bennu, a flight with Virgin Galactic, a giant middle finger in Vermont, and much moreAlan Taylor
- ‘Toxic Masculinity Has Deformed and Destroyed Our Men’ December 13, 2018In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a social program hopes to redefine what it means to be a man.Emily Buder
The Economist
- Why so little is done to help new mums cope December 13, 2018THE PREMISES are as spick-and-span as any health centre. But unusually for somewhere full of newborns and mothers, a quiet calm prevails. Setagaya Postpartum Centre in Tokyo is a rare place. Mothers with babies four months old or younger can stay the night to receive support from midwives and therapists. Some want help breast-feeding; a good few need counsel […]
- Can the world stop genocide? December 6, 2018SQUATTING ON a UN refugee agency mat, clutching her listless two-year-old, Setera Bibi tells her story. Last year, at 4am on August 25th, the 23-year-old was awoken by gunfire. Fifty soldiers were rampaging through her village in north-east Rakhine state, in the west of Myanmar. Entering her house, they grabbed her husband. Four hours later he was returned, […]
- Indigenous peoples across the world no longer seem doomed to extinction November 29, 2018NORTH SENTINEL has few visitors, which is just as its 150 or so residents want. The 30,000-year-old tribe on the tiny island in the Andaman archipelago in the Bay of Bengal has had almost no contact with the outside world since 1991. So when John Chau, a young American missionary, paid some boatmen to drop him off on the island last month he was greeted with […]
- Brazilian Indians are learning to live with the state November 29, 2018Reeling in reais DRIVE AN HOUR north-west from Boa Vista, capital of Brazil’s Roraima state, towards the border with Venezuela, and pastures of grazing cattle and rice fields give way to the stunning but unkempt expanses of the São Marcos indigenous reserve. Here, sleepy roadside villages show little sign of life, aside from omnipresent prayer sheds marked w […]
- Why New Zealand’s Maori do better than Australia’s Aboriginals November 29, 2018An example to follow WHEN JAMES COOK landed in Australia in 1770, Aboriginals had been there for about 60,000 years. Their 500 or so separate nations lacked kingpins or settled agriculture, so colonisers deemed the land terra nullius, free for the taking. Aboriginals were butchered or displaced, and later their children were stolen and placed in foster care […]