If you want a feel for how people in Gaza and in Israel are processing the news of the last 24 hours, no question, you want to hear the voices gathered by @shirinj.bsky.social and @matthewjbell.bsky.social for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

Do you know what it’s like trying to sleep at night in a war zone? Or how that would affect you after 1, 2, 3 years or more? The last line of this story by @shirinj.bsky.social is A+. theworld.org/segments/202...

“What I witnessed in Gaza, it wasn’t just a graveyard for innocent children. It has become a graveyard for our humanity.” Save The Children’s Shaima Al-Obaidi told me today. @theworld.org

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"It’s not just the horror, but the horror combined with the helplessness." @lsmwilson.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/first-person...

"You showed us that love for your homeland could look like rage. That mockery could be holy. That art wasn’t just decoration. It was a demand." Beautiful tribute by Laila Mokhiber for @rollingstone.com mena.rollingstone.com/tribute/to-z...

I'm sorry, what??? "At least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated" www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Have you ever held a four-year-old child who is so thin that he or she weighs the same as a one-year old? Alex de Waal @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social speaks to my colleague @shirinj.bsky.social about the devastating situation in Gaza in this report on @theworld.org Really worth a listen rb.gy/z3nydi

This is an amazing app. A map of all the urban fruit trees near you with info on the timing and quality of their fruit. You’re welcome! Now maybe I can find/try some local pawpaws this year… fallingfruit.org

"Cornish said staff at one of the hospitals where MSF operates had to give blood as most Palestinians are now too poorly nourished to donate." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Incredible reporting by @shirinj.bsky.social, who speaks with survivors of Assad’s chemical attacks, now that they can finally tell their stories. theworld.org/stories/2025...

This is a very tough time for all of us in public media. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

"Just as biased medical research resulted a diagnostic and treatment system based on male bodies, the almost exclusively male sound- engineering world seems to have established a vocal baseline that still haunts us today." continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/the-sound-...

We’re halfway through our roadshow week in San Diego. We’ve been broadcasting live out of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social studios. Our show hosts, supervising producer and editors have been busy interviewing guests for the show and meeting KPBS staff, donors and listeners like you!

US sends 'largest' trade mission to Iraq to boost economic ties www.newarab.com/news/us-send...

Historic moment!

"An infection can also lead to other issues, including lung and heart damage and microbiome changes in the gut, that may not always be recognized as long Covid but can still have a lasting effect on our health." A Clearer Picture of Covid’s Lasting Effects on the Body www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/w...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 🧵 Here’s a thread of inspiring stories and interviews about remarkable, innovative and daring women from around the world that we've covered this past year. 🌐 🛵 Motorcycle taxis are increasingly being driven by women in Uganda.

First census in nearly 40 years apnews.com/article/iraq...

Gulf’s biggest operator of American fast food restaurants — which runs some 1,850 outlets around the region under brands like KFC and Pizza Hut — blamed geopolitical tensions and weak consumer demand for 9% fall in revenue and 39% drop in profit in 2024 compared to a year earlier. @semafor.com

In 2021, six women in Afghanistan made history by taking part in the country's first-ever all-female flight. Six months later, the Taliban took over. The women had to flee or go into hiding. I caught up with two of them. @theworld.org theworld.org/stories/2025...

"In some ways, Nefertiti tells us more about ourselves than she does about her." www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/s...

After watching researchers try to recover bodies from the 1918 flu in the Arctic, I went back to school to study the social history of epidemics. I couldn't understand why 1918 sparked no major memorials, no novels, no plays. How could societies collectively agree to forget mass death? Welp.

"The CDC and World Health Organization have recognized Long COVID as a contributing factor to rising disability rates. Moreover, the COVID-19 virus has shown to worsen pre-existing chronic conditions" insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/d...

"One general told us that he faced a challenge: How to spend the remaining $1 billion from his annual budget in just over a month? Returning the money was not an option." America, Afghanistan and the Price of Self-Delusion www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

"In another development, the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman might sit or stand." apnews.com/article/afgh...

Clip of the video for those behind the paywall. Brain shrinkage is observed even in mild or asymptomatic cases of Covid and impact cognition. #NeuroCovid

"Covid’s long-term health effects — including risks for dementia and neurodevelopmental delay — continue to emerge, reminding us that while the world may wish to move on from the virus, it has not yet moved on from us." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder: "I learned today that in fact there are approximately 2,000 troops in Syria.” The number he previously stated was 900. The additional are "temporary rotational forces" and were there before the fall of Assad regime, he says. Focused on the defeat ISIS mission.

The State Department's top diplomat for the Middle East, Barbara Leaf, will travel to Damascus in the coming days @axios.com

Commander of the Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria tells me his forces are stretched thin because of Turkish threats, leaving dozens of camps and prisons holding former ISIS members and their families vulnerable to ISIS attacks. @theworld.org theworld.org/stories/2024...

“They don’t want to believe that their loved ones and their relatives are gone — killed by the brutal regime.” theworld.org/stories/2024...

LISTEN: ‘We are experiencing a taste of freedom’: Syrians react to President Bashar al-Assad’s downfall - by @shirinj.bsky.social theworld.org/stories/2024...

"Assad told his presidential office manager on Saturday when he finished work he was going home but instead headed to the airport" www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"Almost 20 years ago, the defendant was accused of torturing prisoners in Syria and, today, we are one step closer to holding him accountable for those heinous crimes" saudigazette.com.sa/article/647827

Israel Says Its Troops Will Stay in Seized Territory for Now www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

A mother embracing her son for the first time in years. A displaced English teacher returning to his hometown after 8 years. An exiled activist planning her trip back to Syria. I tried to capture some of what happened in the first hours after the fall of Assad. [LISTEN👇] theworld.org/stories/2024...

A reminder that the U.S. has troops stationed in Syria.

Damascus, December 8, 2024. Hasan Belal.

This is an example of what Assad and his army did to the Syrian people. wapo.st/49uhBIA