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Russian Drone Hits Ukrainian Kindergarten; Kyiv Accuses Moscow Of Flouting Cease-Fire

6 May 2026 at 17:34
A Russian drone hit a kindergarten in northern Ukraine, and Moscow launched scores of drones and missiles across the country, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of ignoring a Kyiv-proposed cease-fire.

How India's pharmaceutical pipeline is fueling West Africa's opioid crisis

6 May 2026 at 17:30
Sierra Leone, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and several more countries in West Africa are in the midst of an overlooked opioid crisis that's crippling the population and devastating families. The drugs that are fueling this crisis aren't made in makeshift labs, but imported by the millions from India's pharmaceutical industry. 

'Significant threat to local ecosystem: Israel's war on Lebanon generated 16 million tons of rubble'

6 May 2026 at 16:14
Oliver Farry welcomes Antoine Kallab, AUB Associate Director and Advisor to Lebanon's Ministry of Industry. In a region ravaged by war, displacement, and political collapse, a long-term environmental crisis is rapidly unfolding. Beneath those ruins lie heavy metals, toxic materials, collapsing infrastructure, and the prospect of irreversible contamination. “A disaster is never over until we’ve solved the cause that was the root cause behind the disaster,” he says, linking environmental degradation directly to failed governance, inaccessible territory, and the inability of weakened states to sustain reconstruction or prevention efforts. 

TikTok helped Trump win the 2024 election as the platform’s future in the US hung in the balance

6 May 2026 at 15:44

TikTok’s survival in the United States was at stake in 2024. Then-president Joe Biden had passed a law requiring TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, if it wanted to continue operating in the U.S. After Donald Trump won the election, the U.S. reached an agreement with TikTok. Today, the platform remains in the country, and Trump is capitalizing on it: “I like TikTok. It helped get me elected,” Trump said after winning the election.

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