September 15, 2021

Weekly World News Update

Nuclear Dangers on the Rise; What's Next for Afghans on the Move?; The 76th UN General Assembly; New Lebanese Government, Same Economic Crisis; Germany Races Toward Election Day; Shockwaves from Mexican Ruling to Decriminalize Abortion

Nuclear Dangers on the Rise

"North and South Korea Test Ballistic Missiles Hours Apart" BBC News, September 15, 2021 "North Korea's Nuclear Family: How the Kims Got the Bomb and Why They Won't Give It Up" Sue Mi Terry -- Foreign Affairs, September 2021 "Iran Nears an Atomic Milestone" David Sanger and William Broad -- New York Times, September 13, 2021 "Iran Replaces Nuclear Diplomat in Foreign Ministry Reshuffle" The National, September 15, 2021 "Woodward/Costa Book: Worried Trump Could 'Go Rogue,' Milley Took Secret Action to Protect Nuclear Weapons" Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, and Elizabeth Stuart -- CNN, September 14, 2021  Photo Chung Sung-Jun/Getty and Story (Irish Times/FT)

What's Next for Afghans on the Move?

"The Evacuation of Afghan Refugees Is Over. Now What?" Elizabeth Ferris -- Brookings Institution, September 10, 2021 "At Pakistan's Border With Afghanistan, People Wait to Cross from Both Sides" Arezou Rezvani; Steve Inskeep; Samantha Balaban -- NPR, September 14, 2021 "Obamas, Bushes, Clintons Help Launch Organization to Help Afghan Refugees" Rebecca Morin -- USA Today, September 14, 2021 "Trump Aides Seek to Build Opposition to Afghan Refugees in U.S." Al Jazeera, September 15, 2021 “Where Will Afghan Refugees Go?” Lindsay Maizland -- Council on Foreign Relations, September 8, 2021 Photo and Story: CNN

The 76th UN General Assembly

"76th General Assembly Gets Underway at UN Headquarters in New York" UN News, September 14, 2021 “What to Expect at the 76th UN General Assembly" Joseph Stepansky -- Al Jazeera, September 14, 2021 "Quandary at U.N.: Who Speaks for Myanmar and Afghanistan?" Rick Gladstone -- New York Times, September 11, 2021 "UNGA 76 Opens In New York: Liberia's President Engages in an Agenda Expected to Have Education at Its Core" Lennart Dodoo -- Front Page Africa, September 14, 2021

New Lebanese Government, Same Economic Crisis

"Najib Mikati Has Formed a New Lebanese Government" Michael Young -- Carnegie Middle East Center, September 10, 2021 "Lebanon: New Government, Different Faces, Same Old Problems" Elie Abouaoun -- Middle East Eye, September 15, 2021 "'It's Not a Crisis, It's a Collapse': Life in a Total Economic Meltdown" Bevan Shields -- Sydney Morning Herald, September 13, 2021 "Iran's Goal in Lebanon: Push the Americans Out, Like Afghanistan - Analysis" Seth Franztman -- Jerusalem Post, September 14, 2021 Photo and Story: The National News

Germany Races Towards Election Day Register for our next Wunderbar Together events: "The World's Most Important Election" (9/29) and "All Eyes on Germany" (9/30)

“German Election Demographics: Facts and Figures” Deutsche Welle, September 10, 2021 "How Olaf Scholz and the SPD Could Lead Germany’s Next Government" Jeremy Cliffe -- NewStatesman, September 1, 2021 "Merkel Warns of Leftist Coalition as German Election Nears" Laurenz Gehrke -- Politico, September 7, 2021

Shockwaves from Mexican Ruling to Decriminalize Abortion

"Mexico's Abortion Ruling Could Make Waves Beyond Its Borders" Rafael Romo -- CNN, September 13, 2021