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Boris Johnson faces scrutiny for attending social gatherings that broke COVID rules

5:43pm January 18, 2022

by Frank Langfitt

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing increasingly harsh criticism from members of his own party following a series of scandals in which he and his associates ignored COVID-19 protocols.

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Former army general on how the U.S. could back a Ukranian insurgency against Russia

5:27pm January 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Peter Zwack, former U.S. Army Brigadier General and global fellow at the Wilson Center, about the possibility of the U.S. arming Ukraine in an insurgency.

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The island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai as imaged by the satellite company Maxar on Jan. 6 (left) and Jan. 18 (right). It was obliterated in a volcanic eruption that scientists estimate was 10 megatons in size.

NASA scientists estimate Tonga blast at 10 megatons

5:05pm January 18, 2022

by Geoff Brumfiel

Researchers who have been studying the volcano since 2015 say it was likely caused by seawater flowing into a chamber filled with magma.

In Afghanistan, a food crisis is worsening

5:01pm January 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, to hear about the severe lack of food the country is facing.

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A satellite image taken by a Japanese weather satellite shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (Japan Meteorology Agency via AP)

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An undersea cable fault could cut Tonga from the rest of the world for weeks

4:49pm January 18, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Amid the 7.6-magnitude quake, the single fiber optic cable that the archipelago relied on for global communications ruptured.

Israeli police have used spyware from controversial Israeli company NSO Group to hack the cell phones of Israeli citizens without judicial oversight, according to an Israeli newspaper.

Israeli police used spyware to hack its own citizens, an Israeli newspaper reports

1:55pm January 18, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

According to a report in Israeli media, Israel has hacked activists, mayors and other Israeli citizens without judicial oversight using spyware from the controversial NSO Group.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill last week.

Fauci says COVID-19 won't go away like smallpox, but will more likely become endemic

1:11pm January 18, 2022

by Scott Neuman

The White House's top medical adviser says the virus won't go away entirely. Instead, it should eventually hit a level where it "doesn't disrupt our normal social, economic and other interactions."

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a hospital in North on Tuesday.

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Boris Johnson again says BYOB party he attended during lockdown was a work event

11:15am January 18, 2022

by The Associated Press

The British prime minister denied misleading Parliament about lockdown-breaching parties, as senior government ministers said he would have to resign if he is proven to have lied.

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test-fire of tactical guided missile in North Korea Monday, Jan. 17, 2022.

North Korea tests more missiles, but experts warn against taking threats at face value

10:33am January 18, 2022

by Anthony Kuhn

Monday's test was North Korea's fourth launch in under two weeks. By contrast, it took the North 10 months to conduct that many ballistic missile tests last year.

A Biden "I did that!" sticker spotted in the wild.

The Movement To Stick Inflation Blame On Biden

6:30am January 18, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

It's a bad time to be a world leader. COVID did that.