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Editorial Roundup: United States 04/02/2024 06:30pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 30 The Washington Post on the Israel-Gaza war As the war in Gaza grinds on into its sixth month, cracks are showing in the once unequivocally united front between Israel and the United States. Meantime, hunger threatens Gaza’s Hospitals must obtain written consent for pelvic and similar exams, the federal government says 04/02/2024 10:10am • Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — especially if an exam will be done while the patient is unconscious, the federal government said Monday. New guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and H Abortions are legal in much of Africa. But few women may be aware, and providers don't advertise it 04/02/2024 01:02am • ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana, became pregnant last year, she sought an abortion at a health clinic but worried the procedure might be illegal. Health workers assured her abortions were lawful under certain conditions in the West African c Gaza medical officials say Israeli strike kills 4 foreign aid workers, driver after delivering food 04/02/2024 12:48am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver late Monday, hours after the group brought in a new shipload of food to northern Gaza, which has been isolated and pushed to the The Latest | Israel ends raid on Gaza hospital; Iran says strike kills 2 generals in Syria 04/01/2024 11:46pm • The Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, saying it killed some 200 militants in close-quarters fighting and detained hundreds. Palestinians who returned to Shifa Hospital, once the largest medical center in Gaza, said they found its buildings heavily bur Ohio law banning nearly all abortions now invalid after referendum, attorney general says 04/01/2024 04:52pm • A 2019 law banning most abortions in Ohio is unconstitutional following an abortion referendum last year, the state's Republican attorney general said in a court filing Monday. The filing comes after abortion clinics asked a Hamilton County judge to throw out the law since Ohio voters decided to en Germany has legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis. Not everyone is mellow about that. 04/01/2024 01:42pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Marijuana campaigners in Germany lit celebratory joints on Monday as the country legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis for recreational use over objections from doctors and police. The German Cannabis Association, which campaigned for the new law, staged a � A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing 04/01/2024 10:00am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame. As upsetting as that notification was, it also was South Korea's Yoon vows not to back down in the face of doctors' strike over medical school plan 04/01/2024 05:38am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president vowed Monday not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions, as he called their walkouts “an illegal collective action” that poses "a grave threat to o In Taiwan, a group is battling fake news one conversation at a time — with a focus on seniors 04/01/2024 04:10am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Their days often began at the crack of dawn. They’d head out to a church, a temple, a park and set up a stall. They’d seek out seniors in particular, those who are perhaps the most vulnerable citizens of the information-saturated society that has enveloped them. To get pe In Taiwan, a group is battling fake news one conversation at a time — with a focus on seniors 04/01/2024 04:09am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Their days often began at the crack of dawn. They’d head out to a church, a temple, a park and set up a stall. They’d seek out seniors in particular, those who are perhaps the most vulnerable citizens of the information-saturated society that has enveloped them. To get pe Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu 04/01/2024 01:20am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged central Jerusalem on Sunday in the largest anti-government protest since the country went to war in October. Protesters urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free dozens of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas militants and to hold ear Tips on How to Recognize and Treat a Nervous Breakdown 03/31/2024 08:00pm • A nervous breakdown is often associated with overwhelming psychological distress. While pop culture popularized the term, mental health professionals abandoned it years ago because the term insinuated a physical problem with the nerves rather than a mental issue. Instead, the preferred term for thes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is to undergo hernia surgery. 03/31/2024 10:09am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery on Sunday for a hernia. Netanyahu's office said the hernia was discovered during a routine checkup, and that the prime minister will be under full anesthesia and unsconcious for the procedure. Japanese officials inspect 2 factories making health supplements linked to 5 deaths 03/30/2024 11:51pm • TOKYO (AP) — Japanese government health officials on Sunday inspected a factory producing health supplements linked to at least five deaths and the hospitalization of more than 100 others, one day after the authorities investigated another plant that manufactured the product. A team of 17 health o