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ILO Pegs 840,000 Annual Deaths to Workplace Stress, Long Hours and Harassment in First Global Estimate

The International Labour Organization, in its first global estimate, attributes more than 840,000 deaths a year to psychosocial risks at work. The report puts the combined annual loss from cardiovascular disease and mental disorders linked to those risks at 1.37% of global GDP.

WorldApr 22

Israel Honors Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv at Independence Day Torch Ceremony Months After Ethics Censure and ICC Complaint

Transport Minister Miri Regev nominated Zarbiv — censured by Israel's own judicial ethics commissioner, distanced by the IDF, and named in a Hind Rajab Foundation ICC complaint over Gaza demolitions — for the country's most prominent civic honor. He lit a torch at Mount Herzl on April 21.

WorldApr 22

UK Parliament Clears Tobacco and Vapes Bill; Anyone Born On or After January 1, 2009 Will Never Legally Buy Tobacco

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill passed its final parliamentary stage in April and now awaits Royal Assent. The sales ban on people born on or after 1 January 2009 takes effect 1 January 2027; the minimum legal purchase age then rises by one year every year, locking in a permanent generational cut-off.

WorldApr 22

Japan Deploys 1,400 Troops and Live-Fire Units to Balikatan 2026 — First Weapons on Philippine Soil Since WWII

Invoking the new Japan–Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement, Japan's Ministry of Defense is sending approximately 1,400 JSDF personnel, a helicopter destroyer, a tank-landing ship, and Type 88 surface-to-ship missile systems to Balikatan 41-2026. China's foreign ministry warned that external military cooperation 'may very well backfire.'

WorldApr 22

Germany's Headline Crime Count Fell 5.6% in 2025. Rape, Gun Violence, and Youth Pornography Did Not.

The Bundeskriminalamt's Police Crime Statistics for 2025, released April 20, show 5.5 million total offenses — the lowest since 2021 — with violent crime down 2.3% for the first time since then. Inside that headline, rape rose 9%, gun-violence offenses rose 9.7%, actual shootings rose 13.4%, and youth pornography cases rose 19.9%.

WorldApr 22

Taiwan Postpones Lai's Eswatini Visit After Three Countries Revoke Charter Overflight Permits

Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Men-an said Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar rescinded permission for Lai Ching-te's charter aircraft to cross their territories without warning, citing 'economic coercion' from Beijing. Eswatini is the last of Taiwan's 12 diplomatic allies on the African continent.

WorldApr 22

UN Security Council Hears Russia Launched 659 Drones and 44 Missiles in One Night; March Civilian Deaths Up 49%

The Council convened an emergency open briefing on April 20 after Russia's heaviest month of aerial attacks of 2026. UN monitors verified 211 civilians killed in March, a 49% jump over February. No resolution was tabled.

WorldApr 22

Joint UN-EU-World Bank Assessment Puts Gaza Reconstruction at $71.4 Billion Over Ten Years; Human Development Set Back 77 Years

The Final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, released April 20, quantifies 24 months of war: the economy has contracted 84%, 371,888 housing units are damaged or destroyed, unemployment is above 80%, and $26.3 billion is needed in the first 18 months alone to restore basic services.

WorldApr 21

EU, Ukraine, and Canada Set May 11 Brussels Meeting on Returning 20,570 Ukrainian Children Taken by Russia

Kyiv's official Children of War portal has identified 20,570 children deported or forcibly transferred since Russia's 2022 invasion; only 2,108 have been returned. The International Coalition, now 47 members strong, will meet in Brussels on May 11 to expand the tracing and return effort.

WorldApr 21

Amnesty's 2026 Report Names Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu as the 'Voracious Predators' of 2025

In the foreword to the State of the World's Human Rights report released Monday, Amnesty Secretary-General Agnès Callamard singles out three heads of state by name and catalogues what she calls a 'predatory world order' of unlawful war, extrajudicial killing, and the abandonment of multilateralism.

WorldApr 21

Radev's Progressive Bulgaria Wins 130 of 240 Seats, Ending Bulgaria's Five-Year Run of Eight Snap Elections

Former president Rumen Radev's coalition took 43.91 percent of the vote and an outright parliamentary majority in Sunday's election — the first for any Bulgarian party since 1997. OSCE observers called administration 'transparent and efficient' but flagged disinformation-heavy online campaigning.

PowerApr 21

72 Veterans and Military Family Members Arrested at Cannon Rotunda After Folding Flags for 13 U.S. Troops Killed in Iran War

Center on Conscience and War Executive Director Mike Prysner and a coalition of seven veterans' groups staged a flag-folding ceremony inside the House office building, demanded a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, and were zip-tied by Capitol Police after holding red tulips for Iranians killed by U.S. strikes.