• अमेरिकन हार्ट एसोसिएशन ने 30 अप्रैल, 2026 को एक Presidential Advisory जारी की, जिसमें पुरानी बीमारियों के कारण बढ़ती लागत की वजह से अमेरिकी स्वास्थ्य देखभाल की सामर्थ्यता को संकट के बिंदु पर घोषित किया गया है।
• लागतों के कारण अमेरिकी इलाज में देरी करने या उससे बचने के लिए मजबूर हो रहे हैं, जिससे स्वास्थ्य परिणाम खराब हो रहे हैं और चिकित्सा ऋण बढ़ रहा है; एक Gallup सर्वेक्षण सस्ती देखभाल तक पहुँच के बारे में व्यापक चिंता को दर्शाता है।
• McLaughlin & Associates के एक सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया कि 51% मतदाता स्वास्थ्य बीमा को अपनी शीर्ष चिंता बताते हैं, इसके बाद अस्पताल के बिल (11%) और दवाओं की लागत (10%) का स्थान है।
• गैस की कीमतें $4 per gallon से ऊपर पहुंच गई हैं और उड़ानों के दाम आसमान छू रहे हैं क्योंकि Iran के साथ US-Israel युद्ध के बीच Strait of Hormuz की नाकेबंदी ऊर्जा बाजारों को प्रभावित कर रही है, जिससे Trump का प्रमुख राजनीतिक लाभ कम हो रहा है।
• तीन-चौथाई से अधिक पंजीकृत मतदाता—जिनमें आधे से अधिक Republicans और 82% independents शामिल हैं—अब ईंधन, किराना, आवास और स्वास्थ्य देखभाल को प्रभावित करने वाले cost-of-living crisis के लिए Trump को जिम्मेदार ठहरा रहे हैं।
• सरकारी शटडाउन, tariffs और Iran पर संयुक्त US-Israel हमले के बाद Trump के दूसरे कार्यकाल की Approval Ratings पिछले राष्ट्रपतियों की तुलना में कहीं अधिक तेजी से गिरी हैं, जबकि Federal Reserve के अध्यक्ष Jerome Powell ने चेतावनी दी है कि युद्ध inflation को बढ़ावा दे रहा है।
• एक नई आत्महत्या रोकथाम रणनीति अपना ध्यान crisis intervention से हटाकर upstream नीतियों की ओर स्थानांतरित करती है, जिन्हें लोगों को जीने की वजह देने और आत्महत्या के जोखिम के मूल कारणों को संबोधित करने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया है।
• इस दृष्टिकोण ने गंभीर संकट में फंसे व्यक्तियों की मदद करने में प्रभावशीलता दिखाई है, जिसमें CBS News द्वारा दिखाया गया एक किसान भी शामिल है, जिसे इस व्यापक हस्तक्षेप मॉडल से लाभ हुआ।
• यह रोकथाम दर्शन मानसिक स्वास्थ्य हस्तक्षेप की एक विकसित होती समझ का प्रतिनिधित्व करता है जो तत्काल संकट प्रबंधन के बजाय दीर्घकालिक resilience और जीवन संतुष्टि पर जोर देता है।
• वाहन चालकों को ईंधन के लिए छह घंटे तक कतारों में खड़ा होने या ब्लैक मार्केट में अधिक भुगतान करने के लिए मजबूर होना पड़ रहा है, जबकि किसानों के पास मशीनरी चलाने और फसलों की कटाई के लिए ईंधन की कमी है।
Climate group calls for urgent windfall tax on excess fossil fuel profits, as delegates tell Colombia conference their nations are sufferingThe Middle East oil and gas crunch will impose as much as a trillion dollars of additional costs on the global economy while petroleum companies rake in spectacular profits from elevated fuel prices, analysis has revealed.The uneven distribution of risk and reward comes amid rising concern that the US-Israeli attack on Iran is worsening inequality, poverty and hunger across a world that has become dangerously dependent on fossil fuels. Continue reading...
Tehran’s UN envoy says ‘full respect’ of Iran’s rights also key for lasting regional stabilityUS is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich MerzWe are restarting our live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran.Iran needs “credible guarantees” against more US-Israeli attacks before it can ensure security in the Gulf, Tehran’s envoy to the UN has said, while on a Russian visit Iran’s foreign minister blamed Washington for the failure of peace talks.Donald Trump is unhappy with an Iranian proposal on the war because it does not address Iran’s nuclear program, Reuters cited a US official as saying on Monday, after Trump discussed the proposal with his top national security aides. Iran had offered to end its closure of the strait of Hormuz if the US lifted its blockade and ended the war in a proposal that would postpone discussions on Iran’s nuclear program, the Associated Press reported earlier, citing two unnamed regional officials. Later reporting quoted White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt as saying the proposal was “being discussed”.Lebanese president Joseph Aoun said direct talks with Israel sought to end the war on Lebanon and that those who dragged Lebanon into it were the ones committing “treason” – a jab at the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, which claimed several attacks on Israeli targets in south Lebanon on Monday.Iraq’s newly elected president nominated businessman Ali al-Zaidi as the country’s prime minister-designate on Monday, after the country’s leaders yielded to US pressure not to support the bid of a former premier close to Iran.The Coordination Framework – an alliance of Shia factions with varying links to Iran – had initially backed powerbroker Nouri al-Maliki to become the country’s next premier, but Trump’s ultimatum left Iraqi leaders looking elsewhere.The US and Iran clashed at the UN on Monday over Tehran’s nuclear program and its selection to be one of dozens of vice-presidents at a month-long conference to review the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. US official Christopher Yeaw said Iran’s selection was an “affront” to the treaty. Tehran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, rejected the US statement as “baseless and politically motivated”. Continue reading...
• Active fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has intensified blockades on humanitarian corridors, trapping over 2 million internally displaced persons without access to food and medical supplies.
• The UN World Food Programme reported that starvation conditions now affect multiple regions, with malnutrition rates among children exceeding 40 percent in some areas.
• The U.S. State Department announced an additional $150 million in emergency humanitarian assistance but acknowledged that insecurity makes delivery of aid increasingly difficult.
US president says there’s ‘no reason to meet’ Tehran unless they agree never to have nuclear weaponsWelcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East.Donald Trump has said Iran can telephone if it wants to negotiate an end to the war and that it must agree never to have a nuclear weapon, while Pakistan’s leaders have sought to revive the stalled peace talks between Washington and Tehran.Iran gave the US a new proposal on reopening the strait and ending the war, with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage, according to the news site Axios. The US state department and White House did not immediately comment on the Sunday report, which cited an unnamed US official and two sources.Araghchi’s talks with Pakistani officials on Sunday had included “implementing a new legal regime over the strait of Hormuz, receiving compensation, guaranteeing no renewed military aggression by warmongers and lifting the naval blockade”, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. In the talks with Omani leader Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, Araghchi called for a regional security framework free of outside interference.Araghchi would meet with Putin “in continuation of the diplomatic jihad to advance the country’s interests and amid external threats”, Iran’s envoy in Russia, Kazem Jalali, said on X.Two US air force C-17s carrying security staff, equipment and vehicles used to protect US officials flew out of Pakistan after the latest diplomatic trip was called off, two Pakistani government sources told Reuters on Sunday. Continue reading...
Engineer and two drivers killed in recent weeks as scarcity of clean water fuels spread of preventable diseasesIsraeli forces in Gaza killed a water engineer and two drivers who transported water to displaced families over four days in mid-April, exacerbating severe shortages of clean water that are fuelling the spread of preventable disease.Israeli limits on the shipment of soap, washing powder and other hygiene products into Gaza have also forced prices up, adding to the challenge of keeping clean and avoiding infection in overcrowded shelters and tent encampments. Continue reading...
• Egypt has convened an emergency regional summit with Ethiopia, Sudan, and other Nile Basin nations to address water allocation disputes intensified by Sudan's ongoing civil war and dam infrastructure threats.
• The summit, held in Cairo on Friday, focused on protecting the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Blue Nile water flows during heightened regional conflict; negotiations remain deadlocked.
• US officials are monitoring the summit closely, concerned that water scarcity could fuel refugee crises across the Horn of Africa and destabilize a critical US partner region.
