World News Desk

• EU Report: Illicit Drug Sales Moved Online During Lockdowns

• U.S. Deaths from Heart Disease and Diabetes Climbed amid COVID

• Just How Vulnerable Is the Internet?

• U.S. Traffic Deaths Soar in 2020 to Highest Yearly Total Since 2007

• Chemical Cargo Ship Sinks off Sri Lanka, Fouling Rich Fishing Waters

• Study: California Fire Killed 10 Percent of World’s Giant Sequoias

• Lebanese Leaders Exchange Barbs as Country Sinks into Crisis

• What Is the Senate Filibuster and Why Change It?

• Israel, Egypt Talk Truce with Hamas, Rebuilding Gaza Strip

• Why Romanian Migrants from Europe Are Taking Rafts from Mexico to Enter the U.S.

• Battleship Diplomacy: Britain’s New Aircraft Carrier Joins NATO, Has Message for China

• Water Crisis ‘Couldn’t Be Worse’ on Oregon-California Border

  Associated Press

• Plague of Ravenous, Destructive Mice Tormenting Australians

  Associated Press

• Cyclone Lashes India, Bangladesh; 6 Dead, Over 1 Million Evacuated

• 8 Dead in Shooting at Rail Yard Serving Silicon Valley

  Associated Press

• In Numbers: The Cost of 10 Years of Devastating War in Syria

• Pandemic Has Fueled Eating Disorder Surge in Teens, Adults

• Bloody Mexican Election Campaign Exposes Chronic Security Woes

• Top U.S. General for Mideast: As U.S. Scales Back, China May Step In

• Volcanic Eruption, Ensuing Chaos Kill At Least 15 in Congo