Events for “crisis”

Tokenized stocks risk repeating Wall Street’s 1960s ‘paper crisis,’ Fairmint CEO says

Fairmint CEO Joris Delanoue warns tokenized stocks risk recreating Wall Street’s 1960s paper crisis through fragmented systems and standards.

Iran's medicine crisis prices patients out of treatment

A single chemotherapy session in Iran can cost six times the monthly minimum wage. As drug prices soar and medicine shortages persist, doctors say more patients are delaying or abandoning treatment they cannot afford.

The Suez Crisis stopped the British Empire. Will Hormuz defeat the US?

In the latest episode of Al Jazeera’s new podcast, Deja Vu looks at how oil, shipping and war shape the Gulf.

Developer Evergrande Is Gone. China’s Property Crisis Isn’t.

Security Council LIVE: War, hunger, flooding escalates in Sudan

Suffering in Sudan continues to grow in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis amid brutal mass killings, abductions and rape, top UN officials warned the Security Council on Monday, calling for action to end the four-year-long war. UN News app users can follow our coverage here.

The invisible crisis that strips people of citizenship

This issue fascinates me because of its near-invisibility: As many of our Spotlight articles observe, citizenship is easy to take for granted when you receive it automatically and never have to defend it.

Diesel Crisis Threatens to Outlast the Middle East War

Could Russia's growing fuel crisis help end the Ukraine war?

Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries have deepened Russia's fuel crisis, with shortages reaching Moscow. Could growing public anger put Putin under pressure?

Germany news: State premier visits VW for crisis talks

Lower Saxony's state premier called on Volkswagen shareholders to take action to avert plant closures, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz met party colleagues after a testing summer.

There's a looming GPU supply crisis, which means prices are likely to get a whole lot worse. And it's not just because of memory

A couple weeks back I noted that I'd been tracking GPU prices on an almost weekly basis for a year now, and that things have never been worse . Well, PC Partner—one of the biggest manufacturers of graphics cards you've probably never heard of—suggests it's going to get even worse

The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis Sometime in the late 2000s, six-year-old Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the bac

Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis

Years ago, during the Great Recession, I attended an event sponsored by an environmental organization that had formed in protest to a planned dam construction project on the Cache La Poudre River in northern Colorado. At the time, my husband

Ray Dalio says to buy ‘a bit’ of Bitcoin amid potential debt crisis

The hedge fund founder with an estimated net worth of $15 billion recommended that investors overweight Bitcoin and gold rather than bonds.

Lebanon: 860,000 displaced people have returned home, but humanitarian crisis remains ‘immense’

Around 860,000 people displaced by the conflict in southern Lebanon have returned, but the displacement and humanitarian crisis are “far from over,” the UN warned on Tuesday.

Iowa Senate candidates zero in on cancer crisis as key race tightens

Candidates for Iowa’s open Senate seat are zeroing in on the state’s high rate of cancer diagnoses as the race emerges as one of the most unexpectedly competitive contests this cycle. The race features Democratic state legislator Josh Turek challenging Republican Rep. Ashley Hins

Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size real

More phones may soon let us prove photos are real – but will it solve the AI fake image crisis?

‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ is no longer a reliable test for what’s real.

The Super El Niño Won’t Fix the West’s Water Crisis

“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’”

Calls for release of government review into short-stays amid Airbnb crisis

One of Exxon's Biggest Oil Fields Is Running Out of Room to Grow. Here's Why That's Not a Crisis.

YSRCP leader criticises government’s response to El Nino crisis in Anantapur

Undivided Anantapur district is set to face an acute shortage of drinking water, irrigation water, and cattle fodder, while reduced crop cultivation during the previous Kharif season has already led to scarcity of fodder, claims Anantha Venkatarami Reddy

Ray Dalio says Bessent move is sign that a debt crisis is getting closer; recommends gold and bitcoin

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio said the the debt buyback announcement this week fits into a larger pattern that could signal a forthcoming debt crisis.

Kidnappers release video showing hundreds abducted from Nigerian mosque

Mass kidnappings highlight Nigeria's security crisis in the north as elections approach.

UEFA chief Ceferin calls for Infantino to quit but rules out replacing him

Aleksander Ceferin, president of the European soccer confederation (UEFA) has announced that he will not run against Gianni Infantino but warned the under-fire FIFA president that he must either quit or face a leadership challenge in March. Infantino has been mired in a crisis si

Amazon Hikes Prices by as Much as 60% Across Echo, Fire TV, Kindle Lines - PCMag

Amazon Hikes Prices by as Much as 60% Across Echo, Fire TV, Kindle Lines PCMag Amazon hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, eero to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs Fortune Amazon’s Kindle Price Hikes Are the Most Obscene Casualty of the RAM Crisis Gizmodo Amazon D

Apple Music Will Also Now Label AI-Generated Songs

The music industry is facing a moral and existential crisis as AI-generated music becomes increasingly prevalent. The latest development in streaming platforms’ response is that Apple Music will begin labeling AI-generated songs. According to The Hollywood Reporter , an email sen

Nordic nations ‘have lost confidence in Infantino’, demand FIFA reforms

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands back calls for Infantino's resignation amid FIFA crisis.

Infantino defies FIFA vice president, makes appearance in the Caribbean

FIFA boss turns up at event after CONCACAF chief Montagliani asked him to reconsider amid the body’s governance crisis.

Escalation of sexual violence raises alarm in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, violence against women has become an increasingly common problem. Figures from the first quarter of 2026 expose a major gender-based violence (GBV) crisis.

Fortress Columbia, Two Years Later

The university closed its gates in a crisis. But now it’s courting a new one.

We are so back! Bitcoin’s 23% rally on US debt policy: Hodler’s Digest

The US may face a debt crisis within three years according to Ray Dalio, and debt-related issues helped fuel a rally in Bitcoin that could mark the beginning of a new cycle.

Ray Dalio says investors should own ‘a bit of Bitcoin’ as U.S. debt risks rise

The Bridgewater founder says recent Treasury-market stress fits his long-running debt-crisis framework, though he still prefers gold as the bigger hedge.

As elections near, South Sudan risks new atrocity crimes, warns rights probe

The under-reported humanitarian crisis in South Sudan risks deepening with the real possibility of further atrocity crimes unless renewed fighting stops, a UN-backed probe said on Thursday.

Somalia: Humanitarian aid cuts leave millions of children vulnerable to hunger

The global funding crisis for humanitarian work is taking a growing toll on the most vulnerable children in Somalia, where some aid programmes and facilities have been forced to shut down.

Lit Hub Daily: August 24, 2026

How surveillance technology infuses policing with even more racial bias. | Lit Hub Politics Why studying Goldilocks can help us write emotionally resonant fiction. | Lit Hub Craft Claire Boyles considers the impact of the American West’s water crisis on her

Syria says US-mediated talks addressed de-escalation, staying out of Israel-Turkey tensions

Syria and Israel held US-mediated talks in Jordan on Sunday to defuse the crisis sparked by a strike that Israel said was aimed at preventing a Turkish military deployment. Damascus says it wants to stay out of the tensions between Israel and Turkey.

Could Ukraine's Mykhailo Fedorov challenge Zelenskyy?

An explosive video released last week by Ukraine's former defense minister spoke of corruption, a crisis of leadership and elections. What could follow?

Ukraine: Could ex-defense minister challenge Zelenskyy?

Last week, former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov released a video in which he spoke of corruption, a crisis of leadership and elections. His explosive remarks have sparked widespread public debate.

India, Gulf bloc discuss next steps on free trade agreement

The meeting assumes significance as India and the GCC resumed negotiations in February for a comprehensive trade agreement aimed at boosting bilateral trade and investment, even though the talks were temporarily stalled in June because of the West Asia crisis

Wartime elections would 'destroy' Ukraine, says Zelensky

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks made public Sunday that wartime elections would be a "tsunami" that would "destroy the country". Kyiv has been engulfed in a political crisis over the summer, triggered when Zelensky fired popular defence minister Mykhailo Fe

Body cam shows federal agent was 'unjustified' in Memphis shooting, attorney says

The family of Jonah Neal and their attorney were recently shown video from the day that Neal was shot by a federal agent while he experienced a mental health crisis.

Pimco expects elevated term premium, says bonds are attractive

Today's yields only appear unusually high relative to the artificially suppressed rates of the post-global financial crisis era, says the American investment management firm.

Taiwan president touts peace through strength on China battle anniversary

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te marked the 68th anniversary of the 1958 clash with Chinese forces, known as the start of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Israel’s war on Gaza forces Palestinians to rely on ‘Stone Age’ toilets

The displaced in Gaza are struggling to find safe, discreet and sanitary toilets amid health crisis.

The “Asian water tower” is losing 24 billion tonnes of groundwater every year

The “Asian Water Tower” is losing roughly 24.2 billion tonnes of groundwater every year, with some of the worst declines hitting densely populated farming regions. Glacier melt may temporarily soften the crisis around the 2060s, but without changes in water use, researchers expec

Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification

As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities — and rising seas are erasing territories — one environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degradation of the land beneath our feet.

After decades of free spending, Washington is facing some unpalatable choices - The Washington Post

After decades of free spending, Washington is facing some unpalatable choices The Washington Post Jumpy bond markets make it clear: Trump risks driving US into debt crisis The Guardian Opinion | An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit The New York Times Vance: Be

Centre pushes States to speed up PNG adoption, seeks district-level officers to drive LPG-to-gas transition

The push for faster adoption of gas piped to households for cooking purposes, called PNG, follows the disruption to India's LPG supply chains during the West Asia crisis earlier this year.

Lost in the seat matrix: engineering season begins in Tamil Nadu

Engineering admissions 2026 come during a season of great churn for the education sector in the country. But even without that drama, the crisis in the engineering sector has only exacerbated over the years, with quality concerns, demand and supply mismatch, staff vacancies, and