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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday marks one year since a measles outbreak started in West Texas, and there have been new cases in the United States each week since. Texas reported more than 760 cases — and the deaths of two children – before declaring the outbreak over in August. It was the largest outbreak the US had seen in decades, and since then, other large outbreaks — one in the upstate region of South Carolina and another on the border of Utah and Arizona — have amassed hundreds of cases each and continue to expand. The first two weeks of 2026 have been some of the worst yet, with exposures reported at schools, churches, restaurants, shops, airports and more. The continuous spread of measles over the past year leaves the US at risk of losing elimination status, which the country has held since 2000. “It is startling, because just a few years ago measles was very rare in the United States,” said Dr. Caitlin Rivers, ​an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Now we’re seeing in a single week what we might have seen in an average year,” she said. “There’s been a real shift in the presence of this preventable disease in our life.” Whether that balance can shift back depends on how quickly the US can improve vaccination coverage, experts say – which, in many ways, has become an uphill battle. The US reported more than 2,200 confirmed measles cases in 2025 — significantly more than there have been in any year since measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. At least ​171 measles cases have been reported in the first two weeks of 2026, which is nearly as many as the average annual total in those 25 years since elimination in the US. The vast majority of cases — more than 95% — have been in people who had not been vaccinated with the recommended two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Experts fear that the situation may have to get much worse before it gets better. It’s particularly devastating, they say, because the illnesses and deaths they foresee are almost entirely preventable with the help of vaccines — but lagging coverage has left many vulnerable. It’s not clear yet whether the US will maintain its measles elimination status. In April, the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization, will formally make the determination. The decision will require detailed review of epidemiological and laboratory evidence to understand patterns of measles spread over the past year — including whether more recent outbreaks are linked to the Texas outbreak. But experts say that formally losing measles elimination status would be a symptom of more deeply rooted issues, particularly challenges with vaccination that have been building for many years. “Let’s face it, whether we lose elimination status or not in spring, is our public health system actually doing well?” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who resigned in protest last year. “Measles elimination is a vital sign of our public health system. That public health system is blue in the ICU,” he said. “I don’t need to check its pulse to know [it’s not doing well]. I know the answer.” A record share of US kindergartners had an exemption for a required vaccination last school year, according to data from the CDC, marking the fifth year in a row that coverage with the MMR vaccine was been below the federal target of 95%. The CDC says that the increase in vaccine exemptions may be “due to an increase in vaccine hesitancy.” A recent survey of parents conducted by the agency found that most supported vaccine requirements to attend school. But among those seeking an exemption, the most commonly reported reason – cited more than a third of the time – was a philosophical or personal belief objection to vaccination. Difficulty…

By Ben Wedeman, CNN Northeastern Iraq (CNN) — Piece by piece, the young man in a black and white scarf – a keffiyeh – takes apart his AK-47 assault rifle, placing them side-by-side on the rocky ground. His brow furrows. He can’t push one of the pieces back into place as he tries to reassemble the rifle. Watched by his comrades, commanders and a CNN crew, the young peshmerga – a Kurdish term meaning “those who face death” – is uncomfortable being the center of attention. Everyone chuckles. His instructor hands him another rifle to do it all over again. “They’re new,” Karim Farkhapur says by way of an explanation, referring to the fighters. Farkhapur is one of the leaders of the Kurdish Democratic Party-Iran (KDPI), the oldest and biggest Iranian Kurdish rebel group. We caught up with him at their camp high in the mountains of northeastern Iraq, more than 13 miles (about 21 kilometers) west of the Iranian border. Since 1945, the KDPI has fought for the rights of Iranian Kurds, who make up about 10% of the population. First, they fought the Shah of Iran, and then, after the revolution in 1979, began their decades-long struggle against the theocratic rulers in Tehran. The KDPI is just one of many groups opposed to the Iranian regime. Ethnic Baluch in eastern Iran, Kurds in the west and Arabs in the southwest, have long agitated for either autonomy or independence, in addition to other groups that are opposed to the Islamic Republic on purely ideological grounds. Many of these groups are variously supported either materially or politically by foreign countries. For some Kurds, the wave of protests that began late last month has raised hopes that perhaps, after 47 years of rule, the end of the Islamic Republic is in sight. “The regime is weakening daily,” says Mustafa Hijri, the KDPI’s leader. “Its weakness provides more space for us and other freedom-loving parties to strengthen their fight against the regime.” Hijri claims his party has more people inside Iran than any other, and was a key player supporting recent protests, particularly in the western provinces. Nineteen-year-old Farina is one of the KDPI’s recruits. On her left shoulder, she carries a Soviet-era Dragunov sniper rifle with a new scope. She fled Iran, she says, despairing of a life with no future. “Even if you study you can never become anything unless you are a regime supporter,” she says. “We have no rights, especially as women. That’s why I became a peshmerga: to defend my rights as a Kurd, and as a woman.” Her unit is made up of men and women – characteristic of many Kurdish factions in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran – which make equal rights for women one of the pillars of their ideology. There is a well-worn phrase, almost a cliché: “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” As a journalist, I’m always hesitant to use it. Yet up here between the towering snow-covered peaks, with dark clouds hovering overhead and snowflakes beginning to fall, one does feel a certain comfort in the remoteness and solitude the mountains provide. It’s a feeling that, in this dystopian new world of rapidly changing military technology, is illusory. “Iran flies drones over us,” Farkhapur tells me as we watch the peshmerga march though slush and mud up the mountain above their camp. “They know we are here.” In recent years Iran has targeted Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq. The Iranian government, wounded and cornered, could do it again. Generations of young Iranian Kurds have fled over these mountains and joined groups like the KDPI, hoping to change their homeland. Up here, It’s bitterly cold in winter, the conditions harsh. For Farina, it’s worth it. “We put our lives on this path,” she says. “We expect to have to sacrifice.” The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. The post After decades of fighting the Iranian regime, Kurds see victory edging closer appeared first on KRDO.

Por Svitlana Vlasova y Sana Noor Haq, CNN Moscú desató durante la madrugada de este martes una andanada de 372 drones y misiles sobre Ucrania que dejó a miles de hogares en Kyiv sin electricidad en medio de una intensa ola de frío invernal, según según funcionarios ucranianos. El bombardeo del lunes por la noche marcó el mayor ataque ruso de drones y misiles contra Ucrania en lo que va de enero, según un recuento de CNN basado en cifras de la fuerza aérea ucraniana. El 9 de enero, Rusia atacó Ucrania con 278 vehículos aéreos no tripulados y misiles. Al menos una persona murió y otra resultó herida en la región de Kyiv, informó un funcionario militar regional, Mykola Kalashnyk. En ataques separados en las últimas 24 horas, al menos tres personas murieron en las regiones orientales de Donetsk y Járkov, de acuerdo con funcionarios militares regionales, quienes agregaron que otras 27 personas resultaron heridas en todo el país, incluidos residentes de edad avanzada. Solo en Kyiv, más de 330.000 hogares estaban sin calefacción, comunicó el mayor productor privado de energía del país, DTEK Group. Al menos tres distritos de la capital, hogar de más de un millón de habitantes, estaban sin agua, según cifras de la empresa municipal de suministro de agua. Más al sureste, en partes de Dnipropetrovsk, más de 15.000 hogares quedaron sin calefacción, informó Oleksiy Kuleba, ministro ucraniano de restauración. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. The post Moscú lanza el mayor ataque de drones y misiles contra Ucrania este mes appeared first on KRDO.

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