Our daily voyage around the world

🇵🇸🇺🇸 The US began airdropping food and supplies into Gaza. White House officials on Friday said the airdrops would be a “sustained effort” aimed at improving conditions in Gaza, where UN data shows an estimated one-quarter of the population – at least 576,000 people – are one step away from famine. The airdrops were announced one day after 100+ Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured as a crowd of people waited for humanitarian aid trucks.

🇭🇹 The vast majority of inmates at Haiti’s largest prison were freed in a gang attack. The Port-au-Prince facility, built to house 700 prisoners, held an estimated 4,000 men – nearly all of whom were released when armed gang members stormed the prison on Saturday night. The attack was claimed by Jimmy Cherizier, a former police officer who leads an alliance of Haitian gangs, as part of his ongoing campaign to remove Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

🌎 More than 1 billion people worldwide are considered obese, per a new WHO study. The findings, based on data from 220+ million people in 190 countries, found that global obesity rates more than doubled among women (8.8%→18.5%) and nearly tripled in men (4.8%→14.0%) between 1990 and 2022. While obesity rates in many wealthier countries remained relatively unchanged over that period, the opposite was true for lower-income nations, where obesity became more common on average than being underweight.