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The Rest of the World Report | August 6, 2026 — Evening Edition
A Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi this week, and almost nothing is known about who she was, part of a documented national pattern. A live bomb was found near Ukraine's own cargo fleet at a German airport. The fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak in history is unfolding in a country the US had just cut off. And WFP says a hunger crisis already worsened by the Iran war is about to collide with a historic El Niño.
Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, the latest entry in a documented, sustained pattern across the country.
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