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Over 1K hunger deaths in Tigray since cease-fire

Researchers say they have verified 1,329 deaths from hunger in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since a cease-fire ended a two-year conflict there in November.

Associated Press

Is Ethiopia facing a fresh wave of conflict?

Deutsche Welle

Why humanitarian aid is vital to Afghanistan

Two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population is in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In the two years since the Taliban took power, about 10 million more people fell into this category.

The Lowy Institute

Afghanistan faces another winter of hunger

Deutsche Welle

10K displaced in Haiti after violence escalates

More than 10,000 people have fled their homes in parts of Haiti’s central department, the United Nations’ migration agency said after a series of gang attacks in recent days.

Reuters

Food prices rising as countries limit exports

Countries have imposed restrictions on the food they export to protect their own supplies from the combined effect of the war in Ukraine, El Nino’s threat to food production and increasing damage from climate change.

Associated Press

Sudan’s displaced millions struggle to survive

More than 5.25 million of Sudan’s 49 million people have been uprooted since the fighting erupted. Over 4.1 million have stayed in Sudan, where they have come under increasing financial pressure.

Reuters

Poverty grips Argentina amid runaway inflation

The portion of Argentines living in poverty reached 40.1% in the first six months of the year, according to figures released by the government’s INDEC statistics agency. That is up from 39.2% in the second half of 2022.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Curfew in parts of India’s Manipur after protests

Authorities have imposed a curfew in the capital and some other places in India’s state of Manipur after dozens of students were injured in violence following protests against the abduction and murder of two students.

Al Jazeera

Mali’s junta struggles to fight growing violence

Attacks in northern Mali have more than doubled since U.N. peacekeepers completed the first phase of their withdrawal last month after a decade of fighting Islamic extremists, resulting in more than 150 deaths.

Associated Press

Thai activist to be imprisoned for insulting king

A Thai court jailed one of the leading figures in the kingdom’s pro-democracy protest movement for four years on royal insult charges. Anon Numpa was convicted over a speech he made during the protests in 2020.

France 24

Half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees

The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh said it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic would cease to exist by year’s end after a long bid for independence.

Associated Press

Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh flee to Armenia

Al Jazeera

US announces emergency aid for Karabakh Armenians

Reuters

Can Kenyan police officers defeat Haiti gangs?

Kenya has pledged to lead a security force in Haiti in response to a plea from the Caribbean nation’s prime minister for help restoring order.

BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israel reopens Gaza crossing points for laborers

Israel reopened crossing points with Gaza, allowing thousands of Palestinian workers to get to their jobs in Israel and the West Bank, after nearly two weeks of closure prompted by violent protests along the border.

Reuters

Gaza-Israel tensions spiral amid closures and clashes

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Study reveals impact of online abuse on girls

Happiness among girls and young women in U.K. at lowest since 2009 as 37% report being sent upsetting content. For many women, being attacked online leads to them losing confidence, and withdrawing from posting.

Guardian

Tech helps farmers reduce dependence on bees

BloomX’s technology is currently aimed at two crops - blueberries and avocados - and allows them to be pollinated even if local bee numbers are very low.

BBC

Data centers fuel water worries in S. America

Google’s plans for a second data center in the region have irked drought-hit Uruguayans forced to make do with brackish tap water.

Context

GLOBAL HEALTH

Air pollution exposure may raise risk of stroke

A meta-analysis published in the journal Neurology finds that exposure to air pollution may increase a person’s risk of stroke within as few as five days. The meta-analysis included more than 18 million cases of common stroke.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Why access to abortion is key to ending poverty

Context

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Cuba, Nicaragua can no longer whitewash their religious freedom violations

The Hill

Column (Angela Bruce-Raeburn):

Addressing DEIA myths is critical to global development equity

Devex

Column (Tom J. Velk):

Toward cross-Pacific compromise rather than conflict

Asia Times Online

Column (Suneeta Kaimal):

The IEA critical minerals summit must plot path to fairer mining

Context

Column (Nadia Ahmad and Luke Danielson):

The benefits of Afghanistan’s mineral riches may not be so forthcoming

Al Jazeera

Column (Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope):

The media needs to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered COVID

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Chilean craftswomen weave sacred textiles

Aymara women become acquainted with wool threads under blue skies and air so thin that outsiders struggle to breathe. While herding llamas through scarce grasslands 11,500 feet above sea level, they create their first textiles.

Associated Press

Replacing plastic pens with paper, plant seeds

An Indian entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu decided that plastic pens were wasteful and created a paper pen. It also contains a capsule of seeds. When the pen is thrown away, the seeds can grow into plants.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Biden administration suspends aid to Gabon

The Biden administration suspended most non-humanitarian aid to Gabon after a military takeover in the country last month that was at least the second this year in an African nation.

NPR

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Protests over economic hardship grip Ghana

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, for a third day of anti-government protests linked to economic hardship that have led to dozens of arrests.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil sets up task force for drought in Amazon

Brazil’s government is preparing a task force to provide emergency assistance to inhabitants in the Amazon region hit by a severe and unprecedented drought that has impacted the rivers that are their life support.

Reuters

Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought affecting thousands

Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s schools commit to fighting warming

Schools in Pakistan’s Mulan have adopted a new initiative aimed at tackling climate change. Shedding light on the science behind extreme weather events, local teachers help the region’s young to adapt and even thrive.

Deutsche Welle

Ukraine dam disaster creates water shortages

The June 6 destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam created an ongoing water crisis in a region where people depend on agriculture.

Deutsche Welle

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A woman holds a ladder in Chefchaouen, Morocco. (Photo by Bobduzy) Photo used under CC BY

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