The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

In Democratic Republic of the Congo, children mine wolframite and casserite alongside their parents. (Photo by Julien Harneis) Photo used under CC BY

World fails to meet its child labor target in 2025

Despite global gains on combating child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has around 86.6 million underage workers, the highest number in the world, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent’s fast-growing economies.

Deutsche Welle

How Madagascar’s children are exploited for global electronics and beauty

TRT Global

Uganda records 38% spike in child labor since 2019

YouTube

Mozambique children face ‘unprecedented crises’

In Mozambique, millions of children go hungry as aid cuts and conflict exacerbate the drought-fueled hunger crisis. The World Food Program says about 5 million people are food insecure in Mozambique.

Context

Almost 300 million people face starvation globally

Broadview

Colombia plans to support orphans of femicide

New legislation passed in Colombia seeks to offer state support to the child survivors of femicide, providing funds for mental health services to children struggling with the aftermath of gender-based violence.

Associated Press

Indian workers ‘pushed’ into hysterectomies

Women working in sugar cane fields are still being “pushed” to undergo surgery to remove their womb and enable them to work longer hours without period pain, activists in India’s state of Maharashtra have said.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Syria orders women to cover up on beaches

Syria issued a conservative new dress code requiring women to wear burkinis or full-body swimwear on all public beaches, the latest cultural shift since Islamist-led rebels toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

CNN

Peru considering deporting foreign prisoners

Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign inmates to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister said.

CNN

UK migrant carers ‘owed huge sums’ in scandal

In a crackdown on labor abuses, the British government has banned hundreds of companies from hiring migrant workers. But carers who had already been recruited by these firms are now in limbo.

Context

Torture and treason in Tanzania’s prison

At a packed press conference, two East African activists wiped away tears as they detailed their alleged sexual assault and torture while in detention in Tanzania.

NPR

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

UN votes to demand Gaza ceasefire, aid access

U.N. member nations voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and unrestricted access for the delivery of desperately needed food to Palestinians.

Associated Press

Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites, top leaders

Israel attacked Iran with a barrage of airstrikes that took out top military officers and hit nuclear and missile sites, calling it just the beginning and raising the potential for an all-out war between the two.

Associated Press

Netanyahu: ‘Israel launched Operation Rising Lion’

Deutsche Welle

Israel’s attack on Iran was years in the making

Associated Press

Shock, fear in Tehran after Israel bombs residential, military areas

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Rescuing trafficked cyber-scam victims in Asia

Although the lid has been lifted on the brutal conditions in cyber-scam compounds across Southeast Asia, rescuing victims is still complicated and made ever more difficult because of U.S. aid cuts, says a leading expert.

Context

Axolotls hint at mystery of limb regeneration

A tiny creature with frilly gills, a polite smile and glowing green skin just gave scientists a major clue to solve one of biology’s biggest mysteries: limb regeneration.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Sierra Leone is battling a rapid mpox outbreak

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases surged by 71%.

Time

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Site edited by: Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Indian school addresses gender education gap

This government school in India breaks stereotypes, providing top-level education and resources for over 5,000 underprivileged girls.

Deutsche Welle

Chef helps convicts move on from life of crime

Chef and restaurant owner Brandon Chrostowski trains people fresh out of prison, giving convicts a second chance to learn how to live a life without crime.

Deutsche Welle

Mexico’s Indigenous women’s softball team

An Indigenous community in Mexico has had strict gender roles since the Mayan civilization. But Las Amazonas are changing that: a team of women shattering expectations by playing softball in traditional outfits.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Thousands head to Egypt to break blockade

Thousands of activists from around the world are expected to descend on Egypt for a “Global March to Gaza,” a movement aiming to break the Israeli blockade that has pushed the territory to the brink of famine.

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Bitcoin is introduced into Africa’s largest slum

Typical stands selling vegetables dot the roadside in what is widely regarded as Africa’s largest urban slum. What isn’t typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of payment.

Associated Press

Cuba’s students call for resignations, strikes

Having endured electricity blackouts, water shortages, transport failures and the spiraling cost of food, Cuba’s students appear to have finally lost patience.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Crops reduce herder-farmer conflict in Mali

Bary Sidibe has created a soilless crop system to feed his livestock — which reduces both tree clearing for farmland and conflicts between herders and farmers in Mali.

Deutsche Welle

May was world’s second-warmest on record

This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has said in a monthly bulletin.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Women catch small fish in a net in Madagascar. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other