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Zimbabwe’s water scarcity exacerbates hardships

Citizens are scrambling to get clean water to drink, prepare meals and for basic hygiene. There’s fears of the life-threatening conditions the water crisis could create. Women and children bear the brunt of the crisis.

Al Jazeera

US sanctions are crippling Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Standard

Report: Aussie cops target Aboriginal children

Australia’s New South Wales police have disproportionately targeted Aboriginal children under a repeat offender monitoring scheme, a report has said.

BBC

Greece struggles to cope with influx of refugees

With more than 60,000 refugees reaching Greece last year, the government is searching for ways to reduce arrivals and increase deportations. Authorities will move forward with plans to build closed detention centers on three islands hosting refugees.

Al Jazeera

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UN calls for ‘emergency measures’ to improve conditions in overcrowded, disease-prone Greek refugee camps

Time

Bolsonaro blasts pope for defending Amazon

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonarohas lashed out at Pope Francis after the pontiff pleaded for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, and attacked the environmental group Greenpeace as “rubbish.”

Guardian

Political newbies take India’s national capital

When it comes to politics in India, history and legacy matter. But in the national capital, a newbie political party won a landslide victory against a powerful opponent and is keen to establish a new legacy.

Asia Times Online

Another wall goes up for Trump. This one’s in India

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Homosexuality a ‘disease,’ Vietnam tells pupils

Young people in Vietnam continue to be taught at home and at school that same-sex attraction is a “disease” and a “mental illness” that can be cured and treated, despite legislation to support and protect LGBTQ+ rights.

Guardian

Indigenous-led rail blockade stalls Canadians

Despite a court order granting construction workers access to the land, the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs have nonetheless withheld consent for the project.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Minority Germans alarmed by far-right scandal

In recent elections in Thuringia, politicians from the FDP and Chancellor Merkel’s CDU worked with the nationalist AfD to overthrow popular incumbent from the socialist party Die Linke, sending shockwaves through Germany.

Al Jazeera

Is Delhi election loss beginning of end for Modi?

Within hours of vote-counting in high-stake New Delhi state elections, it quickly became clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist BJP was facing a major defeat by the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Newly ID’d tyrannosaur discovered in Canada

The fossils of a newly discovered Tyrannosaurus rex cousin — a vicious, meat-eating dinosaur with serrated teeth and a monstrous face that scientists are calling the “reaper of death,” has been discovered in Alberta, Canada.

NBC News

Solar Orbiter will get a close look at the sun

This is the first mission that will provide images of the sun‘s north and south poles using a suite of six instruments on board that will capture the spacecraft’s view

CNN

Why don’t virus-carrying bats get sick?

Many infectious diseases emerge from bats, but why aren’t the bats themselves affected by the viruses?

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO warns world as virus death toll passes 1K

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China has topped 1,000. The World Health Organization warns that countries worldwide must not let the epidemic get out of control.

Deutsche Welle

Virus epidemic rocks China’s political elite

Asia Times Online

Why developing a coronavirus vaccine is so difficult

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Therapy dogs are helping students read

At Artemus Ward School in Cleveland, their media specialist Anne Marie Brown has come up with some ways to help kids become stronger and more confident readers.

WKYC

School shows former addicts how to build instruments and a new life

CBS News

Buddhist monks turn plastic waste into robes

Aiming to curb plastic waste entering the Chao Phraya River, Monks at the recycling temple of Wat Chak Daenghave have crushed 88k pounds of plastic over two years since starting the program.

New York Post

Inventor makes wheelchairs from recycled parts

Bloomberg

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

How mattresses could solve hunger

Syrian refugees at Za’atari camp in Jordan and scientists from the University of Sheffield in the UK are working together to create a way to grow healthy, fresh food with nothing but water and old mattress foam.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch consider building giant protective dams

A Dutch government scientist has proposed building two mammoth dams to completely enclose the North Sea and protect 25 million Europeans from the consequences of rising sea levels as a result of global heating.

Guardian

Antarctica’s big new iceberg: Up close with B49

BBC

Architect fights warming with greenhouse

Hotter temperatures and drought are adding to a volatile situation in Mali where jihadist groups roam the northern desert. Water reserves are low and arable land is shrinking, causing tension between communities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Solar energy could remedy Pakistan’s health center power woes

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Indonesia factory devoted to sustainable fabric

Many of Southern Asia’s textile factories have a less than rosy reputation. Indonesia’s Dan Liris, on the other hand, has made a commitment to tencel, a fiber made from natural materials.

Deutsche Welle

Big oil’s profits since 1990 total nearly $2T

Guardian

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