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China is ending its coronavirus lockdowns, but medical-grade masks are omnipresent. A report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claims that China hid details of its outbreaks to buy time to hoard supplies that would be needed in the pandemic. (Photo by Gauthier Delecroix) Photo used under CC BY

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China hid outbreak details to hoard supplies, US says

The Chinese government likely withheld information about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak so it would have time to hoard medical supplies, according to an intelligence report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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South China Morning Post

Pandemic likely to create 100M ‘new poor’

About 100 million people living in cities worldwide will likely fall into poverty due to the coronavirus pandemic, say experts, calling for mapping tools to ID vulnerable communities and investment focusing on slums.

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Japan Times

Indians clamor to conclude world’s biggest lockdown

Indians are calling for an end to a countrywide lockdown as concerns rise that job loss and hunger may soon hurt citizens more than the COVID-19 virus it was designed to contain.

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Asia Times Online

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Health workers in India put at great risk for little pay

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COVID-19 entry points in nose identified

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ScienceDaily

Russia’s cases rise by 10,000 in 1-day record

Russia has recorded 10,633 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours, the highest daily rise since the outbreak began in the country. Russia’s total number of coronavirus cases hit 134,686, the world’s seventh-highest tally.

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BBC

Long-stranded Rohingya sent to remote island

Rohingya refugees believed to have spent weeks stranded on cramped boats at sea have been sent to a remote, uninhabited island by Bangladesh; hundreds more remain adrift.

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Guardian

Venezuela claims it foiled US-backed attack

Venezuelan officials claimed they stopped a team of attackers backed by the United States and Colombia.

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FOX News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Activists help Argentines get abortions

How a network of activists are helping women get abortions in Argentina during the coronavirus lockdown.

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Time

Rohingya refugees plead for stranded relatives

Rohingya refugees whose relatives, including children, have been stranded for weeks on cramped boats have urged international governments to act before they perish at sea.

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Guardian

Maya villages spurn U.S. deportees

Guatemala’s indigenous Maya towns are spurning returned migrants, threatening some with burning their homes or lynching as fear spreads about deportees from the U.S. tested positive for the new coronavirus.

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Reuters

Misery of Italy’s migrants grows from lockdown

Known as “the invisibles”: Undocumented African migrants who, even before COVID-19 plunged Italy into a crisis, barely scraped by as day laborers, prostitutes, freelance hairdressers and seasonal farm hands.

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Associated Press

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNMENT

Sudan to outlaw female genital mutilation

Campaigners welcome move to criminalize those carrying out FGM, but warn it will take time to eradicate practice entirely.

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Guardian

Trudeau bans assault-style weapons

Two weeks after the country’s deadliest mass shooting, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bans assault-style weapons sales and possession, with owners needing to relinquish their assault weapons within two years.

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Forbes

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Japan debuts robots at hotels for virus patients

Robot staff debuted at a Tokyo hotel used for mildly sick coronavirus patients under a new plan to free up beds at hospitals overburdened with more severe cases.

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Associated Press

Scientists create glow-in-the-dark plants

Bioluminescence found in some mushrooms was metabolically similar to some of the processes found in plants, so scientists transferred DNA sequences into tobacco plants, which gave them a bright green glow.

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CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Keeping Kenyan refugee camps COVID-19 free

As concerns grow about the spread of the coronavirus, aid groups and governments are warning about the vulnerability of refugees.

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Afghanistan struggles to fend off health disaster

Desperate medics reveal the challenge of fighting COVID-19 in a country already beset by huge problems as watchdog warns of impending health disaster.

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Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Muslims put on Ramadan lights challenge

The Muslim community in Dearborn, Michigan, is hosting a Ramadan lights competition in hopes of spreading joy and bringing back some of the holiday spirit.

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CNN

Principal drives to visit all graduating seniors

Virdie Montgomery, principal of Wylie High School, spent 80 hours driving 800 miles over 12 days to 612 of his graduating senior students. Wylie is about 28 miles outside of Dallas, Texas.

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CNN

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North Carolina high school honors graduating seniors

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Fox8

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Artist unites community with yarn artwork

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NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Sikh nonprofit delivers food across LA

The United Sikhs has a hotline that anyone anywhere in the world — not just Sikhs — can call to request hot meals, over-the-counter medicine, groceries and other supplies.

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NBC News

Group supports S. African kids through surfing

Founded in 2012, South African NGO Waves for Change, or W4C, uses surfing-related activities as a way of providing social and mental health services to kids in some of the most at-risk communities in South Africa.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Cambodian forest protectors defy state ban

A Cambodian conservation group warned that logging in the protected Prey Lang forest has ramped up amid lockdown vowing to continue to monitor the destruction despite government threats of legal action to stop that work.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pandemic underscores climate health threats

COVID-19 is showing how far health systems are from being prepared for climate risks, from wildfires to changing diseases.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Women helping favelas running out of food

Volunteers of the Paraisópolis Women’s Association in Brazil, prepare up to 6,000 free meals a day to deliver to residents placed under quarantine in an attempt to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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National Geographic

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Will the coronavirus pandemic lead to a food crisis?

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Al Jazeera

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Children dance in monsoon rains in a slum of Mumbai, India. (Photo by Dinesh Bareja) Photo used under CC BY

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