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Yemen is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. With aid funding cut short by global economic instabilities, rampant malnutrition is pushing Yemen to the brink of collapse. (Photo by Felton Davis) Photo used under CC BY

Food shortages threaten 10M Yemenis, UN warns

Nearly 10 million people are facing acute food shortages in Yemen and urgent action is needed to avert a famine, the United Nations’s World Food Program has said. The agency needs $737M to the end of the year to keep its aid program running in the war-torn country.

Al Jazeera

Security Council vote on cross-border aid awaited in Syrian refugee camps

Al Jazeera

A look at Europe’s only post-WWII genocide

This year Bosnia marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the country’s worst carnage during the 1992-95 war and the only crime in Europe since WWII that has been declared a genocide.

Associated Press

Scenes from hell: 1995 Srebrenica genocide in photos

Associated Press

Shelter-in-place saves nearly 370,000 US lives

Shelter-in-place orders enacted in 42 states and the District of Columbia between March 21 and May 15 saved between 250,000 and 370,000 people in the United States from dying of coronavirus, according to a peer-reviewed study published by Health Affairs.

Forbes

WHO reports record daily increase in global virus cases, up over 228,000

Reuters

WHO visits China to plan virus investigation

Two WHO experts will travel to China to lay out the groundwork for an investigation into the origins of COVID-19. An animal health expert and an epidemiologist will meet Chinese counterparts to work out logistics.

TIME

Idlib’s first COVID-19 case raises fears for thousands living in Syria’s IDP camps

BBC

India’s underprivileged children face new fate

The immense health and socioeconomic crises brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately hit underprivileged children in India. They could lead to a spike in poverty, child labor and child marriages.

Deutsche Welle

Trafficked Nigerian women left to starve in Italy

Thousands of Nigerian women forced into prostitution were left to starve by sex traffickers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The women are forced into prostitution to pay off debts and fear of “juju” rituals.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Burkina Faso’s volunteers take on jihadists

In an attempt to bolster the army, the Burkina Faso government passed a law to arm civilians in January. Many towns have no government or military presence, leaving only this corps of volunteers to protect their villages.

Associated Press

Rohingya struggle on flood-prone island

Human Rights Watch has called on Bangladesh to move Rohingya refugees, including children, to the camps in Cox’s Bazaar district, more than two months after they were quarantined on a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.

Al Jazeera

China violates child rights at addiction facility

A group of men who operated a self-proclaimed internet addiction treatment facility in southeastern China have been sentenced to prison, after being found guilty of locking children in solitary isolation for up to 10 days.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Serbia bans mass gatherings after protests

Serbia’s authorities banned gatherings of more than 10 people in the capital Belgrade after two nights of violent clashes between police and thousands of demonstrators protesting coronavirus lockdown measures.

Associated Press

In Pictures: Belgrade protest over virus turns violent

Al Jazeera

Lebanon faces worst crisis since the civil war

A confluence of government malpractice, economic instability and external interference has driven Lebanon’s devastating crisis. Without significant change, there are concerns it could persist indefinitely.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Entrepreneurs use fintech to help refugees

A generation of refugees have set up financial technology firms to help other refugees and migrants send money, access paperwork and share information.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sound wave system cancels out traffic drum

Scientists have developed a sound control system which emits opposing pressure sound waves to counteract din, and can be fitted on to an open window, allowing a breeze to waft in while sounds from outside are quietened.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

COVID-19 in Africa is now reaching ‘full speed’

The COVID-19 pandemic in Africa is reaching “full speed,” the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief has said, while a South African official said a single province is preparing 1.5 million graves.

Associated Press

Essential workers seek expanded protections

With people going back to work amid record virus cases across the country, workers who were deemed “essential” at the beginning of the pandemic are demanding protections and want officials to put regulations in place.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ronald Richter):

To protect children during COVID-19, we must reach vulnerable families early

The Hill

Column (Eleanor Morgan):

The way trans people’s rights are discussed is causing them fear and pain

Guardian

Column (Nick Mallos):

Plastics epidemic: Let’s not waste the opportunity to tackle waste

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Scrabble bans derogatory slurs from word list

The North American Scrabble Players Association announced that derogatory language would be removed from the game’s official word list. The reevaluation began a few weeks ago with a social media post.

NPR

High School Students Launch “Kind Packs” Program

A Plus

Fridges filled with free food line NY streets

Refrigerators full of free food have been popping up all over NYC. From Harlem to Brownsville, sidewalks outside bodegas and apartment buildings have been converted into help-your-self pantries for those in need.

Good Morning America

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Twitter donates $3M to Basic Income Project

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has become the first investor in a radical plan to give people a basic income. He has donated $3M to the scheme, which is being piloted by the mayors of 16 US cities.

BBC

Ethiopian driver drives pregnant women for free

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Rising temperatures may exceed threshold

Annual global temperatures could potentially exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels which scientists have set as the ceiling for avoiding catastrophic climate change over the next five years, experts warn.

Forbes

Indigenous trackers teach scientists about wildlife

CNN

One third of lemurs ‘on the brink’ of extinction

A third of all the lemur species on Earth are “one step from extinction” according to the latest update of the Red List. Human activities, particularly deforestation and hunting, drive the declines in these primates.

BBC

Where have S. Africa’s famous sharks gone?

Longline fishing, pollution, the arrival of orcas – what’s causing the sharks to shun Cape Town’s waters? For those who watch the waves, for dorsal fins, there is still hope. The great white sharks will return, one day soon.

Guardian

Clean energy future ‘is vital,’ UN chief urges

The UN Secretary-General has told a meeting of ministers it is “vital” the world moves towards clean energy. Guterres said decisions on recovery strategies must account for the need to transition to a sustainable future.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors

Street vendors in India are suffering from lower earnings and ill health as they lose access to shade in cities where trees are felled to make way for construction.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

US jobless claims are starting to level off

Another 1.3 million US workers filed for unemployment during the week ending July 4; even though jobless numbers remain astronomically high, claims are beginning to level off from week to week.

Forbes

Photo of the Day

Man seen working at a textile market on the sidewalks of Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Steve Evans) Photo used under CC BY

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