The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Since the start of the pandemic, Syria has reported far fewer cases than other Middle Eastern countries, prompting widespread skepticism about its virus response. The outbreak is now surging in the war-torn country as millions don’t have access to sanitization and PPE. (Photo by Mustafa Khayat) Photo used under CC BY

Syria conceals virus cases as infections pick up pace

The coronavirus is spreading through government-held areas of Syria at an alarming rate and the authoritarian regime uses a campaign of intimidation to suppress information about the outbreak, a medical worker inside the country says.

NPR

Greece’s refugees face healthcare crisis amid pandemic

Guardian

Nearly 500,000 children are going hungry in Lebanon

Al Jazeera

Kenyan workers fight against ethnic violence

A group of 218 Kenyan tea workers have filed a UN complaint against Unilever, alleging that the multinational violated international human rights when ethnic violence broke out following a disputed 2017 election.

Guardian

Muslims worldwide pray masked, cautious for Eid

Masked and socially distanced to fight the coronavirus, Muslims around the world held prayers to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha, with mosques at reduced capacity and some praying in the open air.

Reuters

Middle East grapples with heatwave during Eid and coronavirus pandemic

CNN

Africa’s Muslims woeful over scaled-down hajj

African Muslims spend a lifetime saving to make the hajj pilgrimage. With the downsizing of this year’s hajj due to the pandemic, they regret the missed chance and worry about getting a refund amid economic fallouts.

Deutsche Welle

Russia plans mass virus vaccination campaign

Russian health authorities are preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus in October, the health minister has said. Doctors and teachers would be the first to receive the vaccine.

BBC

New virus model predicts 230,000 dead by November

Forbes

Libya’s last chance to enforce peace, UN warns

The people of Libya, “exhausted and scared” after years of brutal war, now face the danger of destruction of their country unless the “last chance” of a ceasefire is seized, a senior UN official has warned.

The Independent

HUMAN RIGHTS

Thousands demonstrate against Netanyahu

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in what appeared to be the largest protest to date calling for the embattled Israeli prime minister to resign.

Guardian

Kenyan workers file complaint on Unilever

Kenyan tea workers have filed a complaint with the UN against Unilever, alleging that the company violated international human rights standards by not assisting its employees, who were victims of the 2007 ethnic violence.

Guardian

Uyghur women expose Chinese abuse

For years, Uyghur women both inside Xinjiang and around the world have accused the Chinese government of a campaign of abuse, including forced sterilization, cultural indoctrination and incidents of sexual violence.

CNN

Venezuelan migrants forced to return home

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Australia’s Victoria declares state of disaster

The state premier of Australia’s Victoria has declared a state of disaster to help contain the surge in coronavirus cases as he reported 671 new infections, almost double the previous day.

Al Jazeera

Germans protest coronavirus restrictions

Thousands of people have marched in Germany‘s capital to protest against measures imposed to stem the coronavirus pandemic, saying those restrictions violated people’s rights and freedoms.

Al Jazeera

Philippines losing virus war, doctors warn

Dozens of doctors’ groups warned that the Philippines was losing the coronavirus fight, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to tighten a recently eased lockdown as cases surged and hospitals turned away patients.

Asia Times Online

India’s outdoor classes eases COVID strain

Schools across India are struggling to teach online as the pandemic forces them to stay shut. But this town in Indian-administered Kashmir has found a novel solution, open-air classes with added COVID precautions.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

CVS first retailer to use touch-free payment

PayPal Holdings, which owns PayPal and Venmo, announced that CVS Pharmacy will be the first national retailer to integrate QR code technology at checkout, as the pandemic caused an increase in touch-free payment.

Forbes

Infrared drones could save koalas from extinction

Euronews

Lab-grown meat as a mass-market food fix

Just Inc, a food tech company that made a name for itself producing a scrambled egg replacement that is barely distinguishable from the real thing has a new food invention: lab-grown nuggets.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

There’s water everywhere, nowhere in India

India is home to more than 1.3 billion people and a landscape defined by iconic rivers—the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra—now teeters at the edge of a water emergency with unknowable consequences.

National Geographic

COVID adds stress to Vietnam’s rising heat

Restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 could stop cooling centers opening in dangerous heatwaves. Cooling centers in Vietnam, started by the Red Cross in 2019, had a major impact on reducing heat exhaustion.

Al Jazeera

Behind the scenes with dogs being trained to detect COVID-19

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Site edited by: Kristina Varganova, Samantha Floyd, Ashley Nawn, Laura Tollin, Catherine Lux and Jameson O'Neal.

GOOD NEWS

Kenyan artists turns scrap metal into art

Over 30 years ago, a welder in Kenya started using scrap metal as the raw material for his art. Now he is represented by a gallery and is passing on his skills to younger artists.

Deutsche Welle

Virtual camps for kids with special needs

Children who need extra help because of medical, emotional, or learning problems have benefited from a handful of summer camps designed to bring normalcy into their lives.

CNN

U.S. Navy’s first Black female fighter pilot gets her Wings of Gold

CBS News

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Duchess Meghan donates to support refugees

Meghan Markle donated $10,000 Migrateful, a nonprofit that supports refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants and helps them to host cookery classes, learning useful employment skills in the process.

Yahoo! News

Black is Beautiful beer gives $20k to nonprofit

After a successful launch of its Black is Beautiful craft beer campaign, San Antonio’s Weathered Souls Brewing Company donated a $20,000 check to the local chapter of 100 Black Men of America.

KSAT.com

Businessman address inequality in the community. Now, this student is packing for college

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Bahamas brace for the new Hurricane Isaias

New Hurricane Isaias kept on a path expected to take it to the U.S. East Coast as it approached the Bahamas, parts of which are still recovering from the devastation of last year’s Hurricane Dorian.

Associated Press

The water wars of the Sahara Desert

As the Sahara Desert advances south, finding water is becoming increasingly urgent to ease the strain on local community tensions. Water is the source of many conflicts in across the Sahara, within nations and between them.

BBC

Rising heat are reducing nestling survival

There is an upward limit to how hot daily air temperatures can get before birds can no longer successfully breed, indicating that rapidly advancing climate change will have widespread and tragic effects on bird species.

Forbes

Divers haul ghost nets from submarine

Lost fishing nets - known as “ghost nets” - wrapped around shipwrecks often turn into death traps for marine life. The Healthy Seas initiative said millions of animals die every year after getting trapped in the nylon gear.

Reuters

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

US places sanctions over abuse of Uighurs

The United States intensified its economic pressure on China’s Xinjiang province, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs.

Reuters

How dollar stores came back to Cuba

Cuba is overly dependent on imports. Despite largely controlling the COVID outbreak, lockdown has brought a halt to tourism and the economy. Some stores are now only taking foreign currency for goods and services.

BBC

Photo of the Day

Six children standing in the Mekong river, some with lotus flower buds in their hands, bathing with buffalos at sunset in front of a boat. (Photo by Basile Morin) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other