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Clashes between the extremist fighters, aligned with the Islamic State group, and government forces in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have caused massive numbers of local residents to flee their homes. The violence is now risking the start of yet another humanitarian crises in the region. (Photo by La Priz) Photo used under CC BY

Extremist insurgency, hunger on rise in fragile Mozambique

The World Food Program says the escalating extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique has displaced 310,000 people, creating an urgent humanitarian crisis. The conflict has killed more than 1,500 people since it began in 2017 and caused widespread upheaval.

ABC News

Outrage over US death turns to mass protests

More than six months after Breonna Taylor was shot, outrage and heartbreak boiled over into protests across the US after news broke that none of the three officers involved in Taylor’s death were charged with her killing.

CNN

Top world leaders criticize haphazard virus response

World leaders criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken nearly 1 million lives in its march across the globe. In the words of Kazakhstan’s president, it was “a critical collapse of global cooperation.”

Associated Press

Venezuela President blasts US to world leaders

Associated Press

COVID makes life harder for HIV patients in Uganda

Deutsche Welle

With 200,000 dead, over 90% of Americans are still at risk of COVID-19

CBS News

Female voices ‘drowned out’ amid COVID-19

Women’s voices have been “worryingly marginalized” in reporting of the coronavirus, partly due to the war-like framing of the pandemic, according to a report analyzing stories across six countries.

Guardian

Mexico investigating US forced ‘sterilizations’

A whistleblower alleged that hysterectomies were being performed on six migrant women in US detention centers without their consent. Mexico is now investigating the claims, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has said.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Migrants died after ‘inadequate’ care at ICE

At U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities operated by for-profit contractors, detainees “often do not receive critical treatment or face delays,” an inquiry found.

CNN

Salvadoran freed after 6 years for stillbirth

A woman sentenced to 30 years in jail after a stillbirth that was judged to be her fault has been released from jail in El Salvador. Cindy Erazo, 29, from San Salvador, was granted conditional freedom after six years in jail.

Guardian

2 officers shot during Breonna Taylor protests

Two policemen in Louisville, Kentucky, have been shot amid protests in the U.S. over a decision not to charge any officers over the killing of Breonna Taylor.

BBC

Indian boy’s death spotlights bonded labor

The death of an 8-year-old boy whose parents worked as bonded laborers has triggered demands for authorities to crack down on thousands of other suspected cases in nearby villages in central India.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indonesia’s Islamic school fights for transgender rights

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Anwar on the verge of countercoup in Malaysia

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed to have secured the parliamentary majority needed to form a new federal government in a surprise announcement signaling another change of government.

Asia Times Online

Saudi Arabia dissidents launch opposition party

A group of Saudi dissidents exiled in Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere announced the launch of an opposition party the first organized political resistance to King Salman’s rule.

CBS News

China’s Sri Lanka foothold a dilemma for India

From all appearances, a renewed U.S.-Indian move is afoot to undermine China’s Belt and Road projects in Sri Lanka, especially the flag carrier – Colombo Port City.

Asia Times Online

India, China stop sending troops to border

CNN

Duterte tightens grip as Philippines falls apart

Facing an acute economic crisis, a persistent COVID-19 outbreak and declining popularity, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has fittingly extended a state of national calamity for another year.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bus-sized asteroid to pass close to Earth

As interstellar traffic goes, this is a close one. According to a report in The Independent, an asteroid the size of a mini-bus is set to fly past Earth in the coming hours.

Asia Times Online

Jurassic sea predator remains found in Chile

Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the world’s driest desert in Chile. Pliosaurs were reptiles from about 160 million years ago.

NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Airport trials dogs as COVID-19 detectors

Dogs specially trained to detect COVID-19 have started sniffing passengers as part of a trial at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Volunteers are training a team of 15 dogs and 10 instructors for the research program.

BBC

Man responsible for Indonesia’s COVID crisis

It’s not clear to many Indonesians why President Joko Widodo has maintained faith in Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto, the military doctor who initially sought to play down the coronavirus threat and has since been missing in action in battling the pandemic.

Asia Times Online

Prison ‘like a torture chamber’ for inmates with COVID-19

NPR

At UN, Africa urges fiscal help against virus ‘apocalypse’

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Hannah L Drake):

Black women will fight another day. Not just for Breonna Taylor, but for ourselves

Guardian

Column (Dr. Deane Waldman):

The ongoing collapse of US health care

The Hill

Editorial:

Online learning cannot just be for those who can afford its technology

Nature

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

GOOD NEWS

Ugandan cafe creates jobs for deaf workers

A coffee chain in Uganda has opened a cafe staffed by deaf people. The chain says it wants to serve the deaf, and create jobs for this marginalized group.

Deutsche Welle

This ‘hero rat’ saves lives by hunting landmines

MSN

Maasai gather for once-in-decade ceremony

Maasai men from all over Kenya and Tanzania, clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).

CNN

Sir David Attenborough breaks Instagram record for fastest time to reach one million followers

Guinness World Records

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Lay’s potato chips honors woman’s efforts

For years Najah Bazzy, has dedicated herself to helping women, children and refugees. Now she‘s being recognized in a unique way. She was selected as part of the 30 smiles initiative to be placed on Lay’s potato chip bags.

Click on Detroit

The organization planting 15M trees a month

A Plus

ENVIRONMENT

Thai park mailing people’s trash back to them

After campers left a mess at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, officials have decided on a novel approach to discouraging making a mess: sending the garbage right back to where it came from.

Vice

’Wonder Woman’ hits illegal mining in Amazon

Peru is the world’s sixth largest gold producer, partly fueled by the illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios that has become a multibillion-dollar black market.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Millions of acres burning across S. America

Millions of acres across South America have been devastated by fires due to a combination of drought and multiple fires that authorities say are manmade.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

VW to compensate workers over Brazil torture

Workers and their families sued the carmaker five years ago over human rights violations. A 2016 review found that VW agents gave employees’ names to police hunting for people described as “subversives”.

BBC1

World’s workers lost $3.5 T in COVID: UN

Asia Times Online

Palm oil labor abuses linked to top brands

The AP interviewed more than 130 current and former workers from two dozen palm oil companies who came from eight countries and labored on plantations across wide swaths of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Associated Press

300K used condoms packed for sale in SE Asia

Police in Vietnam said they found about 320,000 recycled used condoms that were being repackaged as new, local media reported according to the Associated Press.

CBS News

US restricts imports of Cuban rum, cigars

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced new sanctions on Cuba restricting imports of Cuban rum and cigars and banning Americans from staying at properties owned by the Cuban government.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A medical professional rests after 12 hours without a break at San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy. San Salvatore has been at the top of the COVID-19 contagion and death charts. (Photo by Alberto Giuliani) Photo used under CC BY

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