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Climate-fueled extreme weather events, from floods to droughts, could displace or kill tens of thousands of people, straining government resources and threatening political stability. The urgency is promoting several developing nations to tackle climate change. (Photo by Muntaka Chasant) Photo used under CC BY

Pakistan pursues big action on climate change, energy

Like most developing nations, Pakistan is not a big emitter of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. But developing countries suffer harm disproportionate to the rest of the world. That urgency has prompted Pakistan to craft ambitious plans to reduce emissions.

NPR

Migrants cross Guatemala despite threats

Threats from Guatemala’s president to deport the migrant caravan that entered the country illegally led dozens of migrants to begin the journey back to Honduras even as hundreds more continued trudging toward Mexico.

Associated Press

The shattered dreams of African migrants

Deutsche Welle

Women’s rights faltering amid COVID, UN warns

The U.N. commemorated 25 years since a world declaration was agreed to advance women’s rights. But progress is faltering. Due to the pandemic, it is estimated that in 2021, 47 million women will be pushed into extreme poverty, bringing the total to 435 million.

CBS News

DRC protesters demand justice over murders

Women led thousands of people in demonstrations in four cities across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, demanding justice for historic murders and rapes committed in the east of the country.

Guardian

COVID sparks Philippines online barter trade

In the middle of a coronavirus lockdown in the Philippine capital, Grace Lagaday was struggling to breastfeed her newborn without milk storage bottles and nursing pads.

Reuters

President Trump tests positive for COVID-19

President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife both tested positive for COVID-19, an extraordinary development coming months into a global pandemic and in the final stretch of his reelection campaign.

CNN

How Mike Pence could temporarily assume control if Trump becomes incapacitated

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

U.S. sets refugee cap at 15k, a new record low

The Trump administration is planning to take in 15,000 refugees in 2021, slashing resettlement spots to another historic low as millions around the world are displaced by conflict, violence and other forms of persecution.

CBS News

Journalist speaks out over prison conditions

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, jailed for 45 days and charged with inciting violence, has spoken of the appalling abuse and prison conditions he witnessed.

Guardian

India witnesses an average of 87 rapes per day

India has been outraged by the brutal death of a 19-year old gang-rape victim in a case that has renewed focus on the use of crime to settle caste and class differences.

Asia Times Online

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

India’s Muslims feel more abandoned than ever

Nearly three decades, 850 witnesses, 7,000+ documents, photographs and videotapes later, a court in India found no-one guilty of razing a 16th-Century mosque which was attacked by Hindu mobs in the holy city of Ayodhya.

BBC

Lawmakers introduce resolution condemning Azerbaijan, Turkey for conflict with Armenia

The Hill

Canada’s bill banning LGBT conversion therapy

Canada has reintroduced a bill that will criminalize LGBT conversion therapy, a federal minister said after an earlier effort to ban the practice failed as the parliament was discontinued due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Europe’s first transgender deputy PM

Petra De Sutter, a gynecologist and a transgender woman, was sworn in as deputy prime minister in Belgium’s new government becoming the most senior trans politician across all of Europe.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Cats able to pass COVID-19 to each other

Researchers found that both dogs and cats can be infected by the virus that causes COVID-19 in human. The paper also shows that while dogs don’t seem to spread the disease, coronavirus-infected cats do.

Smithsonian Magazine

GLOBAL HEALTH

Men dominate decision-making on COVID-19

Men are making most of the decisions related to the coronavirus pandemic, a disturbing pattern that could be costing lives.

CNN

Moscow may reinstate COVID-19 measures

Moscow may reinstate tough measures if its 13 million population ignores COVID-19 protection rules, its mayor Sergei Sobyanin said oafter the Russian capital started to record increases in daily cases of infection.

Reuters

C-section babies may benefit from eating poop

A study suggests feeding infants born by cesarean section a small amount of their mothers’ feces could “normalize” their gut microbiome and possibly give their immune systems a healthier start.

Sciencemag.org

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Azeezah Kanji and Dania Majid):

Repression of speech and scholarship on Palestine needs to end

Al Jazeera

Column (Nikayla Jefferson):

The climate crisis is the story of the century

The Hill

Column (Mya-Rose Craig):

As the Arctic melts, we rise

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Black doctors making testing more equitable

After seeing reports indicating that Black people were contracting the coronavirus and dying from COVID-19 at greater rates than everyone else, Dr. Ala Stanford set up testing centers around Philadelphia using her savings.

NPR

CNN Heroes: Stepping up to slow COVID-19’s spread in Africa

CNN

Somali basketball team defies prejudice

Facing down fears of violent attacks over their commitment to sport, Somali women‘s basketball players hope to start women’s teams all over the country.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Swearing parrots separated at British zoo

Five parrots have been separated after learning to swear at a British zoo The parrots joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Park’s colony of 200 grey parrots in August. But soon after, they started encouraging each other to swear.

Guardian

Rescuers race to move whales out of Scottish loch before major military exercise

CBS News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

India freezes Amnesty accounts over criticism

Global human rights organization Amnesty International has halted operations in India, accusing the government of an “incessant witch-hunt” and “constant harassment.”

CBS News

UK charity honors landmine-hunting ‘hero rat’

A rat in Cambodia has been heralded a hero and awarded a gold medal for saving lives. Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, was honored by a British charity for his work detecting undetonated landmines.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Amazon suffers worst fires in a decade

Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of blazes in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe has shown.

Guardian

Greenland’s ice melts fastest in 12,000 years

Greenland’s ice is starting to melt faster than at any time in the past 12,000 years, research has shown, which will raise sea levels and could have a marked impact on ocean currents.

Guardian

How this conservationist has saved seabirds around the world

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

US statue removals inspire Indigenous groups

The campaign to remove Confederate statues and other symbols of white supremacy in the United States is resonating in Latin America, where protesters have destroyed monuments to European colonizers who brutalized Indigenous populations.

NPR

Shortage protests erupt across Venezuela

The protests started in Yaracuy but have since spread to other states in the country’s interior. Residents accuse the government of neglecting the interior.

BBC

Photo of the Day

Airman 1st Class Kyle Larson, a medical technician with 75th Medical Group, screens an incoming patient’s temperature before entering the Hill Air Force Base, Utah medical clinic (Photo by Cynthia Griggs) Photo used under CC BY

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