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Child death reviews had never before been done in South Africa. News study revealed that there are two patterns of child deaths in-country: teenagers being swallowed up in the country’s desperately high rate of violent street crime and children aged 5 and under falling victim to domestic violence. (Photo by thomas_sly) Photo used under CC BY

In S. Africa, child homicides show violence ‘entrenched’

In a country where more than 50 people are murdered every day, children are not spared. According to official figures, around 1,000 children are murdered every year in South Africa, nearly three a day. But that statistic, horrific as it is, may be an undercount.

Associated Press

DACA faces biggest legal test in the new year

A federal judge who has issued scathing rulings against Obama-era immigration policies is set to review the legality of a deportation relief program for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented adults known as “Dreamers.”

CBS News

Mental health emergency stalks refugees in Greece

Mental health problems are spiraling among adults and children at ‘Moria 2:0’ camp as winter sets in and security tightens. Children have started using self-harm to get rid of tension and the overwhelming emotions they face through the retraumatization.

Guardian

Funding shortfalls force cuts to UN refugee assistance

Deutsche Welle

War forces thousands of Ethiopians into Sudan

Associated Press

WHO members to discuss new COVID variant

The WHO has called a meeting of members to discuss strategies to counter a new, more infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain. The meeting was designed to help with information-sharing.

Reuters

Fears, disinformation spread among Latinos regarding the COVID-19 vaccine

NBCNews.com

Months later, coronavirus reaches end of earth

The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military has said, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine staff from a remote research station.

U.S. News & World Report

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rohingya refugees suffer due to traffickers

Many Rohingya refugees undertake hazardous journeys to escape overcrowded camps in Bangladesh. Most escaped a brutal military crackdown against them in Myanmar.

Deutsche Welle

Kidnappings in N. Nigeria highlight insecurity

Many in Nigeria are criticizing the government’s ineffective response to the deepening insecurity in the northwest, and failure to protect civilians from the insurgency and criminal violence.

Associated Press

The women behind the Indian farmers’ protests

In India, the land is ‘mother’; and it is India’s mothers, daughters and sisters forming the backbone of the protests.

Al Jazeera

Battle brewing over abortion rights in Poland

A major battle is underway over abortion rights in Poland. The country’s constitutional court, whose legitimacy has been questioned by some, has made it even harder for Polish women to get abortions.

PBS NewsHour

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

EU paves way for revival of Iran nuclear deal

EU foreign ministers have agreed not to set fresh preconditions on a revival of the Iran nuclear deal, believing Tehran and Washington should be able to come back into full compliance with the agreement.

Guardian

Nicaragua bans opposition from 2021 elections

Nicaragua’s ruling party passed a law that would ban opposition candidates from running in the 2021 presidential elections. The law gives the government of President Ortega the right to label opposition members as terrorists.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Newly comet observed during solar eclipse

A newly discovered sungrazer comet, named C/2020 X3 (SOHO), was photographed approaching the sun during last week’s solar eclipse before it evaporated into dust particles.

CNN

Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky

Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two largest planets in our solar system are not particularly rare – Jupiter passes its neighbour Saturn in their respective laps around the Sun every 20 years.

Al Jazeera

Ice Age rock paintings found in rainforest

Archaeologists have discovered tens of thousands of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans in a remote area of Colombia.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Kenyan medical workers on strike

More than 36,000 clinicians and nurses began a strike 15 days ago and talks to get them back to work collapsed today, said Austine Oduor Otieno, deputy secretary general of the Kenya Union of Clinical officers.

Associated Press

Common food type may heighten risk of death

Inverse

New strain of COVID-19 in S. Africa

South Africa has announced that a new variant of the COVID-19 virus is driving the country’s current resurgence of the disease, which is seeing higher numbers of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Alnoor Ladha and Felipe Viveros):

The crisis in Brazil’s Amapa state is a warning for the world

Al Jazeera

Column (Gayle Lemmon):

US can’t stay in Afghanistan forever, but it matters how we leave

CNN

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Nigeria’s victims of war crimes and other atrocities deserve justice

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Rome restores, opens historic mausoleum

After decades of neglect, one of ancient Rome’s most important monuments, the mausoleum of the first emperor Augustus, has been restored and will reopen early next year, city officials have announced.

Reuters

11-year-old writes book about self-love to help lift children’s spirits

ABC 7 NY

Young girl spreads holiday cheer

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Growing nonprofit offers medical debt relief

Founded in 2014, RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization, uses donations to buy medical debt at a deep discount, in bulk, to forgive it. The group has forgiven more than $3 billion worth of medical debt to this day.

ABC News

Young man’s organization helps the homeless

A Plus

ENVIRONMENT

Global food industry to drive rapid habitat loss

The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of their habitat by 2050.

Guardian

Farming despite water poverty in India

Water is a scarce commodity in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Nevertheless many farmers have still to learn how to use water more efficiently for their fields. The Marvi project was set up to change that.

Deutsche Welle

India’s young water experts quench thirst of parched communities

Deutsche Welle

Climate risks to health will worsen inequity

From poor families in flood-prone homes to women required to cover up in extreme heat, climate change will hit the health of vulnerable groups the hardest, warns Kristie Ebi.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii’s Big Island

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted late on Sunday and shot a steam cloud into the atmosphere that lasted about an hour.

Guardian

Rains give West African herders brief respite

Abundant rains soaked West Africa’s Sahel region in recent months, causing catastrophic floods in some areas that raised concerns about the rising costs of extreme weather.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Christmas woes for a Zimbabwe in crisis

This year, Christmas cheer will be missing from the hearts of many Zimbabweans who will have to make do with reminiscing about previous festive seasons instead.

Al Jazeera

Price of marriage pushes land out of reach for many in Sri Lanka

Thomson Reuters Foundation

50 yrs of tax cuts for rich failed to trickle down

Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

An Indonesian girl set fire to cook rice in the morning using anglo, a clay pot filled with coal. The picture was taken in Imogiri, Bantul, Yogyakarta. (Photo by Gumilang Aryo Sahadewo) Photo used under CC BY

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