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Congress confirmed President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory early Thursday morning, hours after a mob of loyalists urged on by President Trump stormed and occupied the Capitol, disrupting the final electoral count in a shocking display of violence. (Photo by Geoff Livingston) Photo used under CC BY

Pro-Trump siege of US Capitol sparks difficult new questions

One day later, the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Trump’s supporters forced painful questions across government — about his fitness to remain in office, the ability of the police to secure the complex and the future of the Republican Party in a post-Trump era.

Associated Press

Moment protesters storm US legislature

BBC

Nations worldwide criticize US after Capitol violence

Guardian

Indonesian cleric linked to bombings released

Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been released, as authorities said the mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings would enter a deradicalization program amid concerns over his continued influence in extremist circles.

Reuters

Rape survivors in Pakistan joyous over new court ruling

A Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented ruling. Lahore’s high court ruled that the virginity test has no legal basis and “offends the personal dignity of the female victim.”

Guardian

China blocks team studying COVID-19 origins

The WHO said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency. The arrangements had been jointly agreed with China in advance.

CNN

Vaccine hesitancy rises in Indonesia amid COVID-19 pandemic spikes

Al Jazeera

New measures needed to curb COVID variant

Europe needs to do more to slow the spread of the recently discovered, more transmissible variant of coronavirus, the UN health body has said. It also urged flexibility over vaccine distributions to those most at risk.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar arrests Rohingya minority in raid

Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 ethnic Rohingya in the capital of Yangon, local media said. Myanmar frequently detains Rohingya on grounds of “illegal travel” for attempting to leave their native western Rakhine state.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Trafficking scheme lures pregnant women

Dozens of pregnant women from the Marshall Islands have become victims of a brazen human trafficking ring, operating for years across the Marshall Islands archipelago and the United States.

Guardian

Party’s manifesto pledge stirs debate in India

A political party’s pledge to pay housewives a monthly wage in recognition of their toil has sparked debate in India, with some critics saying the proposal might end up confining even more women to domestic chores.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Protests over killings spread in Pakistan

Reuters

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Catholic officials ask for silence on abuse report

Catholic Church officials asked for journalists’ “absolute silence” on a long-awaited report investigating decades of alleged sexual abuse of young people at the hands of clerics and the resulting institutional cover-up.

Guardian

Central African Republic election disputed

After an election marred by violence, the president of the Central African Republic (CAR) has won five more years in power. But his victory is contested and the fate of the country balances on a knife edge.

BBC

Ugandan presidential candidate assaulted live on camera

NBCNews.com

4 dead after US Capitol breached by Trump mob

The rioting began after Trump and his allies held a rally earlier in the day, urging Congress to not certify the results of the November presidential election.

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Pfizer vaccine promising against virus variant

New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two easier-to-spread variants of the coronavirus that erupted across Britain and South Africa.

Associated Press

App rating algorithm ruled discriminatory

An algorithm used by the popular European food delivery app Deliveroo to rank and offer shifts to riders is discriminatory, an Italian court ruled late last week, in what some experts are calling a historic decision.

Forbes

Massive canyon revealed on Mars

New images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal details about the size of the Valles Marineris Canyon on Mars, which would reach from New York City to San Francisco if placed in the US, according to NASA.

USA TODAY

GLOBAL HEALTH

Afghan mothers struggle to feed children

A report from the United Nations finds that nearly half of all children younger than 5 in Afghanistan, a total of some 3.1 million, are facing acute malnutrition. That’s a 16 percent jump since June 2020.

NPR

Hospitals in Peru, Bolivia overflow amid COVID

While infection counts remain below last year’s peak, depleted resources, weary medical workers and a recent rush of severe cases are taxing already ailing healthcare systems from Chile to Mexico, officials say.

Al Jazeera

Brazilian women seek abortions in Argentina

Brazilian women without means have started traveling to Argentina to obtain abortions, to dodge the risks and legal obstacles they face if they were to seek such services at home.

NBCNews.com

Is pandemic causing surge in female genital mutilation?

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Charles Kolb):

Xi Jinping‘s China and Hitler’s Germany: Growing parallels

The Hill

Column (Devorah Heitner):

Kids pay the price for adults’ failures to act against racism

CNN

Column (Andrew Mitrovica):

America is coming undone

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Japan ordered to compensate WWII sex slaves

A South Korean ordered Japan to financially compensate 12 South Korean women forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II.

ABC News

Turkey on mission to preserve fairytales

Dr Ignatuis Kunos, was among first to collect and write oral folktales of the Anatolian plateau. Over a century later, an academic project is collecting and indexing 10,000 stories to preserve for future generations.

Guardian

Leading Uganda’s climate change movement

Vanessa Nakate has become one of the most prominent African voices on climate change and wants to make sure that African issues are heard on a global stage.

Deutsche Welle

Female boxer in Uganda is inspiring young women to fight for themselves

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit gifts teachers computer monitors

As distance learning has resumed in the new year for San Francisco Unified School District schools, the district announced it is partnering with a non-profit organization to help further support its teachers.

SF Gate

10-year-old creates care kits to help the homeless

Yahoo! News

Grad student raises $30K for charity

A canceled dinner party at the start of the pandemic turned into a major charity campaign.

Today

ENVIRONMENT

America’s rivers are changing color

One-third of the thousands of mile-long river segments in the U.S. have shifted color since 1984. The chief causes of color changes are farm fertilizer run-off, efforts to fight soil erosion and man-made climate change.

ABC News

Recycling electric cars poses problems

This year, around 200,000 Germans will be driving electric vehicles. It will be a few years before those cars need to be scrapped. Hopefully, by then, the world will have figured out how to recycle them.

Deutsche Welle

Exposure to dirty air linked to miscarriage

Pregnant women in South Asia who have been exposed to air pollution face an increased risk of pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and stillbirth, according to a new study.

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Thai landfill becomes urban farm to feed poor

An urban farm developed on a former landfill site in northern Thailand boosted the food security and livelihoods of poor families during the coronavirus pandemic, and can be a model for unused spaces in other cities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pandemic pushes Indian people to mica mines

People continue to die in Indian mines four years after a Thomson Reuters Foundation expose into child deaths.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Zimbabweans suffer amid rising COVID cases

The country’s healthcare sector has not been spared from the vagaries of the economic crisis and is in shambles. With cases rising, the sector is struggling to cope.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

An Intha fisherman in Myanmar uses an age-old technique for catching fish in the shallow water of Inle Lake. One leg is used to balance the boat while the other is used to guide their conical nets through the water. (Photo by Hans A. Rosbach) Photo used under CC BY

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