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Tunisian youth seen celebrating the third anniversary of their revolution in 2014. However, as Tunisia nears the 10th anniversary of the revolt that unleashed the Arab Spring, those injured in the tumult feel disappointed and marginalized. (Photo by Magharebia) Photo used under CC BY

Tunisia revolution victims plea for official recognition

Some lost a leg, some gaze out from permanently scarred faces. All these men were injured in Tunisia’s democratic uprising 10 years ago, and they are begging the government to recognize them as official victims of the revolution.

Associated Press

Polish activists on trial for support of LGBTQ+

The trial of three Polish activists accused of “offending religious beliefs” will start this week, according to LGBT+ rights organization ILGA-Europe, and could result in each one being jailed for up to two years.

The Independent

US COVID-19 vaccine rollout risks spread to black market

The COVID vaccine could wind up on the black market, experts warn. The criticized rollout by the Trump administration has laid the groundwork for the rich and the politically connected to use their money to cut in line and get vaccinated before everyone else.

NBCNews.com

Two COVID strains originated in US, scientists report

Forbes

Plan for future now or COVID will last for years

Guardian

WHO reform needed in wake of pandemic

The role and remit of the WHO should be examined in the wake of the pandemic, and reforms will likely be needed to free it from politics and give it more independence, public health experts have urged.

Reuters

Africa dominates top forgotten crises of 2020

As the pandemic dominated headlines across the world throughout 2020, major humanitarian crises went unreported, a relief agency has said. Six African countries made the list of the world’s top 10 worst crises.

Deutsche Welle

Millions on the brink of starvation as the pandemic exacerbates world hunger

PBS NewsHour

Africa left with few options for COVIS vaccines

Bloomberg

HUMAN RIGHTS

More than 80 dead in new massacre in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday it has received information that over 80 civilians were killed early Tuesday in the latest massacre in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region.

Associated Press

Carlsberg India probe finds child labor

Two separate reports on the Indian joint venture of Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S have found “potential improper payments” to government officials, as well as the use of child labor practices.

Reuters

“Abysmal” prisons in Turkey and Iran

The conditions inside Turkey’s prisons deteriorated rapidly in 2020, with a significant rise in human rights violations, while there has been a massive regression on death penalty restrictions in Iran.

International Observatory

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

How US helps Uganda’s Museveni stay in power

During a live virtual press conference a stunned global audience watched as singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, was forcibly removed from his vehicle by Ugandan police as gunshots fired.

CNN

US won’t observe Uganda’s election as accreditations denied

Associated Press

‘Human rights defenders are being targeted’ as Ugandan election approaches

Deutsche Welle

Israel is an apartheid regime, says rights group

Israel is not a democracy but an “apartheid regime” that enforces Jewish supremacy over all the land it controls, a leading domestic rights group has alleged in a position paper bound to provoke fierce controversy.

Guardian

Palestinians desperately await COVID19 vaccine

Al Jazeera

Zimbabweans losing homes to a land dispute

Zimbabwean land barons have set up illegal housing associations, illegally selling land they do not own to unsuspecting residents. As a result, Harare City Council has taken legal action to deal with the malpractice.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Wine, vines headed home after year in space

The International Space Station bid adieu to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.

CBC News

Pakistan plans system for inclusive economy

Pakistan has announced a new government-run instant digital payment system in a bid to boost financial inclusion and government revenue in the country, where only a fraction of economic transactions occur on the books.

Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO warns no COVID19 herd immunity in 2021

World Health Organization chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan warned Monday herd immunity is unlikely to be achieved this year despite COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out.

Axios

2 more life-saving COVID drugs discovered

Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with COVID. The anti-inflammatory medications, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers.

BBC

America’s population growth is slowing down

Even in an unlikely “high growth rate” scenario, America’s population has grown at the slowest rate since the 1930s, according to recent Census Bureau projections for the last decade.

Axios

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Arwa Mahdawi):

The Chinese government is trying to rebrand forced sterilization as feminism

Guardian

Column (Andreas Kluth):

mRNA vaccines could vanquish COVID-19 today, cancer tomorrow

Japan Times

Column (Dorian Warren):

Capitol police treatment of Trump rioters underscores America’s racist reality

NBCNews.com

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GOOD NEWS

Burundian refugee soap maker fighting COVID

Innocent Havyarimana started his soap-making business in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp to move on from the traumatic events that had made him flee his native Burundi.

BBC

Pope backs women in Catholic services

Pope Francis has changed the law in the Roman Catholic Church, allowing women to administer communion and serve at the altar. Conservative Church leaders are now expected to accept female involvement in the liturgy.

BBC

Air India’s all women pilot crew makes history

An all-female Indian pilot team made history this week after they completed the longest non-stop commercial flight ever operated by an Indian national airline.

CNN

N.C. cowgirl uses horses to inspire kids to read

A North Carolina woman is bringing together two of her passions — horses and reading — to help bridge the literacy gap among children.

CBS News

Siblings launch puzzle business focused on Black representation

CBS News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Seattle’s home bakers donate to food banks

Seattle-based Community Loaves is a group of 500 home bread bakers that have been donating their bread loaves to food banks since the start of the pandemic.

Today

Preschooler raises money for Feeding America

Preschooler Maddie Presser is recreating famous movie scenes on YouTube and raising money for Feeding America.

A Plus

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists count carbon storage in Amazon

A group of machete-wielding Brazilian scientists are hacking through the trees in the Amazon, seeking to learn how much carbon can be stored in different parts of the world’s largest rainforest.

Reuters

‘Ecological Ponzi scheme’ threatens humanity

Accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption are swiftly pushing human societies toward a “ghastly future” of growing hunger, political division and societal breakdown, leading scientists said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Earth losing roughly 1%-2% of insects annually

The world‘s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” according to the world’s top bug experts.

CBC News

50 nations join coalition to protect planet

A global coalition to protect at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and ocean by 2030 has swelled its ranks to about 50 countries, as governments said at a French summit.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ford ends decades of Brazil manufacturing

Ford is closing its last three factories in Brazil due to the pandemic, which it said had amplified years of poor sales and “significant losses.” About 5,000 people, mostly in Brazil, are expected to lose their jobs.

BBC

Pandemic disproportionately affects working moms

CNN

Death knell tolls for Indonesia’s gas industry

Indonesia lacks the foreign investment and domestic expertise needed to keep its fast-declining oil and gas industry afloat. Exploration has fallen by an average of 23% over the past decade.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

Buddhist alms in Si Phan Don, Laos. Every day child monks from the temple walk in the village with their alms bowls to collect food, prepared and offered by the locals, and to recite a short prayer in exchange. Ritually, Buddhist monks in Laos have only two meals a day: one in the morning and one at noon. They fast in the evening. (Photo by Basile Morin) Photo used under CC BY

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