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The sober moment on the eve of Biden’s inauguration — typically a celebratory time in Washington when the nation marks the democratic tradition of a peaceful transfer of power — was a measure of the enormity of COVID-related loss for the nation. (Photo by Elvert Barnes) Photo used under CC BY

Biden marks nation’s grief hours before inauguration

Hours from inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden paused on what might have been his triumphal entrance to Washington to mark instead the national tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic with a moment of collective grief for Americans lost.

Associated Press

CDC warns new COVID-19 variants could accelerate spread in US

CNN

Landlocked Lesotho faces major food crisis

Almost a quarter of Lesotho’s population will require food aid between January and March as a result of COVID restrictions, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned — the number is 35% higher than that from last year.

Guardian

Protests erupt in Tunisia over economy shortfalls

Police used tear gas to disperse violent protests led by disgruntled youths in several Tunisian cities overnight. Tunisians in general are angry that the North African country is on the verge of bankruptcy and has dire public services.

ABC News

Tunisia’s women face new uphill battle

Al Jazeera

S. Africa tackles sexual abuse with innovations

From a women-only driving school to an all-female taxi service - a South African activist-turned-entrepreneur is tackling high rates of sexual assault by providing safe transport in one of the country’s most crime-ridden areas.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

More women in high-profile jobs killed in Kabul

Two women judges working for the Afghan Supreme Court have been shot dead. The deaths are the latest in a string of assassinations targeting journalists, activists and other political figures.

BBC

Poland’s problem with illegal European waste

Thousands of tons of waste are dumped in Poland every year, much of it from Germany. But Poland also has problems with its own waste disposal and its environment is suffering as a result.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Domin. Rep. activists fear total abortion ban

The Dominican Republic is one of four countries in Latin America – along with Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador – where abortion is illegal in all circumstances.

Guardian

Israel targets groups using ‘apartheid state’

Groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” will be banned from lecturing at schools, Israel’s education minister has said.

Al Jazeera

Hondurans hopeful despite caravan crackdown

Guatemalan military and police forces are blocking thousands of Honduran migrants and asylum seekers hoping to make their way north to Mexico and the United States.

Al Jazeera

Uganda election: Bobi Wine ‘fearful for life’ after Museveni win

BBC

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

US accuses Cuba of human rights violations

The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Cuba’s Interior Ministry and its leader, accusing them of serious human rights violations.

ABC News

Sixty years on, assassination of Patrice Lumumba remains unpunished

France24

US military removes troops from Somalia

The U.S. military says its troop withdrawal from Somalia is complete. Some experts have warned that the withdrawal of an estimated 700 U.S. military personnel comes at the worst possible time for Somalia.

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple

Egypt’s former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo.

ABC News

What Mars sounds like

When NASA‘s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, we’ll be able to hear the sounds of the planet for the first time, thanks to microphones riding on the rover.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Lebanon signs with Pfizer for vaccine doses

Lebanon finalized a deal with Pfizer for 2.1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine amid surge infections that has overwhelmed the country’s health care system.

Times of India

Australian Open competitors practice in isolation hotels

BBC

A Best Western hotel in London is now taking in COVID-19 patients as hospitals run out of beds

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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MLK Day demands that Capital rioters and white supremacists face justice

NBCNews.com

Column (Patience Akumu):

Many Ugandans are desperate for change but now it seems nothing will shift Museveni

Guardian

Column (Debra Graves and Lawrie Bott):

Australia has recorded 12 million COVID tests and we’re the envy of the world

ABC Australia

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GOOD NEWS

Trooper rescues driver from car stuck in river

A Montana Highway Patrol trooper is being praised for his heroic actions after pulling a driver from her submerged vehicle in the icy Yellowstone River.

CNN

Nepali team 1st to top world’s 2nd tallest peak

A team of Nepalese climbers made history by scaling the world‘s second highest peak — Pakistan’s K2 — in the winter season, a local Alpine Club official said.

ABC News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Anonymous donor gifts $40M to civil rights

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers, dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the South, thanks to an anonymous donor.

NBCNews.com

Lai Chi-Wai raises close to $700k for charity climbing Nina Towers

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Fossil fuel firms need to curb climate gas leaks

The International Energy Agency says oil and gas companies aren’t doing enough to reduce the release of methane, a potent source of planet-heating emissions, that is seeping out of pipelines and production plants.

Associated Press

Indonesia urged to boost climate action

The archipelago is already suffering the impacts of rising global temperatures, with its cities and coastal areas hit by regular flooding and rising sea levels.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

How a school in Indonesia is preparing students for disaster mitigation

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Fear of mass starvation in Tigray amid crisis

The ECC says that 4.5 million people need emergency food aid in Tigray, according to a figure quoted in a UN report. The population of Tigray is between 5-7 million. More than 50,000 have fled to neighboring Sudan.

BBC

Costa Rica faces ‘explosive’ debt crisis

Costa Rica’s latest effort to address a nearly $40 billion debt crisis threatens to rekindle anti-austerity protests across the Central American nation, as the government began talks with the International Monetary Fund.

Al Jazeera

This Thai village created a tiny fish reserve years ago. Today, it’s thriving.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

Harnai port in Konkan is the main fishing village. Every evening hundreds of fishing boats come back after fishing and gather to auction their catch, bullock carts are driven into the sea to unload the fish and bring it to the beach where the action happens. Witnessing the fish auctions here is an awe-inspiring experience. (Photo by Cj.samson) Photo used under CC BY

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