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Tens of thousands of people, young and old, marched in 100+ cities and towns in Russia during January in support of Alexei Navalny. The turnout is unusual in a country where political protests in the past 20 years have been concentrated in big cities. (Photo by Sergey Korneev) Photo used under CC BY

Russians continue protests against Navalny, economy

Protests have broken out across Russia over the arrest of Alexei Navalny. But Navalny is not the only inspiration for the demonstrations. Russians are “unhappy with the economic situation in-country, which has worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic."

TIME

India clamps down on speech to fight protests

As farmers camp out protesting new India’s agricultural laws they say will devastate their earnings, the mainstream and social media have come under unprecedented attacks from Prime Minister Modi.

Associated Press

Rapid spread of COVID-19 attributed to climate crisis

Human-caused climate change “may have played a key role” in the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the conclusion of a new study that examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in an explosion of bat species.

CBS News

Global initiative to start shipping vaccines to Africa, where supplies are low

NPR

Are COVID-19 vaccines being used as ‘biological warfare’ in Middle East?

Deutsche Welle

ICC rules to investigate war crimes in Palestine

The international criminal court announced that it has jurisdiction in Palestine, clearing its chief prosecutor to investigate alleged atrocities despite fierce Israeli objections. Palestinian Authority has welcomed the ruling.

Guardian

‘No room for debate’ as HK rules take effect

Hong Kong has introduced sweeping new restrictions for how schools operate, months after the Beijing government imposed a new national security law cracking down on vaguely defined political crimes.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Belgium reckons with the children they stole

Taken from their mothers in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, decades on a group of mixed-race elderly people are fighting the Belgian state for recognition and reparations.

Al Jazeera

Bangladeshis cut off from jobs face poverty

The Bangladeshi government has encouraged work abroad. Remittances were worth $15B a year and helped reduce poverty in rural areas, supporting families all while financing local small businesses.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Nazi concentration camp secretary charged

A former secretary from the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has been charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in what is a rare case involving an alleged female concentration camp staff member.

CNN

Indian farmers record their protest in print

With the internet blocked, thousands of protesting Indian farmers in makeshift camps are sharing news, legal analysis and even poetry by hand - via free print copies of their own biweekly ‘Trolley Times’ newspaper.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Digital race for vaccines leaves seniors behind

The efforts to vaccinate people who are 65 and older have strained under the enormous demand. Elderly people are pitted against each other competing on an unstable technological playing field for limited shots.

NPR

3 countries due to reach Mars in next 2 weeks

A small fleet of spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates, China, and the United States will reach Mars this month after launching from Earth last year.

MSN

The rockets that defined space travel

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Indigenous dying at twice the rate as whites

Covid is killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the United States, shocking new figures reveal.

Guardian

Mississippi’s racial gaps in vaccination program

The pandemic has hit Mississippi’s impoverished, rural and primarily Black communities hard. And disparities are present in the state’s vaccinations.

NBCNews.com

Microplastics inside humans: a time bomb?

People could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week according to a WWF International study. The microplastics often enter our food chain through drinking water and shellfish.

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Journalists’ work on misrepresented awarded

Two freelance journalists are the recipients of the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Prize for work about underrepresented or misrepresented groups, which comes with a $100,000 award for each of them.

MSN

Running group provides community for POCs

Today

Real-life heroes to be honorary coin toss captains at Super Bowl

People

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

College student donates stock earnings to kids

A 20-year-old Hunter Kahn, a college student who made nearly $30,000 off his GameStop stock has been lauded for using some of his newfound money to help sick children, the New York Post reports.

In The Know

Nonprofit changes lives, provides clean water

Around five years ago, Sterling Heights, Michigan resident David Lomasney launched a nonprofit that helps deliver medical supplies and provide clean water to people living in Latin America.

C&G Newspapers

ENVIRONMENT

Caring for S. Africa’s chicks abandoned in wild

Off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, the sudden abandonment of more than 1,700 Cape cormorant chicks has sparked the largest seabird rescue mission the country has seen in 20 years.

BBC

Indonesia‘s ’green diesel’ is threat to forests

Indonesia - which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil - has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018 to boost demand.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

School closures blocked routes out of poverty

A study of students the Young Lives project has been following in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, published in January, paints a devastating picture of the economic and social impact of COVID-19 on young lives.

Guardian

In Gaza, pandemic forces tough choices and health care system hangs by a thread

NPR

Poor nations left behind in COVID vaccine race

Peru is scrambling to get access to COVID vaccines, but the nation is classified as “upper middle-income.” So it has some money to spend on vaccines but not nearly the financial resources of its wealthier neighbors.

NPR

COVID-19 racial stats: A ‘double-edged sword’ for some marginalized groups in Canada

PRI

Photo of the Day

Tuareg on the dune of Timerzouga, a place named Tadrart in the town of Djanet, 20km from the Algerian-Libyan border. The Tuareg people are a large Berber ethnic confederation. (Photo by Hamdanmourad) Photo used under CC BY

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