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The fire in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh spread rapidly, engulfing tents and poorly constructed homes of Rohingya refugees, according to witnesses. The last major fire erupted in January, destroying hundreds of homes in Nayapara camp. (Photo by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) Photo used under CC BY

Rohingya refugee camp set ablaze in Bangladesh

A massive fire broke out at a camp in Bangladesh housing Rohingya Muslim refugees from neighboring Myanmar, reportedly destroying hundreds of ramshackle dwellings. The fire is the second big blaze to hit a refugee camp in Bangladesh so far this year.

NPR

Fire destroys Rohingya shelters in Bangladesh refugee camp, authorities begin inquiry into the cause

Deutsche Welle

US visits Afghanistan as troop withdrawal looms

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise visit to Afghanistan as the Biden administration continues to grapple with a timeline for bringing troops home from America’s longest war.

CBS News

Turkey pulls out of treaty on violence against women

President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, prompting protests and criticism from those who said it was necessary to tackle rising domestic violence within the country.

Reuters

Pakistan feminists persevere amid threats

Organizers and participants in women’s rights marches across Pakistan are facing increased misinformation, blasphemy, and threats, an escalation of the conservative response to the country’s feminist movement in recent years.

Al Jazeera

Airstrikes on Syria border worrying, UN warns

Airstrikes in northwest Syria near the Turkish border that killed a person and set afire trucks used to distribute aid targeted areas considered the safest in the rebel-held region, U.N. has said, condemning the attack.

Associated Press

Syrian refugees left with few options as war, mass bombings rage on

PBS NewsHour

Thai police violently end pro-democracy rally

Scores of people were injured and arrested in the Thai capital after the police used weapons this weekend to break up a rally by pro-democracy protesters calling for constitutional changes and reform of the nation’s monarchy.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistan journalist shot dead during haircut

Pakistan has long been one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, with frequent confrontations between local Sukkur journalists and police due to corruption allegations against the police by reporters.

The Independent

Hotel Rwanda’s hero now facing charges

A fierce critic of Rwanda’s powerful president, Paul Rusesabagina was lured back to Rwanda last year, where he was arrested and charged with financing terrorism, arson, armed robbery, abduction and murder.

NBCNews.com

Group gives alarms to Asian Americans

A New York City anti-hate group is distributing personal safety alarms to Asian Americans and immigrants to protect them from a recent surge of racially motivated violence.

CNN

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Israel votes: Netanyahu’s fate hangs by thread

Israelis began voting in the country’s fourth parliamentary election in two years — a highly charged referendum on the divisive rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Opinion polls forecast a tight race.

Associated Press

Saudi-led coalition intensifies Yemen airstrikes

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen unleashed dozens of airstrikes against what it called Houthi military targets in the country’s north, including the capital Sanaa and the port of Salif on the Red Sea coast.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA to test rocket in race to the moon

NASA is counting down to what should be the final major test of the massive rocket it is building to put the first woman and the next man on the moon.

NPR

Trump looking to launch social media platform

Former President Trump is looking to launch his own social media platform, his senior adviser Jason Miller said on Fox News‘ “#MediaBuzz.” Miller suggested Trump’s platform will bring in “millions of people.”

CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

How has the world changed since COVID-19?

While the long-term impact of this global health crisis may take years to understand, its immediate effect has already changed the world as we know it.

Al Jazeera

Doctors criticize Kenya’s vaccine distribution

Kenya has offered free COVID-19 vaccines to all diplomats based there, including thousands of United Nations staff, even though it has not completed inoculating its own front-line staff or elderly, drawing criticism from local medics.

Al Jazeera

Brazil calls on US for COVID vaccine support

Brazil is in talks with the United States to import excess COVID-19 vaccines, the Brazilian foreign ministry said last week as the South American nation struggles to stem rising COVID-19 infections and deaths.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Satarupa Chakraborty):

COVID-19 laid bare the struggles of Indian domestic workers

Asia Times Online

Column (Dunja Mijatovic):

Europe must wake up to racism, Afrophobia

Deutsche Welle

Column (Adeline Chen):

My wish for my Asian American daughter: A world that sees her in all her humanity

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

An artist preserves Wuhan’s COVID memories

Scribbled instructions for incoming patients plastered on the window of a silent hospital reception counter. A lone worker in a hazmat suit, steadily spraying disinfectant in an empty hospital hallway.

Associated Press

Military veteran quits service to open dog shelter

Deutsche Welle

Florida teen saves best friend’s life one day after completing CPR training

Yahoo! News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Sarah Everard fundraiser raises over 730K

More than $730,000 raised in memory of Sarah Everard will go towards groups working “to change and save women’s and girls’ lives” under the remit of an established women’s charity, organizers have said.

MSN

Charity builds homes for Guatemalan widows

World Challenge, a Colorado-based nondenominational Christian organization helped to build 60 homes for impoverished widows in rural Guatemala.

Christian Post

ENVIRONMENT

Palm oil firms reduce their climate impact

Of the seven commodities sectors driving deforestation, palm oil companies are doing the most to alleviate their environmental impact following years of public pressure, a new study has shown.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Onlookers flock to see Mount Fagradalsfjall

BBC

Using solar power for Kenyan flowers

Entrepreneurs in Kenya have a hard time due to unreliable electrical power. A German startup provides an alternative with low-cost solar systems. Some flower growers have already made the switch.

Deutsche Welle

The scientists turning the desert green

Guardian

Hot summers could last half the year by 2100

Northern hemisphere summers are already about 20% longer than they used to be, and if the climate crisis continues unabated then summers could cover half of the year by 2100 and be plagued with heatwaves and wildfires.

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Black residents near Chicago get reparations

Evanston a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.

Reuters

Why do women dominate child care sector?

Last year, data showed that during the first month of the UK-wide lockdown, “women were carrying out, on average, two-thirds more of the childcare duties per day than men” laying bare a “classic value and action gap.”

BBC

Photo of the Day

Shepherd children clapping and singing in highlands of the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. The region has been plagued by violent massacres, with 42 people killed in the month of March alone, including women and young children. (Photo by Damien Halleux Radermecker) Photo used under CC BY

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