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Mass protests have been occurring throughout Myanmar since the military took over the country on Feb. 1. (Photo by သူထွန်း,) Photo used under CC BY

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Myanmar blocks doctors from treating protesters

Doctors in Myanmar said that they were routinely targeted along with other staff and ambulances with violence by the military, and prevented from treating the victims of its bloody attacks.

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Guardian

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Myanmar’s military has underestimated the strength, will, bravery of its own people

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CNN

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Myanmar citizens run off to India to escape violence

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BBC

COVID vaccine shortages impact poor countries

As many as 60 countries, including some of the world’s poorest, might be stalled at the first shots of their vaccinations because nearly all deliveries through the global program intended to help them are blocked until as late as June.

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Associated Press

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Mumbai in lockdown as Indian vaccines run short

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Al Jazeera

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Fake COVID vaccines on the rise in Africa

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Brands pledge $1B for SE Asia conservation

Major household brands and palm-oil buyers Nestle and PepsiCo have backed a scheme that aims to invest $1 billion in forest conservation across Southeast Asia over 25 years.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Official: Chinese vaccines’ effectiveness low

In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, China’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost.

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ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Surveillance apps may endanger women more

Digital rights activists warn that the rise of facial recognition and safety apps could expose women to a greater number of privacy violations and harassment.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

UAE names ‘first female Arab astronaut’

The United Arab Emirates said it selected two new astronauts, including a woman, from 4,000 candidates after the country reached for the moon in February.

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DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

UN envoy pushes for Asian unity on Myanmar

The UN’s special envoy for Myanmar is to embark on an Asian tour to step up diplomatic efforts to tackle the crisis, as the death toll from the junta’s crackdown on dissent passed 600 this week.

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Asia Times Online

UN voices concern over arrests in Jordan

The UN human rights office has said that it was unclear whether Jordan’s Prince Hamzah remains under de facto house arrest and voiced concern at what it called a lack of transparency surrounding at least 16 detentions.

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Al Jazeera

Voting starts in Chad presidential election

Polling stations opened in Chad for a presidential election in which incumbent Idriss Deby is widely expected to extend his three-decade rule despite signs of popular discontent and criticism over his handling of oil wealth.

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Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Honeybees track their queens with scent maps

Honeybees can find their way back to their queen using a sophisticated form of the telephone game. Even after foraging for hours, they can smell the pheromones of the bees between them and their queen once they are within a few meters of the crowded hive.

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ABC News

NASA to attempt major milestone on Mars

NASA is gearing up to attempt the first controlled flight on another planet next week, with the tiny Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.

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Guardian

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Famous firsts in space

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CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

More Black Americans open to vaccinations

More Black people in the US say they are open to receiving coronavirus vaccines, a new survey has showed, an encouraging sign that one community leader described as “almost a 180-degree turnaround” from earlier public consensus in the pandemic.

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Al Jazeera

African Union stirs fear around COVID vaccine

Health experts say urgent public awareness campaigns need to be deployed to fight misinformation surrounding the COVID vaccine in Africa following the African Union’s decision to halt plans to procure the shot.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Libya kicks off delayed COVID vaccination drive

Libya has launched its delayed COVID-19 vaccination drive, with Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, prime minister of the country’s new unity government, getting his shot on live television.

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Al Jazeera

Thailand hits new daily record for COVID cases

Thailand’s Health Ministry warned that restrictions may need to be tightened to slow the spread of a fresh coronavirus wave, as the country hit a daily record for new cases.

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ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ragnar Löfstedt):

On Covid vaccine safety, how do we close the gap between risk perception and reality?

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Guardian

Column (Luis Ortiz):

The will of the Ecuadorian people is under threat

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Al Jazeera

Column (Terese Gagnon and Andrew Paul):

Myanmar has never been a nation. Could it become one now?

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

1st responders build trust through basketball

It may be a game but for these two groups, it’s much more than that. Breaking barriers in high-crime areas are just part of the effort.

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ABC 13

First female jockey wins the Grand National

Rachael Blackmore made history on Saturday by becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National, a famous horse race in England, with victory on Minella Times.

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CNN

Man lifts up strangers with encouraging words

Charles Jordan is on a mission to uplift the lives of people in his community by letting them know they are loved.

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USA TODAY

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Pre-school teaches kids about sustainability

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NowThis News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Homeless man gets whole new beginning

Kenneth Smith was homeless, hungry and unemployed, but that changed after a woman gave him a gift card outside of an Outback Steakhouse in Texas. Following the woman’s kind actions, Smith ended up getting a job at the restaurant and more community support.

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People

Choctaw tribal members help during pandemic

When news of the COVID-19 pandemic first broke, Brian Mask, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, saw the danger it posed to his tribe and sprang to action. Mask and others mobilized the community to collect much needed items.

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CNN

Virtual marathon supports braille literacy

Braille Across America is a fundraiser for National Braille Press in Boston. The nonprofit organization is a publisher of braille materials and a promoter of braille literacy.

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WCVB

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Grammy-Nominated duo Black Violin inspires students, shows how “impossible is possible”

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Amazon deforestation ramps up in March

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest declined in the first quarter, but the drop may be due mostly to more intense cloud cover this year, and experts point to a concerning jump in March destruction.

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Reuters

Serb protestors rally to protect environment

Protesters in Serbia rallied this weekend demanding that the government protect the environment in a Balkan nation that has seen record levels of air pollution and scores of other ecological problems.

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Associated Press

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Saving green turtles by cooling their eggs

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BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

‘Forgotten’ people picking your Brazil nuts

Rich profits from the prized Brazil nut have failed to benefit families in Brazil’s Rondônia state, who walk for hours along ancient trails, sometimes camping out for days deep in the forest finding them. Now cooperatives hope to shake up the system.

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Guardian

Ghana’s farmers eye success from chocolate

There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it. Last year the retail industry was worth $107 billion, but Ghana - the world’s second largest cocoa producer - earned just around $2 billion.

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BBC

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Children herding cattle in Mozambique. Experts warn that the escalating Islamist insurgency in north Mozambique over the past four years can only be halted with a coordinated military and development effort involving African and western countries; otherwise, it risks spiraling further out of control. (Photo by Steve Evans) Photo used under CC BY

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