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Uyghur children playing in Kashgar, China. China’s recent policy shift allows for married couples to have three children, up from two, but birth rates for Uyghurs and other ethic minorities in China have been tightly controlled over the last few years resulting in huge birth rate drop offs. (Photo by Sherpas 428) Photo used under CC BY

China policies could slash Uyghur births by millions

Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s projected minority population, according to a new analysis by a German researcher.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

China leans on Pakistan to round up Uyghurs

Muslim Uyghur families are fleeing China’s Xinjiang western province to avoid official persecution and taking refuge in neighboring Pakistan, a gathering exodus that is putting bilateral relations under new strain.

Asia Times Online

Rohingya refugees feel trapped, fear monsoons

Rohingya refugees moved to a Bangladesh island fear they will be exposed to terrible conditions during the upcoming monsoon season, and are struggling with “inadequate” health and education facilities.

Al Jazeera

Climate neglect to crush G7 countries’ economies

The economies of rich countries will shrink by twice as much as they did in the COVID crisis if they fail to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions, according to research, resulting in G7 countries losing $5T a year by 2050 if temperatures rise by 2.6C.

Guardian

Climate risks threaten more conflict

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Wealthy nations breaking climate pledge with gas dash in global south

Guardian

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to go on trial next week

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go on trial next week with the Nobel laureate facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting COVID restrictions during elections last year.

Asia Times Online

Mali junta leader sworn in as interim president

Colonel Assimi Goita has become the new interim president of Mali. The young army officer has instigated two military power grabs in the impoverished country, provoking international concern.

Deutsche Welle

Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and in the country’s north, the U.N. humanitarian chief said, warning there’s a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die.

Associated Press

Children suffer as fighting in Ethiopia drags on

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ethiopia’s Tigray war prevents famine relief

Pressure is mounting on Ethiopia to declare a ceasefire in the northern province of Tigray to allow humanitarian organizations to reach millions of people who face famine.

Guardian

Nigeria’s NW region facing humanitarian crisis

Rising violence in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state is stoking a humanitarian crisis, according to Doctors Without Borders.

Al Jazeera

Belarus: A climate of fear for activists

BBC

Human trafficking allegations thrust caste into spotlight for American Hindus

NPR

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Myanmar citizens form anti-military militias

Traditionally, the Chin people used their intimate knowledge of this hilly, jungle terrain and homemade hunting rifles, to kill for food. Lately their skills have been deployed to hunt a far more vicious prey: the Myanmar military.

CNN

Indonesia pushes to appoint Myanmar envoy

Associated Press

France suspends military ties with Mali

France is halting joint military operations with Mali over the most recent coup, saying that the suspension would continue until it received guarantees about a return to civilian rule.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Drug promising in early-stage prostate cancer

A trial of a new drug for prostate cancer showed a median improvement in progression of the disease and in survival overall. While it is not a cure for late stage patients, it may cure patients in earlier stages of the disease.

NBCNews.com

NASA picks Venus for two new robotic missions

NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Indian doctors overworked in COVID fight

Low pay, 24-hour shifts and severe shortages of staff and protective gear have left many doctors on the front lines of India’s brutal pandemic surge near breaking point and fearful for their lives.

Al Jazeera

Indian Sikh community steps up in pandemic

Deutsche Welle

Vietnam starts mass testing as variant emerges

Vietnam hopes to tackle a new COVID outbreak by mass testing risk groups in Ho Chi Minh City and introducing new social distancing measures.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo):

If we can vaccinate the world, we can beat the climate crisis

Guardian

Column (Adnan Abu Amer):

How the Gaza war affected Palestinian politics

Al Jazeera

Column (Jieyu Liu):

China’s three-child policy unlikely welcomed by working women

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Nonprofit provides aid for pet owners in need

Free Animal Doctor, a nonprofit veterinary clinic, provides much needed medical services for pet owners. No one is turned away for an inability to pay.

ABC 7

Identical twins find each other decades later

For 36 years, Emily Bushnell and Molly Sinert grew up not knowing the other existed — until a chance DNA test brought the identical twins back together.

People

Young boy runs his own recycling company

NowThis

Food rescue app fighting climate change induced by food waste

A Plus

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation commits $50M for COVID vaccines

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $50 million commitment to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance in support of efforts to increase access to safe and affordable COVID vaccines in lower-income countries.

Philanthropy News Digest

Food nurseries aid Indian women in poverty

Growing fruits like guava, lemon, coconut or mango can help rural women in West Bengal find a way out of poverty. An organization is giving them a helping hand, empowering them to set up their own nurseries.

Deutsche Welle

Study shows social giving rises in pandemic

Social giving is on the rise, particularly among younger donors and minority donors, according to a new survey of donor behaviors during the 12 months after the pandemic was declared.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Lebanese families struggle to buy cheap food

As increasing numbers of Lebanese families struggle to make ends meet amid the economic collapse, simple foodstuffs such as the traditional manoucheh are becoming a luxury that few can afford.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Germany to push wind, solar energy expansion

The German government plans to speed up the expansion of wind and solar energy by 2030 as part of its climate protection program, a draft law seen by Reuters showed this week.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Huge tornado rips through rural Philippines

The Independent

Sri Lanka fears disaster as cargo ship sinks

Sri Lanka is struggling to contain the environmental damage from a wrecked chemical cargo ship that has been leaking hazardous waste into the ocean.

Deutsche Welle

In Brazil’s Amazon, rivers rise to record levels

Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping straining a society that has grown weary of increasingly frequent flooding.

Associated Press

Manatees are dying off at unusually high rates

Florida’s manatees are dying at unusually high rates this year, and experts are warning that the sustained loss of a key food source is severely threatening the iconic marine mammals.

NBCNews.com

Photo of the Day

This Indian boy lives at a train station and collects plastic bottles and other recyclables. India has more than 200,000 children working or living on the streets. The pandemic has worsened the realities for children enduring vulnerable circumstances in India. (Photo by M M) Photo used under CC BY

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