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A vendor sells Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Apple Daily shut down last month amid China’s crackdown on media freedom. The COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest global public health emergency in a century, has handed power to government authorities and restricted life for billions of people, preventing democratic progress worldwide. (Photo by Just Click’s With A Camera) Photo used under CC BY

Authoritarianism advances as world battles pandemic

COVID has absorbed the world’s energies and isolated countries from one another, which may have accelerated the creep of authoritarianism and extremism worldwide. Restrictions on civil liberties and political opposition have been stepped up during COVID.

Associated Press

China making marriage easier, divorce harder

China’s slumping marriage numbers and declining birth rates have prompted Beijing to boost its recent pro-birth policies with new measures aimed at promoting marriage and deterring divorce.

Asia Times Online

Trillions spent on COVID in ways that harm nature

Trillions of dollars poured into rescuing economies around the world from the COVID crisis have been spent in ways that worsen the climate crisis and harm nature because governments have failed to fulfil promises of a “green recovery” from the pandemic.

Guardian

Over 10K species risk extinction in Amazon

Reuters

Migrants in Libya forced to trade sex for water

Amnesty International said this week that migrants held in Libyan detention camps are subject to horrific sexual violence at the hands of guards, including being forced to barter sex for clean water, food and access to sanitation.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

South Africa to deploy 25K troops after unrest

The South African government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of widespread looting and violence. At least 72 people have died and more than 1,700 have been arrested in South Africa’s worst unrest in years.

BBC

S. African grandmothers combat looting, crime

Thomson Reuters Foundation

S. Africans organize to stop looters, defend property

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ecuador’s strict abortion laws harm minorities

Ecuadorian women are criminalized because of strict abortion laws that put the lives and health of women and girls, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, at risk, a report by Human Rights Watch has found.

Guardian

New indigenous graves discovered in Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his “heart breaks” after the discovery of more unmarked graves on the grounds of an Indigenous residential school in the southern Gulf Islands off the British Columbia coast.

NPR

Girls school at risk due to Taliban sweep

With the Taliban on the march across Afghanistan, Lailuma Khaliqyar worries that the thriving Um-Salma girls school, where she serves as principal, will be easy pickings for the advancing Islamic militants.

NBCNews.com

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Columbian ex-soldiers in on Haiti murder plot

Colombia’s President Iván Duque says some of the Colombian suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse had “detailed knowledge” of the plan to kill the leader.

BBC

Calls grow to stop deportations to Haiti amid political crisis

Al Jazeera

Incoming Lebanon PM resigns amid crisis

Citing key differences with the country’s president, Lebanon Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down after failing to form a government for over the past eight months.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists develop pain-free test for diabetics

Australian scientists say they have developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics, a non-invasive strip that checks glucose levels via saliva instead of requiring a blood sample.

Al Jazeera

Russia bans investigative media outlet

Russian authorities have declared the publisher of an investigative media outlet an “undesirable” organization and listed the company’s journalists as “foreign agents."

The Independent

GLOBAL HEALTH

Papua New Guinea fails to vaccinate amid fear

Three months since Papua New Guinea launched its COVID vaccine rollout, just 60,000 people have received their first dose, with many people hesitant due to misinformation and fears around the vaccine.

Guardian

93K died of drug overdoses during pandemic

A record 93,000 people died of drug overdoses last year as the country continues to struggle with its ongoing opioid crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Independent

For pregnant women, pandemic made hunt for drug rehab harder

Associated Press

Myanmar citizens defy curfew to tackle COVID

Residents across Myanmar’s biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new COVID wave consumes the country.

Asia Times Online

WHO chief says ruling out lab leak as pandemic origin was premature

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Maximo Torero Cullen):

COVID-19 imperils rural areas but, with help, farmers can recover

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Prasad Vijaya Segaran):

Better conditions for women make sense for palm oil sector

Asia Times Online

Column (Rebecca Solnit):

Our climate change turning point is right here, right now

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Parents find abducted son 24 years later

After 24 years of heartache and searching, a Chinese couple were reunited with their son who was abducted as a toddler outside their front gate.

NPR

High school students build wheelchair stroller for father with impaired mobility

Good Morning America

Boy makes friends with hospital staff using Post-it notes

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit jobs jump, but health care in reverse

Nonprofit job growth saw double-digit expansion across every field but health care this spring, gaining more than 8% overall from May to June.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

COVID dashes Indian graduates’ career hopes

The financial crisis caused by the pandemic has left new graduates with limited job prospects. Experts say it could take years for the job market to make a full recovery.

Deutsche Welle

Indians go frugal amid economic slowdown

Asia Times Online

Minimum wage not enough to cover rent in US

Workers simply don’t earn enough money to keep up with skyrocketing rental rates across America, the National Low Income Housing Coalition has found.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Concerned volunteers rescue bees

Bees act as pollinators, and fewer bees mean less food. That’s prompted a new breed of bee rescuers in Malaysia.

Deutsche Welle

Lack of greenery is exacerbating heat waves

The sweltering heat endured by major American cities is being fueled by vast swaths of concrete and a lack of greenery that can ratchet up temperatures by nearly 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

Guardian

Severe drought threatens W. US water supply

The wellspring of Lake Mead created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River has plummeted to an historic low as states in the west face hefty cuts in their water supplies.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

A nomadic Somali woman builds her house. These nomadic homes are precisely designed so that families can dismantle the structure, pack it onto the backs of their camels, and reconstruct it at a new location. (Photo by Mouseawale88) Photo used under CC BY

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