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Migrants cram onto an inflatable vessel off the coast of Spain. With the increase in attempts of sea border crossings into Europe this year, there has been a corresponding rise in deaths, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. (Photo by Chief Information Systems Technician Wesley R. Dickey) Photo used under CC BY

Refugees chancing lives, families in sea crossings

There have been 25,164 irregular sea border crossings between North Africa and Italy in the first half of this year, according to a border agency. Female refugees and migrants are often depicted in the media as especially vulnerable, but that is rarely the case.

Al Jazeera

Migrant boat from Lebanon sinks off Syria

Deutsche Welle

Pakistan floods raising fears of food shortages

Pakistan’s flooding, caused by monsoon rains triple the usual ferocity, wiped out huge swaths of crops, leaving already impoverished families struggling to obtain food, officials warn.

Associated Press

Preventable diseases kill every 2 seconds globally

Every two seconds someone under 70 dies of a non-communicable disease, the majority of them in low- and middle-income countries, which account for 86% of premature deaths, most of which could be avoided with access to treatment, the World Health Organization said.

Guardian

Afghani children forced to work at brick kilns

Half of Afghanistan’s families have put children to work to keep food on the table, a recent Save the Children survey says. Nowhere is it clearer than in brick factories, where children as young as 4 labor alongside their families.

Al Jazeera

Lebanese army retirees scuffle with police

Lebanese army retirees scuffled with police after breaking through a cordon leading to Parliament during a rally over their decimated pay amid the country’s economic meltdown.

Associated Press

Lebanon’s economic collapse creating humanitarian crisis

YouTube

Nigeria suffers blackouts after grid collapses

Nigeria’s national electricity grid collapsed, leaving many parts of the country without power, electricity distribution companies said.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Palestine strife highlights lost hopes of youths

The rare eruption of deadly clashes between Palestinians and their own security forces has cast a spotlight on the growing ranks of disenfranchised, impoverished young men taking up arms.

ABC News

Cambodia court rejects genocide appeal

Cambodia’s UN-backed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge has upheld a genocide conviction against the regime’s last surviving leader, more than 40 years after Pol Pot’s communist regime fell.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israeli strikes in Syria target Iran’s logistics unit

Israel’s latest air strikes in Syria targeted a special logistics unit run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, media reported.

i24 News

Syrian refugees mass in convoy on Turkish border

Guardian

Nigeria‘s president slams ’corrosive’ leaders

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari criticized fellow leaders who extend term limits to cling to power, saying this was having a “corrosive” effect, and promised free and fair elections in February.

CNN

Dozens murdered in clash of Nigerian armed groups

YouTube

North Korea could soon conduct missile test

North Korea could be preparing to conduct a submarine-launched ballistic missile test, as satellite imagery has revealed new construction and barges at a shipyard critical to the country’s new ballistic missile submarine.

The Independent

Congo crisis in focus at UN General Assembly

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an address to the UN General Assembly, said the M23, a key armed rebel movement causing instability in his country, is supported by Rwanda.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

In unrest, Iran restricts access to social media

Iran curbed access to Meta Platforms’ Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the country, amid protests over the death of a woman in police custody, residents said.

Reuters

Iran protests spread as internet curbed

Al Jazeera

African countries neglected by tech industry

Digital systems are increasingly voice operated. Yet as the big tech companies focus on clients in Europe and the U.S., two-thirds of people in Africa are at a digital disadvantage due to not speaking a global language.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vaccinations help Zimbabwe moms protect kids

More than 700 children have died from measles in Zimbabwe in an outbreak first reported in April. Many were unvaccinated because of religious reasons.

Associated Press

Nepal struggles to control a dengue outbreak

Nepal has been battling a dengue outbreak, with the country recording over 17,500 infections and 21 related deaths in the past few months, experts say.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Michael Rubin):

Iran protests unveil the Revolutionary Guard Corps’s rot

Washington Examiner

Column (William S. Becker):

Quit Big Oil: Our health is a stake

The Hill

Column (Daphne Wysham):

Climate Week congregants should address methane

The Hill

Column (Margarita Lysenkova):

The private sector needs food security reporting standards

Devex

Editorial:

Community health workers — key to reach global health goals

Devex

Column (Tilottama Rani Charulata):

Myanmar, Bangladesh must solve border tensions peacefully

Asia Times Online

Column (Arash Aziz):

Iran’s regime may have just sparked a revolution

Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

Tanzanian man saved from streets by football

Sadock John was raised by a single mother in Tanzania after his father abandoned the family. His mother was sick and Sadock had to provide for the family. Football saved him from being a street child.

Al Jazeera

Uganda considers organ transplant revolution

The Ugandan Parliament is considering a bill that would make it possible for the first time to perform organ transplants in this East African country.

AfricaNews

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Gates Foundation gives $100M for food crisis

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $100 million to address the food security crisis that is disproportionately hurting communities in Africa and South Asia.

Devex

Temple provides aid to flood-hit Pakistanis

As a catastrophic series of floods maroon and displace millions of people living across Pakistan, a Hindu temple in a tiny village has extended a helping hand to those affected by the disaster.

Times of India

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Cambodia not quite yet in a China debt trap

While other developing nations slip into foreign debt death spirals, Cambodia sits in a relatively hale spot, according to league tables that monitor countries at risk of tumbling into a so-called China “debt trap.”

Asia Times Online

South Africa in electricity crisis, blackouts

The South African president had an urgent meeting with his Cabinet to discuss the country’s electricity crisis, which has led to unprecedented levels of nationwide blackouts.

Associated Press

Sri Lanka inflation hit 70.2 percent in August

Consumer inflation in Sri Lanka accelerated to 70.2 percent in August, the statistics department has said, as the island nation reels under its worst economic crisis in decades.

Al Jazeera

Nestlé supply chain linked to disputed territory

For decades, the Mỹky have been fighting for the acknowledgement of their territory in Brazil. Amid the legal uncertainty, farmers have moved on to the land.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Alarming level of microplastics found in fish

large proportion of fish meant for human consumption may contain microplastics, scientists have found, with one expert saying that the decision whether to eat fish or not was a “personal choice.”

Newsweek

Hundreds of birds face extinction due to trade

Songbirds’ striking colors put them at risk of extinction, according to new research. Almost 500 species are vulnerable due to their unique and desirable appearance.

Newsweek

Pod of whales stranded on Tasmanian coast

About 230 whales have been stranded on Tasmania’s west coast, just days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island off the southeastern coast.

AfricaNews

Iraq’s mighty Tigris River has been drying up

Iraq may be oil rich, but the country is plagued by poverty after decades of war and by droughts and desertification.

Al Jazeera

India reintroduces Namibian cheetahs to wild

Eight Namibian cheetahs have been airlifted to India, part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats after they were driven to extinction there decades ago.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

A worker from the Cambodian Mine Action Center follows correct procedures before detonating a landmine with C4 explosive. Between 1979 and 2021, landmines and other explosive remnants of war claimed 19,805 lives in Cambodia, the world’s largest amputee population, according to the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority. (Photo by Kevin Evans) Photo used under CC BY

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