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A homeless man eats on a Hong Kong sidewalk. Six months of tumultuous pro-democracy rallies — including many acts of violence and vandalism — has aggravated the suffering of homeless, elderly and disabled citizens. (Photo by Yi Chen) Photo used under CC BY

HK’s homeless, disabled, elderly hit hard by protests

Hong Kong has been gripped by anti-government protests for six months. Radical protesters have vandalizing street facilities and rail stations. The turmoil has hit marginalized the elderly, disabled and the underprivileged – and hobbled the many NGOs that serve them.

South China Morning Post

Mass rally marks 6 months of democracy push in HK

Al Jazeera

‘Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong’

Time

N. Korea launch site test sends warning for ’20

North Korea says it has conducted a “very important test” at its satellite launch site, as its year-end deadline for the expiration of negotiations with the U.S. fast approaches.

Asia Times Online

Scientist: UN climate talks not facing crisis urgently

Urgent UN talks on tackling the climate emergency are still not addressing the true scale of the crisis, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has warned, as ministers from governments around the world began to arrive in Madrid for final negotiations.

Guardian

Delhi factory fire kills 40 sleeping migrants

A large fire has swept through a bag factory in the Indian capital Delhi, killing 43 workers. At least 100 people were sleeping inside the factory, which mainly makes school bags, when the fire started.

BBC

Victims were low-wage Muslim migrants who lived and worked in unsafe spaces

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

‘Rapist is you’: Chilean women decry violence

Blindfolded and dressed in black, thousands of women are speaking out against the sexual violence against them that is rife in the country. Their rallying cry: “El violador eres tu (The rapist is you).”

The Independent

Survey: 40% of Argentines live in poverty

A third of Argentine homes and 40.8% of people are living below the poverty line, according to the Social Debt Observatory from the Argentine Catholic University.

MercoPress

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rise in attacks on health care workers

Attacks on healthcare workers have reached a record high according to a UN report that predicts a “bleak outlook” for the world’s poorest people due to intense armed conflict and the climate emergency.

Guardian

Game lets players attack Hong Kong protesters

China’s state-operated Global Times says there’s a new hit mobile game called Fight the Traitors Together, which lets players join in assaulting and beating Hong Kong protesters.

Vice

Tokyo’s role in ‘comfort women’ revealed

The “Kono Statement,” named after then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono acknowledged Japanese authorities’ involvement in coercing women and girls (comfort women) to work in brothels. Many were of Korean descent.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Megaphone: The voice of Lebanon’s uprising

Volunteers at the activist media platform say their goal is to push boundaries of acceptable discourse in Lebanon.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon protesters launch campaign against harassment

Al Jazeera

Indonesian leader pits old school vs millennial

Indonesian leader Joko Widodo is bidding to put a new generation shine on his second term administration with the appointment of young business entrepreneurs and other experts to his 12-member presidential staff.

Asia Times Online

Thailand applies visa red tape to Taiwanese

Individuals traveling from Taiwan to Thailand will be required to show financial proof to obtain a tourist visa, as Bangkok scraps the preferential visa-upon-arrival treatment for nationals from some places, like Taiwan.

Asia Times Online

Unvaccinated families hang red flag on door

Families that have not been vaccinated against measles in Samoa have been asked to hang a red flag outside their homes to help fight a deadly outbreak of the disease.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronauts bake cookies in space, for science

A delicious experiment is set to take place in space. Astronauts will bake cookies on the International Space Station as part of a long line of food innovations fueling space travel.

NPR

Scientists crack most complex encryption key

Scientists in France have cracked the most complex cryptography algorithm attempted to date by simultaneously using a bunch of computers around the world to turn 35 million computing hours into a doable timeframe.

Popular Mechanics

Doctors use YouTube for surgical procedures

Tens of thousands of surgery-related videos are on YouTube, and the number keeps climbing every year. Some doctors say that medical students and residents rely on YouTube to fill in gaps in their training.

CNBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hijab wearers face unique discrimination

U.S. maternal mortality rates are at an all-time high and women of color are being affected most, there’s a segment of the population that is not properly accounted for: Muslim women who live in the United States.

Vice

Spike seen in cellphone-linked face injuries

Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them. That’s according to a study that found a spike in U.S. emergency room treatment for these mostly minor injuries.

Associated Press

WHO estimates 142k deaths from measles

The worldwide surge in deadly measles outbreaks is showing no sign of abating, with nearly 10 million cases and 142k deaths last year and three times more cases reported so far this year than at the same stage in 2018.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Catherine Rottenberg and Neve Gordon):

To survive, we need intersectional solidarity

Al Jazeera

Column (Brendan Gogarty):

We need to protect Antarctic ‘blue carbon’

Wired

Column (Jonathan Gornall):

Saudi Arabia’s path toward solar energy

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Complete strangers help homeless couple

Two 77-year-olds spent months living on the street, but that was recently changed thanks to neighbors, friends, family and complete strangers in Kenner, near New Orleans.

MSN

Four kids making the world a better place

Four young people are disproving negative stereotypes about Generation Z. Their selfless work helping others will be featured on "Young Wonders: A CNN Heroes Special.

MSN

Nobel winners speak out on immigration

Vox

Coffee shop run by adults with disabilities

Unemployment rates for adults with special needs are high, so Pam Donovan and speech Pathologist Marcia Gurian opened a nonprofit coffee shop that employs and educates adults with special needs.

Today

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Christmas trees sent to military families

Over the next few weeks, 16k trees will be delivered across the country and abroad through Trees for Troops, a program that provides free, farm-grown Christmas trees to military bases.

CNN

Arkansas teen raises $3K to donate toys to Children’s Hospital

THV11

ENVIRONMENT

Climate scientists cut their carbon footprints

Some climate scientists and activists are limiting their flying, their consumption of meat and their overall carbon footprints to avoid adding to the global warming they study.

WTOP

Hungry polar bears trouble Russian village

Dozens of polar bears have moved into the outskirts of a village in Russia’s far north, forcing residents to take extra precautions as the hungry animals scrounge for food.

CBS News

Plastic pollution kills over 500k hermit crabs

An estimated 570k hermit crabs die after climbing into plastic debris, confusing them for empty shells. It is considered to be the first study quantifying the population impacts caused by plastics on any species.

CBS News

Australia’s “mega blaze” moves to Sydney

The state of New South Wales in Australia is battling over 90 bushfires, several combining to create a “mega blaze.” In Queensland, a state covering Australia’s northeast, more than 40 additional fires are burning.

CBS News

Global emissions will hit another record high

Carbon dioxide emissions are expected to reach another record high this year, with scientists warning the world is losing time to make the drastic reductions needed to avert a climate catastrophe.

CNN

Underwater fish farm pipe still spewing blood

Vice

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Brutal impact of oil in the Niger Delta

In Bayelsa and elsewhere along the Niger Delta, communities have faced an environmental catastrophe. About 10.5 million gallons of oil are spilled annually across the Niger Delta.

Guardian

Uber reveals sexual assault reports

Uber just released its first-ever safety report that covers sexual assault. In 2017, Uber received 2,936 reports pertaining to sexual assault, and received 3,045 in 2018.

TechCrunch

Photo of the Day

French citizens this month have held massive protests across the country to oppose planned pension reforms. The sign at this Paris protest on Dec. 5, 2019, “La précarité tue, l’Etat assassine!” roughly translates to, “Precariousness kills, the murderous state!” (Photo by Jeanne Menjoulet) Photo used under CC BY

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