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Relief camps in Mustafabad, Delhi, for Muslims displaced by the Delhi riots. Most of the people living here lost their homes in the rioting. (Photo by Banswalhemant) Photo used under CC BY

Indian Muslims displaced by riots fear going home

Thousands of people live in makeshift relief camps set up for Muslims who fled last month‘s sectarian riots in India’s capital. The violence left at least 53 people dead, more than 200 injured, and 5,000 in makeshift camps.

CBS News

Delhi’s deadly riots, explained by an expert

YouTube

Medical crisis is aggravating Iraq’s unrest

Iraq’s healthcare system is in crisis. There’s a shortage of drugs and the medical staff to administer them. Doctors are fleeing in their thousands. Patients are suffering.

Reuters

World economy to take $2 trillion hit, UN warns

The UN has warned that the global economy faces a $2 trillion hit in a “doomsday scenario” after the World Health Organization declared a worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. Concerns are growing that global growth will be wiped out as consumer demand evaporates.

Asia Times Online

Singapore wins praise for its COVID-19 strategy. The U.S. does not

NPR

Travel bans, market chaos: Dizzying reaction to virus spread

Associated Press

US could ban Xinjiang goods over labor abuse

US lawmakers have drafted a bill urging the administration to take action over claims of forced labor in Xinjiang, China, after a report found it was “nearly impossible” to ensure supply chains were clean of tainted goods.

CNN

Uighurs’ fate dogs health of loved ones abroad

Many members of the Uighur diaspora say their mental health is in crisis, triggered or exacerbated by the situation facing family and friends thousands of miles away in China’s Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region.

South China Morning Post

U.S. report finds widespread forced Uighur labor in China

Time

HUMAN RIGHTS

Algerian women embrace resilience, revolution

Last year, protests swept through Algeria, forcing then-president Bouteflika to resign. Protesters have kept up calls for a complete overhaul of the political system. Women have played a significant role throughout.

Al Jazeera

Coronavirus strands trafficked ‘brides’ in China

Coronavirus travel restrictions have forced anti-trafficking groups to suspend rescue operations of Vietnamese and Cambodian “brides” from China with some now in hiding having escaped homes of men holding them against their will.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

100,000 have fled Nicaragua since crackdown

This number is set to rise, two years after the country was plunged into social and economic crisis. But even after a violent crackdown subsided, students, human rights defenders, journalists and farmers continue to flee.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

There is a perfect storm brewing in Saudi Arabia

Princes Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, and Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince, and Nawaf bin Nayef were arrested amid allegations of their involvement in an attempted coup. The questions are why, and why now.

Al Jazeera

Germany puts far-right AfD under surveillance

The chief of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says far-right terrorism and extremism are the biggest dangers to German democracy, as his agency put part of the far-right AfD under formal surveillance.

Guardian

‘Malay first’ government takes hold in Malaysia

Malaysian PM Muhyiddin Yassin’s new coalition government has taken shape as it tackles risingeconomic uncertainties. Unlike in much of the nation’s modern history, the cabinet is dominated by ethnic Malay Muslims.

Asia Times Online

Pro-Guiado protesters clash with police in Venezuela

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

70 million years ago, Earth days were shorter

Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365, according to a new study of fossil mollusk shells from the late Cretaceous.

ScienceDaily

Arctic expedition goes with the frozen flow

Deutsche Welle

Pakistan’s electric vehicle push struggles

As Pakistan’s first-ever electric three-wheeled rickshaws start to roll off the assembly line, the country is struggling to build momentum for its shift to electric vehicles in efforts to cut air pollution and curb climate change.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GLOBAL HEALTH

Asian urbanization linked to deadly viruses

The rapid pace of deforestation, urbanization and road building are major factors in the spread of infectious diseases across Asia, including the coronavirus, health and environment experts said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Lesbos coronavirus case sparks fear

News of a confirmed case of Covid-19 on Lesbos has sparked fears of the impact of an outbreak at the overcrowded Moria refugee camp, where refugees live in dire conditions with appalling hygiene and little medical care.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Spiros Moskovou):

In Greece, refugees are painted as the enemy

Deutsche Welle

Column (Hana Al-Khamri):

MBS and the Saudi crisis of legitimacy

Al Jazeera

Column (Jonah Lipton):

What Ebola taught me about coronavirus: panic will get us nowhere

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Rare victory for women in Nobel of architecture

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, both Irish, have won the 2020 Pritzker Prize, becoming only the fourth and fifth women to claim architecture’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize in its 41-year history.

CNN

US comedian Steve Harvey gives Kenyan artist a boost after viral drawing

CNN

13-year-old is using bow ties to help cats get adopted

Inside Edition

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Act of kindness leaves students blown away

Jordan Salvo could hardly believe it when he was told a sea of sneakers, socks and gym bags delivered were donated for his classmates to start of basketball season at the F.C. Joyce K-8 School in North Highlands.

MSN

Chic-Fil-A sells bottles to fund scholarships

The restaurant will begin to sell bottles of its Chick-fil-A and Polynesian sauces, with profits from the sales going to Chick-fil-A’s employee scholarship program.

SunnySkyz

Local group helps kids endure tough times

Project Linus is a nationwide non-profit that provides blankets and quilts to children in need. After sewing/knitting/crocheting and donating 1,039 blankets in 2019 alone, they donated 167 more, obliterating their goal.

MSN

Meals for festival sent to first responders

After canceling the Arnold Classic Expo due to Covid-19, organizers were left with enough food to feed 200,000 people. The meals are heading to victims and first responders helping to clean up Nashville in the tornado aftermath.

SunnySkyz

ENVIRONMENT

Zambians brace for water shortage

Water levels in Lake Kariba, the world’s largest artificial lake at more than 5,500 sq km, have dropped by six metres in the past three years, despite record rainfall.

Guardian

Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating

Earth’s great ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, are losing mass six times faster than in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions. Combined, they lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice in the period from 1992 to 2017.

BBC

Climate change ends bears’ hibernation early

Rising temperatures are affecting ecosystems and wildlife across the globe, causing bears to come out of hibernation early. When temperatures warm, bears come out to search for food, but are doing it early.

CBS News

Can coronavirus spur low-carbon habits?

As the coronavirus pandemic shuts down conferences, transport, schools and sporting events worldwide, it is also nudging people toward behaviors and technologies that may have lasting impacts on carbon emissions.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Thai poverty rate increases, World Bank says

Thailand needs to invest in education and create jobs in higher-income sectors, the World Bank said in a report that showed a rising rate of poverty as the country’s economy slowed.

Reuters

Sudan: Frustration grows over fuel, bread shortages

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A vendor at Asan Tole bazaar in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Photo by Matt Zimmerman) Photo used under CC BY

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