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Millions of people around the world took to the streets to protest in support of Black Lives Matter after the death of George Floyd in U.S. police custody. The anti-racism protests and widespread of global inequalities are being further exacerbated by the economic fallouts of the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations have warned. (Photo by GoToVan) Photo used under CC BY

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UN urges reforms as world approaches ‘breaking point’

Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the UN secretary-general made a sweeping call to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s global anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

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World Bank urges G20 members to reduce debts of poorest countries

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Reuters

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Coronavirus lockdowns fuel domestic abuse in Mexico

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CNN

Nigerian trafficking survivors stranded abroad

When Nigeria imposed a state of emergency lockdown in March, they paused international flights in an attempt to curb the infection’s spread and unwittingly left trafficking survivors stranded in dangerous locations far from home.

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TIME

Climate crisis threatens developing world, poor

Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress - a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down. Many live in developing countries, and do jobs that expose them to potentially life threatening conditions.

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BBC

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Better African heatwave data could save countless lives, shield economies

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Nature-led virus recovery could create $10T a year

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Guardian

Confederate flag banned on US military bases

As the U.S. begins to reckon with it’s divisive past, with some states removing monuments to Confederate soldiers and others considering reparations, the Pentagon effectively banned the Confederate Flag at military installations.

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Forbes

Latin America faces ‘lost decade’ from virus

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said the region’s GDP product is likely to drop by 9.9% in 2020 due to the pandemic. That would take the region back something the UN called “a lost decade.”

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TIME

Lebanon alone as economic catastrophe hits

Lebanon is grappling with its most severe economic crisis in modern history. The lira has lost 80 percent of its value. Unemployment is soaring, prices are skyrocketing, and hunger is spreading across the Mediterranean country.

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NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pan-Africanism combating anti-Black racism

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has restricted global air travel, a new wave of Pan-Africanism is emerging and is actively challenging anti-Black racism around the world.

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truthout

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Artists across Africa revive the art of the mask

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Newsweek

Malaysia allows arrest of transgender people

A statement by a Malaysian government minister authorizing religious authorities to go after transgender people has sparked outrage among LGBTQ+ advocates in the deeply conservative country.

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VICE

Sudan launches legal action against activists

Sudan’s army has started legal action against activists and journalists who have “insulted” the military. The army said that legal action would be taken against activists, journalists and others both inside and outside the country.

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Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

First female prime minister emerges in Gabon

A first female Prime minister, Rose Raponda has been appointed in Gabon. Her appointment is in accordance with a presidential decree making Raponda the first woman in the country to hold the office of Prime Minister.

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News Africa Now

Iranian officials play down COVID-19 cases

Iranian health officials sought to play down the president’s estimate that some 25 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, saying the data cannot be relied on to show the current state of disease.

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Reuters

Rep. John Lewis, civil rights icon, dies at 80

Rep. John Lewis, the longtime Georgia Congressman and icon of the civil rights movement has died. His death represents the end of an era. Lewis was one of the last living leaders of the civil rights movement

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TIME

Ethiopia’s influential diaspora split on Abiy

Ethiopian diaspora groups are calling for global protests today. The diaspora has a significant influence on politics in Ethiopia — but is divided over support for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

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China is not trying to replace US in tech war

China isn’t seeking to confront or replace US as the world’s top technological power, but will fight back against “malicious slander” and attacks from Washington, a foreign ministry spokesperson has said.

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Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Balloons bring internet to remote areas of Africa

Google’s new “fleet of high-altitude balloons” that act as “floating cell towers,” began providing internet across a nearly 31,000-square-mile area of central and western Kenya.

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Yahoo! News

Hummingbirds can see colors we humans can’t

A recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) describes the ability of some animals—hummingbirds in particular—to see nonspectral colors.

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Popular Mechanics

UK to distribute millions of free antibody tests

The UK is planning to distribute millions of free coronavirus antibody tests after successful secret trials. The finger-prick tests, which produced results within 20 minutes, were found to be 98.6% accurate in human trials.

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Guardian

How the blackest fish in the sea ‘disappear’

An ocean mystery - how the blackest fish in the deep sea are so extremely black - has been solved in a study that began with a very bad photograph. The detailed study of the animal’s “ultra-black” skin revealed that it traps light.

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BBC

Colombia medical workers call for full lockdown

Coronavirus cases in Colombia soar, medical workers call for total lockdowns to bring infections under control.

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Al Jazeera

Kin step in to care for Kabul COVID patients

The intensive care unit at the Afghan capital’s premier hospital for COVID-19 patients is a medical nightmare — and a stark warning how the country’s war-ravaged health care system risks collapsing.

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Associated Press

Gaza’s disturbing cases of suicides continue

An Israeli and Egyptian blockade of Gaza, tough living conditions and a lack of freedom of expression under the rule of Palestinian militants are believed to be factors.

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Man makes see-through masks to help deaf

This spring, Brian Travers learned how to sew for the first time. He soon transformed his new skills into a way to help people who are deaf and hard of hearing.

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Today

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Life under COVID for the visually impaired

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BBC

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Family adopts five siblings who’d been separated in foster care

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CBS News

The Holocaust survivor shifting police culture

Ervin Staub is a Holocaust survivor and psychology professor that has spent decades studying violence, genocide and reconciliation around the world, and is also actively working to thwart violence before it begins.

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NBCNews.com

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Foundations unite to push for racial justice

More than 20 foundations and philanthropic organizations across Minnesota are backing a new coalition aiming to reform philanthropy, denounce racism and raise $25 million for Black-led nonprofits and advocacy groups.

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MSN

Teens create coloring book, raise money

Four California high school students teamed up on an economics class capstone project at the end of their freshman year and created a coronavirus-themed coloring book for children that would raise money for charity.

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CNN

Random act of kindness brings vendor to tears

94 year old street vendor Don Joel from Santa Ana, California was brought to tears by the generosity shared from 28 year old Kenia Barragan who raised more than $80,000 for the down-on-his-luck tamale vendor.

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Houston Chronicle

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Sikh temples in Delhi save millions from hunger

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ENVIRONMENT

Whales get a break as pandemic quiets oceans

As the pandemic slows international shipping and keeps cruise ships docked, scientists are finding measurably less noise in the ocean. That could provide momentary relief for marine mammals that are sensitive to noise.

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NPR

The people creating an oasis with seawater

While the planet’s fresh water may be limited, the Seawater Greenhouse project harnesses the power of two things we do have an ample supply of – seawater and sunlight – to grow food in the middle of the desert.

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BBC

Marsupials struggle to recover from bushfires

More than six months after bushfires incinerated parts of Australia, estimates of the staggering number of native animals killed continue to grow even as the fate of surviving wildlife remains largely unknown.

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National Geographic

World’s carbon emissions will be trackable

A new alliance of climate research groups called the Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) Coalition has launched an effort to make tracking the world‘s carbon’s emissions a reality.

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Vox

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Booming blooms: how algae are turning the alps pink

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Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Home ed, reopening schools hard in Africa

The options for African students to keep studying while schools remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic seem varied, but the reality for many is that they will fall behind and possibly drop out of school forever.

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Associated Press

Virus exposes Chile’s economic inequalities

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing Chile’s inequalities, pushing much of the fragile middle class into poverty as millions lose their employment.

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Al Jazeera

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Chileans warn pandemic exploited to compromise women’s rights

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Al Jazeera

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Woman seen fishing in the backwaters of Kerala bay, near Punnamada Lake, India. (Photo by Hans A. Rosbach) Photo used under CC BY

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