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Refugees line up at a transit camp in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. (Photo by Cate Turton/UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

Sudan conflict escalates refugee crisis in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s recently opened refugee camp in its Benishangul-Gumuz province is already home to thousands of people who fled a devastating civil war in neighboring Sudan that has uprooted millions.

Deutsche Welle

Iraqi women fear seeing rise in child marriages

Iraq’s parliament is considering controversial legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law matters, a move that could open the door to the marriage of girls as young as 9.

Associated Press

Venezuela forces accused of ‘brutal’ repression

Venezuela’s security forces and pro-government armed groups committed widespread abuses following the disputed presidential election in July, an international rights group has said.

Al Jazeera

Venezuela issues arrest warrant for opposition leader

Deutsche Welle

Palestinian children receive polio vaccinations

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centers in the Gaza Strip for their children to be vaccinated against polio in the second stage of a campaign that has so far seen 187,000 youngsters inoculated.

Reuters

Polio vaccinators prevented from entry

Al Jazeera

Back to school, but not for 625K Gaza students

Instead of getting back to school, at least 625,000 children in Gaza are out of school. Because of the war with Israel, the children’s “future is slipping away.”

Al Jazeera

Gaza teacher offers ray of hope with classroom in rubble

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN to probe rights violations in Bangladesh

The United Nations Human Rights Office said it will dispatch a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh, as requested by the interim government, to investigate alleged human rights violations during recent deadly violence in the country.

Reuters

Israeli forces kill local Hamas commander

Israeli forces killed a local commander of the Islamist movement Hamas in the flashpoint city of Jenin as they pressed a major operation in the occupied West Bank for a third day, the Israeli military said.

Reuters

Israeli military strikes Jenin on Day 3 of its West Bank raid

ABC News

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Middle East authoritarians profit from Gaza war

The Gaza conflict has allowed authoritarian leaders in the region to polish their images, defend Arab honor, and use protests against Israel to push foreign NGOs out of the country and crack down on their opposition.

Deutsche Welle

Hong Kong convicts news editors of sedition

A Hong Kong court convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet in a sedition case widely seen as a barometer for the future of media freedoms in the city once hailed as a bastion of free press in Asia.

CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Brazil takes on X amid ‘fake news’ crusade

Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes’ threats to shut down social media platform X are just the latest chapter in a crusade against perceived attacks on democracy and the political use of disinformation.

Reuters

IS supporters use AI to bolster online support

Islamic State supporters are exploiting AI tools for propaganda and recruitment, and experts fear safety measures are not adequate.

Context

GLOBAL HEALTH

Mpox spreads amid vaccine delays in E. Africa

Border regions in countries neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo raise alert levels and screening measures as the mpox virus spreads.

Al Jazeera

Mpox outbreaks in Africa could be ended in 6 months, WHO chief says

Yahoo! News

WHO, Israel allow pauses for polio vaccinations

The U.N. World Health Organization said it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted the disease.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Nigerians swing hammers to relieve stress

In Nigeria’s largest city, people are finding their reset button in a “rage room” where they pay to smash electronics and furniture with a sledgehammer as a break from the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Associated Press

Ukrainians revive interest in attacked culture

The destruction of so much of Ukrainian culture has not just pushed them farther away from the Russian-dominated space. It has also awakened a hunger for their own culture.

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Aid delivery in Gaza is nearly impossible

The U.N. says Israel is hampering efforts to deliver vaccines and other aid to Gaza, but the U.S. has offered little public pressure.

Al Jazeera

Why Biden’s Gaza humanitarian pier fell short

The United States Agency for International Development published its report into President Joe Biden’s troubled aid pier in the Gaza Strip, blaming a combination of weather and security challenges for its failures.

ABC News

UN food agency team in Gaza Strip attacked

The World Food Program has announced a pause in the movement of its employees in the Gaza Strip “until further notice” after one of its vehicles was hit by gunfire just meters from an Israeli-controlled checkpoint.

Al Jazeera

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Farmers in northern Israel ‘don’t let fear’ win

Many farmers continue to grow produce amid cross-border attacks and heightened fears of a wider war. They also face a number of additional challenges: labor shortages, delayed harvests and financial stress.

ABC News

Ending war could help Israel’s failing economy

Nearly 11 months into the war with Hamas, Israel’s economy is struggling as the country’s leaders grind ahead with an offensive in Gaza that shows no signs of ending and threatens to escalate into a wider conflict.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil minister declares ‘war’ with wildfire

Brazil’s environment minister has declared her country “at war” with fire after a historic surge in blazes – from the depths of the Amazon to the rural south-east – cloaked Brasília and São Paulo with smoke, grounded flights and forced schools to close.

Guardian

Forest fires rage in Brazil

Deutsche Welle

Canada fires released record greenhouse gas

Wildfires that swept Canada’s woodlands last year released more greenhouse gases than some of the largest emitting countries, a study found, calling into question national emissions budgets that rely on forests as carbon stores.

Guardian

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Mothers and children in the Central African Republic line up to receive vaccines. (Photo by Pierre Holtz/UNICEF) Photo used under CC BY

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