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Gazan children go hungry as prices rise, aid is cut

Families say they are struggling to provide nutritious meals for their children as commercial supplies are disrupted. Israel halted commercial shipments into Gaza on Oct. 14.

Al Jazeera

How much power do Israeli settlers have over West Bank policy?

Deutsche Welle

Global sugar industry exacts dire human toll

In India’s sugarcane fields, missing a single day of work can trap an entire family in inescapable debt. For thousands of women, keeping pace with the harvest has come at a devastating physical cost: their wombs.

The Independent

Yemen’s ill are trapped as war closes airports

Many Yemenis depend on Sanaa International Airport to get the medical care they need abroad, but it has been repeatedly shut since the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis closed it to commercial traffic in August 2016.

Al Jazeera

Houthis attack besieged city in Yemen that UN says is at ‘grave risk’

Associated Press

Houthi attack kills 53 in biggest single loss of life since Yemen civil war reignited

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cult leader found guilty of murder of 190 kids

A starvation cult leader and about 30 other people have been found guilty of murder over the deaths of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters.

The Independent

Ill ICE detainees face imminent deportation

Relatives of gravely ill detainees at two Florida immigration jails say authorities are about to deport their loved ones to unknown countries in Africa despite worsening medical conditions.

Guardian

Israeli settlers burn olive trees, injure journalist

Some 80 Israeli settlers, some of them carrying gas canisters, descended from a hill above a terraced olive grove where villagers from Abu Falah had gathered to pick ripe fruit, a cherished annual tradition in Palestinian life.

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

130M struck off India’s voter rolls in revision

India is plunged into political crisis after 130 million names were struck off voter rolls during a massive revision.

NPR

Why Albania’s protesters want PM Rama to go

From the “Flamingo Revolution” to street clashes in Tirana, an inside look at a leaderless youth uprising challenging Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s decade-long rule.

Al Jazeera

From France to Albania, how social unrest is fueling protests across Europe

PBS

Argentine students protest Milei’s austerity

Many students and professors at the University of Buenos Aires are concerned about the impact of President Javier Milei’s austerity policies on public universities and say the future of free higher education is at risk.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Oversight urged for tech use in eco-crimes

A human rights commission called for stronger oversight of technologies being used by criminal organizations in Latin America, saying satellite internet, drones and online platforms are helping support illegal mining.

Associated Press

How Elon Musk’s Starlink shapes geopolitics

Designed to bring internet access to remote regions, Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite company has become vital in crisis regions and war zones. But Ukraine also shows the risks of depending on the service.

Deutsche Welle

Did someone order Ukraine’s high-speed Starlink shutdown?

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

War on Lebanon has cost those with autism

Lebanon has been engulfed in war since October 2023, with bombings across the country and an economic crisis continuing to impact all Lebanese, particularly neurodivergent people.

Al Jazeera

Nigeria confirms Ebola case came from Uganda

Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case in its capital, Abuja, after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus, the Health Ministry said. It is unclear when she arrived in Nigeria.

ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Madhu Shashanka):

I’m a chief technology officer. AI still needs your human expertise

Guardian

Column (Frehiwot Gebrewold):

Millions of mothers still don’t have clean water to give birth. It’s time to end this shame

The Independent

Column (Ronny P Sasmita):

Southeast Asia’s haze crisis will persist until polluters pay

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Hanoi’s Train Street a global travel obsession

A train, a narrow alley and a crowd with smartphones. This extraordinary attraction offers a rush few visitors forget. It’s turned a struggling area into one of Vietnam’s most photographed destinations.

Deutsche Welle

Korea approves $500,000 in humanitarian aid

The South Korean government has decided to provide $500,000, or approximately 700 million won, in humanitarian aid to Honduras, which has been suffering from a prolonged drought that began in May.

SBS News Korea

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Fundraising to protect nature sites falling short

Efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the world’s oceans, forests, rivers, lakes and other parts of the natural world have fallen short ahead of a key U.N. summit on biodiversity.

The Hill

Cuts cast shadow over World Bank meetings

Nearly 20,000 people have gathered in Bangkok for the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, amid mounting economic pressures on the world’s poorest countries.

The Independent

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Malawi’s fuel shortages force lines for days

Shortages caused by Malawi’s lack of hard currency have escalated into a national emergency, with drivers waiting for a fuel tanker that may never arrive.

Guardian

Mexicans protest the worsening water crisis

Residents in Guadalajara are demanding answers over a worsening water-quality crisis that has left many households reporting foul-smelling, sediment-filled tap water and sparked police clashes.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

In Honduras, authorities hope to make it rain

Global warming is intensifying the El Niño weather pattern and prolonging drought across Central America’s Dry Corridor. In Honduras, the government is turning to a controversial technique, cloud seeding.

Associated Press

Forest fires significantly worse across Africa

Fires are surging across Africa’s tropical forest nations — raising fears that forests could suffer the same fate as the Amazon and Indonesia, where deforestation and fires are driving up carbon emissions.

The Independent

Indonesia fights fire with ice as haze spreads

Having tried cloud seeding and water bombing, one pilot project will see dry ice dispersed by plane across the province of South Sumatra in Indonesia.

Guardian

Who’s to blame for the toxic haze choking SE Asia?

BBC

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