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Economic recovery gaps heighten unrest, poverty

The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies thanks to vaccine inequity and a lack of fiscal support, the International Monetary Fund warned.

Al Jazeera

UN says its food aid runs out this week in Tigray

Associated Press

Lebanon’s descent into darkness

BBC

Tunisian president threatens democracy

Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy this week after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities of parliament, a move his foes labeled a coup that should be opposed on the street.

CNN

Tunisia crisis prompts rise in social media manipulation

Al Jazeera

Americans contribute inordinately to emissions

The lifestyles of three Americans will create enough planet-heating emissions to kill one person, and the emissions from a single coal-fired power plant is likely to result in more than 900 deaths, according to an analysis to calculate the mortal cost of carbon emissions.

Guardian

Morocco arrests Uyghur activist in exile

Moroccan authorities have arrested a Uyghur activist in exile because of a Chinese terrorism warrant distributed by Interpol, according to information from Moroccan police and a rights group that tracks people detained by China.

Guardian

Outspoken Chinese billionaire jailed for 18 years

BBC

Tanzania’s new leader pushes for vaccination

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan this week launched the country’s COVID vaccination campaign. She was the first to receive the vaccine on live television and reassured the country that the shots are safe.

CNN

Ghana poised to vote on harsh anti-LGBTQ bill

Draft legislation in Ghana would make identifying as gay or even an ally to the LGBTQ community a second-degree felony punishable by five years in prison — with advocating for LGBTQ rights punishable by up to 10 years.

NBCNews.com

Anger, fear in Ghana as anti-gay bill progresses

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hungarians protest alleged illegal surveillance

About 1,000 Hungarians protested over allegations that the government used Israeli-made spyware for illegal surveillance of public figures in Hungary, drawing comparisons with the country’s communist past.

Reuters

S. African women risk assault to reach work

In South Africa, informal minibus taxis complete about 15 million trips daily, a service that commuters say is marred by harassment and high risk of accidents.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Children suffer from Niger’s security crisis

In Niger, jihadist attacks in its southern and western regions have forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Children are among those bearing the brunt of insecurity.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Emergency ends but crisis deepens in Malaysia

Malaysia’s constitutional monarch delivered a rebuke of the prime minister’s administration this week, accusing the government’s law minister of “misleading” parliament over the alleged revocation of emergency ordinances.

Asia Times Online

Tanzania now encourages COVID vaccination

A vaccination drive gets under way after Tanzania rejects its former president’s Covid skepticism. At the front of the campaign is the new President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, who just got her jab.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Testing would help contain against Delta surge

The more contagious Delta variant threatens the fuller reopening of offices and schools in the fall. But regular testing — especially with cheap and almost instantaneous tests — could help catch cases before they spread.

Axios

New surgical tool inspired by a wasp

BBC

Marsquakes offer detailed look at Mar’s interior

A quake-measuring device on Mars is providing the first detailed look at the red planet’s interior, revealing a surprisingly thin crust and a hot molten core beneath the frigid surface.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Southeast Asia’s COVID cases hit new highs

Thailand reported a record number of coronavirus infections this week, while neighboring Malaysia has more than a million, as the virulent Delta variant carves a deadly path through Southeast Asia.

Reuters

Lambda variant spreads across Latin America

The WHO classified C.37 as a “variant of interest” after it appeared in a number of countries simultaneously. In Peru, where the lambda variant was identified in August 2020, it now accounts for most of new infections.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar seeks international aid as COVID bites

Junta authorities in Myanmar are seeking help from the international community to tackle COVID, state media said this week, as the impoverished country looks beyond ally China in its struggle to beat back a new wave.

Asia Times Online

BioNTech wants to help ‘eradicate’ malaria

BioNTech wants “to help eradicate malaria” by using the same breakthrough mRNA technology it used to develop its coronavirus vaccine, the pharmaceutical company said this week

Deutsche Welle

An altered strand of DNA can cause malaria-spreading mosquitoes to self-destruct

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Israeli woman donates kidney to Gaza boy

Idit Harel Segal, a proud Israeli, was turning 50, and she had chosen a gift. She was going to give one of her own kidneys to a stranger. That stranger turned out to be a 3-year-old Palestinian boy from the Gaza Strip.

ABC News

Cafe employs foster kids who have aged out of the system

Good Morning America

S. African pastor donates food to starving families

NBCNews.com

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

American charitable giving steadily declines

The share of American households that donate to charity has been steadily declining since the Great Recession and fell to just under half in 2018, a report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

Human rights giving needs broader donor pool

Philanthropic funding to promote human rights globally reached a record $3.7 billion in 2018. However, nearly half the donations came from 12 foundations, showing funding dependent on only a handful of donors.

Yahoo! News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Indians turn to crowdfunding to pay bills

Hospitalizations soared in India during a deadly second COVID wave. Now, hobbled by patchy insurance, Indians are turning to crowdfunding to pay the steep medical bills.

BBC

Beirut blast leaves children hungry a year on

Hundreds of thousands of children continue to suffer from hunger in Lebanon after last year’s devastating Beirut Port blast and the ongoing economic crisis in the country, a report said.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Drought in Iran exposes decades-old problems

Severe water shortages in Iran in recent weeks have prompted electricity outages and even sparked deadly protests, but analysts say the underlying causes go back decades.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave

Guardian

Inventors tackle COVID plastic waste mountain

Appalled by the tons of plastic trash generated by the pandemic, entrepreneurs are developing reusable PPE and turning single-use masks into everything from bricks to toolboxes.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Wildfire rages in Lebanon, spreads to Syria

Lebanese firefighters struggled for the second day this week to contain wildfires in the country’s north that have spread across the border into Syria, civil defense officials in both countries said.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

Passengers wait for the train on the platform of Henan People‘s Hospital Station in Henan Province in Zhengzhou, China. Floodwater crashed through a subway station here due to what some experts are calling “once-in-a-millennium” levels of downpours. At least 12 are known to have died in the floods. (Photo by Windmemories) Photo used under CC BY

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