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Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, condemning the military coup that ousted President Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar’s military ruler, Min Aung Hlaing, has recently taken on the role of prime minister and has again pledged to return to democracy, but the recent referendum has been interpreted by locals to delay the process by six months. (Photo by Maung Sun) Photo used under CC BY

Myanmar junta ruler takes PM, delays democracy

Myanmar’s military ruler has taken on the role of prime minister in a newly formed caretaker government, state media reported, six months after the army seized power from a civilian government. Min Aung Hlaing repeated a pledge to hold elections by 2023.

CNN

Myanmar army ruler takes prime minister role, again pledges elections

Reuters

Myanmar’s striking workers keep defying junta

Doctors healing patients from hiding, teachers giving up their classrooms and bankers losing their savings are among the stubborn holdouts still on strike to protest Myanmar’s military coup six months ago.

Asia Times Online

Myanmar swimmer sacrificed Tokyo Olympics dream after brutal military coup

NBCNews.com

Refugees struck hardest by floods across world

As heavy rains and floods dominate headlines around the world, displaced people and those living in conflict zones are among the worst affected. The death toll continues to rise as storms continue to rip through communities, destroying homes and livelihoods.

Guardian

Death toll from floods in China’s Henan province rises to 302

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Beirut blast victims struggle to return home

About 300,000 people were left homeless after the Beirut Port explosion. Some were able to afford to repair the damage or move to new a flat elsewhere. But in some cases, people have been living in empty damaged buildings.

Al Jazeera

W. Africa races to vaccinate amid spikes

A resurgence of COVID cases in West Africa is hitting the region hard. Thousands of new COVID cases have been reported in the region in the past few weeks amid low vaccination rates and the spread of the delta variant.

Associated Press

Parents hope Tigray-stranded children are safe

For nearly nine months, thousands of Ethiopian parents have been living in agony over the fate of their children who remain stranded in various universities across the conflict-hit Tigray region.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigerian doctors strike over pay, poor facilities

Doctors in Nigeria’s state-run hospitals have began a strike over pay, insurance benefits and poor facilities as the country faces a third wave of COVID.

Al Jazeera

Refugees pushed to back of the line for vaccine

For months the World Health Organization urged countries to prioritize immunizing refugees, placing them in the second priority group for at-risk people, alongside those with serious health conditions.

Associated Press

Myanmar leaders use pandemic as weapon

Myanmar is one of the region’s poorest countries and already was in a vulnerable position when the military seized power, triggering a violent political struggle.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Brazilian judges reject electoral fraud claims

Brazil’s electoral system is free of fraud, a group of 18 active and former Supreme Court justices said on Monday, amid unrelenting attacks by President Jair Bolsonaro, who is pushing for changes to the voting process.

Al Jazeera

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

Slowdown of Earth’s spin caused oxygen surge

Here’s a new spin on how Earth became an oxygen-rich planet: As our planet’s rotation slowed, microbes were bathed in longer stints of sunlight that revved up their release of oxygen into the atmosphere.

LiveScience

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

Iceland may be the tip of a sunken continent

Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of a nearly Texas-size continent — called Icelandia — that sank beneath the North Atlantic Ocean about 10 million years ago, according to a new theory proposed by an international team of geophysicists and geologists.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Senegalese hospitals struggle with COVID wave

Like many African countries facing a third wave of infections, Senegal is more vulnerable because so few people are vaccinated. In Dakar, the current epicenter of the epidemic , every bed with supplemental oxygen for patients in severe respiratory distress was taken.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Japan’s daily COVID cases top 10k for 1st time

Kyodo News

Myanmar calls for help as COVID cases soar

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

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (WHO Special Envoys):

To beat COVID, there’s a simple lesson – no one’s safe until everyone’s safe

Guardian

Column (Tayo Bero):

Black women’s hair products are killing us. Why isn’t more being done?

Guardian

Column (Patrick Gathara):

For Kenya, electoral reform is a matter of life and death

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Drone pilot saves animals after disasters

Cinematographer Doug Thron travels the globe with his infrared drone to save vulnerable animals after fires, hurricanes and other disasters strike.

People

Woman promotes fostering teens on TikTok

Brittany Burcham, 35, from Birmingham, Alabama, is using social media to advocate for being a foster parent to teenagers.

Good Morning America

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

India’s domestic workers lose jobs to COVID

For the first time in their lives, richer Indians had to do their own housework. And even when lockdowns have been lifted, they have not reverted to the old ways, their dependence on domestic workers reduced.

Guardian

COVID locks India’s women out of jobs for years

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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

ENVIRONMENT

Farmers devastated as wildfires sweep Turkey

At least eight people have died in more than 100 blazes that broke out earlier this week, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.

CNN

Panda in French zoo gives birth to twins

A giant panda on loan to France from China has given birth to twin female cubs, a French zoo announced, declaring “they are very lively, pink and plump”.

Al Jazeera

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

Colombians play music during a protest march in Medellin, Colombia, in May 2021. Since April 28, Colombians have risen up in massive protests throughout the country, initially against the tax reform that the government intended to implement by increasing taxes for the working population. After overthrowing the reform, the people continue protesting for other reasons. The government has unleashed a wave of repression that has left dozens dead and hundreds injured. (Photo by Oxi.Ap) Photo used under CC BY

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