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Volunteers participating in COVID vaccine trials in Indonesia. To date, the CDC has identified 226 cases of heart inflammation occurring after vaccination in people younger than 30. (Photo by Rio Tuasikal (VOA)) Photo used under CC BY

CDC weighs possible link of vaccine, heart ailment

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced its COVID-19 vaccine advisory committee will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the rare reports of heart inflammation occurring in people after they received the second dose of a Pfizer or Moderna jab.

The Independent

Solving the puzzle of long COVID

BBC

Young, Indian, unvaccinated

Reuters

Army officers take key Cabinet spots in Mali

Weeks after leading Mali’s second coup in nine months, Colonel Assimi Goita has named a new Cabinet, with military officers receiving the strategic ministries of defense, security and national reconciliation.

Al Jazeera

Death, neglect, disrepair found in US tribal jails

At least 19 people have died since 2016 in tribal detention centers overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, an investigation has found. Several died after correctional officers failed to provide proper medical care.

NPR

Food is often a weapon of war in Tigray

In war-torn Tigray, more than 350,000 people already face famine, according to the UN and other humanitarian groups. It is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, as food is used as a weapon of war.

Associated Press

Hungary may ban child-facing LGBTQ content

Hungary’s ruling nationalist party has submitted legislation to ban content it believes promotes homosexuality and gender change to minors, including educational material and ads deemed to promote gay rights.

BBC

Algeria arrests journalists before election

Authorities in Algeria have arrested two prominent journalists and a well-known opposition figure just days before the country’s parliamentary election in a chilling escalation in the clampdown on dissent.

Al Jazeera

Time running out to evacuate Afghans who helped US

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Report details Uyghurs’ accounts of torture

A report from Amnesty International details systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution against people in China’s Xinjiang province, including Uyghurs and Kazakhs.

NPR

Uyghurs living in ‘dystopian hellscape’

Guardian

PNG women brutalized over ‘witchcraft’ claims

A rising number of women in Papua New Guinea have suffered brutal violence after being falsely accused of carrying out witchcraft, campaigners have warned.

The Independent

India’s COVID orphans face trauma, trafficking

India is referring to children who have lost one or both parents to COVID as COVID orphans. Their plight is one of the heartbreaking pandemic developments to emerge from India.

NPR

India and tech companies clash over censorship, privacy and ‘digital colonialism’

NPR

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Netanyahu clings to power; violence is feared

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a desperate, Trump-style campaign to delegitimize the incoming government and accuse its leaders of perpetrating “the fraud of the century."

Axios

India fears Myanmar refugees will turn activist

Thousands of people fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar have crossed into India, leading to worries among officials there that the region could become a staging post for pro-democracy activists and stoke instability.

Al Jazeera

Argentine president makes racist comments

Argentina’s president says Brazilians “came from the jungle.” Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman and the Brazilian president’s son, slammed the comments as “racist,” triggering a debate over attitudes in Latin America.

NBCNews.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

FDA members resign over Alzheimer’s drug

Two members of a panel of outside advisers to the FDA have resigned in protest at the agency’s decision to approve Biogen Inc.’s Aduhelm for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

NBCNews.com

Moderna seeks to vaccinate younger teens

Moderna has filed for emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to use its Covid-19 vaccine in adolescents ages 12 to 17.

NBCNews.com

Newly discovered planet may have H2O clouds

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet located 90 light-years from Earth, and believe the atmosphere may contain water clouds.

CNN

Astronomers find blinking giant star near heart of Milky Way

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

UN urges immediate action to end AIDS

The U.N. General Assembly approved a declaration this week calling for urgent action to end AIDS by 2030.

Associated Press

Lebanon may suspend kidney dialysis

Hospitals in Lebanon warned they may be forced to suspend kidney dialysis due to severe shortages in supplies, the latest in Lebanon’s accelerating crises and collapsing health sector.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Umar Lateef Misgar):

Kashmir: Surviving COVID-19 under the military boot

Al Jazeera

Column (Ayan Khan):

Deforestation hampering Pakistan’s climate policy

Asia Times Online

Column (Jonathan Gornall):

Renaming COVID-19 variants will help fight racism

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Man builds resting place for wife on walks

After an elderly Spanish couple’s efforts to lobby the local counsel to install benches along their usual walking route came to nothing, Manuel Souto, 82, built a bench for his wife, who has osteoarthritis, himself.

Guardian

Herd of elephants brings joy to millions

A herd of elephants traipsing through southwest China on a 300-mile journey has captured the hearts and imagination of millions after going viral.

NBCNews.com

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Chanel invests $25M in climate change fund

French fashion house Chanel is backing a new climate adaptation fund that aims to raise $100M by 2025 to promote sustainable agriculture, protect forests and support small-scale farmers in developing countries.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Celebrities fundraise for wildfire victims

More than a dozen celebrities have customized wine bottle labels as part of a fundraising auction that will benefit victims of the 2020 California wildfires.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Food allergies stymie search for food

For the millions of Americans newly experiencing food insecurity during the pandemic, those with allergies and intolerances face further troubles because most food programs offer limited options.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

CEOs ask world leaders for climate action

More than 70 CEOs from some of the world’s biggest companies have urged governments to do much more to tackle climate change, including forcing businesses to reduce their carbon emissions.

CNN

Organic ‘silk’ could replace single-use plastic

A lab-created, plant-based material that mimics spider silk could replace single-use plastics in a number of consumer products, researchers say. The material uses an energy-efficient approach to mimic silk.

The Independent

Risking death to save Uganda’s rainforests

An environmental activist in Uganda has made defending the Zoka Forest his life, despite receiving death threats from illegal loggers. He speaks to communities and has managed to covert a few loggers into activists.

Deutsche Welle

Deforestation in Amazon soars 67 percent

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Marionettists put on a show in the ancient city of Bagan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar, in 2014. The UN special reporter for Myanmar warns that mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure could occur in Kayah State after many of the 100,000 forced to flee into forests from junta bombs are now cut off from food, water and medicine by the junta that took over the government on Feb. 1. (Photo by Caroline Jones) Photo used under CC BY

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