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The United Nations-sponsored treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons has gone into effect despite criticism from the world’s biggest nuclear powerhouses. The US has expressed concern about how the treaty can undermine the nuclear non-proliferation regime. (Photo by Dean Calma / IAEA) Photo used under CC BY

UN-sponsored nuclear treaty takes effect, sparks dialogue

A UN treaty outlawing nuclear weapons went into effect, having been ratified by at least 50 countries. But the ban is largely symbolic: The U.S. and the world’s other nuclear powers have not signed the treaty.

NPR

Poorer nations to get first 40M COVID vaccines

Pfizer-BioNTech will ship the first 40 million coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations next month, WHO chief has announced. The WHO’s COVAX scheme is aimed at 20% of vulnerable populations this year.

Deutsche Welle

Inside Joe Biden’s agenda for his first days in office

A once-in-a-century pandemic has killed more than 400,000 Americans and erased nearly 10 million jobs. The new President has to contend with climate change, a national reckoning on racial justice and a bitterly divided electorate.

TIME

Biden recommits US to Paris climate accord

Deutsche Welle

In Senate deal, Trump impeachment trial put off until early February

Reuters

ICE starts 100-day moratorium on deportations

U.S. immigration agencies have began implementing a 100-day moratorium on deportations of certain immigrants as part of a major shift in immigration enforcement policy under President Biden.

CBS News

Why Navalny is a thorn in the Kremlin’s side

The return to Russia from Germany of Alexei Navalny was marked by chaos, and it ended, almost predictably, with his arrest. Authorities took him into custody immediately, sparking outrage at home and abroad.

Associated Press

Russian police arrests thousands at protests demanding Navalny’s release

U.S. News & World Report

HUMAN RIGHTS

Israeli warplanes terrify traumatized Lebanese

Israeli jets have carried out some of their biggest air raids yet in Syria, apparently striking Iranian targets. It may have been the Lebanese next door, though, who trembled with greater fear.

Al Jazeera

Rural Colombians seek help from US

More than 100 Colombian human rights associations from remote Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities have written to the new U.S. administration to ask for help with the continued violence and killings they face.

Al Jazeera

Abuse accusations surge in Ethiopia’s war

Five aid workers for international and Ethiopian aid groups said they had received multiple similar reports of abuse in Tigray. The United Nations appealed this week for an end to sexual assaults in the region.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Macron: France to tighten laws on child abuse

French President Emmanuel Macron says France will tighten its laws on child sexual abuse, after the publication of a book accusing a top French political commentator of abusing his stepson and a massive social media campaign on the issue.

Al Jazeera

U.S. to reverse ‘draconian’ immigration policies

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Stone Age people covered clothing with teeth

Elk teeth pendants may have been the jewelry of choice for at least one Stone Age group that lived 8,200 years ago. A Stone Age burial ground revealed more than 4,300 Eurasian elk teeth pendants found in 84 separate burials.

CNN

SpaceX launched record number of satellites

A new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket. The 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.

BBC

Patagonian dinosaur may be largest discovered

Scientists have unearthed massive, 98 million-year-old fossils in southwest Argentina they say may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered.

The Straits Times

GLOBAL HEALTH

Gap between vaccine doses should be halved

Senior doctors are calling on England’s chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

BBC

Countries across Africa shut down schools

As a second wave of coronavirus spreads through parts of Africa, countries across the continent are shutting down schools to control the spread of the virus.

CNN

UK COVID variant appears to be more deadly than original

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Albert Hunt):

Undoing Trump will take more than executive orders

The Hill

Column (Hatice Kaharan):

It is time to rethink international development cooperation

Al Jazeera

Column (Gabriel Leão):

Being Black in Brazil in the time of pandemic

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

German scientists make paralyzed mice walk

German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain.

Reuters

The teenage taekwondo trainer fighting child marriage in Zimbabwe

Guardian

Russia’s first female train driver

Elena Lysenko-Saltykova became the first woman to drive a commuter train in Russia after the government reformed a list of jobs deemed harmful to women’s health.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

1st female driver accepted in Ferrari Academy

Maya Weug has made history by becoming the first female driver to join the Ferrari Driver Academy. She was selected from the Girls on Track Rising Stars initiative, run by Ferrari and motorsport governing body the FIA.

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Bernie Sanders uses meme for charity

Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign store is selling sweatshirts featuring a photo that inspired countless memes, and all the proceeds are going to Meals on Wheels programs in Sanders’ home state of Vermont.

WESH 2

Teen creates crafts program for kids in homeless shelters

ABC 13

Teens run nonprofit helps city’s homeless

SustainABLE Start is run by more than 80 high-schoolers across the country. Founded by Chloe Trujillo, a 17-year-old, high school senior, the organization pays special attention to the hygiene needs of the homeless population in New York City.

Norwood News

ENVIRONMENT

Reforestation to replenish water supplies

Deforestation has left only 20 percent of the once gigantic Atlantic Forest. Cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro depend on the rainforest for their water supplies.

Deutsche Welle

Winds displace thousands in Mozambique

Severe winds and heavy rains wrecked thousands of buildings, ruined crops and displaced almost 7,000 people in Mozambique, officials said in their first detailed report on the disaster.

Reuters

New cyclone poised to hit weak Mozambique

A cyclone is bearing down on a region of Mozambique that’s still recovering from a devastating storm two years ago. Mozambique says Cyclone Eloise is expected to make landfall Saturday morning in the central region.

Associated Press

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Bangladesh to buy Myanmar rice

Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tons of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a shortage of the staple food for the country.

Reuters

India calculates value of women’s housework

A newly formed political party in India, launched by a film star, has promised salaries to housewives if voted to power. A prominent MP welcomed the idea, saying it will create a near-universal basic income.

BBC

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Tuareg on the dune of Timerzouga, a place named Tadrart in the town of Djanet, 20km from the Algerian-Libyan border. The Tuareg people are a large Berber ethnic confederation. (Photo by Hamdanmourad) Photo used under CC BY

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