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Mexico’s brutal drug war involves many trafficking cartels fighting for power, territory, and influence. These cartels are responsible for political corruption, kidnappings, and assasinations. Here, Mexican drug lord Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia is being extradited from Uruguay to the U.S. (Photo by United States Embassy in Uruguay (Department of State)) Photo used under CC BY

Mexican cartels hunt down police at their homes

The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy by kidnapping members of an elite police force and torturing them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers. Now, they are hunting down and killing police at their homes.

U.S. News & World Report

Tulsa massacre descendants keep history alive

A century after an angry white mob stormed into and destroyed a prosperous Tulsa, Oklahoma, neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street,” the city and the state as a whole are still reckoning with the devastation and tremendous loss of life that occurred.

Reuters

COVID creates orphans, child laborers in India

While children are still unlikely to fall severely ill from COVID, in India they’re fast becoming collateral victims of the pandemic.

Deutsche Welle

China announces three-child limit in policy shift

China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children in a major policy shift from the existing two-child limit, after data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.

Guardian

China’s economy needs workers but its three-child policy may not fix the problem

MSN

Vietnam detects suspected new coronavirus

Vietnam’s health ministry has detected a suspected new coronavirus variant which it said appears to be a hybrid of two highly transmissible strains, the existing Indian and UK variants.

CNN

New COVID-19 variants detected in Vietnam; restrictions tightened

YouTube

Eritrean soldiers kill, rape in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Despite claims by both Ethiopia and Eritrea that they were leaving, Eritrean soldiers are in fact more firmly entrenched than ever in Tigray, where they are raping women, killing civilians, looting hospitals and blocking aid.

Associated Press

Nigerian children abducted from Islamic school

Students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger were indiscriminately shot at and abducted by a group of “armed bandits,” state police said.

MSN Money

HUMAN RIGHTS

Modeling agency features Indigenous talent

Supernaturals Modelling is the first all-Indigenous modeling agency. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the agency is the brainchild of model Joleen Mitton and her longtime friend Patrick Shannon (a photographer-filmmaker).

Teen Vogue

1921 race massacre reverberates in Black Tulsa

More than 35 city blocks were leveled, an estimated 191 businesses were destroyed, and roughly 10,000 Black residents were displaced from the neighborhood where they’d lived, learned, played, worked and prospered.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Indian farmers mark six months of protests

Tens of thousands of farmers in India have observed a “Black Day” across the country to mark six months of their protests against farm laws passed by the government last year.

Al Jazeera

US companies benefited from Uyghur labor

A Congressional report shows how U.S. companies may have benefited from forced labor of Uyghur Muslims.

CNN

Putin hosts Belarus leader amid EU showdown

Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed his counterpart from Belarus for talks on forging closer ties amid Minsk’s bruising showdown with the European Union over the diversion of a passenger jet.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

AI emotion-recognition tested on Uyghurs

A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal emotions have been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang. A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province.

BBC

Rare blood moon was also a supermoon

The most spectacular full moon of the year was not just a supermoon, but also a lunar eclipse, or so-called “blood moon.” May’s full moon is also known as the “Flower Moon.”

CBS News

Time limit relaxed on lab-grown human embryos

The ban on growing human embryos in the lab beyond 14 days has been relaxed by an international body of experts, paving the way for research that could help to unpick issues.

Guardian

Fluffy ball lurking at the center of the Milky Way

In the summer of 2014, astronomers watched with giddy anticipation as a cloud of gas, known as G2, swung dangerously close to a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

India COVID trials cease as Pfizer relief to arrive

India scrapped local trials for “well-established” foreign COVID vaccines this week as it tries to accelerate its vaccination rollout, with a government official saying Pfizer shots could arrive by July.

Reuters

Has India’s deadly second COVID wave peaked?

BBC

Poverty, fear propel India’s COVID crisis

Al Jazeera

Lebanon can’t afford medical goods, bank says

Lebanon’s central bank said that a system for importing subsidized medical goods could not be sustained without using its mandatory reserves and asked the relevant authorities to find a solution to the problem.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Matthias von Hein):

The dilemma with Assad in Syria

Deutsche Welle

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Why we must give substance to corporate net-zero targets

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Satellite tech, forest guardians protect Vietnam’s mangroves

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Abandoned albino baby now model in Vogue

Xueli Abbing, 16, who was left outside an orphanage in China, is rapidly building a successful career, even featuring in the pages of Vogue Italia, while simultaneously breaking down the stigma surrounding her condition.

MSN

Otter feared extinct resurfaces in Argentina

Once believed to be locally extinct, a wild giant otter was sighted in Argentina’s Impenetrable National Park. The species hasn’t been seen in the country for 40 years.

Mongabay

Projects making a difference to bees in 2021

Positive News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Conscious eatery gives back to people in need

These restaurant owners have been affected by homelessness in the past — now they’re donating meals to other community members in need.

NowThis News

Alliance for Greater Works receives $1M

The Alliance for Greater Works, in Grand Prairie, Texas, has announced a $1 million gift from the Lilly Endowment to help churches serving marginalized communities across Texas respond to trauma.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Brazil‘s economy plummets during pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis has killed over 450,000 Brazilians and wrecked the livelihoods of many more. Brazilians are facing one of the worst economic recessions in the country’s history.

CNN

Abilities Dance promotes disability rights, diversity, inclusion

WCVB

ENVIRONMENT

Kenyan woman works to solve waste crisis

Despite a ban on single-use plastics, Kenya’s Dandora dump has about 22 football fields worth of plastic waste. Now, a young woman is finding innovative ways to tackle what feels like an insurmountable problem.

CBS News

Teen’s lemonade company could save ecosystem

YouTube

4-day workweek would slash UK carbon output

The introduction of a four-day working week with no loss of pay would dramatically reduce the UK’s carbon footprint and help the country meet its binding climate targets, according to a report.

Guardian

The fastest ways aviation can cut emissions

Flights plummeted during the pandemic, but the number of people flying is expected to return to 2019 levels within a few years and continue to grow.

BBC

Scientists hope to save ‘extinct’ tortoise species

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, was founded as a home for repatriated former slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 182 out of the 189 countries in the Human Development Index. (Photo by Bob the Magic Dragon) Photo used under CC BY

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