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Myanmar police receive roses in a peaceful protest following the 1 Feb. coup that detained the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. COVID cases have risen to new daily highs as Myanmar’s health system struggles to operate and medics are at risk of arrest for aiding pro-democracy activists. (Photo by Maung Sun) Photo used under CC BY

Myanmar hits COVID highs as military targets medics

Myanmar has reported what is believed to be its highest daily increase in COVID cases since the Feb. 1 coup, as concerns grow over the country’s barely functioning health system and the Myanmar military’s continued crackdown on aid given by medics to activists.

Guardian

Burmese migrant workers struggle to help families back home

CNN

Suu Kyi’s future dims amid Myanmar courts

Concern for the future of Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi is mounting after her appearance in a purpose-built courtroom in the country’s capital Naypyidaw at the start of what is expected to be a seven-week trial.

Asia Times Online

Myanmar: Ethnic armies train protesters to fight junta

BBC

Record 82M displaced despite impact of COVID

The number of people forced to flee their homes around the world has risen to a record 82 million despite the impact of the pandemic, the UN’s refugee agency says. The total has doubled in a decade and means more than 1% of the world’s population is displaced.

BBC

‘We have more in common than what separates us’: refugee stories, told by refugees

Guardian

UN: 3M fled homes in 2020 despite COVID pandemic

The Hill

China administers over 1B COVID doses

China has administered more than a billion COVID vaccine doses, officials say — more than a third of all vaccine doses given globally. China aims to have fully vaccinated 40 percent of the country’s 1.4 billion population by July.

BBC

Brazil hits 500K COVID deaths amid ‘critical’ situation

BBC

Indonesia hits 2M COVID cases as crisis deepens

Asia Times Online

Libya’s Haftar closes border with Algeria

Forces loyal to Libya’s eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar have closed the border with Algeria after deployments of his forces to the south underscored his continued role despite efforts to unify the country.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Israel eases some restrictions on Gaza

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said 11 truckloads of clothes were exported through Kerem Shalom crossing for the first time in 40 days.

ABC News

Vatican ‘meddles’ in Italy’s LGBTQ rights law

The Vatican has formally opposed a proposed Italian law expanding anti-discrimination protections to the LGBTQ community, a leading Italian newspaper reported this week.

Associated Press

9 Catalan separatists will receive pardons

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the Spanish Cabinet will approve pardons for nine separatist Catalan politicians and activists imprisoned for their roles in the 2017 push to break away from Spain.

ABC News

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Latin America’s left jolted by rising star in Peru

Pedro Castillo, a socialist and son of peasant farmers, is on the cusp of winning Peru’s presidential election after rising from obscurity to all but beat a conservative rival, the daughter of a former president.

Reuters

Ethiopia votes amid conflict, raging hunger

Ethiopians headed to the polls for a controversial election being carried out amid an ongoing conflict and a raging humanitarian crisis in the country’s northern Tigray region.

CNN

Allegations of irregularities mar Ethiopia’s election

Reuters

Ethiopia denies reports of hunger

Yahoo! News

Parliament vote topples Swedish government

Sweden’s parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. The Social Democrat leader has a week to resign or call a snap election.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Full ‘strawberry moon’ graces the sky this week

Don’t forget to look up and take a look at June’s full moon this Thursday, the full ‘Strawberry Moon!’ June’s full moon gets its name from all the yummy strawberries that are ready to be harvested and eaten.

ABC7 Southwest Florida

Spacewalking astronauts install new solar panel

Spacewalking astronauts equipped the International Space Station with the first in a series of powerful new solar panels this week, overcoming suit problems and other obstacles with muscle and persistence.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s free vaccinations hit record

India gave out a record 8.3 million vaccine doses under a federal campaign to inoculate all adults for free after weeks of criticism that a chaotic rollout had worsened a second wave that killed hundreds of thousands.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India’s first-day record vaccination pace unsustainable

Al Jazeera

Europe worries as the Delta variant spreads

A worrying spike of COVID infections in Europe is being driven by the delta variant, according to global health leaders, even as immunization rates in some countries are on the way up.

NPR

‘COVID vaccine or jail?’: Philippine president threatens as Delta variant surges

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Swaran Singh):

UN resolution on Myanmar reveals wider realities

Asia Times Online

Column (Mahmood Alhosain and Jonas Ecke):

A Russia UN veto on aid for Syria’s Idlib would be deadly

Al Jazeera

Column (Harrison Mwilima):

Europe should listen more to Africa on migration

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Veteran donates land to help other veterans

Veteran Marty Weber signed a letter of intent to donate 36 acres of wooded property in New Jersey for use as a group home, rehabilitation facility and quiet retreat for homeless veterans struggling with addiction and mental illness.

Sunny Skyz

Roma band sings for women’s empowerment

A female Roma band in Serbia is using music to preach women’s empowerment within their community, challenging some deeply rooted traditions and centuries-old male domination.

Associated Press

10-year-old sportscaster achieves dream of calling NBA game

Inside Edition

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation granted $4.5M to aid Malawi

The U.S. African Development Foundation has announced a three-year, $4.5 million grant in support of efforts to improve the livelihoods of the chronically ill through agriculture and livestock production in Malawi.

Philanthropy News Digest

Foundations launch $1B clean energy platform

The Rockefeller and IKEA foundations have announced a partnership to launch a $1 billion global initiative to catalyze investments in distributed renewable energy.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Venezuela exodus reaches record levels

The continuing exodus of millions of Venezuelans is reaching “a tipping point” as the response to the crisis remains critically underfunded.

Guardian

COVID causes dive in foreign direct investment

The COVID crisis has caused a severe fall in global foreign direct investment, with investment flows dropping by a third – from $1.5 trillion in 2019 to $1 trillion – in 2020, a new report has warned.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon’s old fend for themselves amid crisis

With virtually no national welfare system, Lebanon’s elderly are left to fend for themselves amid their country’s economic turmoil.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Bangladesh factories go green to cut costs

Activists say the global fashion industry should cut climate-heating emissions - and Bangladeshi factory owners say renewables and recycling can help save them money.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Yemen’s beekeepers feel climate change

War-torn Yemen has had its troubles compounded by climate change - and that is hurting one of the country’s most precious commodities: Sidr honey.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

New oilfield threatens lives of 130K elephants

Tens of thousands of African elephants are under threat from plans for a massive new oilfield in one of the continent’s last great wildernesses, experts have warned.

Guardian

Japan pledges $10B to Asia’s energy transition

Japan this week pledged $10 billion in aid for decarbonization projects in Asia, such as renewable energy, energy-saving and conversion to gas-fired power generation from coal-fired power to aid Asia’s energy transition.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

A young metal scrap worker burns electrical wires to recover copper in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, as another man arrives with more wires to be burned. (Photo by Muntaka Chasant) Photo used under CC BY

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