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Three Indian farmers raise their fists in protest of recent agricultural laws that favor the profits of large private corporations over the livelihood of farmers. Indian farmers have reignited protests through major roadblocks outside the capital, Delhi. (Photo by Ravan Khosa) Photo used under CC BY

India’s farmers renew protests, challenging PM

Thousands of Indian farmers blocked traffic on major roads and railway tracks outside of the nation’s capital of Delhi this week, marking one year of demonstrations against government-backed laws that they say will shatter their livelihoods.

Associated Press

Myanmar on a military-made road to disaster

What began as protests against Myanmar’s military takeover in February has morphed into an insurgency that has hit areas of the nation that had seen no armed conflict for decades.

Asia Times Online

Kids locked up for parents’ politics

CNN

Malnourishment smacks infants in poor countries

Only a third of children under two in many developing countries are fed what they need for healthy growth and no progress has been made on improving their nutrition over the past decade, UNICEF said in a report identifying climate change, conflict, and COVID as factors.

Guardian

Afghan music scene silenced amid Taliban fear

A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is starting to go quiet. The last time that the militant group ruled the country it outright banned music. Musicians anticipate that a ban on music may be coming.

Associated Press

Does Taliban return end Afghan music scene?

Thomson Reuters Foundation

China restricts abortions amid birthrate fears

China has issued new guidelines restricting the number of abortions performed for “non-medical purposes." The move comes as China introduces new policies aimed at encouraging families to have more children.

Al Jazeera

350K people killed in Syria war over decade

At least 350,209 people have been killed in 10 years of war in Syria, the UN says in its first official death toll since 2014. Its human rights chief cautioned the figure is “certainly an undercount of the actual number of killings.”

BBC

Migrants camp on abandoned racetrack

Migrants, refugees and the homeless live without electricity or water where not long ago, million-dollar cars used to race.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

1st Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait

Residents of a First Nations community in Canada, who were deprived of clean drinking water for nearly a quarter of a century, can now drink from their taps after a water treatment facility became fully operational.

Guardian

Haitians trickling to US border flown home

The United States is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico.

Associated Press

Migrant crisis at Texas border

MSN

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Former Liberian leader liable for massacre

A former Liberian military commander who supervised the slaughter of unarmed civilians at a church during that country’s civil war in 1990 is liable under U.S. law for participating in extrajudicial killings and torture.

MSN

Libyan parliament dubious of government

Libya’s eastern-based parliament said this week it had withdrawn confidence from the unity government, though it would continue to operate as a caretaker administration.

Reuters

Tunisian president declares transitional rules

Tunisian President Kais Saied said this week he had instituted transitional governing rules and would introduce a new electoral law, in a speech that came eight weeks after he seized power in a move his foes called a coup.

Reuters

Will Tunisia’s political crisis deepen?

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists find Africa’s first ankylosaur fossil

Fossil hunters have unearthed remnants of the oldest – and probably weirdest – ankylosaur known so far from a site in the Middle Atlas mountains in Morocco.

Guardian

Scientists created the world’s whitest paint

The whitest paint in the world has been created in a lab at Purdue University, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce or even eliminate the need for air conditioning, scientists say.

USA TODAY

GLOBAL HEALTH

EU donates 200M vaccines to poor countries

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU’s vaccination drive was done “the right way” and vowed to donate 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries.

Deutsche Welle

UN health agency sets higher bar for air quality

The harmful health effects of air pollution kick in at lower levels than previously thought, the World Health Organization said as it set a new standard for policymakers in the first update of its air quality guidelines in 15 years.

Associated Press

Ovarian cancer treatment shows promise

Thousands of women with ovarian cancer could benefit from a revolutionary drug combination after it was shown to shrink tumors in half of patients with an advanced form of the disease.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Michael Kugelman):

How real is the threat of Taliban infighting?

Deutsche Welle

Column (Kim Heacox):

Rain fell on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring

Guardian

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Libya’s interim government must end civil society crackdown

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Indian teaches communities to nurture trees

Trees are good for biodiversity and people. Which is why sociology professor Shyam Sunder Jyani encourages communities in Rajasthan —one of India’s driest regions— to nurture them like loved ones.

Deutsche Welle

Man teaches kids life lessons through chess

CBS

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Donors plan to maintain, increase giving

A year and a half into the COVID pandemic, donors remain committed to philanthropy with most planning to maintain or even further increase their donations in 2021.

NonProfit Times

Donors pledge $5B to protect nature

A group of private donors pledged a record $5 billion to help safeguard the planet’s plants, animals and ecosystems at an event during the United Nations General Assembly this week.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Afghans fight off hunger under the Taliban

Kabul is a city still waiting for its new life to take shape - a lot depends on the will and whims of its new Taliban masters. But it is hunger that could become the worst of Afghanistan’s many crises.

BBC

Afghans fleeing conflict, drought in urgent need of aid

Deutsche Welle

Congo’s Ebola orphans work to survive

Thousands of children in eastern Congo lost parents to the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, the United Nations estimates. Discrimination around the disease has forced many children to work in order to be able to eat.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

20% of Nigeria’s workers lost jobs to COVID

A new report published this week offers a grim assessment of how the pandemic has roiled Nigeria’s economy and had an uneven impact across both the formal and informal sectors.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Weather extremes threaten giant sequoia trees

Hot and dry weather this week added to the challenges facing California firefighters battling to keep flames from driving further into a grove of ancient sequoias.

Guardian

The link between climate change, seaweed and ice cream

BBC

Canary Island eruption forces mass evacuation

Authorities in Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma have evacuated thousands of people after a volcano erupted this week with lava flows destroying isolated houses and threatening to reach the coast.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Protester in Tahrir, Egypt carrying a banner of the Egyptian and Tunisian flags in 2011, that reads, “No voice higher than the voice of the people.” Tunisia‘s Jasmine Revolution resonated across the Middle East and North Africa pushing the region’s citizens to put pressure on their governments for greater accountability and increased human rights. Tunisia‘s President Kais Saied has taken recent steps to ignore parts of Tunisia’s constitution and rule by decree threatening the country’s decade-old democracy. (Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy) Photo used under CC BY

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