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A butcher poses with his meats in Kasubi central market, Uganda. Men’s meaty diets cause greater climate-heating emissions than women’s diets worldwide. (Photo by Bruno ashimwe winks) Photo used under CC BY

Men’s meat-heavy diets markedly harm climate

Men’s meaty diets are responsible for 40% more climate-heating emissions than those of women, according to a UK study. The research also found a quarter of diet-related emissions were from “optional” food and drink, like coffee, alcohol, cakes and sweets.

Guardian

COVID-19 in pregnancy linked with stillbirths

Pregnant women with COVID-19 face increased chances for stillbirths compared with uninfected women, and that risk spiked to four times higher after the delta variant emerged, new government data show.

PBS NewsHour

People with mental illness at higher risk of COVID

NPR

India’s Modi backs down on farm reforms

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting against for more than a year, sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India farm protests to continue despite repeal of laws

Bloomberg

China resolution envisions full reunion with Taiwan

China’s third historical resolution outlines General Secretary and President Xi Jinping’s plans to reform the country’s army, strengthen its marine power, form stronger ties with neighboring countries, and eventually “reunify” Taiwan with the mainland.

Asia Times Online

China plans to improve elderly care services

China is urging some local governments to embark on pilot programs next year to improve medical and care services for the elderly, with the goal of rolling out the scheme nationwide in 2023.

Reuters

Death, distress for Syria’s children in Idlib

At least 60 children in northern Idlib providence of Syria have been killed in some 700 air raids and shelling in Idlib over the past five months, Syrian Civil Defense media coordinator Moussa al-Zaidan told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

Hate speech in Myanmar thrives on Facebook

Internal documents viewed by The Associated Press show that Facebook continues to have problems detecting and moderating hate speech and misinformation on its platform in the Southeast Asian nation.

Associated Press

Rohingya in Bangladesh camps fear police

Rohingya refugees living in sprawling camps near Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh say they are caught in the middle of alleged police “atrocities” and violence by an armed group with members within the community.

Al Jazeera

Rohingya refugees fear deportation

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Polish guards fire water cannon on migrants

Violence erupted at the Poland-Belarus border as migrants desperate to cross into the European Union threw stones at Polish border guards who responded with water cannon and tear gas.

CNN

Fears of violence escalate on Poland-Belarus border

CNN

UN calls on Iran to repeal ‘anti-abortion’ law

Leading United Nations experts have called on Iran to repeal a newly implemented law that they say violates women’s human rights under international law.

Al Jazeera

The women of Iran’s underground metal scene

BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Myanmar students boycott classes under junta

As schools reopen across Myanmar, classrooms remain almost completely empty with students and teachers refusing to attend.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar junta adds charges to ex-leader

BBC

Bomb blasts Shiite neighborhood in Kabul

At least one person has been killed in an explosion in Kabul. The largely Shiite neighborhood has previously been targeted by attacks by the Islamic State-Khorasan group.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russia calls out US for space safety hypocrisy

Russia has acknowledged destroying a satellite in a missile test, as the US had reported. But the Kremlin denies creating a risk to others in space — and says the US is being hypocritical on space safety.

Deutsche Welle

Nigerian crypto traders risk jail to bypass ban

With Nigeria getting serious about banning the trading of bitcoin and other volatile cryptocurrencies, young Nigerians who rely on digital currencies are going underground.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GLOBAL HEALTH

Breast cancer is a growing dilemma in Africa

Breast cancer is currently the most common type of cancer worldwide. Although the incidence of breast cancer remains higher in developed countries, the incidence is also increasing in developing countries.

Deutsche Welle

Rumors feed vaccine reluctance in Peru

While more than 55% of Peruvians have gotten at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccines, only about 25% of people in Indigenous areas have been vaccinated.

Associated Press

Noma: The hidden childhood disease known as the ‘face of poverty’

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Maria Sjödin):

Why countries should recognize a third gender

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Nikola Mikovic):

Middle East migrants become pawns in new cold war

Asia Times Online

Column (Mitzi Jonelle Tan):

The Global South does not need debt. We need climate justice

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Mom braids hair for kids in her community

A friend‘s act of kindness inspired a woman in Antioch, Tennessee, to lend a helping hand by braiding children’s hair for free.

Yahoo! News

Salon owner helps people experiencing medical-related hair loss

WCVB

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

CZI awards $9M to advance education equity

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced grants totaling more than $9 million in support of efforts to expand the pipeline of diverse teachers, administrators, and education leaders nationwide.

Philanthropy News Digest

Boy uses Make-A-Wish to feed homeless

CBS News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Dams, drought choke Syria’s water supply

The dwindling flow of the Euphrates River combined with Turkey’s occupation of Alouk water station has disrupted access to water for 460,000 people.

Guardian

Portrait of poverty in Lebanon as UN visits

Lebanon‘s most impoverished city, Tripoli’s decades-long decline traces the history of marginalization in Lebanon - and warns of the desperation still to come.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mexico’s army stands between gangs

The Mexican army has largely stopped fighting drug cartels in western Mexico, instead ordering soldiers to guard the dividing lines between gang territories so they won’t invade each other’s turf.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

UN review release plan for radioactive water

A team from the U.N. nuclear agency arrived in Japan this week to assess preparations for the release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

Associated Press

Indonesia sees gas as bridge to carbon neutral

Indonesia is seeking investors for seven new initiatives in a sign the country will be falling back on its rich reserves of natural gas to ease the difficult transition from coal to renewable energy over the next three decades.

Asia Times Online

Sustainable sugarcane production in Ghana

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Students in school in Myanmar. Schooling in Myanmar has recently reopened after a long pause because of COVID but students and teachers are still refusing to attend out of fear of being targets of military attack and to continue protest against the coup that happened in February. (Photo by zjtcpts) Photo used under CC BY

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