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An Afghan doctor prepares to administer a vaccine in 2013. With Afghanistan experiencing a deepening humanitarian crisis since the Taliban’s seizure of power in August, many medical staff have not been paid for months and health facilities lack even the most basic items to treat patients. (Photo by EC/ECHO/Pierre Prakash) Photo used under CC BY

Sanctions mean outbreaks, malnutrition for Afghans

Large parts of Afghanistan’s health system are on the brink of collapse because of western sanctions against the Taliban as the country faces outbreaks of disease and an escalating malnutrition crisis.

Guardian

How to help Afghans without benefiting the Taliban?

Deutsche Welle

Sudan forces tear gas anti-coup protesters

Security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Sudan’s capital in the latest street demonstrations against the October military coup and subsequent deal that reinstated deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.

Associated Press

Pressure mounts on EU to sanction Myanmar

After the United States, Britain and Canada last week announced additional sanctions on Myanmar’s military junta, pressure is growing on the European Union to follow suit.

Deutsche Welle

Police, migrants clash outside Mexico City

A large group of thousands of migrants from across Latin America, which has slowly been winding its way through Mexico, has clashed with police as the group approached the capital, Mexico City.

BBC

US won’t punish troops for deadly Kabul attack

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has decided against disciplining any members of the United States military for an August drone attack in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including seven children.

Al Jazeera

26 dead migrants ID’d in Channel capsizing

The Paris prosecutor said 26 migrants have been formally identified, including seven women, a teenager and a 7-year-old girl, in the tragic capsizing last month of a boat in the English Channel.

CTV

English Channel migrant crisis continues

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Indian farmers head home after year of protests

Thousands of Indian farmers have packed their belongings and dismantled tent cities on the outskirts of Delhi as they headed home following a year-long protest against the government’s agriculture policies.

Al Jazeera

Migrants trudge across desert to get to Chile

It has become common in recent months to see migrants trudging across the Atacama Desert but the flow appears to have increased in recent days ahead of Chile’s presidential runoff this weekend.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Mali promises election timetable by new year

The head of Mali‘s military-dominated government on Sunday promised West Africa’s regional bloc that he would provide it with an election timetable by January 2022.

Al Jazeera

West Africa threatens more sanctions against Mali

Associated Press

Suu Kyi sentence shows rising junta confidence

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to two years in prison over breaches of the country’s COVID restrictions in the first of a number of trials.

Asia Times Online

Hong Kong elections: How China reshaped the city

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

S. Korea tests facial recognition to track COVID

South Korea will soon roll out a pilot project to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and thousands of CCTV cameras to track the movement of people infected with COVID, despite concerns about the invasion of privacy.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

What is the future of wind power for electricity?

Wind is becoming increasingly important for electricity generation — and turbines are getting bigger, taller and more efficient. About 7 percent of the world’s electricity already comes from wind power.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Trans hormone denial increases suicide risk

Transgender teenagers and young adults who are unable to access cross-sex hormone therapy are at greater risk of depression and attempting suicide, a study by a U.S. advocacy group of thousands of trans young people showed.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

COVID underscored need for grief support

Nearly two-thirds of American adults say that the COVID pandemic has underscored the need for increased bereavement support, a report from the New York Life Foundation finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Sultan Barakat):

In Afghanistan, education must take precedence over politics

Al Jazeera

Column (William Gois):

How the pandemic escalated migrant worker wage theft in the Gulf

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Ellen Laipson):

Recalibrated US policy offers little hope to hungry Afghans

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

New trail revitalizes destroyed Japan coast

Ten years after a tsunami devastated coastal Japan, a hiking trail is helping locals reclaim the coast and heal from tragedy.

BBC

Capturing the magic of the Michinoku Coastal Trail

YouTube

Chewing gum could reduce spread of COVID

An experimental chewing gum containing a protein that “traps” coronavirus particles could limit the amount of virus in saliva and help curb transmission when infected people are talking, breathing or coughing.

Reuters

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation awards $42M to support minorities

The Open Society Foundations has awarded grants totaling $42.5 million over five years in support of Asian-American and Pacific Islander and Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, Axios reports.

Philanthropy News Digest

Chan Zuckerberg to invest in human health

The company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years.

ABC News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Myanmar garment workers fear jobs loss

Myanmar trade unions want foreign fashion firms and governments to sever trade ties to pressure the military, but some workers are worried about losing their jobs.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Is Afghanistan being cut off from the world?

Al Jazeera

Warming of 3C costs $1.6T yearly in lost labor

Global warming of 3 degrees Celsius could cost as much as $1.6 trillion each year in lost labor productivity as even the coolest hours of the day start posing major health risks to workers in parts of the world, researchers said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic heat record sounds alarm on climate

The highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, 100F, has been officially confirmed, sounding “alarm bells” over Earth’s changing climate.

BBC

Coastal Ghana hit by climate crisis

A month ago high tide in Keta, one of Ghana’s coastal towns, brought seawater flooding into 1,027 houses, leaving about 3,000 people homeless overnight.

Guardian

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic

Microbes in oceans and soils across the globe are evolving to eat plastic, according to a recent study.

Guardian

Scientist’s crusade to protect seahorses

CNN

Photo of the Day

Two Madagascar children gaze at the camera in 2019. Following the worst drought in Madagascar in 30 years, as well as high levels of poverty, a million people in the region are struggling to find enough food to survive. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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