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A woman in Sao Paolo, Brazil, displays her COVID-19 vaccination card. Vaccination rates in many Latin American countries, including Brazil, Cuba and Chile, are now outpacing countries in Europe and North America. (Photo by Sao Paulo State Government) Photo used under CC BY

S. America outpaces US, Europe in vaccinations

The tide is turning in many Latin American nations today, where Covid-19 vaccination rates are outpacing countries in Europe and North America and helping drive down deaths.

CNN

Map:

Tracking Covid-19’s global spread

CNN

Public shaming returns in China amid COVID

Police in southern China have been captured on camera parading four alleged offenders accused of smuggling people across China’s borders in a public shaming exercise.

BBC

Flight to Shanghai turned back because of COVID rules

Associated Press

Russian court shuts down second rights organization

A Russian court has ordered the closure of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a day after the supreme court revoked the legal status of its sister organization, Memorial International.

Guardian

Much of Africa still opposes LGBTQ rights

Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice. But the South African archbishop’s campaign had limited impact in the rest of Africa.

Associated Press

Pilots detail collapse of Afghan Air Force

Hours before Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the Afghan Air Force was melting down. Instead of unleashing air attacks against advancing insurgents, some airmen were fighting each other.

Reuters

Indonesia agrees to accept Rohingya refugees

Indonesia has announced it will allow a boat packed with Rohingya refugees, which had become stranded off its coast, to dock after calls from aid organizations to allow the vessel to seek refuge.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

The child labor adding a shine to cosmetics

Mica is a group of minerals used in electronics, paints and cosmetics. But very often children are involved in mining it.

Deutsche Welle

COVID worsens child labor in India

YouTube

Migrants stranded at Belarus-Poland border

Since Nov. 8, a large group of migrants, mostly Iraqi Kurds, has been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland. Most of the migrants are fleeing conflict at home.

Associated Press

Activists denounce China’s surveillance system

Campaigners say China has “systematized arbitrary and secret detention” by holding thousands of people under “Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location.”

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Somalia allies fear instability as crisis deepens

Somalia’s allies and international observers have expressed alarm over the escalating power struggle between the country’s president and prime minister, as heavily armed factions patrolled parts of the capital.

Al Jazeera

Greece to extend border wall to stop migrants

Greece says it will renew a request to extend a border wall along its frontier with Turkey and promised to expand a powerful surveillance network aimed at stopping migrants entering the country illegally.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Baby dinosaur discovered preserved inside egg

An unprecedented 70-million-year-old fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds.

CNN

Largest-ever millipede fossil found in England

Scientists say they have discovered the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede on a beach in Northumberland, totally by chance. The millipede is thought to have been more than 8 feet long

BBC

Rare ‘thunder bird’ fossil found in Australia

Guardian

Egyptian mummy is ‘digitally unwrapped’

For the first time, scientists have used three-dimensional technology to “digitally unwrap” the mummy of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh that had not been opened in 3,000 years.

CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Women forced to abort female fetuses in India

A deepening gender bias, breeding rampant sex-selective abortions and female infanticides, means that India accounts for nearly half of global missing female births.

Guardian

South Africa recalls isolation, quarantine rules

South Africa has recalled rules that no longer required people without symptoms of COVID-19 to isolate or test if they have been in contact with a positive case.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Watson):

2021 - the year of rhetoric, not action, for climate

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Martha Rojas):

To cut climate risks and keep 1.5 alive, wetlands are key

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Anita Haugen):

Israel-Jordan energy-for-water deal positive for whole region

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Help for Gaza’s stray animals with disabilities

An animal shelter in Gaza is using wheels from old toy cars and bicycles to build mobility devices for cats and dogs with disabilities.

Deutsche Welle

Teen performs daily random acts of kindness

A teenager who started doing daily acts of kindness has now launched a foundation for good causes. Sebbie Hall started in March 2020 when his school closed due to Covid-19.

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Man buys gifts for kids affected by tornadoes

A Kentucky man wanted to ensure that the kids in his community had a special holiday season despite losing nearly everything in the deadly tornadoes — and he’s now on a mission to make it happen.

People

Equestrian program helps traumatized children

Equestrian Element partners with the COVE school, part of the Home for Little Wanderers, to help students work through trauma and social and emotional disabilities.

WCVB

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ancient sites shelter Syria’s displaced families

Sarjableh, an early Christian settlement with ruins dating to the 5th century. has become a home to more than 50 families displaced from the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria, during the war.

Al Jazeera

Typhoon Rai survivors struggle to rebuild

Nearly 4 million people across more than 400 cities in the Philippines were affected by Typhoon Rai. More than half a million remained displaced during Christmas.

CNN

Carnage left behind in wake of Typhoon Rai

YouTube

ENVIRONMENT

Finland reindeer struggle with climate change

With the Arctic warming three times faster than the rest of the planet, climate change is threatening reindeer herders’ livelihood.

Deutsche Welle

Climate anxiety causes growing distress

Climate change is spurring rising distress and mental health issues among generations young and old, but a growing network of support groups aims to tackle the issue.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Brazilian towns underwater after huge floods

Since November, Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia suffered heavy rain and flooding, and multiple dams have burst.

CNN

Cameroon’s rare gorillas face mounting threats

The Ebo rainforest in Cameroon is part of the second-largest tropical forest in the world. It is home to rare primates including gorillas. But poachers and logging companies threaten the forest and its inhabitants.

Deutsch Welle

Photo of the Day

Flooding in Laranjal do Jari, Amapá, Brazil, in April 2018. The death toll from floods now hammering northeast Brazil has risen to 20. The governor of Bahia state declared it the worst disaster in the state’s history. Rescuers are bracing for more rain in the coming days. (Photo by Joseph Freitas) Photo used under CC BY

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