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The UN Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York holds a meeting in 2019. Five world powers - U.S., UK, Russia, China and France - have pledged to prevent atomic weapons from spreading to ensure a nuclear war is never fought. (Photo by Manuel Elias) Photo used under CC BY

5 world powers vow to stop spread of nuclear weapons

Five global nuclear powers have pledged to prevent atomic weapons from spreading and to ensure a nuclear war is never fought, in a rare joint statement ahead of a review of a key nuclear treaty later this year.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s PM resigns amid political deadlock

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced his resignation amid political deadlock and widespread pro-democracy protests following a military coup that derailed the country’s transition to democratic rule.

Associated Press

Uncertainty in Sudan as PM resigns

Al Jazeera

South Africa parliament blaze flares up again

South African firefighters are struggling to extinguish another fire at the complex housing the country’s parliament in Cape Town, a day after a blaze swept through the buildings.

Guardian

Major fire tears through South Africa’s parliament building

YouTube

Militants attack Syrian bus, killing five troops

Militants attacked a bus carrying soldiers on a desert highway in central Syria, killing five troops and wounding 20.

ABC News

16 killed in Colombia by illegal armed groups

At least 16 people have been killed in Colombia’s Arauca province amid fighting between illegal armed groups.

Reuters

Drone attack on US military base in Iraq foiled

Two armed drones were shot down as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting U.S. forces near Baghdad’s international airport, Iraqi security sources said, adding that nobody was hurt in the incident.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Roma women in Serbia fight for equal rights

Young Roma women in Serbia are rapping against child marriages and for equal rights. In recognition of their efforts, the musicians have been invited to the “Women of the World Festival” in London.

Deutsche Welle

Normalization failed to mask suffering in Syria

The year 2021 marked a decade since Syria’s uprisings erupted, and the country is still mired in poverty and violence.

Al Jazeera

Bahrain appoints new ambassador to Syria

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Sudanese forces fire tear gas at protesters

Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas at anti-coup protesters in the capital. Demonstrators came close to the presidential palace before they were met by a heavy security presence.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar celebs who supported protests jailed

A court in military-ruled Myanmar jailed three prominent show business figures for three years each for their part in protests against a February coup, media reported.

Reuters

Ghani blames allies over Afghanistan’s fall

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has broken his silence with his first interview since fleeing Kabul four months ago, in effect blaming the international community, and in particular the U.S., for the fall of the republic.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

James Webb telescope comes to life in space

Heralded as NASA‘s premier space observatory of the next decade, the James Webb telescope launched on Christmas Day, and it still has a ways to go before it is in orbit and observing the universe.

CNN

Veteran Hubble vs. new Webb space telescope

Associated Press

Researchers ID 14 new shrews in Indonesia

Louisiana researchers have identified 14 new species of shrews on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where seven in that genus were previously known.

ABC News

Nickel oxide’s ability to learn could fuel AI fields

A unique material, nickel oxide, demonstrates the ability to learn things about its environment in a way that emulates the most basic learning abilities of animals.

Asia Times Online

GLOBAL HEALTH

Thousands of Peru kids orphaned by COVID

Peru has been battered by COVID-19, with more than 202,500 deaths in a population of under 33 million. One of the most tragic effects of the pandemic there is the number of children who have been orphaned.

BBC

Listen: Peru’s left-behind children

BBC

Israel approves 4th dose of COVID vaccine

Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for residents who are most vulnerable to COVID-19. Israel, one of the first countries to do so, made the decision as it braces for a wave of infections fueled by the Omicron variant.

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Could Chile show the United States how to rebuild its democracy?

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At CIS, Putin champions solidarity amid Ukraine crisis

Asia Times Online

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Lebanon’s soul has been eviscerated by its financial crisis

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

College alum anonymously donates $180K

Physics professor Vinod Menon doesn’t get much mail at the office, so when the City College of New York returned to in-person classes this semester, he was greeted with a nondescript package.

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Man raises £5K for Typhoon Rai survivors

A man from Jersey who lives in the Philippines has raised more than £5,000 in the aftermath of Typhoon Rai, which killed at least 375 and left many more homeless.

BBC

SC mechanic donates cars to those in need

Eliot Middleton fixes vehicles in need of repair and gives them away to people in need in his rural area of South Carolina.

People

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ethiopia seeks extra $2.5B to rebuild from war

Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth $2.5 billion to help finance programs to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian aid, the finance ministry said.

Reuters

Ethiopia to create national dialogue commission

Deutsche Welle

Syrian asylum seekers struggle to rebuild lives

Syrian asylum seekers in Cyprus face a host of difficulties amid delays in processing of applications, as the government renews the call for European solidarity.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

More than 500 new species discovered in 2021

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the “hell heron” and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London.

CNN

Alaska Icemageddon warning follows high heat

The coldest U.S. state of Alaska has recorded its hottest-ever December day, amid an unusual winter warm spell. The weather extremes have prompted warnings of an “Icemageddon” from authorities.

BBC

Eco costs of illegal gold mining in Mozambique

Thousands of miners descended on Chimanimani National Park to find their fortune digging for gold. But environmental costs have been high.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Young children on the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve in Peru gaze at the camera in 2016. In a country battered by COVID-19-related deaths, at least 93,000 children have been left orphaned by the pandemic. (Photo by Alan Kotok) Photo used under CC BY

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