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NATO ministers meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, in 2010. As NATO talks with Russia over Ukraine meet a dead end, Russia is threatening to deploy troops to Cuba and Venezuela. Poland’s foreign minister, Zbigniew Rau, warned that Europe faced its greatest risk of war in 30 years. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison) Photo used under CC BY

Russia may send troops to S. America if talks fail

Russia has refused to rule out a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if talks with the West on European security and Ukraine fail to go its way, while warning the latest discussions with NATO were hitting a dead end.

Guardian

Fear grips Ukrainian villages near Russia

Al Jazeera

Russian-led troops begin leaving Kazakhstan

Russian-led troops sent to help Kazakhstan’s government quell violent protests have begun leaving the country, according to Russia’s defense minister.

ABC News

China faces omicron test weeks ahead of Olympics

Most access to a major city adjacent to Beijing was suspended as China tried to contain an outbreak of the omicron variant, which poses a test to its “zero-tolerance” COVID-19 policy.

Associated Press

China’s Tianjin omicron outbreak grows

Reuters

Sudan’s protests violently dispersed; 2 killed

Sudanese security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital of Khartoum as thousands took to the streets against the coup.

Associated Press

Nobel committee: PM must end Tigray conflict

The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize appealed to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the award in 2019, to halt the conflict unfolding in the country’s northern region of Tigray.

Reuters

Strike paralyzes Lebanon as economy worsens

Schools, universities and many shops were closed in Lebanon as a general strike by public transportation and labor unions paralyzed the crisis-hit Mideast nation.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Afghan women lament hardship under Taliban

For Afghan women, economic challenges engulfing the country have been compounded by further restrictions on their freedoms, employment, education and even movement.

Al Jazeera

Kabul’s markets full of food, but no one has money

BBC

Those fleeing Lebanon accuse Greece of abuse

Dozens of people in Lebanon attempted to sail to Italy on October 26, but they never reached their destination. Al Jazeera spoke to three of the passengers.

Al Jazeera

Blockade creates ‘hell’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Tigray is under what the United Nations calls a de facto blockade that is preventing life-saving medicine and food from reaching millions.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Journalists in Hong Kong reel from assault

An exodus of journalists and editors from Hong Kong’s much-acclaimed news outlets in the last couple of years have alarmed free speech campaigners in the city and beyond.

Guardian

China aims to avoid an omicron Olympics

China’s capital Beijing will not be locked down before the Winter Olympics. Athletes and participants, who will be managed under a tight “closed-loop system” to avoid spread.

Asia Times Online

NATO open to talks with Russia on Ukraine

The U.S. and its allies sat down with Russian envoys amid heightened tensions over Russia’s troop buildup near Ukraine. While no gaps were bridged, NATO said it was ready for more talks with Moscow.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

YouTube a ‘conduit of online disinformation’

Fact-checking organizations around the world say YouTube is not doing enough to prevent the spread of misinformation on the platform.

BBC

Gravity could solve clean energy’s drawback

Finding green energy when the winds are calm and the skies are cloudy has been a challenge. Storing it in giant concrete blocks could be the answer we’ve been looking for.

Wired

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pig heart transplanted into human patient

In a nine-hour procedure, surgeons transplanted the heart taken from a 1-year-old pig into a 57-year-old man. The pig was gene-edited, bred and killed for this purpose.

Deutsche Welle

Ethical issues around pig heart transplants

BBC

US Navy to drain underground Hawaii fuel tank

After initially resisting, the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii’s order to remove fuel from a massive underground storage tank facility near Pearl Harbor blamed for contaminating drinking water, officials said.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Nisar Majid and Guhad Adan):

Somalia may be on the verge of another famine

Al Jazeera

Column (Konstantin Eggert):

Putin will maintain US, NATO talks before making next move

Deutsche Welle

Column (MK Bhadrakumar):

Kazakhstan becomes toxic graveyard for US diplomacy

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Maya Angelou first Black woman on US quarter

The late prolific poet and civil rights activist, who died at the age of 86 in 2014, has become the first Black woman to be featured on the U.S. quarter.

People

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Motel provides free rooms to those in need

The Lincoln Tunnel Motel is famous on TikTok – not because it’s glamorous, but because it provides free rooms to those in need.

CBS News

Artist supports food banks by turning bowls

Mike Mittelman’s Bowls for Food effort has raised more than $20,000 to fight food insecurity. The Massachusetts man creates wooden bowls to send to those who donate to food banks.

WCVB News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Soaring cost of living hitting Sri Lankans hard

Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented economic crisis. Its foreign exchange reserves dropped to around $1.6 billion by the end of November, only enough to pay for just a few weeks of imports.

BBC

Drought leaves Afghanistan region destitute

People living in Afghanistan‘s northwestern Badghis province have suffered years of drought. Their suffering has been compounded by the freefalling Afghan economy and the bottlenecks in international aid.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

What to expect from the sixth mass extinction

Humans alive today are witnessing the beginning of the first mass extinction in 65 million years. What does biodiversity loss mean for us and the environment?

Deutsche Welle

Finding solutions to biodiversity

YouTube

The biodiversity crisis needs its net zero moment

Wired

Aircraft and fuel key to illegal Amazon mining

Environmental and Indigenous rights groups estimate some 20,000 illegal miners are present on the Yanomami Reserve in Brazil that is roughly the same size as Portugal.

Associated Press

Climate change destroying homes in the Arctic

Cracked homes, buckled roads and ruptured pipelines are likely to become common in and near the Arctic as warming temperatures cause frozen ground to thaw.

BBC

Photo of the Day

Women cross a market in Parwan Province, Afghanistan. Since the Taliban’s seizure of power, the country has plunged into unprecedented economic crisis. Many Afghan women are having trouble putting food on their tables. (Photo by U.S. Federal Government) Photo used under CC BY

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