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Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping met Feb. 4 at the start of the Winter Olympics to sign a joint statement calling on NATO to rule out expansion in eastern Europe, denouncing the formation of security blocs in the Asia Pacific region, and criticizing the Aukus trilateral security pact between the U.S., UK and Australia. (Photo by Presidential Executive Office of Russia) Photo used under CC BY

Russia, China urge NATO to rule out an expansion

China’s Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia have signed a joint statement calling on the west to “abandon the ideologized approaches of the cold war,” in Beijing at the start of the Winter Olympics.

Guardian

Ukrainians face fear of war on the border

Deutsche Welle

Everything to know about the Beijing Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympics have kicked off under a cloud of COVID restrictions, diplomatic boycotts and questions over China’s treatment of Uighurs.

Al Jazeera

US attempting to speed up at-risk Afghan evacuations

A lack of flights and the search for a new U.S. reception center are among the hurdles facing the White House as it races to speed up the evacuation of at-risk Afghans.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Single suicide bomber responsible for Kabul airport massacre

USA TODAY

How EU could cripple Myanmar’s military junta

A year after the military coup, the EU is reportedly preparing a fresh round of sanctions on Myanmar. Rights groups have called for the lucrative natural gas sector to be targeted, but the decision has been delayed.

Deutsche Welle

Post-prison fight, Kurds ask for help against IS

The battle for Gweiran Prison is over; it took 10 days, but U.S.-backed, Syrian Kurdish-led forces finally defeated the militants who attacked the facility. But the impact continues to reverberate.

Associated Press

At least 21 dead in Pakistan after more clashes

Pakistani troops battled separatist militants for a third day in the troubled province of Balochistan, where hundreds of residents in a town near the Iranian border remained trapped by shellfire and heavy fighting.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

S. America dangerous for human rights activists

The region accounted for more than three-quarters of all murders of human rights activists around the globe in 2020, according to Freedom House.

NBCNews.com

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Islamic State leader dies during US raid in Syria

The leader of the violent Islamic State group has been killed by blowing himself up along with members of his family during an overnight raid carried out by U.S. special operations forces in northwestern Syria.

Associated Press

US forces launch deadly raid in Syria’s Idlib

Al Jazeera

India‘s job crisis leading to nowhere generation

India aims to create six million jobs over the next five years. It will not be easy: the country’s unemployment rate has exceeded most emerging economies in recent years.

BBC

Russia accuses US of stoking Ukraine tensions

Russia accused the U.S. of ramping up tensions and ignoring Moscow’s calls to ease a standoff over Ukraine, a day after Washington announced it would send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Russia plans ‘very graphic’ fake video as pretext for Ukraine invasion, US claims

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Space station will crash down to Earth in 2031

The International Space Station will continue working until 2030, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean in early 2031, according to NASA.

BBC

Student-built robot on track to explore the moon

Iris has not been built by experienced engineers at NASA or a large aerospace company, but by students at robotics professor William Whittaker’s home institution of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

BBC

Germans to breed pigs for human transplants

German scientists plan to clone and then breed this year genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors for humans, based on a simpler version of a U.S.-engineered animal used in the world’s first pig-to-human transplant.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

In Africa, at-home COVID tests scarce, costly

For millions of people in rich countries, COVID-19 self-tests have at times been abundant and free, including in Britain, Canada, France and Germany. But most people across Africa have limited access to them.

Associated Press

In world first, S.Africa’s Afrigen makes mRNA COVID vaccine using Moderna data

Thomson Reuters Foundation

US hospitals seek foreign health care workers

With American hospitals facing a dire shortage of nurses amid a slogging pandemic, many are looking abroad for health care workers.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Peniel E. Joseph):

White ‘discomfort’ is the tool politicians are using to erase Black History

CNN

Column (David Adler):

Cuba has been under US embargo for 60 years. It’s time for that to end

Guardian

Column (Namrata Raju):

Discrimination and forced labor at Dubai’s Expo

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Dad helps gymnast daughter overcome fear

Five-year-old gymnast Jayden Pollard got scared practicing a stunt with her dad. But he reassured her, saying, “My job is to make sure you’re safe.” With a hug and words of encouragement, they did this.

CBS News

Bodybuilder medals in 1st event after chemo

Erica Langley decided she wanted to try competing again after she finished up chemotherapy for her bout with breast cancer.

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

This mom is crocheting to help those in need

Jill Volarich has donated more than 750 homemade items to charities benefiting the homeless, bullying prevention, cancer patients and her community.

Good Morning America

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Dozens escape poverty in Lebanon to join ISIL

Security sources say at least 48 young men disappeared from Tripoli during the past few months and are suspected of joining Islamic State in Iraq.

Al Jazeera

Ghana’s fishing communities fight for survival

Competition and overfishing by international trawlers, as well as, harmful practices employed by local fishing folk have led to a strain on both the ecosystem and peoples’ livelihoods.

Deutsche Welle

New Delhi homeless shiver through cold snap

The unusually harsh bout of winter cold in India’s capital city is blamed for killing nearly 200 homeless people.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

The illegal Brazilian gold you may be wearing

Mining in territories that are supposed to be protected by law is destroying the lives of indigenous people and wreaking havoc on the environment.

BBC

Indigenous culture protects Colombia’s forest

Indigenous communities are widely considered the best guardians of vanishing rainforests. From using farm plots later regrown as forest to looking at nature as having its own rights, here’s why that’s the case.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UK mulls coal mine despite climate concerns

The UK is considering approving the first new deep coal mine in over 30 years. It‘s a decision that critics say poses a serious setback to climate protection efforts — and the country’s credibility.

Deutsche Welle

Researches protecting Africa’s tallest animals

According to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, there are about 117,000 giraffes left in the wild. Researchers in Namibia want to improve their protection by raising awareness of this iconic species.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley observe the U.S. raid in Syria against ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, from the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon on Feb. 2. Al-Qurayshi blew himself up, along with members of his family, during the raid. (Photo by Lisa Ferdinando) Photo used under CC BY

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