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Afghans wait in line for humanitarian aid in Kabul in 2009. President Joe Biden has signed an order to split $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets between 9/11 victims and aid for Afghanistan, a move that has many outraged, saying the U.S. is stealing from Afghanistan. (Photo by Spc. Luke Austin) Photo used under CC BY

Biden thaws assets to help 9/11 victims, needy Afghans

President Joe Biden has signed an order to free $7 billion in Afghan assets now frozen in the U.S., splitting the money between humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Afghanistan and a fund for Sept. 11 victims.

Associated Press

Taliban call on Biden to reverse decision

Thomson Reuters Foundation

9/11 families lay claim to Afghanistan’s frozen billions

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Estimated 1M Afghan children engaged in labor

An estimated 1 million children are currently engaged in child labor in Afghanistan as family incomes have plummeted in the past six months, according to a recent study.

Al Jazeera

Deported refugees tortured in Cameroon

More than 80 Cameroonian asylum seekers deported by the United States between 2019 and 2021 suffered serious human rights violations – from torture and rape to enforced disappearance – on returning home.

Al Jazeera

Climate crisis forces African girls into sex work

As global warming continues to devastate rural agriculture, young women are moving to urban centers – and into prostitution.

Al Jazeera

Putin suggests dialogue possible on Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests it’s not too late for dialogue over Ukraine. The world is guessing whether Russia is planning an invasion or creating a negotiating tool.

Guardian

Ukraine vows to keep airspace open despite tensions

BBC

Ukraine special forces offer training to civilians

YouTube

US, Japan, S. Korea meet to discuss N. Korea

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Hawaii to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

The fight to save girls from mutilation in Kenya

As girls are paraded through Kuria’s streets in the school holiday cutting season, hundreds more are hidden by a network of neighbours working to change attitudes on FGM from the ground up.

Guardian

Living in a woman’s body: I was mutilated – and I swore I would stop this happening to another girl

Guardian

Afghan smugglers hike prices, expand networks

People smugglers are more than doubling fees for some routes as they cash in on an exodus fleeing the Taliban.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Russians scoff at West’s fears of Ukraine attack

While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where pundits and ordinary people alike don’t expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack.

NPR

Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides. Here’s where an invasion could be launched

CNN

US says website spread Russian propaganda

U.S. intelligence officials accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians.

Associated Press

Afghans feel safer, less hopeful under Taliban

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule. The country feels safer, less violent than it has in decades, but the once aid-fueled economy is barreling toward collapse.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

India’s solar energy boom fuels local struggle

India’s biggest solar parks have fallen short on promises of jobs, hospitals, schools, roads and water, resulting in protests and push-back from communities trying to protect their jobs, land and future, researchers say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ancient mummies of children unearthed in Peru

Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima, archaeologists reported.

CBS News

Part on crash course with Moon not SpaceX

Astronomers say that a rocket section set to crash into the Moon in March did not come from Elon Musk’s space exploration company as they first thought.

BBC

ESA talks space debris disposal

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health

Pollution of the world’s rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a “threat to environmental and global health.”

BBC

Zimbabwe to stop paying unvaccinated workers

Zimbabwe’s government says it will stop paying salaries of staff who are unvaccinated against COVID-19, while ordering those who have received jabs to report for work at their offices “with immediate effect."

Associated Press

Why are rapid COVID tests banned in China?

While western countries have started to distribute free rapid antigen tests to citizens, experts say China’s zero-COVID strategy ensures that PCR tests remain the standard for testing in the country.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Andreas Sten-Ziemons):

When will Russia finally learn its lesson?

Deutsche Welle

Column (Jayanta Gopal Borpujari):

Global refugee crisis needs a holistic review

Asia Times Online

Column (Carol Anderson):

The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Farmer helping S. African community flourish

In South Africa, Tim Abaa, of Tim Nectar Farms, is teaching his community how to grow organic produce to fight food insecurity.

CNN

Gambia’s girl-power garage breaks stereotypes

Meet Gambia’s wrench-wielding women who are determined to break gender stereotypes and prove to society that they’re car mechanics extraordinaire.

Deutsche Welle

A 5-year-old’s life affirmations go viral, inspire

When Gwenyth Todebush told her son she was feeling nervous about a parent-teacher conference, Clark spouted out his own list of affirmations, inspired by hers, but with a child’s twist.

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Teacher raises $100K for her hungry students

A 34-year-old library teacher at Lakewood Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina, recently collected $106,000 to feed her students in need.

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Pakistan letting India deliver wheat to Afghans

Pakistan is allowing nuclear rival India to deliver tons of wheat to Afghans struggling through intensifying food shortages, two Foreign Ministry officials said.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Peru community to restart mine road blockade

Members of a Peruvian community have promised to restart a road blockade against a prominent copper mine, even as a second community promised a 45-day truce.

Al Jazeera

Village defying the rising sea levels of Thailand

As climate change progresses, extreme weather, soil erosion and flooding have left their marks on Thailand’s river banks and seashores. The effects will become increasingly severe in the future.

Deutsche Welle

Dry winter drains reservoir in northwest Spain

Large sections of Spain are experiencing prolonged drought, with rainfall at one-third of the average in recent years.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Girls take part in a female genital mutilation ceremony in Laikipia, Kenya. While many still opt to have their daughters cut in Kenya, others are helping girls to escape the practice. (Photo by Louisa Kasdon) Photo used under CC BY

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