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Ukrainian civilians took refuge in Mariupol’s steel plant for weeks before Russian forces attacked again this week. Dozens of refugees have reached safety, but many are still trapped in the Russian-occupied city. (Photo by Reuters) Photo used under CC BY

Evacuees from Mariupol steel plant reach safety

Dozens of evacuees who took refuge for weeks in the bunkers of a steel works in Russian-occupied Mariupol reached the safety of Kyiv-controlled Zaporizhzhia.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Russian troops accused of weaponizing rape in Ukraine

Deutsche Welle

Ukraine war is making Indians poorer, hungrier

Falling earnings dented by inflation, which has been exacerbated by the war, is hurting household diets in India.

Al Jazeera

Ethiopian drought spurs increase in child marriage

Drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia are seeing “dramatic” increases in child marriage as the worst climate-induced emergency for 40 years pushes people to the brink.

Guardian

Rights groups in Zimbabwe hope new law will end child marriages

Voice of America

Why is femicide crisis in Mexico on the rise?

The widely-reported discovery of a dead woman in northern Mexico has shocked people across the country and highlighted an ever-worsening national femicide crisis.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka opposition declares no confidence

Sri Lanka’s main opposition party issued a no-confidence declaration aiming at ousting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet.

Associated Press

‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continues

Pristine rainforests were once again destroyed at a relentless rate in 2021, prompting concerns governments will not meet a COP26 deal to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Deportation of Rohingya woman sparks fear

The deportation of a Rohingya woman back to Myanmar has sparked fears that India is preparing to expel many more refugees from the country.

Guardian

Turkish women’s group targeted by prosecutors

Turkish public prosecutors have sparked outrage among feminists by demanding the closure of the country’s largest women’s rights group accusing it of being “against morality”.

Guardian

Bolivian indigenous women learn self-defense

In their traditional costumes, women from the community of Yampupata, in the Bolivian Altiplano, learn self-defense, Taekwondo techniques and resources to anticipate male violence and femicide.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Sri Lanka engulfed by debt crisis and protests

Mismanagement, the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread corruption have caused Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since its independence over 70 years ago. As people are protesting, the country has defaulted on its debt.

Deutsche Welle

Sri Lankan protesters mark new year near president’s office

Associated Press

Hear from Sri Lankans grappling with economic crisis

CNN

Why people don’t vote in Somalia’s elections

Most of Somalia’s new MPs have been sworn in following a unique election for its parliament - known as the House of the People. But the people did not vote in a poll that has been dragging on for a record four months.

BBC

Israel-Palestine tensions are rising in Ramadan

The situation in occupied Palestinian territories is escalating, as Gaza residents worry about another war.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Privacy fears surround Indian criminal data bill

A proposed new Indian law gives sweeping powers to law enforcement agencies to collect biometric data - a move that has sparked concerns over privacy.

BBC

Mutations across species reveal clues to aging

Researchers discovered that mammals - from tigers to humans - have roughly the same number of mutations by the time they die of old age.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hospital in Tigray struggles to treat patients

Patients at the flagship hospital in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying amid shortages of life-saving drugs and oxygen, according to health officials.

Associated Press

WHO on alert over new omicron subvariants

The World Health Organization said it is monitoring a few dozen cases of two new subvariants of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, BA.4 and BA.5.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Peter Kalmus):

Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested

Guardian

Column (Richard D. Wolff):

The role of capitalism in the war in Ukraine

Asia Times Online

Column (Daniel Rothenberg):

Why the US should investigate Russian aggression in Ukraine as genocide

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Taxi driver reuniting adoptees with families

Since 2002, Andrew Silva, a 56-year-old father of two and cab driver in the coastal city of Negombo, Sri Lanka, has been connecting international adoptees to their birth mothers in the island nation.

Al Jazeera

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Zelenskyy thanks US for $800M in millitary aid

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s “sincerely thankful” to President Biden and the U.S. for the new round of $800 million in military assistance.

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ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Refugees struggle in cash-strapped Lebanon

Food inflation in Lebanon has exceeded 400 percent since 2019, while prices of diesel and petrol have skyrocketed.

Al Jazeera

Nigerian shopkeepers forced to scale back

As the Ukraine war fuels food price inflation, women running small retail businesses in the West African nation are reducing their stock and taking out loans to stay afloat

Thomson Reuters Foundation

How humanitarian corridors work in wartime

For tens of thousands of civilians trapped in active combat zones in Ukraine, the establishment of humanitarian corridors could mean the difference between living and dying, experts said.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

South Africa floods kill more than 300 citizens

The death toll in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has reached more than 300, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area this week.

BBC

Deadly floods wreak havoc in South Africa

CNN

Bearing the brunt of extreme storms in Madagascar

Al Jazeera

Green farming gets a boost among Kenyans

Efforts by farmers to prepare for climate change impacts may also help deal with other crises, from COVID-19 to the Ukraine war.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Drought and heat cripple crops on Iraq farms

Climate change-related losses are squeezing Iraq’s parched farmers - and driving growing migration. Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country in the world to extreme temperatures and water shortages.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Graves of local residents who died during the fighting with Russia are seen in a street behind private houses in an area that Russian-backed separatists claim to control in the Ukraine city of Mariupol. (Photo by AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov) Photo used under CC BY

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