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The International Labor Organization estimates that more than 72 million children in sub-Saharan Africa — nearly one in five — are affected by child labor. Experts estimate that millions more are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Ton Rulkens) Photo used under CC BY

UNICEF says child labor is on the rise in Africa

According to UNICEF, population growth, recurring crises, extreme poverty and inadequate social protection measures have led to an additional 17 million girls and boys engaging in child labor in Africa.

Deutsche Welle

Child labor tops 160 million worldwide

Al Bawaba

‘Huge spike’ in conflict led to displacements

Conflict and violence forced people from their homes a record number of times last year, with sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of mass internal displacement caused by “huge spikes” in fighting.

Guardian

Ukraine troops surrender, are registered as POWs

Hundreds more Ukrainian fighters who made their stand inside Mariupol’s bombed-out steel plant have surrendered, bringing the total to more than 1,700.

Associated Press

Ukrainian medic is captured after documenting war

Associated Press

Food shortages worsening Sri Lanka crisis

Sri Lanka’s prime minister has warned of a food shortage and promises to buy enough fertilizer for the next planting season as the island nation battles an economic crisis.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka PM: Last administration ‘to blame’ for crisis

YouTube

New hope? Indonesia lifts palm oil export ban

Indonesia, which accounts for nearly 60 percent of global palm oil exports, will lift a ban on exports of palm oil starting next week, a move that could relieve some of the pressure on food prices.

CNN

Myanmar’s junta faces fresh claims of atrocity

Charred bodies have been found inside the ruins of burnt-out homes in northwest Myanmar, raising accusations of fresh military atrocities in the conflict-ridden nation.

Telegraph.co.uk

HUMAN RIGHTS

The secret girls school defying the Taliban

Hidden away in a residential neighborhood is one of Afghanistan’s new “secret” schools for girls, a small but powerful act of defiance against the Taliban.

BBC

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

NPR

30K arrests in El Salvador gang crackdown

More than 30,000 people have been arrested under a “state of exception” in El Salvador, police said, as President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on armed gangs continues.

Al Jazeera

China county has highest prison rate in world

Nearly one in 25 people in a the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest-known imprisonment rate.

Associated Press

Migrant disappearances in Mexico quadrupled

Reported cases of missing migrants in Mexico jumped nearly fourfold in 2021, as the country struggles to stem the flow of undocumented people from Central America to the U.S.

NBCNews.com

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

NATO weapons impacting Kashmir’s militancy

Bombs and weapons used in Afghanistan by militants and U.S. forces are making their way into India-administered Kashmir, raising fears that they could bolster an Islamist insurgency in the area.

Deutsche Welle

Taliban extend truce for more government talks

The Pakistani Taliban said they are extending a cease-fire with the government until May 30, after the two sides held an initial round of talks hosted by the Afghan Taliban.

ABC News

Indonesian police arrest suspected IS militants

Indonesian police said they arrested 24 suspected militants believed to have links to extremists accused of beheadings in remote mountain jungles and who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Associated Press

Clashes in Libya as PM attempts to claim power

Fighting broke out in Tripoli after one of the two rival Libyan prime ministers entered the capital to claim the role only to flee hours later when he realized he had misjudged the scale of military opposition.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists grow plants in soil from the moon

Scientists have, for the first time, grown plants in soil from the moon. They used soil collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions.

ScienceDaily

Women steering India’s electric vehicle drive

As firms ramp up production, they are offering rare jobs to women in an auto industry that has been male-dominated.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

NASA rover begins key drive to find life on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a big moment in its mission on Mars. The six-wheeled robot will begin the climb up a delta feature in the crater where it landed.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Spain to allow girls over 16 to opt for abortions

Spain has approved a draft bill that would remove the requirement for 16- and 17-year-old girls to have parental consent before terminating a pregnancy.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Putin’s useful allies are throwing a wrench in the works

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The El Salvador diaries: My days as a ‘terrorist’

Al Jazeera

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How the elites brought a Marcos back into power

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Teen becomes youngest Black law school grad

Haley Schlitz walked across the stage to get her diploma at age 19, making history as the youngest graduate from Southern Methodist University Law School.

Good Morning America

1st all-Black team summits Mount Everest

The first all-Black Mount Everest expedition team, Full Circle Everest, has reached the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, and their excitement can be felt from thousands of feet below.

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Project aims to erase poverty in Bangladesh

For over a decade, 28-year-old Ahmed Imtiaz and his team have worked to provide free education for Bangladesh’s underprivileged.

Deutsche Welle

Boy has surfed 700 days in a row for charity

For the past two years, 11-year-old Carter Doorley has put on his wetsuit and hit the waves every day. The fifth-grader from Brigantine, New Jersey, uses his surfing to raise money for charity.

People

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Pakistan is heading toward bankruptcy

Pakistan is heading toward bankruptcy amid a highly charged political atmosphere marked by threats of a march on the capital Islamabad by the ousted prime minister, who is demanding fresh elections.

Asia Times Online

Sri Lanka facing a ‘man-made’ food crisis

The MONLAR, a non-government organization, says most smallholder farmers in the surrounding Hambantota district, and in key agricultural regions in the north, are halting operations this season.

Al Jazeera

Iranians protests skyrocketing food prices

Protests broke out in Iran after the government cut subsidies for food, sending prices through the roof as authorities brace for more unrest in the following weeks.

FOX News

‘Apocalyptic’ food prices will be disastrous for world’s poor

Guardian

Wheat bought by Egypt stranded in Ukraine

About 300,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat booked by Egypt’s state grains buyer for delivery in February and March is yet to be shipped, with one cargo stuck in port and four others still to be loaded, four traders said.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Atmospheric change alters Asia’s monsoons

In the spring of 2020, Indian scientists began to notice a startling change in the atmosphere above parts of the country.

BBC

Climate change doubled chance of floods

Human-induced climate change made the extreme rainfall that triggered deadly floods in South Africa in April heavier and twice as likely to happen, a rapid analysis published by the World Weather Attribution project shows.

CNN

Death toll in South Africa floods rises to 443, with thousands left homeless

ABC News

India coal plant blamed for deaths, sickness

Air pollution from a thermal power plant in Chandrapur, India, killed 1,300 people in the area in 2020, research shows.

Al Jazeera

Global pollution kills 9M people each year

A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55 percent since 2000.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian. Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region on Feb. 28, four days into the invasion. (Photo by Reuters) Photo used under CC BY

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