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Three South Sudanese girls have distended stomachs from malnutrition. Food security experts have warned that 1.4 million children will be acutely malnourished during South Sudan’s upcoming lean season between June and August. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

UN World Food Program cuts aid to South Sudan

About 1.7 million people in South Sudan, where 60 percent of the population faces severe food insecurity, are losing humanitarian aid, as the UN World Food Program suspends assistance, blaming critical shortages in funding.

Associated Press

Afghan women bear brunt of food crisis

Afghanistan’s collapsed economy means the poor simply cannot afford food; women bear the brunt of the crisis, as tradition dictates they eat meals last, forcing them to forgo food entirely amid scarcity, a UN coordinator said.

Guardian

One million Afghan children face malnutrition

YouTube

At least 160M children over 5 forced into labor

Globally, at least 160 million children above the age of 5 are involved in child labor; the number could rise by 8.9 million by the end of 2022 as global poverty and vulnerability increase, according to an ILO-UNICEF report.

Al Jazeera

Mexican drought spotlights water inequality

Strict rationing has left millions of Mexican residents without tap water for hours or days at a time, fueling long-standing anger over water concessions that favor big companies.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mexico prodding its farmers to grow more food

Seattle Times

Nepal’s garbage disposal chronic problem

Nepal’s capital has been strewn with garbage after a nearby village refused to let authorities use a key landfill site, claiming a lack of infrastructure to properly dispose of the trash.

The Independent

Nepal’s capital piled with garbage

YouTube

North Korea plans crackdown amid crises

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, has ordered a crackdown on officials who abuse power, state media reported, as the country reels from COVID-19 and economic difficulties.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN human rights chief won’t seek 2nd term

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said will not seek a new term. Her tenure has been overshadowed by criticism of her response to China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

ABC News

Will Ukraine war prompt hunger crisis in Africa?

Today, 346 million Africans, more than a quarter of the continent’s people, are suffering from hunger because of conflict, drought and poverty. Now a far-off war is threatening to worsen Africa’s food insecurity crisis.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar raising bloodthirsty death squads

Violence in Myanmar is spreading across rural and urban spaces like bushfires, with military arson campaigns consuming communities in the Dry Zone, bolstered by airstrikes and artillery blasts to terrorize civilians in the Southeast.

Asia Times Online

Rape used ‘systematically’ in Lebanon civil war

Guardian

Tigray conflict ravages Ethiopian border town

Abala, a border town between the Ethiopian regional states of Tigray and Afar, embodies the Tigray conflict like no other. Residents who used to be neighbors now accuse each other of committing massacres.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Institute warns of a global nuclear arms race

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute warns of a new worldwide nuclear arms race, with China rushing ahead. Activists in the anti-nuclear movement are becoming lonely figures.

Deutsche Welle

Venezuelan opposition leader attacked on tour

The leader of the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela was attacked during a visit to a rural community, according to members of his parallel government, who blamed the assault on a group of ruling party associates.

Associated Press

Congo says Rwanda backed rebel attacks

Regional authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said Rwandan soldiers and artillery had supported attacks by the M23 rebel group, accusing Rwanda of seeking to occupy the Congolese town of Bunagana.

Reuters

Sanctions-hit Iran, Venezuela sign 20-year pact

Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran a day after President Nicolas Maduro praised the Islamic Republic for sending badly needed fuel to his country.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Japan makes ‘online insults’ jailable offenses

Under the amendment to the country’s penal code -- set to take effect later this summer -- offenders convicted of online insults can be jailed for up to one year, or fined $2,200.

CNN

The women leading India’s EV revolution

In India, women are taking part in the growing electric vehicle industry in significant numbers. Some electric scooter companies, like Ola and Piaggio, even have all-female staff.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Space telescope spots unexpected starquakes

Strange and unexpected tsunami-like starquakes -- movements on stars‘ crusts similar to earthquakes we experience on our planet -- have been revealed by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Extreme weather drives higher pollen count

Across North America and beyond, people with scratchy throats and puffy eyes are accusing the trees and grass of emitting more pollen than usual.

Guardian

Pakistan mothers bear brunt of climate change

These women in southern Pakistan and millions like them around the world are at the searing edge of climate change.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Marble slab turned out to be ancient yearbook

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found that an ancient Greek inscription on a 2,000-year-old marble tablet is actually something resembling a yearbook for a graduating class, according to a new translation.

NPR

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Bangladesh woman matches families, food aid

An estimated tens of millions of people living in Bangladesh were pushed into poverty amid the coronavirus pandemic. One woman started collecting food items from wealthy people in a bid to help out.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Shaky Sri Lanka gives workers time to garden

Sri Lanka has approved a four-day workweek for public sector workers to grow food in their backyards in a bid to forestall a looming food shortage as the government struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades.

Al Jazeera

World Bank lends S. Africa $474M for vaccines

The World Bank has approved a loan of $474.4 million to help South Africa fund COVID-19 vaccine purchases, the bank and South Africa’s National Treasury said in a statement.

Reuters

Ethiopia’s inflation rises further in May

Ethiopia’s inflation accelerated further in May, spurred by a pickup in food inflation, the statistics office said.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Chilean lake turns to desert in historic drought

The Penuelas reservoir in central Chile was until 20 years ago the main source of water for the city of Valparaiso, holding enough water for 38,000 swimming pools. Water for only two pools now remains.

Reuters

Activists try giant screen to clean up Guatemalan river

ABC News

For planet’s sake, Africa must stop tapping gas

Africa must embrace renewable energy, and forgo exploration of its potentially lucrative gas deposits to stave off climate disaster and bring access to clean energy to the hundreds of millions who lack it, leading experts say.

Guardian

Dead penguins wash up daily in New Zealand

Newsweek

Climate change Asia’s biggest security threat

Rising seas threaten the existence of low-lying island nations in the Pacific, where the U.S. and allies fear a stepped-up military presence by Beijing.

NBCNews.com

Photo of the Day

Two Afghan girls share school supplies they received from International Security Assistance Force members. The Taliban have since taken over the country and reneged on their promise to allow girls above the 6th grade back into school. Now the non-profit, LEARN, is operating underground, teaching around 400 girls in secretive schools throughout the country, the organization’s leader said. (Photo by U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Nestor Cruz) Photo used under CC BY

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