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Sri Lankan fire dancers perform “pelapaliya,” praising the goddess Paththini, a guardian deity of Sri Lanka in Sri Lankan Buddhism and Sinhalese folklore, to shower peace and prosperity to all countrymen. The culture-rich country is currently facing its worse economic crisis since it gained independence in 1948. Schools in the capital will be shut for a week to save fuel. The move would further impact children’s education, already disrupted for years due to COVID-19, according to Save the Children. (Photo by Priyantha de Alwis) Photo used under CC BY

Sri Lanka shuts down schools amid fuel crisis

Sri Lanka has announced school shutdowns and urged employees to work from home in an effort to save fuel as the nation continues to battle its worst economic crisis in decades.

The Independent

Sri Lanka sends two ministers to Russia for oil

Associated Press

WFP: Yemen rations cut further due to funding

The World Food Program said it has reduced rations in Yemen, where millions face hunger, due to critical funding gaps, global inflation and knock-on effects of the Ukraine conflict.

Reuters

Tanzania’s disabled kids trafficked, forced to beg

A human trafficking network is smuggling disabled children from Tanzania to Kenya. Many are taken with promises of a better life. Instead, the children are forced to beg on the streets; their captors take all of the profits.

BBC

Lebanon begs for a tourism cash injection

The Lebanese government says the country is banking on a summer tourist season for a much-needed cash injection as its years-long economic crisis continues.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon PM pledges to curb economic crisis

YouTube

Drug trafficking finances conflict in Africa

Opioid and cannabis abuse are above global averages in West and Central Africa, while cocaine trafficking through the region is financing militant violence in the Sahel, the United Nations said in a report.

Reuters

Rwanda prepares for child asylum seekers

A hostel that has been leased by the Rwandan government to house asylum seekers from the UK is making preparations to accept children, the manager confirmed.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Over 300,000 civilians killed in Syria’s conflict

The first 10 years of Syria’s conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians, the UN said, the highest official estimate to date of conflict-related civilian deaths in the country.

Associated Press

Humanitarian aid for Syria is Russia’s political football

Deutsche Welle

Niger struggles to end slavery, sex trafficking

Slavery remains deeply entrenched in Niger; there are still tens of thousands of enslaved people across the country today, including girls forced into being concubines for wealthy men, according to Anti-Slavery International.

Guardian

Saudi Arabian dissidents abused in prison

Prisoners held for opposing the government in Saudi Arabia are being murdered, sexually assaulted and inflicted with “sheer” brutality, a new report from Grant Liberty has suggested.

The Independent

At least 51 dead in prison riot fire in Colombia

At least 51 prisoners have died after a fire started during a prison riot in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, the head of the national prisons agency said.

NBCNews.com

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

US officials back in Venezuela to rebuild ties

Senior U.S. officials have traveled to Venezuela in the latest bid to rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, a U.S. spokesperson confirmed.

Associated Press

Libyan rivals meet for UN-led talks on elections

Two senior Libyan officials began two days of talks on constitutional arrangements for elections, the latest UN effort to bridge gaps between the country’s rivals.

ABC News

UN to broker new talks between Libya rivals to agree on elections

YouTube

DPRK: US, allies creating ‘Asia-Style NATO’

North Korea has accused the U.S. of creating an “Asia-style NATO” to overthrow dictator, Kim Jong Un, citing military cooperation between the U.S., Japan and South Korea.

FOX News

Iran applies to join China and Russia in BRICS

Iran, which holds the world’s second largest gas reserves, has applied to join the BRICS group, which China and Russia cast as a powerful market alternative to the West.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Pakistani app improving the lives of deaf people

In Pakistan, the deaf community faces a lot of challenges. However, the ConnectHear app is making communication easier for thousands of people with hearing disabilities.

Deutsche Welle

Intact woolly mammoth baby found in Canada

The preserved remains of a nearly whole 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth have been discovered in Canada.

NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hopes rise in Africa for new malaria vaccine

Across Africa, malaria remains a leading killer of children under five years old, according to the WHO, but trials for a new vaccine suggest an end to the death toll could be in sight.

Guardian

‘Dirty’ fuels affect women’s mental health

Worldwide, about 2.6 billion people rely on biomass fuels like wood and charcoal to cook meals, as well as heat and light their homes, but the household air pollution is detrimental to women’s mental health, a new study revealed.

Medical X Press

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GOOD NEWS

Soccer star born without arm makes US team

Soccer star Carson Pickett became the first person with a limb difference to play on the U.S. Women’s National Team. Pickett, who was born without her left forearm and hand, helped the team win against Colombia.

CBS News

Robots cleaning microplastics from oceans

Chinese scientists have developed a small, self-propelled robot that can “swim” into the oceans’ hard-to-reach spots and clean microplastics, which are harmful to marine animals when ingested.

Newsweek

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Meta launches training for NGOs in West Africa

Meta has officially launched its non-profit training program, a digital capacity building program for 1,500 non-profit personnel across Anglophone West Africa.

The Guardian Nigeria

Nicaragua booted 53 international NGOs

The Nicaraguan Interior Ministry has formally announced the cancellation of 53 NGOs in periodic decrees issued between August 2021 and June 2022. Their arbitrary closures have left countless beneficiaries in limbo.

Havana Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Fertilizer shortage worsening global food crisis

The amount of fertilizer available globally has almost halved, according to the UN, causing a knock-on effect in Africa, where farmers are dependent on imported fertilizer.

BBC

Sri Lanka halts nonessential petro sales

The Sri Lankan government has suspended sales of fuel for nonessential vehicles in an attempt to mitigate the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.

BBC

Banks fund deforestation, slave labor in Brazil

Global financiers and UK supermarkets have supported deforestation, land grabbing and slave labor in Brazil, an investigation alleged.

Guardian

Why are we failing to protect the Amazon rainforest?

YouTube

Ecuador president cuts fuel prices amid strike

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso announced a cut in gasoline prices, falling short of the reduction demanded by Indigenous leaders to end a strike that has paralyzed parts of the country for weeks.

Associated Press

Ecuador’s president survives impeachment vote

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

Kenyan village restoring mangrove trees

A Kenyan village has gained traction as a model for restoring mangrove trees. These marine ecosystems capture more carbon dioxide than terrestrial forests, allowing them to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

Associated Press

Heatwave damaging Tunisia’s grain harvest

A heatwave is badly damaging Tunisia’s grain harvest, leading the farmers union to forecast that output will fall well short of government hopes as the country already struggles with food shortages due to the war in Ukraine.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A demonstrator holds a Venezuelan flag in front of a burning barricade during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro’s government in 2014. During several crackdowns since 2014, security forces have severely injured and occasionally killed demonstrators, shooting them at point-blank range with riot-control munitions and brutally beating others who offered no resistance, according to Human Rights Watch. (Photo by REUTERS/Jorge Silva) Photo used under CC BY

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