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A mother walks with her baby swathed on her back in Nepal’s capital. (Photo by Mondo79) Photo used under CC BY

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Nepal’s pregnant women lack adequate healthcare

In Nepal, at least three mothers die every day while giving birth. The country has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In rural communities, maternity hospitals are often several days’ walk away; many women give birth at home without medical assistance.

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France 24

Lesotho damages ecosystem to fill state coffers

Lesotho is water-rich, but also one of the world‘s poorest countries. To fill the state coffers, the government exports water to its neighbor, South Africa; not only do Lesotho’s villagers suffer, but so does its ecosystem.

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Lesotho Consulate joins fight to curb illegal mining

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Syria beset by drug trade, ISIS, bloodthirsty dictator

Gangsters, political repression and violence are unravelling a shaky peace in Syria, where a Russian-brokered settlement was supposed to end conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and armed rebels.

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The Independent

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Syria’s economic crisis hits new low

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Associated Press

Heroin use skyrockets in Kashmir amid turmoil

Heroin addiction is skyrocketing in Kashmir. The government says it is trying to intervene, but frontline services are struggling to cope. Behind the rise is a complex mix of factors.

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India’s top court stays order on mass evictions

India’s top court has given temporary relief to thousands of people facing forced eviction from their homes in Uttarakhand state.

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BBC

Migrants flocking to refugee offices in Mexico

Thousands of migrants have flocked to refugee offices in Mexico seeking asylum since the U.S. said it would keep restrictions used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tigray war refugees fear return from Sudan

A fragile peace has been restored, but for tens of thousands of displaced people who fled to Sudan there is no prospect of going home.

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Guardian

Iran’s leader hints at loosening hijab rules

Iran’s supreme leader hinted that the government may loosen the strict dress codes that were blamed for a young woman’s death and triggered nationwide demonstrations.

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NBCNews.com

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Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on women

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Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Putin orders a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed his country’s defence minister to order a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas. The ceasefire will begin for 36 hours at noon on Jan. 6.

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NPR

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Kyiv rejects Putin‘s ’trivial’ Christmas truce

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BBC

Peru police use tear gas to clear away protests

Police used tear gas to disperse protesters trying to approach Peru’s Congress headquarters, as thousands took to the streets two weeks after a wave of deadly protests over the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo.

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Reuters

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Peru roadblocks resume

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Al Jazeera

Islamic State claims Afghan airport bombing

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bombing near a checkpoint at the Afghan capital’s military airport that killed and wounded several people.

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ABC News

Myanmar army leader touts election plan

Myanmar’s ruling military leader pardoned over 7,000 prisoners, including some political detainees, and detailed plans for an election later this year during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of independence from Britain.

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Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

How the Webb telescope captures its images

It’s been a year since the Webb Space Telescope was launched, and the detailed images it has delivered are breathtaking.

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Drones in Ukraine could bring killer robots

Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield, inaugurating a new age of warfare.

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Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Long COVID a mind-boggling challenge

It’s not known just how many people are suffering from long COVID globally. Countries are not reporting systematic data on post-COVID-19 conditions.

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Devex

Nigerian law cracks down on ‘quack doctors’

Authorities in Nigeria’s North West region are attempting to weed out an unknown number of unlicensed doctors and pharmacists, raising fears that impostors may have infiltrated the country’s healthcare system.

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GOOD NEWS

France’s African ex-soldiers win pension battle

Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps will be able to live out their final days with family members back in Africa after a French government U-turn on their pension rights.

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Associated Press

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Group repairs hurricane-damaged roofs in PR

Five years after Hurricane Maria, PRoTechos, a local nonprofit, helps repair damaged roofs the government overlooked or that were fixed poorly. It also trains people to make future repairs themselves.

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NPR

Taliban‘s ban on female aid workers a ‘red line’

Aid groups are warning of a dire situation in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s banning of female NGO workers.

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France 24

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Nigeria’s debt $172B after new borrowings

Nigeria’s total public debt could rise to $172 billion this year, after a loan-to-bond swap and new borrowings to fund the 2023 budget, the Debt Management Office chief said.

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Reuters

DRC’s South Kivu bears brunt of ongoing war

Prices of basic food commodities have doubled in the eastern Democratic of Congo. The spike is being attributed to the ongoing hostilities between government forces and M23 rebels.

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Trucks snarl Bolivia as blockades hit business

Hundreds of trucks lined highways in Bolivia’s farming region of Santa Cruz, as protesters blockaded routes out of the region following the arrest of the local governor, and hard-hit local businesses urged a return to order.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Experts warn of threat from Mayan Train route

Scientists and environmental activists have warned that the railway and its hasty construction will critically endanger pristine wilderness and ancient cave systems beneath the jungle floor.

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Al Jazeera

Microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat

Plastic pollution is one of the defining legacies of our modern way of life, but it is now so widespread it is even finding its way into fruit and vegetables as they grow.

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BBC

Can Brazil’s new president save the rainforest?

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has taken a delegation to the Amazon rainforest to help support the new Brazilian government’s environmental agenda to reduce deforestation in the Amazon to zero by 2030.

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Displaced children in Aweil, Sudan, fetch water using a submerged hand-pump following flooding in the villages caused by extremely heavy early rains villages that displaced thousands of residents. (Photo by Tim McKulka) Photo used under CC BY

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