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Syria’s cholera outbreak to worsen if UN aid ends

Humanitarian workers operating in the last opposition-held part of Syria fear a cholera outbreak sweeping the region will deepen further if the United Nations is forced to stop aid deliveries across the border from Turkey.

Al Jazeera

Afghan children suffer pneumonia during winter

Afghanistan is witnessing a steep rise in pneumonia cases, with the disease spreading rapidly in children under five as the country weathers a second winter under Taliban rule.

The Independent

Child labor rampant among Afghan refugees in Pakistan

Deutsche Welle

UN: Afghan aid at risk from Taliban ban on women

Guardian

Global food prices in 2022 hit record highs amid war

Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row, the UN said, as Russia’s war in Ukraine, drought and other factors drove up inflation and worsened hunger worldwide.

Associated Press

Orange smog chokes residents in western Iran

In 2011, Ahvaz, a city in Iran, was ranked as having the worst air quality of any city globally, according to the WHO. Today, it is still one of the most polluted cities, with the air linked to a rise in cardiovascular diseases.

Guardian

Gazans burning firewood as energy prices soar

With winter temperatures plummeting, energy prices soaring and power cuts a daily occurrence, people in the Gaza Strip are turning to firewood to survive, a trend that comes with a cost, experts warn.

France 24

Gaza ministry: Israel delaying medical equipment

i24 News

Sri Lanka crisis forcing children out of school

The impact of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is visible among many families as they pause their children’s education to earn money.

BBC

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.

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.

NBCNews.com

Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on women

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.

NPR

Kyiv rejects Putin‘s ’trivial’ Christmas truce

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.

Reuters

Peru roadblocks resume

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.

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.

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.

Deutsche Welle

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.

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.

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.

Deutsche Welle

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deutsche Welle

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

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

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