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The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded, with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungry. (Photo by FMSC Distribution Partner - Haiti) Photo used under CC BY

UN can’t feed 100K Haitians in ‘catastrophic’ conditions

The World Food Programme will be unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month as the UN agency has insufficient funding to meet burgeoning humanitarian needs.

Guardian

How can global hunger be reduced?

Al Jazeera

UN agency slashes cash aid to Syrian refugees

Associated Press

3K kids drowned trying to reach Europe in 2023

At least 289 children are known to have died at sea in the first six months of this year while attempting to reach Europe, according to UNICEF, deaths they say were “preventable.”

Al Jazeera

10% of India’s population has escaped poverty

Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India’s population, escaped poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) in the five years prior to March 2021, a newly released government report found.

Reuters

India‘s obscenity laws control women’s bodies

The definition of what legally constitutes obscenity in India is open to interpretation by judges. Young women say the laws are used to stifle their freedom of expression.

Deutsche Welle

UN: Taliban up restrictions on Afghan women

Taliban authorities have further increased restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan in recent months, including in education and employment, the UN said in a report on the human rights situation.

Associated Press

Iran ‘morality police’ return, enforce hijab laws

Iran’s so-called “morality police” is resuming patrols to enforce the country’s strict hijab rules, after largely pausing its activities for 10 months following mass protests over the killing of Mahsa Amini last September.

Time

HUMAN RIGHTS

Kenya doomsday cult death toll tops 400 people

The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark as detectives exhumed 12 more bodies believed to be followers of a pastor who ordered them to fast to death to meet Jesus.

Associated Press

Libya rescues migrants in desert near Tunisia

Libyan border guards have rescued dozens of migrants that had been left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without food or water. Rights groups say that between 100 and 150 people are still stuck on the border with Libya.

Guardian

Texas troopers told to push migrants into river

Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.

CNN

Ukrainian civilians illegally detained in Russia

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from wings in Russian prisons to basements. Most have no status under Russian law.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Kenyans protest tax hikes, soaring cost of living

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for three days of anti-government protests. The latest demonstrations are against tax hikes and follow two previous sets of protests against the soaring cost of living.

Al Jazeera

Clashes in Kenya over tax hike

YouTube

Uganda president allegedly sponsored violence

The Uganda president, Yoweri Museveni, and his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba have been accused of sponsoring violence and abusing critics in harrowing testimony filed before the international criminal court.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google ChatGPT rival rolls out Bard AI in Brazil

Google‘s Alphabet is rolling out its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard in Europe and Brazil. It is the product’s biggest expansion since its March launch in the US and the UK and heats up the rivalry with Microsoft’s ChatGPT.

BBC

Childhood vax rates are improving post-COVID

Fewer children around the world missed receiving routine vaccinations in 2022 compared to the year before, indicating a rebound in childhood immunizations following the COVID-19 pandemic.

NPR

Zambia startup goes online to support farmers

A startup in Zambia is using technology to support smallholder farmers. The digital platform allows them to form saving circles, access payment services and receive personalized advice.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

HIV/AIDS has ‘fallen off’ world’s political agenda

More people living with HIV lead longer, healthier lives today. Though this is good news in some ways, the global fight against HIV has become a victim of its own success.

Devex

Scientists worry infectious diseases could spike

Associated Press

Bangladesh confronts surge in dengue cases

The number of dengue infections has soared in Bangladesh, especially in the capital. Hospitals are overwhelmed by the outbreak.

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

South Korea welcomes first giant panda twins

A giant panda gave birth to twins for the first time in South Korea. The babies were born hours apart, one weighing 6.3oz and the other 4.9oz (140g). The Everland theme park zoo says mother Ai Bao handled the delivery well.

BBC

Darkroom teaches photography to refugee kids

On the earthquake-torn borders of Syria and Turkey, a unique traveling darkroom is giving displaced children the chance to learn photography and share the reality of their lives with the world.

Positive News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Aid delivery conditions to Syria ‘unacceptable’

The United Nations agency responsible for overseeing humanitarian aid has described conditions placed by the Syrian government on aid deliveries from Turkey to northwest Syria as “unacceptable.”

Associated Press

S. Korea’s president pledges $150M to Ukraine

South Korea’s president has pledged to increase his country’s humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine after a summit with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

IMF board signs off on $1B in funds for Kenya

The International Monetary Fund‘s (IMF) executive board signed off on nearly $1 billion in funding for Kenya that could ease pressure on government finances in East Africa’s largest economy, the global lender said.

Reuters

Uruguay supermarket tourism harms economy

Uruguayans are crossing into Argentina to shop for cheap food in their economic crisis-hit neighbor, but the trend is plunging businesses near the border into a crisis of their own.

Reuters

Labor migration on the rise in Eastern Europe

Poland and Hungary continue to oppose the European Union migrant quotas. But despite their anti-immigration rhetoric, immigration from non-E.U. countries is growing.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Extreme deadly weather is only the beginning

Boiling heat and raging floods have taken the world by storm this week, plummeting millions of people across the world into dangerous and deadly conditions. But it’s not a temporary trip of bad luck – it is becoming the new norm.

CBS News

Heatwaves are the new normal

BBC

How do we fight fires as temperatures rise?

Deutsche Welle

Drought leaves Uruguayns without clean water

More than half of Uruguay’s 3.5 million citizens are without access to tap water fit for drinking, and experts say the situation could continue for months. Years of drought have almost emptied a key reservoir of fresh water.

Guardian

Brazil urges 10-year pause on deep sea mining

Brazil urged a 10-year precautionary pause on deep sea mining in international waters days after companies and countries were allowed to start applying for provisional licenses.

ABC News

Photo of the Day

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered on its promise of revealing the universe like never before in its first year of science operations. To celebrate the completion of a successful first year, NASA has released Webb’s image of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. (Photo by NASA) Photo used under CC BY

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