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India’s sewer workers endure never-ending pain

Manual scavenging, which only includes people who clean or handle human waste, is banned in India but the practice is still commonplace, with people forced into it because of rigid caste rules and the lack of other livelihood options.

BBC

Brazil child cancer deaths linked to soy farming

Soy farming has been linked to a rise in child cancer deaths in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer and exporter of the oilseed and one of the top users of pesticides for protecting crops from disease and pests, according to a study.

Reuters

Chaotic, desperate scenes among returning Afghans

Major international aid agencies warned of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans who have returned from Pakistan, where security forces are detaining and deporting undocumented or unregistered foreigners.

Associated Press

Border crossing swamped by Afghans

Reuters

UN: Palestinians are at ‘grave risk of genocide’

UN experts are calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at “grave risk of genocide,” with more than 9,000 deaths since Oct. 7.

Reuters

Gaza’s only cancer hospital forced to shutter

Palestinian health authorities have said that the only hospital offering cancer treatment in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel amid Israel’s blockade.

Al Jazeera

Situation in Gaza’s hospitals more dire by the hour

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Germany asks forgiveness for colonial crimes

The German president has expressed shame for the atrocities his country inflicted on Tanzania. German forces killed almost 300,000 people during the Maji Maji rebellion in the 1900s, one of the bloodiest anti-colonial uprisings.

BBC

Colonial abuses hang over King Charles’s Kenya trip

BBC

Myanmar military abuses exercised from the top

A new study sheds new light on Myanmar’s notoriously secretive military – revealing the links between low-level soldiers accused of human rights abuses against civilians and their commanding officers and beyond.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Bolivia severs ties with Israel over war in Gaza

Bolivia has become the first Latin American country to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over what it describes as “aggressive and disproportionate” military actions in Gaza.

BBC

Chile recalls Israel ambassador for talks after Gaza attacks

Reuters

Ethiopia Tigray region stumbles towards peace

One year after the end of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, complete peace remains elusive and a humanitarian crisis remains. Critics accuse the government of not keeping its promises.

Deutsche Welle

How did Ethiopia’s Tigray War start?

Deutsche Welle

Peace holds in Tigray, but Ethiopia still fractured

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

S. American laws fail to stamp out revenge porn

Efforts globally to stamp out revenge porn have had mixed results, facing obstacles such as a lack of police training, public exposure of victims whose names are published in news reports, and slow government action.

Context

Indian teen invents spoon for trembling hands

A 17-year-old Indian teen with a passion for robotics has produced a cheaper utensil that uses sensors to cancel out hand tremors.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zimbabwe cholera fueled by water shortages

For months now, Zimbabwe has been battling to stem the spread of deadly cholera in its cities and villages because the country simply lacks clean water. “If the water comes at all it’s often dirty,” said Regai Chibanda.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Uriel Abulof):

‘Colonialism’? ‘Apartheid’? Interrogating the language of Israel-Palestine

The Hill

Column (Lan Mercado):

Sustainable pivot needed to secure Laos’ future

Asia Times Online

Column (Sahar Aziz):

Muslim women in the West in the crosshairs of Zionists, white ‘feminists’

Al Jazeera

Column (Matthew Duss):

An Israel-Hamas ceasefire is in everyone’s best interest, humanely and practically

Guardian

Column (Nigel Green):

ASEAN economies facing a dangerous combo

Asia Times Online

Column (James Prince and Hiba Husseini):

Lessons for Israel and Palestine from Cambodia’s transition to democracy

The Hill

Column (Claudia Lopez and Mar-Len Abigail "Abby" S. Binay):

Why MDB financing is critical for cities’ climate action plans

Devex

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GOOD NEWS

Indonesia palm plantations to be made forests

Some 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the state to be converted back into forests, a government official said.

Reuters

Reviving handloom weaving in Tamil Nadu

The Nurpu collective is helping to revive India’s traditional art of handloom weaving. The profits sustain families who might otherwise migrate for work — and the handloomed clothes are eco-friendly.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

UN to cut cash aid to Lebanon refugee families

Faced with an increasing funding crunch, the United Nations will cut the number of refugee families receiving cash assistance in Lebanon by nearly a third next year, a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency said.

ABC News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

UN: DoorDash, Walmart exploiting workers

A UN poverty expert has called on the CEOs of Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart to address allegations that wages at the US-based corporations trap workers in poverty, forcing them to rely on government benefits.

Associated Press

Pakistan music industry hit by economic crisis

Music producers and artists in the South Asian country are feeling the effects of spiraling prices on concert tickets and music sales.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Acapulco struggles to recover from hurricane

Acapulco was struggling to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 48 lives across southern Mexico and provoked widespread power outages and criticism of the government response.

France 24

58 still missing in Mexico after Hurricane Otis

ABC News

Deforestation’s impact on local temperatures

Deforestation has a far greater impact on regional temperatures than previously believed, according to a new study that shows agricultural businesses would be among the biggest beneficiaries of forest conservation.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Akili Mali Women Association members working on their plot in Yanonge, Tshopo Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF) Photo used under CC BY

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