The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Children in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. In low-income countries only 1 in 5 young children is enrolled in pre-primary education. Poverty is the single largest determining factor for pre-primary attendance. Across 64 countries, the poorest children are seven times less likely than children from the wealthiest families to attend early childhood education programs. (Photo by Daniel P. Shook) Photo used under CC BY

175M kids worldwide lack pre-primary education, care

More than 175 million children are not enrolled in pre-primary education, missing a critical investment opportunity and suffering deep inequalities from the start, UNICEF warned in a new report.

allAfrica.com

Early childhood experiences reflect how children perform as students

NTV

Afghanistan’s nomad women ‘most vulnerable’

In the hidden world of Kuchi nomads in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, women are denied education, raped, and exchanged for something as basic as water.

The Diplomat

2/3 of Alps’ glacier ice doomed to melt by 2100

Two-thirds of the ice in the glaciers of the Alps is doomed to melt by the end of the century as climate change forces up temperatures, a study has found.

Guardian

Bolsonaro may axe environmental panel

The Independent

15M drought-ridden in Zimbabwe seek aid

An El Nino-induced drought has wilted crops across Zimbabwe and left about a third of its 15 million people in need of food assistance.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Security forces crush anti-Bashir protests

In the latest crackdown against protests in Sudan, security services loyal to President Omar al-Bashir have killed at least 14 anti-government protesters taking part in a mass sit-in in the capital, Khartoum.

Al Jazeera

‘Nubian queen’ becomes Sudan protest symbol

BBC

Health costs driving Kenyans into poverty

Exploding health costs have become an issue of grave concern in Kenya, where an estimated one million people are driven into poverty every year due to unaffordable medical bills.

RFI

HUMAN RIGHTS

Minorities lack sexual and reproductive rights

According to the State of World Population 2019 report, despite global gains in securing sexual and reproductive rights over the past 50 years, minority population groups worldwide are still left behind.

Devex

For 66 Years, women in S. Korea have been fined, jailed for having abortions. That may be about to change

TIME

Amnesty reports a 31% drop in executions

Amnesty International reports that at least 690 prisoners were executed in 20 countries in 2018, marking a 31 percent fall from at least 993 the previous year and the fewest in at least a decade.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Maduro says Venezuela ready to receive aid

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said his country was ready to receive international aid following a meeting with the Red Cross chief, as the Latin American nation plunged into a new round of blackouts.

Al Jazeera

Venezuela removes eight tonnes of gold from central bank, sources say

Reuters

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters convicted

Nine pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been found guilty of public nuisance and incitement charges for their role in a civil disobedience movement that called for free elections in the city.

BBC

Leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement convicted of public nuisance

YouTube

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

In a first, astronomers photograph black hole

Using a network of eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured the first image of a black hole, illuminating the event horizon beyond which all known physical laws break down.

Guardian

Code site is haven for China’s internet users

With the rise of Chinese internet censorship, coordinated dissent has popped up in an unexpected place: GitHub, the world’s largest open-source site that lets programmers collaborate on code.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Afghanistan struggles to treat maimed civilians

A number of Afghans with physical disabilities are seeking specialized medical care as their country’s decades-long conflict continues to kill and maim. Aid groups are providing prosthetics, not the government itself.

The New Humanitarian

Fleeing doctors impacting Nigeria’s healthcare

Most Nigerian doctors are seeking better working conditions and pay abroad, resulting in a medical “brain drain” that is deeply impacting the country’s health care system.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Site edited by: Sneha Konda, Catherine Lux, Pallavi Sukhia and Emily Macaux.

GOOD NEWS

Blind boy, goes viral, becomes piano sensation

Avett Ray is a self-taught, blind piano sensation at age 7. Videos of the young prodigy on YouTube have gone viral, with his rendition of “Happy Together” by the Turtles.

MSN

Lost dog on Irish train reunited with family

A lost dog who snuck onto a train in Ireland was reunited with his family, thanks to the Irish Rail staff who took the dog in and started a social media campaign to find his family.

CBS News

Gang destroys dog fight rings, rescues pets

Rescue Ink, an animal rights non-profit in New York consisting of bikers, ex-bodybuilders, powerlifting champs, former military, investigated cases of animal abuse and convinced violent owners to give pets away.

Brightside.me

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Oprah Winfrey will donate $2M to Puerto Rico

Oprah Winfrey plans to donate $2 million to disaster relief in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from devastating effects of back-to-back 2017 hurricanes.

Huffington Post

NGOs seek to minimize risk to aid workers

Organizations like Plan International and Oxfam are enrolling staff in courses such as hostile environment awareness training, which can help mitigate risks workers face working in dangerous locations.

Devex

ENVIRONMENT

EU team to drill for ‘oldest ice’ in Antarctica

A European consortium will drill deep into Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet, as they seek to retrieve a continuous record of Earth’s atmosphere and climate stretching back 1.5 million years.

BBC

Norway refuses to drill for oil in Arctic region

The Independent

White House concealed fossil fuel meetings

Donald Trump’s interior secretary, David Bernhardt, attempted to conceal meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists and representatives of the timber, mining industries from his official schedule, reports say.

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Maria Stopes has worst gender pay gap

For the second year in a row, Maria Stopes International has the worst gender pay gap of 44.7 percent, of all U.K. nonprofits required to report their gender pay gap annually.

Devex

Challenges on tap at IMF, World Bank meeting

A gathering of IMF and the World Bank are set to attract power brokers from across the globe, and plenty of criticism regarding their capacity to redress the global economy’s most pressing problems.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A picture of a woman from Katsina in Nigeria. Hauwa’s dream is that one day her daughter will become a health worker. “I want her to become a nurse. I pray she will help others in the same way I have been helped,” she says after having received British aid meant for women and babies in February 2011. (Photo by Lindsay Mgbor/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other