The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Honduran children in a classroom. Troops have been sent to confront protesting teachers and doctors who say public schools and hospitals are literally falling apart. Demonstrators are demanding the president reverse his decrees for privatization of public services. (Photo by GPE/Paul Martinez) Photo used under CC BY

Honduran hospitals, schools face lack of funds

In Honduras, 90 percent of public schools in the country are facing an infrastructure crisis and hospitals are turning away patients.

Al Jazeera

Honduras protests: Military police open fire on students injuring four

BBC

Syrian refugees in Lebanon seek new shelter

A military decree now requires the refugees to demolish any concrete walls over 3 feet high. Refugees fear the military may demolish the entire camps along with their belongings.

NPR

Anti-Syrian refugee sentiment rises in Lebanon

Al Jazeera

Climate compounds hunger and conflicts, group says

Climate change added to warfare is worsening hunger worldwide, according to one of Germany’s largest aid groups. Welthungerhilfe has said many poor have “no more reserves or resilience left” when hit by extreme weather.

Deutsche Welle

More National Guard troops to arrive in Tijuana

Thousands more National Guard troops are scheduled to arrive in Tijuana on Friday to take unprecedented steps in securing Mexico’s northern border and preventing migrants from crossing into the United States.

MSN

Everything we know about the inhumane conditions at migrant detention camps

New York Magazine

UN fears Myanmar blackout cover for abuses

Myanmar’s army may be committing gross human rights violations under cover of a mobile phone blackout in parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin states, U.N. special rapporteur Yanghee Lee said.

Reuters

Chile facing trafficking influx from China

Chile has dismantled its largest-ever human trafficking ring, which brought hundreds of Chinese people into the country illegally.

Insight Crime

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rio de Janeiro expands prison labor program

The government of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro has expanded an unpaid work scheme for prisoners that human rights experts have denounced as illegal, official documents obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation show.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Police torture has affected 1 in 10 Russians

A new poll from the nonprofit Committee for the Prevention of Torture indicates that of 3,400 Russians surveyed across 53 regions, as many as one in 10 had experienced police torture personally.

The Independent

Russia has rights restored in Council of Europe

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Iran to exceed nuclear pact limits within days

Iran is on course to breach a threshold in its nuclear agreement with world powers within days by accumulating more enriched uranium than permitted, diplomats said, citing the latest data from U.N. inspectors.

Reuters

Democracy falls short for people around world

Only half of the world’s population thinks their country is democratic, a survey found, with many Western Europeans viewing banks and social media as threats to democracy.

Reuters

The countries where people are most dissatisfied with how democracy is working

Pew Research Center

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

UN, EU outline push to clean up space junk

European and U.N. bodies outlined a joint push for global action on space junk, saying that debris orbiting the earth must be cleaned up as satellites launched by private companies and other new entrants are adding to the crowding.

Reuters

200M years ago, crocodiles were vegetarians

Long-lost crocodile species living 200 million years ago were vegetarians, a new study has found. Teeth fossils revealed ancient crocodile and alligator family evolved specialized teeth for chewing on plants.

The Independent

GLOBAL HEALTH

Opioid abuse, addiction on the rise in Africa

In what the U.N. calls a “crisis situation” in the African continent, more and more people are becoming addicted to opioids, which are cheap and accessible, and the illicit trade in pharmaceuticals is on the rise.

Deutsche Welle

See inside the worst opioid addiction crisis in US history

TIME

People of color live with 66% more air pollution

People of color in the American north-east and mid-Atlantic are living with 66 percent more air pollution from vehicles than white residents are, according to a new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Guardian

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, Emily Macaux and Pallavi Sukhia.

GOOD NEWS

Ireland, yielding to pressure, bans fur farming

Ireland is set to join a growing list of E.U. countries that have phased out fur farming, the practice of confining animals to tiny cages and gassing them to death for their pelts.

The Independent

Homeless community cleans Portland beach

Audrey McCall Beach, downtown Portland’s newest beach is set to open to the public. When it does, it will be safer and cleaner thanks to a unique partnership between river advocates and the homeless community.

MSN

In Durham, laundromats are becoming libraries

To give families access to books where they are, and help kids with grade-level reading, the Wash House laundromats, Libraries Without Borders and Book Harvest partnered to launch Wash & Learn across Durham.

News Observer

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Global humanitarian aid nearly $29B in 2018

International humanitarian assistance totaled a record $28.9 billion in 2018, an increase of 30 percent since 2014, but up just 1 percent on a year-over-year basis, a study by Development Initiatives found.

Philanthropy News Digest

Citymeals On Wheels delivers 60M meals

Shocked that thousands of frail elders who couldn’t leave their apartments would go four days without meals, New York food critic Gael Greene founded Citymeals on Wheels. The nonprofit just delivered its 60 millionth meal.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

‘Plasticrust’ forms on Portuguese island rocks

Researchers have discovered a strange never-before-seen type of pollution that they’ve dubbed “plasticrust,” which originates in the ocean and adheres directly onto rocks along the shoreline of Portuguese island of Madeira.

FOX News

Coral found that prefers plastics over food

Phys.org

Doctors call for direct action over climate crisis

More than 1,000 doctors, 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of the environmental crisis.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Zimbabwe to sell ‘excess’ of wild elephants

Zimbabwe wants to sell its wild elephants to reduce an overabundance of the creatures in the African country, discussing the plan during a summit put on by the African Union and United Nations Environment Program.

CBS News

Deepening trade war will loom large at G20

The U.S.–China trade war, rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran that could threaten global oil supplies, and strained diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Turkey are expected to loom large at the G20 summit.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A boy, with a stone in his left hand, confronts the heavily armed Egyptian military police at a barbed wire barricade in central Cairo just south of Tahrir Square in December 2011. The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 started as a statement against increasing police brutality during the last few years of Mubarak’s presidency. In 2019, Human Rights Watch reported that judicial authorities have investigated very few officers and even fewer have been prosecuted for abuses, including enforced disappearances and torture. (Photo by Alisdare Hickson) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other