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A UNICEF member carries a child at a shelter center in Homs, Syria, in 2014. The latest military offensive has claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians in the last three months, according to the United Nations, (Photo by World Humanitarian Summit) Photo used under CC BY

Syrian military offensive worsens humanitarian crisis

Syrian forces are making advances on the last rebel-held stronghold in the northern part of the country. The latest military offensive has claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians in the last three months, and aid groups have seen their clinics hit by air strikes.

WBUR

Nicaraguan rights chief accused of bilking US

A year after a U.S.-backed coup attempt rocked Nicaragua, a major scandal is unfolding over the alleged theft of half a million dollars in US taxpayer money by an organization at the center of the destabilization effort.

The Grayzone

Report: Climate crisis causing deaths, stunting

Climate change is “absolutely” already causing deaths, according to a new report on the health impacts of the climate crisis, which also predicts climate-related stunting, malnutrition and lower IQ in children in coming decades.

Guardian

Researchers use bio matter to reduce CO2

Phys.org

Holland, Switzerland halt UN agency funding

The Netherlands and Switzerland have suspended their funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees after an ethics report revealed alleged mismanagement and abuse of authority at its highest levels.

Al Jazeera

Report alleges ethical abuses at UN agency

Agence France-Presse

‘Shameless’ leaders spawn Amnesty strategy

In an age of “shameless” leaders like Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte and Jair Bolsonaro, Amnesty International will shift focus of messaging from raising awareness of human-rights abuses to championing positive action.

PR Week

China jails award-winning cyber-dissident Huang Qi

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Philippines ‘deadliest’ for environment activists

The Philippines was the deadliest country in the world for environmental and land activists in 2018 with 18 percent of the 164 environment-related deaths recorded last year, according to watchdog group Global Witness.

Al Jazeera

Why do environmentalists keep getting killed around the world?

Smithsonian Magazine

Action or extinction? Environmental activists take to the streets

Guardian

Innocent man freed after 23 years in jail

Ali Muhammad Bhat and five others received life sentences for a bomb blast in 1996. After being wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years, Bhat was finally set free.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

India criminalizes Muslim law of instant divorce

India’s parliament has approved a bill that makes the Muslim practice of “instant divorce” a criminal offense. Supporters say this measure protects Muslim women, while opponents say the punishment is harsh and open to misuse.

BBC

Under new law, Saudi women to be notified of divorce via text message

Reuters

Vector control plan launched in Tanzania

After a series of alarming disease outbreaks like malaria and dengue fever, the Tanzanian government launched a five-year National Strategy for Vector Control in Dar es Salaam.

allAfrica.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ancient humans mated with four other species

According to a new study, it is anatomically likely modern humans procreated with at least four other species of humans, including Neanderthals, Denisovans, and two other unnamed groups.

Inverse

Scientists seek to reduce cost of desalinization

As populations boom and chronic droughts persist, coastal cities have increasingly turned to ocean desalination to supplement a dwindling fresh water supply. Scientists have hit on a promising design for inexpensive desalinating.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

US sanctions blocks life-saving medicine in Iran

Iran’s health system can’t cope and many blame President Trump’s punitive campaign for staggering prices and shortages of medicines, both imported and those manufactured within the country.

Al Jazeera

Trump is exploring ways to let the US import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other countries

Business Insider

In the US, fear grows over ‘food swamps’

In the U.S., the drugstore CVS sells more groceries than Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s combined, and researchers fear that food “deserts” are becoming “swamps” of processed food.

Guardian

Record worst dengue outbreak hits Bangladesh

More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh, the majority of whom are children, have been diagnosed with dengue in the last 24 hours, amid the country’s worst outbreak on record, a senior health ministry official has said.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Our planet is in crisis. But until we call it a crisis, no one will listen

Guardian

Column (Sylvie Namwase):

Why Uganda needs new laws to hold police in check, and accountable

The Conversation

Column (Borzou Daragahi):

Tunisia is a shining example of democracy in a world hellbent on backsliding into chaos – why is the west ignoring it?

The Independent

Column (Susan Shaw):

Our unalienable rights include freedom of, and from, religion

Ms. Magazine

Column (Elisha Maldonado):

Young Puerto Ricans haven’t seen a government that’s not corrupt

New York Post

Column (Shahir Masri):

Climate policy is expensive, but so is climate change

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Woman buys out shoe store, donates to needy

A big-hearted Arkansas woman bought out a closing Payless shoe store — containing 1,500 shoes worth nearly $21,000 — so she could donate the footwear to children in need, according to reports.

New York Post

Cops climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds for cancer kids

MSN

101-year-old releases her first poetry collection

At age 101, Sarah Yerkes released her first collection of poems, “Days of Blue and Flame.” The book is the latest iteration of a creative mind that has worked with form and style for the better part of a century.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Anderson family donates $50M to LA hospital

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced that the Anderson Stewart Family Foundation donated $50 million to the institution, to provide a safety net for the most critically ill and advance family-centered pediatric care.

Yahoo! News

Charity will expose those guilty of overfishing

A website for whistleblowers to expose illegal or unethical practices in the fishing industry has been launched by a charity campaigning to end overfishing in European Union waters.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Parched Indian metropolis getting water by rail

Every day, a 50-tank car train heads to Chennai, India’s parched Motor City, to deliver water for the city’s 10 million people. The trip is a costly practice that takes four hours.

Associated Press

Climate crisis already displacing millions

What seems an urgent but still future problem for many developed countries is already killing people in parts of Asia, and a new refugee crisis, far worse than that which has hit Europe in recent years, is brewing.

CNN

Emissions must be halved to avoid disaster

Al Jazeera

Illegal nets push vaquita porpoise to extinction

The vaquita porpoise could face extinction within a year if illegal fishing nets continue to be used, scientists have warned. Their numbers have dropped by 98.6 per cent since 2011 and now fewer than 10 remain.

The Independent

Hotel chain will ditch plastic toiletries by 2021

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Mexico’s guacamole takes hit as demand soars

It has become increasingly common for Mexico City’s taquerias to serve fake guacamole in their tacos. The guacamole no longer has any avocado. High demand, measly harvests, and U.S. and Mexican drug cartels are to blame.

Deutsche Welle

Western appetites for avocados, coffee and citrus fruit threatens global ‘food security’

The Independent

Cuba imposes price controls on all businesses

Communist-run Cuba imposed sweeping price controls on all state and private businesses as it battles a deepening economic crisis and mounting U.S. sanctions.

Reuters

Europe’s unemployment rate hits historic lows

Unemployment rates in the EU and eurozone have dropped to record lows. But economic growth and inflation figures showed European economies were slowing down just as the U.S.-China trade war accelerates.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Children and young “peer educators” watching a UNICEF documentary, “Born with AIDS,” in Zahedan, Iran, in November 2008. The area is considered a high risk area for HIV/AIDS because of its proximity to areas with intensive drug trade. (Photo by UNICEF Iran/Shehzad Noorani) Photo used under CC BY

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