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Street vendors in Varanasi, India. The government began easing a stringent two-month-long lockdown in June, but business still is only a quarter to a fifth of usual and customers are scarce. (Photo by Juan Antonio Segal) Photo used under CC BY

India’s economy rebooting from coronavirus blow

Distressed Indian manufacturers and traders are counting on the festive season to rescue them from their coronavirus catastrophe. But spending may be the last thing on the minds of many Indians who have lost their jobs or businesses in the pandemic downturn.

Associated Press

More than 60M Indians may have caught COVID

Al Jazeera

India races to build border roads, bridges to match China

Al Jazeera

Armenia, Azerbaijan defy calls to cease fire

Azerbaijan and Armenia have defied calls for a ceasefire amid the worst fighting in decades between the two over a disputed territory. The US, France and Russia jointly condemned the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, in the southern Caucasus.

BBC

Explosive stakes on Armenia-Azerbaijan chessboard

Asia Times Online

Azerbaijan, Armenia clash as France, Turkey trade barbs

BBC

Azerbaijan, Armenia reject talks as Karabakh conflict widens

Al Jazeera

Israel bans mass protests amid lockdown

Israel has passed a law that bans mass protest during the country’s coronavirus lockdown in a move government opponents have claimed exploits the health crisis to suppress demonstrations calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to resign as prime minister.

Guardian

Coronavirus inspires world graffiti

USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

2K Honduran migrants head toward US on foot

About 2,000 Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States entered Guatemala on foot, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronavirus pandemic.

ABC News

Women accuse Ebola aid workers of sex abuse

More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organization and leading NGOs of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indian tea plantation workers strike for wages

Tens of thousands of tea plantation workers in Assam, northeast India, went on strike to demand higher pay, unions said amid plans to increase the daily wage from about $2.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indian teenager dies after alleged gang rape

A Dalit teenager allegedly raped by four upper-caste men died of her injuries on Tuesday, sparking outrage from Indian activists, politicians and Bollywood stars.

CBS News

Caste in modern-day India

The Independent

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Indian police hold politicians as rape spurs rage

Indian police briefly detained several opposition leaders as they headed toward the site where a low-caste young woman died this week after being gang-raped, the latest such attack to whip up nationwide anger and protests.

Reuters

Armenia says it shot down Azerbaijani drone near capital

ABC News

A year after Iran protests, little has changed

In October 2019, unprecedented protests demanded the fall of Iraq’s ruling class. One year on, with a new government in place and nearly 600 protesters killed, little to nothing has changed.

Al Jazeera

Nigerians have hope despite anger over poverty

Africa’s most populous nation has become a continental cultural powerhouse, boasting the world’s second most productive film industry and globally celebrated music scene.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook finally blocks Duterte’s army of trolls

Asia Times Online

Buried lakes of water discovered on Mars

Three new underground lakes have been detected near the south pole of Mars. Scientists also confirmed the existence of a fourth lake - the presence of which was hinted at in 2018.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Coronavirus risks surge in child marriages

The coronavirus pandemic could lead to a spike in child marriages globally, reversing 25 years of progress on ending the practice, a charity has warned.

BBC News

Africa’s CDC chief explains continent’s low death rate

CNN

COVID has now killed more than 1M people

The coronavirus has killed at least 1 million people across the globe, a nightmarish milestone in the world’s fight against the virus that emerged from Wuhan, China, late last year, according to Johns Hopkins University.

CNBC

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GOOD NEWS

S. Carolina lunch lady lifts spirits with raps

“Chef V” oversees two schools and their food production in South Carolina. After COVID-19 hit, she decided to go the extra mile to help keep kids smiling.

A Plus

Ghana’s first female tractor driver

Deutsche Welle

Fishermen rescue 94 Haitian migrants

The migrants said they were trying to reach Panama but were abandoned at sea by people smugglers when the boat’s motor failed.

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

India freezes Amnesty accounts over criticism

Global human rights organization Amnesty International has halted operations in India, accusing the government of an “incessant witch-hunt” and “constant harassment.”

CBS News

UK charity honors landmine-hunting ‘hero rat’

A rat in Cambodia has been heralded a hero and awarded a gold medal for saving lives. Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, was honored by a British charity for his work detecting undetonated landmines.

CNN

Dad builds desks for students who need them

Mitchell Couch, a former carpenter and father of four, has assembled dozens of desks for low-income students who are struggling with remote learning amid the coronavirus epidemic.

Today

ENVIRONMENT

Edible plants could feed us on a hotter planet

The drought-hardy African morama bean, which tastes like cashew nuts when roasted, and the artichoke-flavoured buds of the Middle East’s thorny akkoub plant may be foods of the future.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Amazon suffers worst fires in a decade

Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of blazes in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe has shown.

Guardian

Brazil president calls Biden’s Amazon comments ’disastrous’

ABC News

Brazil’s govt did little to help burning wetlands

Associated Press

Mining giant accused of poisoning rivers

The Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is fending off allegations that an abandoned gold and copper mine in Papua New Guinea, vacated two decades ago, is leaking poisonous waste into the region’s rivers.

The Independent

Greenland’s ice melts fastest in 12,000 years

Greenland’s ice is starting to melt faster than at any time in the past 12,000 years, research has shown, which will raise sea levels and could have a marked impact on ocean currents.

Guardian

How this conservationist has saved seabirds around the world

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

India’s millennials drive surge in stock trading

India’s youth population is driving a boom in the country’s investment landscape. Millions are piling into stock trading during the coronavirus pandemic.

CNBC

India’s September factory activity grew at fastest pace in over eight years

Reuters

S. African economy collapses amid lockdown

As government reopens after one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, South Africa’s economy is collapsing amid predictions unemployment in the world’s most unequal society could rise to 45%.

Deutsche Welle

Pandemic takes toll on business of pisco producers in Peru

Associated Press

Trouble bringing COVID vaccines to the poor

In one of the biggest obstacles, rich countries have locked up most of the world’s potential vaccine supply through 2021, and the U.S. and others have refused to join the project, called Covax.

Associated Press

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Protestors in Rotterdam, the Netherlands stand together to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial equality (Photo by Wouter Engler) Photo used under CC BY

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