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Global economic growth is expected to fall by 5.2% this year, more than in the past eight decades, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, the number of people living in extreme poverty is expected to skyrocket, reaching 150 million by the end of the year. (Photo by ninachildish) Photo used under CC BY

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Up to 150M people globally to fall into extreme poverty

COVID-19 has halted years of progress against global extreme poverty. Up to 150 million people are at risk of living on less than $1.90 a day, by late next year depending on how badly economies shrink during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank has said.

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Associated Press

Africa’s closed schools putting children at risk

Only one in three countries in west and central Africa have reopened their schools, leaving children at risk of child marriage, early pregnancy and recruitment by local armed groups, UNICEF has warned.

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Guardian

Gender-based violence picks up speed in Africa

The United Nations has called it the “shadow pandemic”. Violence, sexual assault, and femicide have all increased in the past months across the African continent and the globe. The reasons for the spike are closely related to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Kenya‘s back-alley abortions put women at risk

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Women do better at measures to curb virus spread

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2M stillbirths every year, pandemic might worsen toll

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Associated Press

Gang war erupts in Rohingya refugee camps

A turf war raging between criminal armed groups in Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh has forced thousands of people to flee and at least eight have been killed in the clashes, police and aid workers have said.

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Reuters

UN’s failure to investigate war on drugs killings

The UN human rights council has been accused of a “collective failure” over its decision to not investigate the mass killings alleged to have occurred under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs”.

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Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Child labor soars in Thai seafood industry

Children’s rights campaigners said school closures draws many migrant schoolchildren into illegal, low-paid work just as the COVID-19 pandemic raises the risk of child labor.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Uighurs at Guantánamo plead to be released

More than a decade after the three Uighur men were released to Bermuda and Albania, they are unable to join their families, who have since moved to Canada.

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Guardian

Child rape soars behind COVID-closed doors

Child sexual abuse and rapes soar in Pakistan during the COVID-19 lockdown, a revelation that has sparked shock, grief and protest across major cities nationwide against a perennial problem that has intensified.

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Asia Times Online

Nations criticize China’s human rights policies

Nearly 40 mainly Western countries criticized China’s treatment of minority groups, especially in Xinjiang and Tibet, expressed grave concern at the impact of its new national security law on human rights in Hong Kong.

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Associated Press

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

W. African leaders lift sanctions on Mali

West African leaders have lifted punishing sanctions imposed on Mali following a military coup in August that overthrew embattled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

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Al Jazeera

India secures eastern borders as threats loom

As part of its effort to fully secure its borders and avoid being encircled, India made another move to plug its eastern and south-eastern fronts as threats loomed in the north and west.

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Asia Times Online

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India tests missile that launches a torpedo hundreds of miles away

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CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

‘Superhabitable’ planets could be better for life

Earth is the only planet we know of so far to host life, but it may not be the best place for life when compared with “superhabitable” planets, according to a new study.

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Scientists develop super-enzyme that can eat plastic quickly

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USA TODAY

Passport photo checker shows skin color bias

Women with darker skin are more than twice as likely to be told their photos fail UK passport rules when they submit them online than lighter-skinned men, according to the BBC.

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BBC

Mars to make get closest to Earth until 2035

Two full moons aren’t the only spectacular celestial events of October. This week, Mars is making its closest approach to Earth until 2035 — and to see it, all skywatchers need to do is look up.

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CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s COVID problem bigger than we think

Infection is surging through the country in a “step-ladder spiral”, a government scientist told me. The only “consolation” is a death rate - currently 1.63% - that’s lower than many countries with a high caseload.

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India’s drug authority approved paper-strip COVID-19 test that could return results within hour

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Iran deserves a red card for its human rights abuses

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COVID has been a terrible setback for mothers who work

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Why Netflix is a lifeline for African film-makers

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GOOD NEWS

Women sweep chemistry, clinch Nobel awards

Two scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating genetic ‘scissors’ that can rewrite the code of life, contributing to new cancer therapies and holding out the prospect of curing hereditary diseases.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Airline gives 21,000 free tickets to teachers

This World Teachers’ Day, Qatar Airways is giving away 21,000 complimentary tickets to teachers to thank them for their vital work in educating young people worldwide during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Good News Network

Chicago baker helps food-insecure kids

At her bakery in Chicago, Maya-Camille Broussard is committed to reducing food insecurity, particularly among children and teens. Broussard, an art teacher and gallerist-turned-baker, was born to help others.

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Today

ENVIRONMENT

Flooding hits 6M people in East Africa

The number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than fivefold in four years, according to UN figures. Nearly six million people have been affected this year with 1.5 million forced from their homes.

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BBC

Hurricane Delta closing in on Mexico’s Yucatan

Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm while on a course to hammer Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.

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Associated Press

September was the world’s hottest on record

Last month was the world‘s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Singapore will pay citizens to have a baby

Singapore will offer a one-time payment to aspiring parents during the pandemic. The country’s deputy prime minister said the incentive would help reassure people who face financial pressure and worry about their jobs.

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CNN

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Economic ’calamity is far from over’, IMF chief warns

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Al Jazeera

Disabled Indians fighting for their livelihoods

A study of 1,067 disabled people by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) found that 73% of respondents had faced severe hardship and challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.

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BBC

Moria refugees now living in worse conditions

Thousands of people who fled the fire that destroyed the infamous Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, last month are living in dire and unsanitary conditions in a temporary settlement with little water and sanitation.

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Guardian

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Junior high school students wear masks while listening to a lesson in the Northern region of Ghana. (Photo by Agoni Abraham) Photo used under CC BY

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