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Unsafe transportation and harassment are making it harder for women to work and for girls to get an education in Africa. Transport poverty in Africa is linked to unplanned, informally developed urban areas that place vulnerable groups on city peripheries. (Photo by Bellys Akoth) Photo used under CC BY

African women, girls bear brunt of ‘transport poverty’

Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in public taxis, constant fear, and having to use a pen as a knife to fight off an aggressive male passenger. These are just some of the things African women have to deal with as a result of the country’s transport poverty.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Cape Verde women find a way out of economic crisis

Deutsche Welle

Environmental justice reporters face threats

In many parts of the world, journalists who report acts of environmental destruction risk threats, violence and even murder. These crimes, which frequently target Indigenous reporters, often go unpunished.

Deutsche Welle

Ethiopian conflict killing mass civilians, refugees

Refugees fleeing the conflict in northern Ethiopia have claimed both sides are committing atrocities against civilians, and described hospitals struggling to cope with casualties. Hundreds were massacred in a town south of Humera last week.

Guardian

Refugee exodus to Sudan swells as war crimes feared in Ethiopia

Reuters

Ethnic targeting turns deadly amid Ethiopian conflict

Associated Press

COVID reaches last virus-free nations on Earth

Eight months after the WHO declared a global pandemic, COVID-19 is reaching the last places on Earth. The good news is that because COVID took so long to get there, these nations had time to prepare.

TIME

Virus fatality rate down 30% since April, study finds

Reuters

Europe pledges to get vaccines to poor nations

European officials and the Gates Foundation pledged to provide millions of dollars in emergency funds for a global effort aimed at ensuring eventual vaccines against COVID-19 are quickly available to poor countries.

ABC News

Fauci warns ‘vaccines on horizon,’ now is the time to ‘double down’ on virus measures

Forbes

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tensions flare in Myanmar’s Rakhine election

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy has claimed another commanding win in a parliamentary election, the second since the end of half a century of military rule.

Reuters

US abortion funding cuts harm Kenyan women

The Trump administration policy on foreign funding for maternal health care NGOs currently denies any support for clinics specializing in abortion.

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

How the Navajo Nation helped flip Arizona blue

For the last thirty years, Arizona has been a steady and unassailable red. Along with the changing demographics of the state, some analysts are pointing to the role of the Navajo Nation in pushing the state blue.

NPR

Dutch police give ‘stop pedophile hunts’ order

A Dutch police chief has called for an end to “pedophile hunting” after a 73-year-old retired teacher was beaten up by teenagers and died of his injuries.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Airbnb bans bookings by hate group members

Airbnb has said it will cancel the reservations of any guests associated with hate groups after a Twitter user pointed out that a self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys hate group had booked an Airbnb in Washington, D.C.

Fast Company

This Swedish car carrier will be the world’s largest wind-powered vessel

CNN

Robots join India’s fight against coronavirus

In India, the country with the world’s second-highest number of Covid-19 cases, a handful of hospitals has started to use robots to connect patients with their loved ones, and assist healthcare workers on the pandemic frontlines.

CNN Business

GLOBAL HEALTH

Measles on rise as COVID disrupts vaccinations

The number of measles cases worldwide surged to nearly 900,000 in 2019, the highest figure in more than two decades, underlining a significant U-turn in global progress to combat the disease.

Guardian

CDC projects 282K COVID deaths by December

The CDC predicts there will be 260,000 to 282,000 coronavirus deaths by December 5. There are currently at least 10.5 million cases of coronavirus in the US and more than 242,000 have died.

CNN

World’s top intensive care body advises against remdesivir for sickest COVID patients

Reuters

Europe keeps schools open despite virus surge

Across Europe, schools and child care centers are staying open even as much of the continent reports rising coronavirus cases, and even as many businesses and gathering places are shut or restricted.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

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What Biden needs to do with the Middle East

The Hill

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India, Pakistan in winner-take-all rice war

Asia Times Online

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India’s TCS to acquire Irish tech firm

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Tim Tebow’s new app is spreading kindness

Former football player, actor, and all around good person Tim Tebow has launched Kindli, a new “social unity” app that focuses on positivity and being kind.

People

These formerly dirty rescue dogs had the most amazing transformations of 2020

People

Six-year-olds sketches help German police

Police in the west German city of Hamm are using drawings by six-year-olds to trace a rogue driver who allegedly smashed through a road barrier.

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Jane Fonda celebrates 25 years of nonprofit

Jane Fonda is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Georgia-based nonprofit organization she founded to prevent teenage pregnancies. Fonda, 82, founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in 1995

Associated Press

Nonprofit opens free grocery store in Ohio

A coupon club-turned-food-pantry-powerhouse is opening a free grocery store to serve the Miami Valley, Ohio. Local nonprofit With God’s Grace will begin signing up families later this month to use the free grocery.

Dayton.com

ENVIRONMENT

Diwali fireworks spark worries about pollution

New Delhi’s air quality has already reached its worst level this year. And the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, is likely to make things even worse as the traditional rounds of firecrackers add to the air pollution.

NPR

Barcelona redesigns streets, prioritizes people

In central Barcelona, one in three streets will soon become “green axes” that prioritize people on foot and bikes instead of cars.

Fast Company

The world’s largest wetlands are on fire

South America’s Pantanal region has been hit by the worst wildfires in decades. The blazes have already consumed about 28 percent of the vast floodplain that stretches across parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.

CNN

Bigfin squid spotted in Australia for first time

BBC

Heat is killing more people than ever globally

By 2100, heat exposure will threaten the health of an estimated 4 billion people. Across the globe, researchers are working to pin down how heat affects workers and vulnerable populations, such as the elderly.

Science

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

India unveils stimulus as recession takes toll

India unveiled fresh measures to revive the economy. The Reserve Bank of India said Asia’s third-largest economy is likely to have gone into a technical recession for the first time in its history.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

A woman in Sri Lanka celebrates Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. As one of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.” (Photo by Amila Tennakoon) Photo used under CC BY

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