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Over 43% of the population lives on less than $2 per day. The political and economical crisis faced by Yemen since the beginning of 2011 has weakened the country’s institutions and its ability to maintain law and order as well as to relaunch the economy, and provide millions with enough food to keep them alive. (Photo by ECHO/H. Veit) Photo used under CC BY

Food insecurity, famine stalk four weak nations, UN warns

Hotspots in four countries – Burkina Faso, Yemen, South Sudan and Nigeria – are on the brink of severe levels of food insecurity and could potentially fall into famine within three to six months as the coronavirus pandemic erodes people’s ability to access food.

Al Jazeera

US grants $20M to fund Sudan wheat purchases

Reuters

UAE courts criminalize ‘honor’ killing defense

The United Arab Emirates scraped laws defending so-called “honor” killings, in a major reform of the country’s criminal law. Alcohol restrictions have been eased and a ban on unmarried couples cohabiting has been lifted.

Deutsche Welle

Biden wins White House, vows new direction for US

Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.

Associated Press

Biden win seen as green light for female reproductive rights worldwide

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kamala Harris makes history as first Black, S.Asian female vice president

NPR

World rejoices after Biden wins 2020 election

World leaders are congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, with many calling this a historic moment, and one they hope will lead to strengthened relations with the U.S.

Forbes

Cities erupt in celebration after Biden named winner

CNN

Cuba braces Eta after deadly toll in C. America

Cuba’s meteorology office warned of torrential rain and flooding as Tropical Depression Eta churned northwards towards the Caribbean island, and on track to Florida, after killing over 70 people in Central America last week.

Reuters

Hurricane Eta slams into Honduras as it heads toward Florida

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hong Kong residents inform on each other

Hong Kong police have launched a hotline for the city’s residents to inform anonymously on anyone they allege has broken a sweeping new national security law.

Guardian

Israeli forces demolish Bedouin village

Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, displacing 73 Palestinians — including 41 children — in the largest such demolition in years, residents and a United Nations official said.

NBC News

England’s COVID-19 lockdown feared fueling child trafficking by drug gangs

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Abortion ban divides Poland

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

France ‘to reduce troop presence’ in Sahel

Less than a year after sending hundreds of extra troops to the Sahel, France is hoping to cut back its military presence in the restive region to make room for a stronger European commitment, army sources say.

Al Jazeera

Mexico’s Senate approves digital violence law

Mexico’s Senate unanimously approved legislation that would punish digital violence such as ‘revenge porn,’ a victory for victims who spent years campaigning for its passage.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Prehistoric hunters weren’t all male

The discovery of a woman buried 9,000 years ago in the Andes Mountains with weapons and hunting tools, and an analysis of other burial sites challenges this widely accepted division of labor in hunter-gatherer society.

CNN

AI can detect COVID-19 from sound of cough

A group of researchers at MIT recently developed an artificial intelligence model that can detect asymptomatic COVID-19 cases by listening to subtle differences in coughs between healthy people and infected people.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Poor diet stunts growth in children worldwide

It reports that in 2019 the tallest 19-year-old boys lived in the Netherlands (183.8cm or 6ft) and the shortest lived in Timor Leste (160.1cm or 5ft 3in).

BBC

How a ‘warm COVID vaccine’ could help India

Nearly all vaccines need to be transported and distributed between 2C and 8C in what comprises the so-called cold chain.

BBC

First COVID-19 vaccine doses for health workers

Healthcare workers will almost certainly get the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. when approved, according to Dr. José Romero, head of the committee that develops evidence-based immunization guidelines for the CDC.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ciaran Thapar):

How the link between racism and COVID is being ignored

Guardian

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US needs to ensure developing countries access to COVID-19 vaccine

The Hill

Column (Hana Begovic):

It’s time to stop investing in the destruction of nature

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Brazilian pianist uses ‘bionic gloves’ to play

Acclaimed Brazilian pianist João Carlos Martins had not played with 10 fingers since he lost the use of his right hand in a 1995 mugging in Bulgaria. Now bionic gloves give him another chance to play.

NBCNews.com

Mogadishu Deaf School: ‘After learning sign language, I understand everything’

BBC

Canada approves first HIV self-test

Canada has approved its first self-test for HIV, and fewer undiagnosed Canadians will “fall through the cracks” as a result, says scientist Sean Rourke.

CBC News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Afghan refugees create taste of home

Meaningful Meals is a cooking project within the nonprofit Greater Action. Through the project, Afghan refugee women in Malaysia are trained to cook as chefs that cater to an international clientele.

Christian Science Monitor

Iowa boy makes 115 baseball bats to raise money for community after devastating storm

msn

ENVIRONMENT

Central America on high alert after hurricane

Rain-heavy remnants of Hurricane Eta have flooded homes from Panama to Guatemala, as the death toll across Central America rose to at least 57 people and aid groups warned of a slow-moving humanitarian disaster.

Al Jazeera

Hundreds evacuated near Indonesian volcano

Indonesian authorities have evacuated hundreds of people living on the volatile Mount Merapi volcano’s fertile slopes on Java island following an increase in volcanic activity.

Al Jazeera

Johannesburg’s wind blows poison

In Johannesburg, South Africa, the wind blows particles of radioactive uranium across the population. Johannesburg is considered to be one of the most radioactive cities in the world.

Deutsche Welle

Mauritius oil leak to be cleaned up by January

The clean-up of a massive oil spill in August from a vessel off Mauritius will likely be mostly completed by January, the bulk carrier‘s owner, Japan’s Nagashiki Shipping.

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

New fears, trauma on war-scarred Bosnians

As coronavirus cases surge in Bosnia, the pandemic is heaping more trouble on a nation that has never recovered economically or psychologically from a war that killed 100,000 people and forced millions from their homes.

Associated Press

Kashmir nomads’ migration in peril

Returning from their annual migration to high alpine pastures, the pastoralists of Himalayan Kashmir say their traditional lowland grazing lands are increasingly scarce due to flouted laws and forest enclosures.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India. The man has just had a ritual bath. (Photo by Paulrudd) Photo used under CC BY

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