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Enjoying the holiday festivities in Baker City, Oregon includes visiting the COVID modified CASA Classic Christmas Gingerbread Tour of Homes and all the festive holiday windows and decorations on Main Street. Still, instead of Christmas joy, a sense of dread and isolation is looming. (Photo by Baker County Tourism) Photo used under CC BY

Global Christmas COVID rules range from tough to none at all

Countries worldwide are trying to find the right formulas to keep their people safe for the holidays. In Peru, you can’t drive your car on Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a nightclub, but you can’t dance. In South Africa, roadblocks will mark this year’s festive season.

Associated Press

Millions of girls won’t return to the classroom

The UN estimates that nearly 24 million children and adolescents, including 11 million girls and young women, may drop out of education next year due to the pandemic’s economic impact alone.

CNN

Cambodian schools add human trafficking lessons

School students in Cambodia will learn about different forms of human trafficking, the roles of schools and communities in prevention, and the relevant laws and rights from an updated syllabus starting in 2021, officials said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kenyan schools shut, kids learn by solar radios

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Inside the organization helping prisoners in Africa become lawyers and paralegals

CBS News

Thousands in S. Sudan near famine, starvation

South Sudan is one of four countries with areas that could slip into famine, the United Nations has warned, along with Yemen, Burkina Faso and northeastern Nigeria.

ABC News

Mass vaccination begins in Latin America

Frontline medical workers in Mexico and Chile were among the first to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as several countries in hard-hit Latin America launched mass immunization programs.

International Business Times

Costa Rica readies COVID-19 vaccinations, with Pfizer shipment due

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Asian migrant workers locked up then dumped

Migrant workers in Asia are being locked up and abandoned by employers even as countries ease coronavirus curbs, say human rights groups, which are calling for better housing and changes to visa laws.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Several dozen killed in latest Ethiopia massacre

An Ethiopian news agency reported several dozen people have been killed in the latest massacre along ethnic lines in the western part of the country.

Associated Press

Rocks and tear gas fly in Peru as farmers protest

Yahoo! News

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Iran linked to websites targeting poll officials

Iranian cyber actors were “almost certainly” behind a number of websites and social media accounts which contained death threats against senior officials in charge of securing and managing the 2020 election.

BBC

Kashmir parties opposed to Modi win seats

An alliance of political parties opposed to India’s policies in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous status and took direct control last year.

Associated Press

Iraqis’ anger over Trump pardons

Iraqis have reacted with outrage to Donald Trump’s move to pardon four security guards from the security firm Blackwater who had been jailed for a 2007 massacre that sparked an outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Organic meat production just as bad for climate

The cost of the climate damage caused by organic meat production is just as high as that of conventionally farmed meat, according to research. Even the lowest impact meat was still far more damaging than the worst plant foods.

Guardian

UK has two cases of variant linked to S. Africa

The U.K. has detected two cases of another “more transmissible” variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. Both cases are linked to travel to South Africa, where the variant has been linked to a surge in cases.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

S. Korea on track to vaccinate 46M people

South Korea has secured enough vaccines to inoculate 46 million people, after signing new contracts with Pfizer and Janssen - a Johnson & Johnson-owned pharmaceuticals company.

UPI

Thailand grapples with virus outbreak

After managing against the odds to keep the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year, Thailand has suddenly found itself challenged by an expanding outbreak among migrant workers on the doorstep of Bangkok, the capital.

Associated Press

COVID takes toll on Ethiopia’s garment workers

Garment workers in Ethiopia report further worsening of conditions like pay-cuts and forced overtime as short-staffed factories try to recover orders lost early in the pandemic.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Lilit Marcus):

The secularization of Christmas doesn’t make it any friendlier to non-Christians

NBCNews.com

Column (Lawrence Haddad and Saskia Osendarp):

COVID-19 and the risk of intergenerational malnutrition

Al Jazeera

Column (Mohamed Osman):

The UN cannot abandon Darfuris amid rising violence

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Kristina Varganova, Catherine Lux, Eliza Villanueva and Samantha Floyd.

GOOD NEWS

PPE art makes Moscow’s COVID patients smile

Leonid Krasner, who has been volunteering at a hospital in Moscow, Russia since the first wave, draws colorful pictures on the back of his overalls to help patients recognize him and bring a smile to those being treated.

Yahoo! News

Portable toilets ‘sing’ Christmas carols in festive display

UPI

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Beyoncé’s charity announces housing fund

Beyoncé’s charity has launched a housing assistance fund for families who are facing eviction and housing issues due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Elle

Nemacolin gives $1M charity donation

Spreading cheer and over $1 million in generous donations this holiday season, hotel company, Nemacolin and owner Maggie Hardy Knox delivered over fresh produce to local food banks.

Business Insider

Nonprofit trains women, working to close gender gap in construction

CBS News

People buried in medical debt find relief with help from growing nonprofit

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

The tiny forests designed by feng-shui

Nestled within a narrow valley of the Meihuashan Nature Reserve in China’s south-eastern Fujian province, the ancient Hakka village of Guizhuping is sheltered from the cold north wind by a sacred forest.

BBC

Pollution killed nearly 1.7m Indians in 2019

Pollution accounted for nearly 1.7m premature deaths in India in 2019, or 18% of all deaths, according to a study that lays bare the human cost of the country’s toxic urban air.

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Thai workers found dying in South Korea

The deaths of hundreds of mainly undocumented Thai migrant workers in South Korea have been uncovered, prompting the United Nations to call for inquiry into the fate of migrants known as “little ghosts.”

Thomson Reuters Foundation

New train displaces Pakistani residents

A new Chinese-financed metro in Lahore, Pakistan aims to cut traffic congestion and pollution, but it has driven some residents from their homes and affected heritage sites

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Louisiana residents hurting, post hurricanes

As southwest Louisiana recovers from the back-to-back hurricanes that hammered the region this year, signs of progress compete with lingering evidence of mass destruction.

Associated Press

Pandemic forces older workers to retire early

For older workers who have lost their jobs this year, the state of the labor market makes it harder to get rehired as the economy recovers, forcing many Americans to retire early.

CNN

Photo of the Day

Christmas shoppers strolling through the Copenhagen market in December 2020, before the coronavirus lockdown. Two weeks later all shopping malls got shut down by the government in hopes of curbing the rate of infections. (Photo by Kristoffer Trolle) Photo used under CC BY

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