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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

The blast that blew away Lebanon’s faith in itself

Beirut has been blown back to the vigils of its 1975-1990 civil war. Then, families demanded information about relatives who had disappeared. Today’s mourners know what happened; they just don’t know why.

Reuters

World looks back on 2020 as pandemic atlas grows

Almost no place has been spared — and no one. The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. On every continent, households have felt its devastation and an abiding, relentless fear.

Associated Press

Christmas festivities light up world despite pandemic

Deutsche Welle

COVID-19 antibodies may protect against reinfection

Associated Press

Pandemic forces older workers to retire early

CNN

Kenya’s lockdowns risk safety of young girls

Thousands of girls in Kenya will not be going back to school when classes start in January, because they became pregnant during the COVID lockdown. AUthorities refer to this phenomenon as the “shadow pandemic.”

Guardian

Russia aims to block access to social media

Russian lawmakers have approved a range of new legislation that could further stifle dissent and allow tighter restrictions on online content — including blocking popular social media websites like YouTube and Twitter.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ethiopia kills militants over village massacre

Ethiopia’s military killed 42 people allegedly responsible for massacring over 100 civilians a day earlier, according to local officials. Prime Minister Ahmed said he was sending more troops to secure the turbulent region.

Deutsche Welle

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

Rocks and tear gas fly in Peru as farmers protest

Yahoo! News

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Large ‘intentional’ blast wrecks US city

Downtown Nashville was sealed off, after a large explosion linked to a parked RV destroyed several buildings on Christmas morning in what appears to have been an “intentional act”, according to local police.

Guardian

Nepal in political turmoil after relection calls

Nepal has plunged into a political crisis after President Bhandari dissolved the parliament at the request of the Prime Minister and announced general elections would be held next year, more than a year ahead of schedule.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Dozens sue Ring after hack leads to threats

Dozens of people who say they were subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after their in-home Ring smart cameras were hacked are suing the company over “horrific” invasions of privacy.

Guardian

California approves driverless delivery services

California has given the go-ahead for a commercial driverless delivery service for the first time. Robotics start-up Nuro plans to start its driverless delivery operations as early as next year.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

S. African COVID-19 infections near 1M mark

A confluence of school holidays, public laxity and a new, potentially more infectious variant of the virus has left South African authorities scrambling to counter an earlier-than-expected resurgence of infections.

Reuters

BioNTech CEO says COVID vaccine could be adjusted for mutations

NBCNews.com

Doctor discovers Ebola, warns of disease X

Humanity faces an unknown number of new and potentially fatal viruses emerging from Africa’s tropical rainforests, according to Professor Tamfum, who helped discover the Ebola virus in 1976.

CNN

New virus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria

Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official has said, but he added that further investigation was needed.

Associated Press

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

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GOOD NEWS

Pope celebrates distanced Christmas Mass

On Christmas Eve in Italy, church bells rang earlier than usual. The Italian government’s 10 p.m. curfew prompted pastors to move up services, with “Midnight” Mass starting in some churches as early as a couple hours after dark.

CBS News

Santas swap sleighs for stand-up paddleboards

NBCNews.com

Astronauts beam Christmas message to Earth

Seven astronauts are celebrating the holiday season aboard the International Space Station, but that isn’t stopping them from beaming some holiday cheer back to Earth.

CBS News

The 101-year-old veteran with thousands of Christmas cards

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Shelter helps traumatized dogs learn to trust

In the mountains around Weaverville, N.C., there‘s a dormitory filled with dysfunctional and depressed dogs. It’s part of a cutting-edge program designed to teach traumatized canines to be trustful human companions.

NPR

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

ENVIRONMENT

Japan to eliminate gas-powered cars by 2050

Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said in a plan to achieve Prime Minister Suga’s ambitious pledge to go carbon-free by 2050 and generate growth in green business.

CBS News

Giant Antarctic iceberg A68a is not done yet

It might have suffered a big break-up this week, but the iceberg A68a is still carrying substantial bulk. The latest satellite analysis indicates this Antarctic colossus could still on its way to the island of South Georgia.

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

India’s migrant workers learn new skills online

Millions of migrant workers in India who lost their jobs during the country’s strict lockdown earlier this year have turned to online training courses to learn new skills as they seek to re-enter the labor market, or start a business.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UK and EU reach long awaited Brexit trade deal

Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year chaos for cross-border traders and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of Brexit turmoil.

CBS News

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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