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View of the sprawling Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Over 623,000 mainly Rohingya people have arrived in the camp in 2017 alone, fleeing violence and religious persecution in Myanmar - creating one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. (Photo by Russell Watkins) Photo used under CC BY

Bangladesh ready to relocate Rohingya refugees to island

Bangladesh has begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. UN has voiced concern that refugees be allowed to make a “free decision” about whether to relocate to the Bay of Bengal.

Associated Press

In Photos: Aftermath of Moria refugee camp fire

Guardian

Ethiopia reaches deal on aid for battered Tigray

After weeks of bloody conflict in Ethiopia, international aid groups have obtained access to its war-torn region of Tigray. UN said that it has reached a deal with Ethiopia’s government, opening doors for humanitarians in the region.

NPR

WHO praises ‘phenomenal’ promise of COVID vaccines

The promise of COVID-19 vaccines is “phenomenal” and “potentially game-changing”, World Health Organization European director Hans Kluge has said, a day after Britain became the first Western country to approve a shot.

Reuters

UK becomes first country to authorize COVID vaccine

CNN

Nearly 100 world leaders scheduled to speak at UN session on coronavirus pandemic

Associated Press

Hackers target COVID-19 vaccine companies

Forbes

Lebanese crisis deepens refugees’ misery

Nearly a decade since Syria’s war began, neighboring Lebanon still hosts some 1 million registered Syrian refugees for whom life has only become more difficult since an economic crisis erupted last year.

Reuters

Lebanon’s new aid package unlikely to lead to reform

Deutsche Welle

Humans are ‘waging war on nature,’ UN warns

“Our planet is broken,” UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has warned. Mr Guterres wants to put tackling climate change at the heart of the UN’s global mission saying that “nature always strikes back.”

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Children work in diamond mines in CAR

Since the coronavirus forced his school to close in March, Papin has been working six days a week at a diamond mine in the Central African Republic — hauling sacks of mud and rubble under a hot sun.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

How ‘invisible’ women won workers’ rights

In 2018 Sindh passed the Home-Based Workers Act, making Pakistan the only country in south Asia where home workers were recognized as official laborers.

Guardian

Brazil quarry causes hearing loss in Indigenous community

Al Jazeera

Protests force France to rewrite police bill

French politicians say they will totally rewrite part of a controversial security bill amid national outrage over a police assault on a Black man.

BBC

Displaced people in Iraq left with no refuge

Displaced families in Iraq are being forced into homelessness and poverty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned, as authorities continue to close down camps that once housed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

CNN

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Saudis, Qatar may soon resolve dispute

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are close to striking a preliminary agreement to end a dispute that has pitted the Gulf neighbors against each other for more than three years, sources have told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

Afghanistan, Taliban set rules for peace talks

The Afghan government and the Taliban have agreed framework rules for peace talks after more than two months of discussions, allowing negotiations on ending a nearly 20-year civil war to finally begin.

Guardian

India plans dam to offset upper Chinese dam

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Lab meat gets world’s first regulatory assent

A lab-grown meat product received the world’s first regulatory approval as food safety officials in Singapore cleared the way for the sale of “cultured chicken” made by U.S. startup Eat Just, the company said.

USA TODAY

Astronomers unveil detailed map of Milky Way

Astronomers have unveiled the most precise 3D map yet of the Milky Way, an achievement that promises to shed fresh light on the workings of the galaxy and the mysteries of the universe.

Guardian

India’s robots take on COVID patient care

Standing just 5 feet tall, the robot Mitra navigates around the hospital wards, guided by facial recognition technology and with a chest-mounted tablet that allows patients to see their loved ones.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

US hits record COVID cases, hospitalizations

Record-high COVID infections and hospitalizations have been reported in the US, with fears they will not slow before Christmas.

BBC

N. Korea’s Kim receives COVID-19 vaccine

China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental COVID vaccine, a U.S. analyst said, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources.

Reuters

India coronavirus cases stay below 50k

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Prerak Juthani and Howard Forman):

Lessons from the AIDS epidemic on how to cope with COVID-19

USA TODAY

Column (Izabella Koziell):

How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries

Al Jazeera

Column (Manu Lekunze):

What is behind Tanzania’s authoritarian turn?

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Laura Tollin, Catherine Lux, Kristina Varganova, Eliza Villanueva, Ashley Nawn and Samantha Floyd.

GOOD NEWS

US lawmakers unveil anti-slavery amendment

National lawmakers introduced a joint resolution aimed at striking language from the U.S. Constitution that enshrines a form of slavery in America’s foundational documents.

Associated Press

Girl‘s afro hair to be accepted by wig charity

A charity that told a child her afro hair was “unsuitable” when she wanted to donate it for wigs says it will now accept her tight curls.

BBC

Christmas illuminations adorning homes across England spark joy

Guardian

Indian female comic superhero fights COVID

Thomson Reuters Foundation

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

11-year-old’s nonprofit treats first responders

11 year old Charlie Lettice was inspired about a 7 year old boy who was bullied and responded by opening a food pantry, so he decided to start his own nonprofit to help first responders working hard during the pandemic.

MSN

Teen donates ‘snack packs’ to food pantries

Fifteen-year-old Michael Platt has been hard at work during the pandemic, donating thousands of “snack packs” – healthy, shelf-stable items - to local food pantries to help other kids in need.

Good Morning America

Call of Duty star turned protests into nonprofit

Reggie Watkins, a star in Activision‘s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, started by protesting on a street corner. Now he’s co-founded a protest organization.

CNET News

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists warn of climate shocks to health

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon surges

Deforestation in the Amazon surged to a 12-year high in the year between August 2019 and July 2020, according to the country’s National Institute for Space Research.

CNN

Why the Arctic permafrost is exploding

On a remote peninsular in the Arctic circle, enormous wounds are appearing in the permafrost – as something that is worrying scientists bursts out from underground.

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Black residents fighting to stay in their homes

Peoplestown is one of the last historically Black neighborhoods to be targeted for gentrification in Atlanta, which has one of highest rates of income inequality and was the fourth-fastest gentrifying US city in the 2000s.

Al Jazeera

Global COVID-19 vaccine access worth billions

Rich nations stand to lose hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output over the next five years if poorer countries do not get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, a report said as concerns grow about “vaccine nationalism."

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pandemic hits wages of women, lowest-paid

Monthly wages fell or stagnated in many countries in the first six months of 2020, with the pandemic hitting lower-paid workers and women hardest, the International Labor Organization has said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Harnai port is the main fishing village in Konkan, India. Every evening hundreds of fishing boats come back after fishing and gather to auction their catch, bullock carts get driven into the sea to unload the fish and are brought back to the beach where the action happens. (Photo by Cj.samson) Photo used under CC BY

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