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Italian doctors and civil protection volunteers check for signs of coronavirus among passengers arriving at Milan Malpensa airport. Now that the pneumonic plague has swept across provincial borders in China, public officials in charge of urban centers have been ordered to enforce rigorous disease prevention procedures. (Photo by Italian Civil Protection Department) Photo used under CC BY

Chinese cities clamp down to battle spreading virus

More Chinese cities are rushing to roll out new containment measures as the number of those taken ill by the highly contagious coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, in the central province of Hubei, keeps surging.

Asia Times Online

Whistleblower doctor critically ill with virus

BBC

Demobilized FARC guerrillas killed in reprisals

Thousands of guerrillas laid down their weapons under a 2016 peace agreement that ended 52 years of fighting. One provision is requires that the government provide protection from reprisals to ex-FARC fighters.

NPR

India bill would counter sex trafficking, slavery

South Asian children continue to be trafficked for multiple forms of sexual exploitation. A bill pending in India’s Parliament would create a national anti-trafficking bureau to counter human trafficking, domestic servitude, and forced marriage.

Asia Times Online

Indian schoolgirl wins bravery award for thwarting trafficker

Reuters

200 US-deported Salvadorans abused or killed

More than 200 cases uncovered by Human Rights Watch in which Salvadorans are put in harm’s way from gangs, law enforcement or security forces — as a result of tightening asylum and immigration policies in the U.S.

NPR

Cold, disease threaten 500,000 fleeing Syrians

Cold weather, disease and a lack of shelter and medicine threaten hundreds of thousands of civilians as they flee fighting in Idlib province, aid groups and doctors said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India climate activist, 8, pushes for clean air

She is only 8, but Licypriya Kangujam has already been campaigning for action to tackle climate change in her native India for two years. The young activist has pushed for new laws to curb India’s high pollution levels.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cameroonian mothers iron daughters’ breasts

Cameroonian girls are enduring a painful daily procedure with long-lasting physical and psychological consequences.

Al Jazeera

Ex-missionary’s role outrages Brazilian tribes

The Brazilian government has tapped a former Christian missionary to oversee the protection of isolated indigenous tribes in Brazil, prompting an outcry among anthropologists and experts within the government.

Sydney Morning Herald

Women forced into sex work train to be lawyers

Women who were forced into sex work are helped to seek justice by a unique program that trains them as lawyers.

Guardian

Greek cops accused of teargassing migrant kids

Greek police have been accused of teargassing migrants and asylum seekers, including families with young children, in a crackdown on protesters rallying against “dire” living conditions at overcrowded camps in Lesvos.

Newsweek

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Iran ready to cooperate with EU on nuclear deal

Iran is ready to co-operate with the European Union to resolve issues related to the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani said in a meeting with the head of the EU’s foreign service in Tehran.

Reuters

Africans denounce new US visa restrictions

Under new rules, due to take effect on February 22, six new countries — including Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, as well as Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar — will face various visa restrictions, among others.

Deutsche Welle

Germany calls out abuse against Uighurs

Germany’s Foreign Ministry said that more than one million of the 10 million Uighurs living in Xinjiang possibly have disappeared into a network of prisons and camps that Chinese authorities have constructed since late 2016.

Deutsche Welle

China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Massive genome study unlocks cancer secrets

A massive, decade-long study sequencing the genomes of dozens of cancers has revealed the secrets of how tumors form and may pave the way for better and more targeted treatment.

Medical Press

Beating of Pluto’s frozen heart creates wind

New research about Pluto’s “frozen heart” has revealed that its “heartbeat” actually controls wind, which could sculpt the landscape on its surface. The heart-shaped feature is named for the astronomer who discovered Pluto.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Premature births may boom in a warmer world

As the planet warms, the African tropics are heating up faster. Periods of extreme heat are becoming longer and more frequent, which has dangerous effects particularly the elderly, infants, and people who work outdoors.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

FDA-backed drug treats peanut allergies in kids

Well over a million children in the U.S. suffer a peanut allergy, ranging from mild to life-threatening, and now a new treatment program might help their families manage that condition more easily.

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GOOD NEWS

‘Chef of poor,’ 90, cooks for Rome’s homeless

Three days a week, Dino Impagliazzo and other volunteers of the RomeLove association make the rounds of food markets and bakeries for contributions from retailers who help him live out his dream of feeding the homeless.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Football player pays off adoption fees for shelter dogs

CBS News

Inventor makes wheelchairs from recycled parts

Bloomberg

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Aid to Yemen to be cut over diversion risk

The world’s biggest humanitarian aid operation will be scaled-down next month in Houthi-controlled Yemen, because donors and aid workers can no longer ensure that food for is reaching those who need it.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous land

Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, unveiled a bill that would allow commercial mining on protected indigenous lands, delivering on a campaign promise that has shocked tribal leaders and environmentalists.

Guardian

The most sustainable way to heat homes?

The world is getting warmer, but we still need to keep buildings at livable temperatures. Is it possible to cut emissions while keeping warm in winter? One untapped source: waste heat circulating beneath city streets.

BBC

Our responses to climate change might be making things worse

Deutsche Welle

Can e-mobility help Kenya reduce smog?

With much electricity already coming from renewable energy, there is great potential for e-mobility in Kenya.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Women who make argan oil want better pay

Morocco’s argan oil is the latest culinary and cosmetic must-have. But with sales soaring around the world, concerns remain about the pay and conditions of the mainly female workforce that produces the oil.

BBC

Indigenous businesswomen make impact

A rising number of indigenous women in Canada are setting up businesses that aim to have a positive social impact, with many focused on aboriginal women

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Members of a New Guinea tribe perform at a “sing sing” in Wabag, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. A sing sing is a gathering of tribes that represent their singing and dancing traditions in customary makeup and costumes. (Photo by Anselmo Lastra/Global Panorama) Photo used under CC BY

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