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Mother Nature, globalization to blame for Covid-19 crisis

As Covid-19 stampedes across the planet, undermining a globalized world’s collective economy and basic social structures, politicians and pundits around the world are seeking a villain to blame. The real culprits? Mother Nature and the vast force of globalization.

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Asia Times Online

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Coronavirus cases have dropped sharply in South Korea. What’s the secret to its success?

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Unconfirmed cases may be behind rapid spread in China, researchers say

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South China Morning Post

War-ravaged Mideast nations face new scourge

Long-running wars and conflicts across the Middle East have wrecked potential defenses against coronavirus outbreaks, leaving millions vulnerable in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip and elsewhere.

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Associated Press

Study: Rich are to blame for global climate crisis

The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, a study of 86 countries claims. The wealthiest tenth of people consume about 20 times more energy overall than the bottom ten, wherever they live.

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BBC

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How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change

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The Conversation

Kenya split over abortion rights campaign

While Kenya prohibits most abortions, Kenyans have nearly half a million abortions a year, most of them unsafe and resulting in complications. Public health officials and some political leaders urge a relaxing of restrictions.

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Guardian

Refugees stranded on Turkey-Greece border

Shifts in geopolitical relations have upended the plans of thousands of refugees at the Turkey-Greece border. Greece has suspended asylum applications.

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Al Jazeera

‘There is nothing now’: Syrians in Idlib fear end

Syria’s civil war, which just entered its 10th year, has shrunk in geographical scope — focusing on a corner of the country — but the misery it wreaks has not diminished.

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Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistani artists facing increased censorship

Artists say they are increasingly facing censorship as films, a book and art exhibitions stalled by security agents.

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Al Jazeera

Brazil halts group’s anti-slavery operations

Brazil has put anti-slavery operations by its special mobile enforcement group on indefinite hold due to fears of coronavirus infecting its staff or rescued victims, authorities have said.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

US is pushing to reject all asylum seekers

The administration is pushing to use the coronavirus pandemic to accomplish some of the tough immigration restrictions that hardliners have struggled to put into practice since President Donald Trump took office.

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CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Iran’s ’diagnosis’ app enables surveillance

Iran is known to have one of the more serious coronavirus infection rates at the moment, but the country’s government appears to be exploiting that for the sake of political control.

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MSN

Russian-led troll network found in W. Africa

A newly discovered Russian-led network of professional trolls was being outsourced to Ghanaian and Nigerian operatives, according to Facebook and Twitter, who removed the network’s accounts.

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Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces

Research finds that the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces. SARS-CoV-2 is detectable for up to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

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ScienceDaily

Lab animal facilities grapple with the pandemic

Many universities are currently grappling with the best way to care for the millions of mice, monkeys, and other research animals they care for across the country, in addition to protecting the health of their own employees.

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Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Virus advice won’t work for millions of people

As Europe and much of the developed world shuts down in the face of coronavirus, many millions of people haven’t much hope in following the World Health Organization advice on washing hands and keeping their distance.

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BBC

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Monkeys brawl over food as coronavirus hits tourism in Thailand

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Guardian

Haiti’s action on cholera provide guidance

When cholera broke out just months after a devastating earthquake, Haiti’s health system was pushed to the brink. The extraordinary rearguard action that followed offers an object lesson in dealing with a public health crisis.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Jim Geraghty):

We are in this crisis because of the decisions of the Chinese government

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National Review

Column (Michael Austin):

Beijing fears COVID-19 is turning point for China, globalization

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RealClearPolitics

Column (Lorenzo Marsili):

The coronavirus pandemic can empower us to demand change

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Helping those affected by coronavirus

People are carrying out acts of kindness in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, making get well soon cards for people in quarantine and repurposing food from cancelled events to feed first responders.

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Insider

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Kids put on porch concert for self-quarantining neighbor

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Columbus Dispatch

José Andrés serves cruise ship guests

Celebrity chef José Andrés has mobilized his charity World Central Kitchen and set up camp near the Grand Princess cruise ship. The ship is carrying at least 21 people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

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CNN

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Beauty parlor serves female heroin users

Housed in the Reachout Centre Trust, a Kenyan organization that helps Mombasa residents to fight drug addiction, the parlor opened last year with the aim of attracting more female users to its services.

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Guardian

New York soup kitchen serving to-go meals

As much of the U.S. practices social distancing to curb the spread of coronavirus, a New York soup kitchen is also changing their practices to serve those in need.

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively give $1M to food banks

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

As Europe shuts down, pollution drops

There’s a significant reduction in nitrogen dioxide, a byproduct of the use of diesel motors and other human activities, in northern Italy as the advance of the COVID-19 has led to drastic measures curtailing ordinary life.

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Associated Press

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Harvesting wind with energy kites

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Birth of wild tapir helps Brazil’s ecosystem

A study last year indicated tapirs could make reforestation quicker and cheaper because they tend to graze in degraded areas and their dung is packed with tree seeds.

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Guardian

Delhi firm makes packaging from biowaste

A Delhi-based company is manufacturing 100% natural, biodegradable and compostable packaging and tableware.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

The invisible women behind your chocolate bar

In the cacao orchards of Ivory Coast, women do most of the work for just a small portion of the income. Now, they are calling time on patriarchal attitudes.

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BBC

Asia’s poor bear brunt of coronavirus

Millions of homeless people and those living in informal settlements across Asia are at heightened risk of contracting the coronavirus due to their dire living conditions, housing experts said.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Civil protection volunteers set up a pre-triage tent in front of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome on March 12. Italy is grappling with a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people. (Photo by Dipartimento Protezione Civile) Photo used under CC BY

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