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Mexico continues to sanitize public spaces as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections and fatalities surge in new single-day records due to the reopening of the country. (Photo by Eneas De Troya) Photo used under CC BY

Poor regions under threat as virus lockdowns ease

As many countries gingerly start lifting their lockdown measures, experts worry that a further surge of the coronavirus in under-developed regions with shaky health systems could undermine efforts to halt the pandemic.

Associated Press

These countries have the most worrying COVID-19 outbreaks

Vox

Coronavirus in DR Congo captured on camera

BBC

Coronavirus threatens Kenya goal to end FGM

The novel coronavirus has jeopardized Kenya’s goal of ending female genital mutilation by 2022, anti-FGM campaigners warn amid reports of “mass cuttings” involving hundreds of girls being held while schools are closed.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Rohingya children recall horrors of sea journeys

Left to starve for months at sea, Rohingya children who escaped Bangladesh’s refugee camps took “desperate” journeys to reach Malaysia on flimsy smuggling boats, a new report finds as Malaysian authorities detain nearly 300 Rohingya stranded on ships.

Al Jazeera

Panama isolates poor migrants in remote unit

Panama has isolated nearly 200 migrants in a jungle camp to contain a novel coronavirus outbreak among a much larger group of Africans, Cubans and Haitians stranded by the pandemic in the remote Darien region.

Reuters

Virus deaths expose Brazil’s racial inequalities

Pandemic first hit Brazil’s upper classes. Now the virus is scything through the country’s poor. Researches say that poverty and overcrowding both play a part in the surging number of deaths in low income communities.

Guardian

Inside Brazil’s COVID-19 tragedy

ABC News

What US can learn from S. Africa’s racist past

Very recently racism in South Africa was not only legal, but entrenched in its system of apartheid. When that system ended, the country took very public steps to overcome the trauma and unite a deeply divided nation.

CBS News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gay men in Ghana fight discrimination, abuse

While dating apps made it easier for LGBT+ communities to build relationships, it has also exposed them to new risks. Gay men in Ghana are often blackmailed and outed by fake dates who share their intimate photos online.

Reuters

IBM stops facial recognition to guard rights

Acting out of concern for human rights, IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM has announced.

The Verge

COVID-19 exposes deep disparities in U.S. schools

NBC News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

US deportation flights to Guatemala resume

US is scheduled to resume deportation flights to Guatemala, after the country’s refusal to accept them. At least 186 deportees had tested positive for COVID-19 even after US assurances that they were healthy.

ABC News

N. Korea severs communication with S. Korea

North Korea has announced it is axing all communications with South Korea, a move analysts believe could be an attempt to manufacture a crisis and force concessions from its neighbor.

NBCNews.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Arrow’ defeats antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Researchers have found an antibiotic that simultaneously punctures bacterial walls and destroys folate within their cells — killing like a poisoned arrow — while proving immune to antibiotic resistance.

ScienceDaily

Drone footage captures vast turtle gathering

Researchers have captured beautiful aerial footage of thousands of green turtles congregating on the edge of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during the nesting season.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Patients most infectious at start, WHO warns

Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, World Health Organization experts has said.

Reuters

Hyped probiotics do little for gut health

A new report from the American Gastroenterological Association said that probiotics, so-called good bacteria don‘t do much for gut health — including digestive conditions like Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or irritable bowel syndrome.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Joshua Virasami):

Anti-racism requires more than passive sympathy

Guardian

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How we can reduce food insecurity and mitigate climate change amid COVID-19

The Hill

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When schools reopen, many children will be missing

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

View moments of dignity, restraint in protests

A reporter covering protests in the U.S. found much to commend. Angelenos did yoga while toting protest signs. In Houston, some marched by horseback. On Maui, they gathered on surfboards at sunset.

CBS News

Teacher asks for books by black authors

As one high school English teacher watched the Black Lives Matter protests erupt across the country, she asked for donations of books written by black authors and books that tell the stories of people of color to her classroom.

Good Morning America

Meet the mother-daughter duo who graduated medical school together

NBCNews.com

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

9-year-old helps raise money for those in need

In Minneapolis, one 9-year-old is helping people in need during the coronavirus pandemic — as well as businesses affected by looting — one bracelet at a time.

Good Morning America

ENVIRONMENT

Could the pandemic finally finish off coal?

The coronavirus crisis has changed the way we use energy, at least for now. But could the global pandemic finally finish off coal, the most polluting of all fossil fuels?

BBC

COVID-19 responses help fight climate change

South Korea, France, and Italy are using the COVID-19 response to fight climate change. South Korea’s ruling party is aiming to leverage that political capital to implement a Green New Deal for the country.

Vox

Melting Pakistan glaciers raise flood fears

As ice melts, there is risk of large glacial lakes bursting through banks and creating deadly flash floods downstream.

Al Jazeera

Climate stress pushes Indian delta to the edge

As destructive storms hit the Sundarbans in the Bay of Bengal more often and rising sea levels shrink islands, villagers’ problems are multiplying quickly.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Corruption scorches Iraq’s grain farmers

Entrenched corruption squeezes the very farmers the government’s preferential price program is meant to support.

Al Jazeera

Black workers are being left out of US recovery

The black unemployment rate in the U.S. rose slightly in May despite a decline of nearly two percentage points for white workers, a grim but familiar reminder of economic inequality that could serve as an early warning sign for the recovery to come.

CNBC

Special section:

US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts

CNN

Billionaires’ fortunes rise amid pandemic

Fear and uncertainty have touched all of us in these times. Except for the billionaires. Even in these trying times, the rich have gotten richer and still further insulated from the challenges most Americans face.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Uganda’s economic growth slumps to 3.1%

Uganda’s economic growth is expected to decline by more than half in the financial year due to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, the country’s statistics office has said.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

To spread awareness about the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, a local artist, in collaboration with a police official in Chennai, India, made a unique “corona” helmet to discourage commuters from coming out during the nation’s lockdown. (Photo by Shantanu Dutta) Photo used under CC BY

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