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U.S. Army soldiers with Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force provide comfort care for critical and noncritical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status as the world races to find a vaccine. (Photo by Matt Hecht) Photo used under CC BY

Amid surge in virus cases, drug offers glimpse of hope

Researchers announced the first drug shown to save lives among severely ill coronavirus patients, offering hope even as infection rates rose in Africa and Asia, and there were worrisome upticks of contagion in countries that had largely contained the virus.

Associated Press

China races to contain second wave of virus cases

CBS News

Red Cross fears virus spreading silently in Somalia’s displaced camps

Reuters

Pandemic places millions of girls at risk of FGM

COVID-19 has exposed how much work remains to be done to wipe FGM around the world. Two million girls who would otherwise be safe from the practice remain at risk over the next decade as a direct result of the virus.

Guardian

Trump touts tepid action calling for police reform

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order encouraging police departments to improve training — a step critics say falls short of what is needed to curb police officers’ use of force against nonwhites.

NPR

African nations seek scrutiny of US over racism

Associated Press

Women of Rwanda genocide share their stories

Tens of thousands of women took part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda but their role is rarely spoken about, and reconciliation with their family is hard. Some female perpetrators in prison finally share their stories.

BBC

Kurdish women volunteer to protect crops from ISIL

Al Jazeera

Virus places extra burden on African women

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed and intensified gender inequality in Africa. Many women have to work harder than before while earning even less than they normally would.

Deutsche Welle

UN takes Saudi forces off child rights blacklist

Human rights groups have criticized the UN for removing the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a blacklist of those whose actions harm children, despite finding 222 children which were killed or injured last year alone.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Peruvians strive to make a living amid lockdown

The government established one of the first and strictest lockdown measures in the region, but desperation for food and money is forcing people to risk their lives.

Al Jazeera

Lockdown hits sanitary pad supplies in India

Supplies of sanitary products ran low across the country during the lockdown, making them too expensive for many girls and women at a time when millions lost their livelihoods.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Garment workers’ rights at risk amid pandemic

Global fashion brands urged to speak out after arrest of factory employee fuels fears that rights are eroded during pandemic.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Kenya struggles with violence, coronavirus

Africa Eye investigates the impact of the deadly coronavirus in Mathare, one of Kenya’s poorest settlements. As the pandemic looms, heavy-handed policing leads to violence and a series of tragic deaths.

BBC

Zimbabwe street sellers hit by virus clampdown

Vendors and informal workers’ groups say that city officials, with the support of the national government, are exploiting the lockdown to destroy makeshift shops and market stalls.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Is anybody out there? In all likelihood, yes

Is there anyone out there? This is an age-old question that researchers have now shed new light on with a study that calculates there could be more than 30 intelligent civilizations throughout our galaxy.

ScienceDaily

FDA cancels OK for drugs touted by Trump

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate. President Donald Trump had touted the antimalaria drugs for treating COVID-19.

Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Health minister quits over response to COVID-19

Divisions between the Chilean government and sectors of the medical community led to the resignation of the health minister, shortly after 234 deaths in 24 hours had been confirmed, the highest daily toll to date.

Guardian

How lockdowns have changed lives around the world

NPR

Cameroon archbishop says treating COVID-19 with plant-based remedy

Reuters

Navajo Nation battles US’ worst virus outbreak

Since COVID-19 was first reported in the Nation on 15 March, infection rates per capita have grown to be the highest in the country when compared with any individual state.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Chris Impey):

What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe

The Conversation

Column (Anonymous A):

The aid sector must do more to tackle its white supremacy problem

Guardian

Column (Surendra Patawari):

Why COVID-19 is a wake-up call for sustainability

Fortune

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GOOD NEWS

Free internet offered to low-income students

Free internet is being offered for six months to help disadvantaged students study online. The scheme will provide 10,000 families in England with vouchers for internet access, distributed by the Department for Education.

BBC

High school seniors graduate on ski lift

One senior class graduation was held 2,000 feet above ground beside a mountain after traditional commencement was canceled due to COVID-19.

Good Morning America

Parents of hugging toddlers are glad to share a note of harmony

SunnySkyz

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit world responds to police slayings

Nonprofit and foundation leaders are speaking out against the killing of George Floyd in police custody and the country’s long history of racial violence and discrimination. Here are excerpts from some of their statements.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

GirlTrek uses walking as a healing method

GirlTrek, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to the health and healing of black women and girls. GirlTrek co-founders explain the benefits of walking on longevity of black lives.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Climate worst-case scenarios too conservative

Recent modeling data suggests the climate is considerably more sensitive to carbon emissions than previously believed, and experts said the projections had the potential to be “incredibly alarming.”

Guardian

Mali’s cotton farmers fear loss of climate aid

As cotton price tumbles during pandemic, farmers worry the state support they rely on to grow food in a warming climate will dry up.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Coping with a double crisis in West Bengal

Deutsche Welle

Canada seeks to save endangered wild salmon

Already threatened with extinction, Wild Pacific salmon about to spawn in British Columbia are facing an uphill battle in the aftermath of a landslide in the northern sections of the Fraser River.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Hardship foreseen for poor, minorities

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned about “significant uncertainty” regarding the pace of the U.S. economic recovery and said lower-income and minority Americans are particularly at risk.

CNBC

Voice of America execs jump listing ship

The Voice of America‘s two top executives stepped down after the U.S. Senate confirmed President Trump’s pick to run the agency that oversees the international broadcaster — a conservative filmmaker and Trump supporter.

NPR

Photo of the Day

Refugee children seen at an IDP camp outside of the North Kivu region of DR Congo. The violence in the area has led to the displacement of almost 300,000 people in the first year of conflict alone. (Photo by Julien Harneis) Photo used under CC BY

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