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Extreme poverty threatens 100M amid virus outbreak

With COVID-19 and its restrictions, up to 100 million more people globally could fall into the bitter existence of living on just $1.90 a day. And it comes on top of the 736 million people already there, the World Bank has warned.

PBS NewsHour

COVID-19 to displace over 1M across the Sahel

Coronavirus is predicted to push more than 1 million people from their homes across the Sahel, creating havoc in an already highly fragile region, according to new forecasting software developed by an aid group.

Guardian

How are displaced people coping with coronavirus?

Al Jazeera

World hits 20M infections as COVID picks up pace

It took six months for the world to reach 10 million cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million with more than half of them from just three countries.

Associated Press

The U.S. has had more coronavirus cases than some countries have people

CBS News

COVID-19 relief fund allocation may shortchange Black communities

CNN

Russia registers world’s first COVID-19 vaccine

Vladimir Putin has announced the registration of what Russia claims to be the world’s first coronavirus vaccine. No data has yet been published by the researchers and the safety of the vaccine currently remains unclear.

CNBC

World leaders pledge $298M in aid to Lebanon

International leaders at a virtual summit Sunday pledged $298 million in aid to help Lebanon in the aftermath of the catastrophic blast that killed at least 158 people and devastated large swaths of Beirut.

NPR

Lebanese government resigns as public anger grows

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Zimbabweans uses Twitter for human rights

Zimbabweans are staging solo protests on social media to challenge human rights abuse in the southern African country. The move comes amid growing police brutality and opposition crackdown in the country.

CNN

Beirut pauses to remember those taken by blast

Thousands of people marched near the devastated Beirut port, remembering those who died in the most destructive single blast to hit the country. They observed a minute of silence at the same time the blast rocked the city.

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Bolivian protesters demand quick elections

Anti-government blockades in Bolivia have entered their second week amid violent confrontations and government allegations that protesters are causing deaths by stopping supplies from reaching coronavirus patients.

NPR

Who owned the chemicals that blew up Beirut?

In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.

Reuters

Lebanese demand change after cabinet quits

Al Jazeera

HK police raid pro-democracy media group

Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the publisher’s headquarters in the highest-profile use yet of a new national security law Beijing imposed on the city.

CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

BLM protestors take activism into video games

In the COVID-19 age, protestors are finding novel ways to express themselves, from BLM rallies in The Sims to Hong Kong protests in Animal Crossing. New Horizons players were taking their own stand.

Guardian

Facebook removes 7M disinformation posts

Facebook Inc. said it removed 7 million posts in the second quarter for sharing false information about the novel coronavirus, including content that promoted fake preventative measures and exaggerated cures.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

S. Africa’s poor scramble for anti-HIV drugs

Across Africa and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs to many of the more than 24 million people who take them, endangering their lives.

Associated Press

Young smokers more likely to get COVID-19

Teens and young adults who smoke and vape are five to seven times more likely to contract the novel coronavirus than their tobacco-adverse counterparts, according to a Stanford University study.

Forbes

Scientists uneasy as Russia approves 1st coronavirus vaccine

Associated Press

Thailand uses plastic pens to separate students

A school in Bangkok, Thailand, is using plastic pens to socially distance children during the coronavirus pandemic.

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

20K paper birds help fund Belgium hospital

A flock of 20,000 origami birds has been installed in a cathedral in Brussels, Belgium, as part of a fundraising artwork that has paid for two COVID-19 units at a local hospital. Each bird was matched by a donation.

Reuters

Social enterprise reimagines public spaces

Street Space works with people to make the public realm feel safer and more inviting. When traffic is calmed and there’s space for people to connect the street can become a mini ecosystem where community can thrive.

Positive News

Man helps people see disability differently

Andreas Heinecke is challenging prejudice with his immersive exhibitions, including giving visitors a chance to experience life in total darkness with a blind guide

Positive News

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

PowerUp Fund starts paying $60M

Hispanics in Philanthropy has made the first of its donations to nonprofits that aid Latino small businesses impacted by the pandemic. The donations aim to raise $60 million – one dollar for each Latinx who lives in the US.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Satellite spots 11 new penguin colonies

Satellite images have revealed 11 previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica, boosting the number of known colonies of the imperiled birds by 20 percent.

Wired

Philippine struggle with virus plastic surge

Single-use plastics consumption has surged due to COVID-19, adding to the Philippines‘ environmental problems. Manila has experienced the world’s longest and tightest measures to curb the spread of the virus.

Al Jazeera

Indian Ocean faces growing threat of fuel spill

Al Jazeera

Warming world ‘devastating’ for peatlands

The world’s peatlands will become a large source of greenhouse gases as temperatures rise this century, say scientists. Huge amounts of carbon are stored in often frozen regions stretching across northern parts of the world.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Virus kills 900+ medics, many minorities

More than 900 front-line medical workers have died of coronavirus, according to a new investigation. A majority, 62%, were identified as people of color, with about one-third born outside the United States.

Forbes

US the weak link in global economic recovery

The United States’ fumbling response to the pandemic and its dithering over a new aid package is casting doubt on its economic prospects and making it one of the chief risks to a global rebound.

Associated Press

Garment workers losing wages during virus

Garment workers supplying global fashion brands have been underpaid or not paid at all during the coronavirus crisis, with lost wages potentially amounting to nearly $6 billion, researchers said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Flooded banks of the island of Don Khon in the muddy water of the Mekong, with submerged wooden stilt houses, a pirogue, a leaning Arecaceae, and a boy rowing in a repurposed blue refrigerator used as raft, in Si Phan Don, Laos. (Photo by Basile Morin) Photo used under CC BY

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