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Belarusians protest in Minsk over the weekend, demanding an end to the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko. (Photo by МАЯ КРАІНА БЕЛАРУСЬ) Photo used under CC BY

Belarusians challenge strongman’s long rule

Belarus’ embattled President Alexander Lukashenko is facing renewed waves of pressure from inside and outside the country, after fresh strikes, angry hecklers, international condemnation and a direct challenge to his position left the strongman clinging to power.

CNN

‘Step down!’ Belarusian factory workers heckle president

YouTube

Lebanon COVID cases spike after deadly blast

Lebanon is facing a surge in coronavirus cases after a devastating blast at the Beirut port this month killed scores and wounded thousands, prompting medical officials to call for a two-week lockdown to try to contain the pandemic.

Associated Press

3 years on, Rohingyas yet to return to Myanmar

Having fled deadly violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state three years ago, over a million Rohingya refugees still live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh. Despite repatriation attempts, the refugees are yet to return home.

Deutsche Welle

What Myanmar is and is not doing to protect Rohingyas from genocide

Just Security

COVID-19 fuels tensions between Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts

The New Humanitarian

Coronavirus brings back-to-school challenges

As school holidays wind down around the world, COVID-19 infections are once again on the rise in many countries. In an effort to avoid further shutdowns, schools have adapted their approach to in-class learning.

Deutsche Welle

COVID smashes Indian middle class dreams

As the pandemic swept through India, a survey of some 5,000 workers in April and May found 66% of participants had lost their jobs, and 77% of households were consuming less food than before.

Reuters

COVID takes toll on mental health in India

CNN

COVID ruinous to India’s poor rural areas

Guardian`

HUMAN RIGHTS

Immigrants claim discrimination in Denmark

A dozen immigrants have sued the Danish government, alleging discrimination. The lawsuit comes as the country begins to grapple with broader questions about racism in light of global focus on the issue.

NPR

Thousands gather in Bangkok for protests

Thousands of protesters staged another anti-government rally in the Thai capital, Bangkok to demand political reforms.Demonstrators want a revised constitution and are also calling for reform of the monarchy - a sensitive subject in Thailand.

BBC

Asia’s prisons are filling up with women

Asia’s drug wars have had an outsized impact on women. Today, jails in East and Southeast Asia hold the world’s biggest proportions of female prisoners

CNN

Despite COVID, Iran confines political prisoners

Iran is currently battling a surge in COVID-19 cases, and while Iranian officials said the country had released around 100,000 prisoners earlier this year, most political prisoners remain behind bars.

Time

Pandemic compounds migrants’ woes

So far in 2020, there have been more than 15,000 sea arrivals in Italy, a majority of them in Lampedusa and Sicily. Migrants, and authorities, are struggling to cope.

Deutsche Welle

The families trying to cross the Channel

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Turkey’s COVID-19 cases highest since June

Turkey’s coronavirus count rose to its highest daily level since June, with total deaths nearing 6,000, according to the government, which rolled out new inspection and enforcement measures earlier this month.

Reuters

Thai anti-government protest, biggest in years

More than 10,000 Thai protesters chanting “down with dictatorship” and “the country belongs to the people” rallied in Bangkok in by far the biggest anti-government demonstration since a 2014 coup.

Reuters

ID cards that store medical data in India

India is about to make a big gamble on health data. The country has announced plans to give every Indian a “Health ID” card that stores medical information like conditions and prescriptions in a “common database.”

Engadget

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Two galaxies collide in majestic Hubble image

NASA calls NGC 1614 a “peculiar galaxy.” The brilliant cosmic object is the result of two merging galaxies. There are a number of wild things happening in the Hubble image posted by NASA.

Mashable

Social distancing on display in animal kingdom

Social distancing remains the most direct way to reduce the spread of disease, as we’ve discovered with COVID-19. The behavior may be so basic to survival that some animals do it instinctually — a model skeptical human beings might want to follow.

Axios

Bronchitis can be treated with icy blast to lungs

A new ‘flash-freeze’ treatment could ease suffering for thousands with bronchitis. The RejuvenAir procedure has been shown to be safe and is being offered as part of a trial.

Daily Mail

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s poor rural areas unready for COVID

Some 600 million Indians live in in rural areas, and fears are rising that they could be overwhelmed by a catastrophe in which many will die without testing or treatment.

Guardian

Trans patients baffle modern medicine

Gender is fundamental to many decisions in health care systems around the world – putting transgender people in a vulnerable position.

BBC

Indian Ocean oil spill could impact global health

A Japanese oil tanker recently ran aground in the Indian Ocean, devastating one of the world’s last remaining global biodiversity hotspots. This could impact the discovery of novel medicines.

Forbes

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Hussain Abdul-Hussain):

Repatriating looted treasures won’t keep them safe

Asia Times Online

Column (Phillip Carter III and John F. May):

The crisis in the Sahel

The Hill

Column (Eileen Donahoe):

Internet platforms should exercise their own free expression to protect democracy

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Children run city during spielstadt in Munich

Every two summers for a few weeks since the 1970s, a miniature city pops up in Munich. It resembles any other city— except that it is run entirely by children.

Fast Company

Senegal’s first female pro surfer inspires others

Deutsche Welle

Two Alabama doctors support Black Lives Matter movement by wearing black scrubs

CBC News

Black women in tech coding the future

BBC

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

COVID pandemic spurs gifts to foundations

Donor-advised funds, DAF, continue to report record increases in donations and distributions in 2020 in response to the coronavirus and other current events.

NonProfit Times

Couple donate millions for healthcare in Africa

A Jewish entrepreneur and his rabbi wife have become one of the largest private supporters of Christian medical missionaries in Africa donating millions to support vital healthcare needs in impoverished communities.

Christian Post

Volunteers flock to vaccine trials in Florida

Research Centers of America, a private center carrying out clinical trials near Miami, have several volunteers signing up for vaccine trials in hopes of gaining immunity from COVID-19.

Medical Xpress

ENVIRONMENT

China, US collaborate to save giant pandas

Scientists and veterinarians from China and America are working together to restore the giant panda population.

CBS News

Greenland ice floe passes point of no return

Greenland’s glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts, where the snowfall that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot keep up with the ice that is flowing into the ocean from glaciers.

ScienceDaily

Pesticide residue hurts Kenyan farmers’ sales

Agriculture is accounting for 60% of Kenya’s export earnings. But most farmers use synthetic pesticides on their crops which leave high residues on their produce, threatening their biggest market in Europe.

Deutsche Welle

Zimbabwe taps funding for water-wise farming

Backed by the Green Climate Fund, small-scale farmers in the south will get help to improve irrigation and use scarce water resources more efficiently

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Beirut faces rising poverty after blast

As Lebanon’s political elite negotiate a new prime minister and cabinet, more Lebanese are falling into poverty.

Al Jazeera

Blast plunges Beirut into homelessness, healthcare crisis

PBS NewsHour

South Africa ’s president eases lockdown

South Africa’s president has said coronavirus infections appear to have peaked in the country, as he announced a sweeping relaxation of lockdown measures.

BBC

Rising water levels in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley threaten jobs and wildlife

BBC

Photo of the Day

The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission last spring handed over a set of COVID-19 testing kits donated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has dispatched equipment to countries around the world to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This emergency assistance is part of the IAEA’s response to requests for support from member states in controlling infections worldwide. (Photo by B.J.B Nyarko/GAEC) Photo used under CC BY

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