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In Yemen, the fighting makes it dangerous for families to go to health centers to get children vaccinated, for expecting mothers to get check ups or for children to be treated for malnutrition and other illnesses. Now hunger coupled with COVID-19 poses new risks. (Photo by Julien Harneis) Photo used under CC BY

Hunger eclipses virus fears, threatens Yemeni children

Families in Yemen are having to send their children out to beg as concerns mount over rising food, water and petrol prices. Despite the virus spreading across the war-ravaged nation, families are more worried about going hungry than contracting COVID-19.

Guardian

Volunteers give Belarus protesters medical aid

When protests erupted in Belarus, volunteers braved the risks to help casualties of police crackdowns. Some doctors, coordinated on social media amid an internet blackout to share the locations of those in need.

Reuters

Thai protesters demand monarchy reform

CNN

Effective vaccine a must to achieve herd immunity

The WHO says the planet is nowhere near the amount of coronavirus immunity needed to induce herd immunity. Herd immunity is achieved with vaccination and most scientists estimate at least 70% of the population must have antibodies to prevent an outbreak.

Associated Press

Indigenous Brazilians demand COVID aid

PBS NewsHour

WHO calls for end to ‘vaccine nationalism’

Countries putting their own interests ahead of others in trying to ensure a virus vaccine are making the pandemic worse, the WHO has said. All WHO members were asked to join the multilateral COVAX vaccine effort.

Reuters

Study finds ethnic disparities in virus efforts

Black, Latino and American Indian and Alaskan Native people were disproportionately hospitalized for COVID-19, according to a new analysis of 12 states’ populations published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

CNN

Sudanese protest after deal not met by army

Protesters in Sudan have returned to the streets over the slow pace of change a year after a power-sharing agreement was signed between the country’s generals and a pro-democracy movement.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gaza child, 11, raps about war and hardship

Gaza rapper Abdel-Rahman Al-Shantti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands, conveying in English what he calls “a message of peace and humanity”.

Reuters

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

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

The families trying to cross the Channel

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

UN probes Chile’s Mapuche hunger strike

The United Nations has sent a fact-finding team to Chile’s restive Araucania region where a jailed Indigenous Mapuche leader has spent more than 100 days on a hunger strike over his detention during the coronavirus pandemic.

Al Jazeera

Portugal president rescue women at sea

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 71, has helped rescue two women who came into difficulty at an Algarve beach when their kayak capsized.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Early humans made comfy, pest-free beds

As long as humans have been around, they’ve been dealing with bedbugs. But it turns out that our oldest ancestors knew how to deal with pests. They used ash stacked beneath grass bedding to clean the caves and pests.

CNN

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

GLOBAL HEALTH

Brazilian child seeking abortion harassed

Scores of Brazilian women have taken to the streets to protect a 10-year-old child who was being persecuted by religious extremists for trying to legally undergo an abortion after allegedly being raped by her uncle.

Guardian

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

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Christoher Murray):

With looming decline in GDP, US must allow more immigration

The Hill

Column (Moira Donegan):

The 19th amendment is a reminder that the right to vote is unfinished business

Guardian

Column (Arthur Evans Jr.):

For a COVID-19 vaccine to succeed, look to behavioral research

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Security guard becomes medical student

A former security guard, Russell Ledet, 34, who worked at a hospital becomes a medical student. He also created The 15 White Coats, a company whose mission is to raise money for minority medical students.

BBC

Senegal’s first female pro surfer inspires others

Deutsche Welle

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

CBC News

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Nigerian invents ColdHubs for food storage

One of the great inventions in human history, refrigeration is being brought to rural fish and produce markets in Nigeria through an entrepreneur’s invention of 100% solar-powered walk-in cold storage rooms.

Good News Network

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

ENVIRONMENT

Amazon blazes burn forest, farmland

Residents and firefighters in northwestern Brazil are battling fires that are raging in the Amazon, destroying farmland and threatening their homes. The blazes occur every year in the dry season.

Reuters

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

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

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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