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Homeless people set up an encampment alongside an obelisk and a monument to José Manuel Balmaceda, president of Chile from 1886-1891, in Santiago, Chile. With the economy upended by the pandemic, Chileans have had to resort to setting up informal camps and building their own shacks. (Photo by Dennis Jarvis) Photo used under CC BY

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Pandemic leaves Chileans rummaging for shelter

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a myth that Chile is one of Latin America’s most prosperous nations. Many without the means to pay for housing have had to resort to land takeovers, setting up informal camps and building their own shacks.

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Al Jazeera

Floods heap misery on virus-struck Indians

Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Its health infrastructure is stretched thin under the pressure of twin crises — the spread of COVID-19 and floods.

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CNN

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Global death toll climbs above 800,000

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Asia Times Online

Belarus detains leaders of political opposition

Belarusian authorities detained three leading opposition activists who have helped spearhead a wave of protests demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president following his re-election in a vote opponents say was rigged.

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CBC News

Trust in government ebbs as Beirut rebuilds

Local volunteers asking for direct aid say it has also revealed a deeper and more devastating problem for the country—widespread and systemic corruption.

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PBS NewsHour

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Beirut’s ’homeless’ after the deadly port blast

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Al Jazeera

Kenyans sue UK over colonial-era land grab

A community of more than 100,000 people in Kenya is seeking compensation from the British government for forced displacement from their homes and farmland.

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Al Jazeera

Mali junta wants to delay elections until 2023

The military junta that overthrew Mali’s president wants to put off new elections for three years, an official said Monday, as the international community pressed for an immediate return to civilian rule.

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CBC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Protests erupt after police shoot Black man

Protests erupted in Kenosha in the U.S. state of Wisconsin after police shot an apparently unarmed Black man multiple times in the back, prompting authorities to impose a curfew.

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Al Jazeera

Syrian refugees caught up in Beirut blast

Already among the most vulnerable in Lebanese society, Syrian refugees are struggling to cope in the blast’s aftermath.

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Al Jazeera

Murders of trans people have spiked alarmingly

At least 28 trans people were murdered in the first seven months of 2020, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality. That’s more than in all of 2019, when the center recorded 26 such murders.

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Vice

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Beauty creams stoke anti-China screams

In recent days, the hashtag “province of China” has gone viral on Philippine social media platforms with pictures of Chinese-made beauty products identifying “Manila” as part of mainland China.

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Asia Times Online

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Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day

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CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Team made $500 ventilator - how will it be used?

C. Nataraj, a Villanova College of Engineering professor, put together a volunteer SWAT team of engineering and medical talent to invent the ideal emergency ventilator - it cost the team about $500.

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Wired

313 million-year-old fossil found at park

Geologist Allan Krill, a visiting professor from Norway, came across a boulder marked with set of fossil footprints while on a hike with students in 2016. His discovery turned out to be a bigger deal than he could have imagined.

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CNN

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Angelfishes hybridize more than any other coral reef fishes

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Forbes

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO talks with Russia over COVID-19 vaccine

The WHO is in discussions with Russia to obtain more information about its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V, even as Russia plans to give it to some 40,000 people next week for further testing.

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Guardian

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How wildfire pollution may be harming your health

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BBC

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Why the Philippines has so many teen moms

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NPR

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German scientists stage packed concert to investigate COVID-19 spread

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GOOD NEWS

Black diabetes doctor helps save limbs

Foluso Fakorede, M.D., opened the Heart Disease & Amputation Prevention Institute in rural Mississippi to make sure that all diabetics, regardless of color or financial ability, have access to quality care.

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Flying dogs to their forever homes

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2 teachers make social distancing less scary

Two first grade teachers in DeLand, Florida redesigned their students desk into little jeeps. Their goal was to create a space for students to feel comfortable while following health and safety guidelines.

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CNN

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

L.A. comedian gives out hygiene kits

With L.A.’s homelessness crisis showing no signs of abating, and unhoused people at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 comedian Mitra Jouhari decided to distrubte hygiene kits to local unhoused populations.

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Vogue

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle out for charity

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry relocated to Santa Barbara last month, but headed back to Los Angeles to take part in a drive-through event with Baby2Baby to help distribute school supplies, backpacks, clothing and food.

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People

ENVIRONMENT

Polluters exploit rule exceptions amid virus

Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment.

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Associated Press

Paris firm creating vast urban rooftop farm

A company in Paris is transforming roofs and abandoned urban areas into spaces which are covered in plants.

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BBC

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What happens when a wildfire meets a pandemic

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Huffpost

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Indigenous protesters vow indefinite roadblock

Armed with spears and bows, dozens of indigenous protesters in Brazil vowed to maintain a roadblock on a key highway until the authorities listen to their demands for help fighting COVID-19 and deforestation.

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France 24

Forest tribe in Himalayas struggle to survive

Nomadic Van Gujjars in northern India fear remaining in the forest while their resettled relatives struggle to adjust.

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Al Jazeera

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Environmental activists turned out in London on Aug. 6 to oppose plastic trash. (Photo by Ellie ‘nycto’ Taylor) Photo used under CC BY

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