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Roughly 3K people gathered in Powderhorn Park in April of 2017, to stand in solidarity with immigrants and refugees. The protesters spoke against the increasing militarization at the US-Mexico border. Now, people are becoming increasingly more angry as female abuse allegations in ICE detention facilities are coming to light. (Photo by Fibonacci Blue) Photo used under CC BY

More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgeries

A review of medical records for women in ICE detention facilities regarding the growing allegations of performed surgeries that they never sought or didn’t fully understand have raised severe legal and ethical issues, lawyers and medical have experts said.

Associated Press

Afghan women face risk of extremist attacks

The United States has warned Afghan women that they are at increased risk of extremist attacks. The message comes as the Taliban and the Afghan government meet for the first round of long-postponed direct negotiations.

Guardian

Virus pandemic pushes 150M kids into poverty

The world’s poorest children are getting even poorer, according to UNICEF and Save the Children. The virus crisis has pushed an additional 15% of the world’s children into poverty, and they warn that the situation could get a lot worse in the coming months.

Deutsche Welle

COVID: What are the numbers out of Latin America?

BBC

The ‘overwhelming’ impact of school closures

At the peak of the pandemic 1.6 billion children were out of school as governments imposed temporary closures, intensifying the learning crisis. Today, more than 870 million pupils are still unable to attend their schools.

Al Jazeera

India set to reopen schools despite COVID-19 surge

Deutsche Welle

TV replaces teachers for African children amid virus

Al Jazeera

Indonesians trade plastic trash to study online

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UN urges help to keep millions from starving

The WFP chief warned that millions of people are closer to starvation because of the deadly combination of conflict, climate change, and COVID-19 and he urged the rich to help feed them and ensure their survival.

ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Saudi Arabia announces $200 M in aid to Yemen

Saudi Arabia has signed a series of deals to provide more than $200 million in funding to UN aid agencies operating in Yemen, just days after a CNN investigation highlighted a crisis in aid funding for the war-stricken nation.

CNN

Advocates: US slights women’s, LGBTQ issues

Human rights groups say U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s policy approach establishes a hierarchy of rights, downgrading the status of issues like women’s right to reproductive health and LGBTQ rights.

Guardian

Lebanon’s old Christian rivalries renewed

An old rivalry between Christian factions who fought each other in Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war has flared again on the street and in political debate, renewing fears of fresh unrest.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Barbados set to become sovereign republic

Barbados officials announced that the country is set to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic by next year.

The Hill

Barbados to drop Queen Elizabeth II as head of state

ABC News

UK PM says second COVID-19 wave inevitable

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not want another national lockdown but that new restrictions may be needed because the country was facing an “inevitable” second wave of COVID-19.

Reuters

Head of Libya’s Tripoli government wants to quit

Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said he wants to quit by the end of October, which could feed political tensions in Tripoli amid new efforts to find a political solution to the country’s conflict.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mexico identifies wreck of Mayan slave ship

Archaeologists in Mexico said they have identified a ship that carried Mayan people into virtual slavery in the 1850s, the first time such a ship has been found.

ABC News

Designers send fabric waste here for a second life

CNN

Scientists work to decode COVID-19’s origins

Nine months into the global pandemic, scientists are still piecing together the mystery of the first crossover event, in which the virus moved from bats to an intermediary animal, and eventually, to humans.

ABC News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Mexican states to ban junk food sales to minors

Lawmakers in several Mexican states are pushing legislation to keep junk food away from children, partly in response to the pandemic.

NPR

ICUs are nearing capacity in this French city. And it’s only September

CNN

Czech Republic’s COVID-19 daily tally soars

The Czech Republic reported a record increase in COVID-19 cases for a third day as it puts new measures in place to battle a surge in infections that is among the fastest in Europe.

Reuters

Pandemic inspires new push to shrink jails

ScienceMag.org

COVID may have already peaked across Africa

Scientists do not yet know why, but one hypothesis is the possibility of people having pre-existing immunity to Covid-19, caused by exposure to other infections.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Allison Hope):

A monstrous allegation against ICE can’t be ignored

CNN

Column (Sahar Atrache):

Gaza‘s ’quarantine within a quarantine’ must end

Al Jazeera

Column (Howard Gutman):

The politics of peace

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Young Beirut surgeon finds new sense of duty

Dr. Bassam Osman ended up working for 52 hours straight after the Beirut blast. He treated more than two dozen patients. He lost one. The blast has given Osman a greater sense of duty.

Associated Press

Dog owner donates 7,500 pet oxygen masks

The owner of a rescued from a California wildfire has made it her mission to disseminate pet oxygen masks. Her nonprofit has donated more than 7,500 pet oxygen masks to firefighters and first responders.

NBCNews.com

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

The future of work will be democratic

The future of work is a favored topic of consultancies. As a theme, it tends to center on robotics and automation. Conventional analyses, however, often assume our economy will function in largely the same way.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Yemen lemonade stand gains popularity

Actress Angelina Jolie surprised two young best friends from London, when she made an “extremely generous” donation to their lemonade stand raising funds for Yemen.

NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Warm rivers threaten vast Antarctic glacier

One of the largest, most unstable glaciers in Antarctica is sliding into the ocean. That’s due, in large part, to hidden rivers of warm water that lubricate its underbelly, more so now than ever in the era of climate change.

LiveScience

Piece of largest remaining Arctic ice shelf shatters due to climate change

CBS News

Rapid wildfires imperil Amazon rainforest

Fast-moving wildfires are spreading through huge areas of the Amazon rainforest, despite Brazil’s denial.

NBCNews.com

Tens of thousands of fires are pushing the Amazon to a tipping point

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

The vegan sensation that saved Sri Lanka

Sri Lankans began planting jackfruit trees to gain food self-sufficiency during British rule, and they’ve since helped islanders avoid starvation. The Guardian declared it “a vegan sensation” thanks to its shredded meat texture.

BBC

Closed Singapore turns to domestic tourism

Singapore is turning to domestic tourism as its borders remain largely closed to overseas visitors due to coronavirus.

CNBC

Japan’s exports plunge; Asia-Pacific stocks hit

Stocks in Asia-Pacific were mixed in early trade as investors await the Federal Open Market Committee’s quarterly update.

CNBC

India’s economy will take ’years’ to recover

India’s massive work force is being hit hard by coronavirus. As many as 21 million salaried jobs were lost between April and August, according to a recent report by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Pakistani schoolgirls on their way to class, prior to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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