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Two young girls protest at the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, young activists have been speaking out about the devastating effects of global warming as wild weather continues to endanger millions of lives. (Photo by Garry Knight) Photo used under CC BY

World’s youth activists rally against rising temperatures

With wild weather wreaking havoc across the world, young people, united under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, rallied worldwide to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their first global protest since the coronavirus crisis began.

Reuters

Tackling global warming with ‘indigenous houses’

Deutsche Welle

Secret detention camps discovered in China

China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention centers in Xinjiang, where Muslim minorities are targeted in a forced assimilation campaign, the facilities resemble prisons, an Australian think tank has found.

CBS News

Internal displacements reach 15M in 2020 alone

Millions of people were uprooted from their homes by conflict, violence and natural disasters in the first half of this year, research has found. Nearly 15 million new internal displacements were recorded in more than 120 countries, with the worst still to come.

Guardian

COVID-19 is changing death-counting progress

As the world approaches the 1 million mark for COVID-19 fatalities. Now, that vast undercount of deaths might be changing, the science of death-counting is being pushed into the international spotlight.

NPR

China aims to make 1B virus vaccine doses

A Chinese official said that the country’s annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top 1 billion doses next year, following an aggressive government support program for construction of new factories.

Associated Press

Nationwide anti-racism protests continue

Protesters across the U.S. took to the streets for a second night, following the announcement that none of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor would be indicted for her death.

Forbes

Why it’s hard to charge US police over shootings

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Migrants died after ‘inadequate’ care at ICE

At U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities operated by for-profit contractors, detainees “often do not receive critical treatment or face delays,” an inquiry found.

CNN

Salvadoran freed after 6 years for stillbirth

A woman sentenced to 30 years in jail after a stillbirth that was judged to be her fault has been released from jail in El Salvador. Cindy Erazo, 29, from San Salvador, was granted conditional freedom after six years in jail.

Guardian

Indian boy’s death spotlights bonded labor

The death of an 8-year-old boy whose parents worked as bonded laborers has triggered demands for authorities to crack down on thousands of other suspected cases in nearby villages in central India.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indonesia’s Islamic school fights for transgender rights

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Chad halts lake’s world heritage status request

Chad has asked to suspend an application for world heritage site status for Lake Chad to explore oil and mining opportunities in the region, it can be revealed.

Guardian

Anwar on the verge of countercoup in Malaysia

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed to have secured the parliamentary majority needed to form a new federal government in a surprise announcement signaling another change of government.

Asia Times Online

Saudi Arabia dissidents launch opposition party

A group of Saudi dissidents exiled in Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere announced the launch of an opposition party the first organized political resistance to King Salman’s rule.

CBS News

China’s Sri Lanka foothold a dilemma for India

From all appearances, a renewed U.S.-Indian move is afoot to undermine China’s Belt and Road projects in Sri Lanka, especially the flag carrier – Colombo Port City.

Asia Times Online

India, China stop sending troops to border

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook appeals New Delhi government

Amid global tensions, Facebook appealed to India‘s Supreme Court to exempt it from facing a New Delhi government committee investigating the company’s alleged role in religious riots in the city earlier this year.

CNN

Bus-sized asteroid to pass close to Earth

As interstellar traffic goes, this is a close one. According to a report in The Independent, an asteroid the size of a mini-bus is set to fly past Earth in the coming hours.

Asia Times Online

GLOBAL HEALTH

Airport trials dogs as COVID-19 detectors

Dogs specially trained to detect COVID-19 have started sniffing passengers as part of a trial at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Volunteers are training a team of 15 dogs and 10 instructors for the research program.

BBC

COVID-19 vaccine won’t eliminate the need for masks and public health measures

CNN

Prison ‘like a torture chamber’ for inmates with COVID-19

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Hannah L Drake):

Black women will fight another day. Not just for Breonna Taylor, but for ourselves

Guardian

Column (Dr. Deane Waldman):

The ongoing collapse of US health care

The Hill

Editorial:

Online learning cannot just be for those who can afford its technology

Nature

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GOOD NEWS

Ugandan cafe creates jobs for deaf workers

A coffee chain in Uganda has opened a cafe staffed by deaf people. The chain says it wants to serve the deaf, and create jobs for this marginalized group.

Deutsche Welle

This ‘hero rat’ saves lives by hunting landmines

MSN

School principals band together for ‘Good Trouble’

Yahoo! News

Maasai gather for once-in-decade ceremony

Maasai men from all over Kenya and Tanzania, clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).

CNN

Sir David Attenborough breaks Instagram record for fastest time to reach one million followers

Guinness World Records

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits create ‘hiring halls’ for day laborers

A network of 55 nonprofits has emerged to help organize and support day laborers disadvantaged by the pandemic.

Nonprofit Quarterly

The organization planting 15M trees a month

A Plus

ENVIRONMENT

Thai park mailing people’s trash back to them

After campers left a mess at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, officials have decided on a novel approach to discouraging making a mess: sending the garbage right back to where it came from.

Vice

Egypt’s water shortage affects farmers most

With Nile water insufficient and now in question, Egypt’s government is mandating a switch to water-saving drip and sprinkler irrigation which is affecting farmer needs.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The plan to save the Arctic ice with glass

The fear that action to combat climate change has been too slow has led some scientists to test unconventional methods to stem the loss of Arctic sea ice.

BBC

88 whales rescued from Australia’s beaches

Authorities have rescued 88 pilot whales and are attempting to free 20 others that survived Australia’s worst mass stranding, as crews prepare to remove 380 decomposing carcasses from the water.

ABC News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

VW to compensate workers over Brazil torture

Workers and their families sued the carmaker five years ago over human rights violations. A 2016 review found that VW agents gave employees’ names to police hunting for people described as “subversives”.

BBC1

World’s workers lost $3.5 T in COVID: UN

Asia Times Online

Palm oil labor abuses linked to top brands

The AP interviewed more than 130 current and former workers from two dozen palm oil companies who came from eight countries and labored on plantations across wide swaths of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Associated Press

300K used condoms packed for sale in SE Asia

Police in Vietnam said they found about 320,000 recycled used condoms that were being repackaged as new, local media reported according to the Associated Press.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

A medical professional rests after 12 hours without a break at San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy. San Salvatore has been at the top of the COVID-19 contagion and death charts. (Photo by Alberto Giuliani) Photo used under CC BY

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