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As climate change pushes up sea surface temperatures, the cyclonic storms that barrel in from the Bay of Bengal have become fiercer and more frequent, pushing millions to seek refuge in the Indian mangroves. (Photo by McKay Savage) Photo used under CC BY

Storms, poverty force 14M into India’s unruly forests

Growing economic and ecological pressures on more than 14 million people in India have led to reduced dependence on agriculture, a rising number of migrant workers and reliance on the forests and rivers to survive. A new factor behind the chaos has been COVID-19.

Reuters

Indian radio station leading climate conversations

Guardian

US terror designation in Yemen faces backlash

In the final days of the Trump administration, the U.S. State Department announced that it will designate an Iranian-backed group in Yemen a foreign terrorist group. UN warns the terrorist label could worsen the conflict.

CBS News

WHO team arrives in Wuhan, begins COVID investigation

A global team of researchers arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries.

NBCNews.com

Africa secures 270M COVID vaccine doses

BBC

Indonesia starts virus vaccinations over vast territory

Associated Press

Pakistan lacks volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trial

Deutsche Welle

Internet blocked as Ugandan election unfolds

The internet is blocked and security has been stepped up in Uganda as counting gets underway after polls closed in a hotly contested election. Dozens of people have been killed in the run-up to the election.

BBC

Popstar Bobi Wine seeks to unseat five-term Ugandan president in landmark election

CNBC

Migrant caravan treks north toward Guatemala

About 200 Honduran migrants resumed walking up a highway toward the border with Guatemala despite pandemic curfews, a day before a migrant caravan was scheduled to depart the city of San Pedro Sula.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Grim infant death toll at Irish church run homes

Thousands of infants died in Irish homes for unmarried mothers and their offspring mostly run by the Catholic Church from the 1920s to the 1990s, revealing an “appalling” mortality rate that reflected brutal living conditions.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Child marriages in Canada spark concern

Thousands of girls in Canada have been married before turning 18, warning that a rise in unofficial child marriages could make the practice harder to prevent and call into question the country’s global leadership.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

WFP raises alarm over rising hunger in Madagascar

Al Jazeera

‘Human rights defenders are being targeted’ as Ugandan election approaches

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Pakistani fence on Afghan border nearly done

Pakistan’s military said it has nearly completed a fence along the border with Afghanistan, which Islamabad says is necessary to prevent militant attacks from both sides.

ABC News

Zimbabwe bans traditional funerals

Zimbabwe has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, a custom where families take the dead to their areas of birth for burial rituals and ceremonies.

Al Jazeera

Israel is an apartheid regime, says rights group

Israel is not a democracy but an “apartheid regime” that enforces Jewish supremacy over all the land it controls, a leading domestic rights group has alleged in a position paper bound to provoke fierce controversy.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Chinese tech patents tools that detect Uighurs

Chinese technology giants have registered patents for tools that can detect, track and monitor Uighurs in a move human rights groups fear could entrench oppression of the Muslim minority.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

World’s oldest animal cave painting found

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia — a wild pig — believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago.

BBC

NASA Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000th day on Mars with stunning panorama of planet

CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

India culls birds over avian flu concern

An outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu is rapidly spreading across India, causing concern among officials and forcing them to come up with a plan to tackle the emergency.

Deutsche Welle

COVID renews health workers interest In unions

Front-line health workers across the country have faced a perpetual lack of personal protective equipment and inconsistent safety measures, causing them to form new unions or thinking about organizing for the first time.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Isaac Mugabi):

Uganda’s sham election, another waste of time

Deutsche Welle

Column (Yara Hawari):

The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story

Al Jazeera

Column (Jaime Watt):

Accountability is crucial, but public shamings only make things worse

The Star

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GOOD NEWS

Pope backs women in Catholic services

Pope Francis has changed the law in the Roman Catholic Church, allowing women to administer communion and serve at the altar. Conservative Church leaders are now expected to accept female involvement in the liturgy.

BBC

Air India’s all women pilot crew makes history

An all-female Indian pilot team made history this week after they completed the longest non-stop commercial flight ever operated by an Indian national airline.

CNN

Message in a bottle found after two years

Conservationist on a remote Papua New Guinean island finds message from American girl thrown overboard nearly two years earlier.

Guardian

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Starbucks invests $100M in support of BIPOC

Starbucks is planning to invest $100 million in underserved communities by 2025 to help advance racial equity and environmental initiatives through projects in Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities.

ABC News

Siblings launch puzzle business focused on Black representation

CBS News

Seattle’s home bakers donate to food banks

Seattle-based Community Loaves is a group of 500 home bread bakers that have been donating their bread loaves to food banks since the start of the pandemic.

Today

ENVIRONMENT

2020 tied for warmest year on record

NASA, NOAA and Berkeley Earth all released their assessments of Earth’s temperature in 2020. The conclusion: 2020 was nearly tied with 2016 for the warmest year globally on record, with temperatures 0.04 of a degree Fahrenheit difference.

CBS News

‘Ecological Ponzi scheme’ threatens humanity

Accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption are swiftly pushing human societies toward a “ghastly future” of growing hunger, political division and societal breakdown, leading scientists said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Thailand’s migrant workers get pandemic aid

Global brands and small firms are providing aid to migrant workers in Thailand after a jump in coronavirus cases, a move backed by activist groups who urged businesses to help pay for testing and access healthcare.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pandemic disproportionately affects working moms

CNN

Death knell tolls for Indonesia’s gas industry

Indonesia lacks the foreign investment and domestic expertise needed to keep its fast-declining oil and gas industry afloat. Exploration has fallen by an average of 23% over the past decade.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

Buddhist alms in Si Phan Don, Laos. Every day child monks from the temple walk in the village with their alms bowls to collect food, prepared and offered by the locals, and to recite a short prayer in exchange. Ritually, Buddhist monks in Laos have only two meals a day: one in the morning and one at noon. They fast in the evening. (Photo by Basile Morin) Photo used under CC BY

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