The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

The Uighurs Muslims are an ethnic minority group of around 11 million. Many live in Xianjiang - an autonomous region in Northwest China. The Chinese Government houses many Uighurs in what they refer to as “re-education centers,” but many reports state these are actually detention centers. (Photo by Mike Pryan) Photo used under CC BY

China claims Uighur crackdown ‘emancipated’ women’s minds

China denied that Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures on Muslim minority women following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government policies had freed Uighur women from being “baby-making machines.”

CBS News

Museveni declared winner of Ugandan elections

Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term as president of Uganda while his main challenger, Bobi Wine, has countered with allegations of vote-rigging. Museveni warned people not to “cause chaos.”

Deutsche Welle

Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine says military enters home

Associated Press

COVID pandemic fueling education’s digital divide

The divide between those who have digital connectivity and those who lack it continues to make education a mark of privilege. COVID-19 hastened a rise in e-learning and a disruption of the status quo already underway. But in-person classes are not a thing of the past.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

How effective is a single COVID-19 vaccine dose?

BBC

How and why is the coronavirus mutating?

Guardian

Novel coronavirus claims 2M lives worldwide

In coming years, history books will trace COVID’s impact through milestones. The virus has caused the deadliest global epidemic since the spread of HIV 40 years ago, and the deadliest respiratory pandemic in a century.

TIME

Inauguration Day prompts high security alerts

Law enforcement is bracing for serious security breaches and violent assaults ahead of President-elect Biden’s swearing-in next week. Officials are taking no chances as the countdown begins for Inauguration Day.

NPR

President Trump becomes the only US President to be impeached for the second time

CNN

US extremists lurk in internet’s dark corners

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Fire destroys homes of Rohingyas refugees

The UN Refugee Agency said more than 550 Rohingya shelters, home to about 3,500 people -were either totally or partially destroyed in the blaze, as well as 150 shops and a facility belonging to a non-profit organization.

CNN

EU concerned over war crimes in Ethiopia

The European Union says it is getting consistent reports of ethnic-targeted violence, killings, massive looting, rapes, forceful returns of refugees to Eritrea and possible war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

BBC

Lone Ethiopian child refugees seen at risk of exploitation in Sudan

Reuters

In Mexico, women take front lines as vigilantes

In the birthplace of Mexico’s vigilante “self-defense” movement, a new group has emerged entirely made up of women, who carry assault rifles and post roadblocks to fend off what they say is a bloody incursion by the Jalisco cartel.

Associated Press

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Dutch government resigns over scandal

The Dutch government accepted responsibility for years of mismanagement of child benefit subsidies, and resigned. The scandal saw thousands of families left in financial ruin when they were accused of child benefit fraud.

The Independent

Jordan ‘s ’jalwa’ law sends hundreds into exile

Students at Jordan’s Tafila Technical University have initiated a campaign to draw further attention to the potential harm caused by “jalwa,” an informal tradition-based law that has caused entire extended families to be uprooted from their homes for years.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Clones could fight species decline

Can clones help fight species decline? Researchers are hoping to boost animal numbers and their genetic diversity with the help of cloning technology.

Deutsche Welle

Media ban threatens ‘last relic’ of Tunisia’s war

Euphoria of revolution’s early days has simmered with officials cracking down on freedom of expression online. Yet for a time, Tunisia was the poster child of the Arab Spring.

Al Jazeera

These innovations are helping combat COVID-19 across Africa

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Brazil rushes to save premature babies

Authorities in the Brazilian Amazon are reportedly racing to save dozens of premature babies after a surge in coronavirus cases caused a catastrophic breakdown in the oxygen supply to hospitals and clinics.

Guardian

COVID precautions improve, but too slowly

Americans are being more careful to avoid catching and spreading the coronavirus but are still not being careful enough to slow the pandemic, especially with worrisome, more contagious new variants looming.

NPR

Saliva could hold clues to how sick you will get from COVID-19

Sciencemag.org

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Jill Filipovic):

What Argentina‘s ’green handkerchief’ movement is all about

CNN

Column (Muhammad Rahaman and Niaz Ahmed Khan):

Time to revisit the concept of human trafficking

Asia Times Online

Column (Apoorvanand _):

India’s ‘love jihad’ laws: Another attempt to subjugate Muslims

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Kristina Varganova, Catherine Lux, Ashley Nawn, Eliza Villanueva and Sasha Fahimi.

GOOD NEWS

Mattel unveils Barbie honoring Maya Angelou

Mattel is debuting a new Barbie doll of the late Maya Angelou two weeks before Black History Month. The doll proudly holds Angelou’s most famous piece of literature I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

People

100 year anniversary of popular magic trick

He came, he sawed, he conquered. One hundred years ago, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a box on the stage of London’s Finsbury Park Empire and sawed right through the wood, creating a magical classic.

NBCNews.com

The world’s most powerful passports for 2021

The Henley Passport Index, which periodically measures the world’s most travel-friendly passports, has just released its latest report -- and an analysis of what might lie ahead.

CNN

Turning Zanzibar into a wedding paradise

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Musician gives shoes to healthcare workers

Singer Post Malone has partnered with a charity to bring 10,000 pairs of Crocs to health care workers in hospitals around the United States. The shoes are limited edition which are sold out on the Crocs website.

MSN

Gifts that give back: Designer gives profit to charity

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Seagrass sieves plastic particles from water

Seagrass provides a long list of services for ocean ecosystems, and the humans who live near the water’s edge. A new study has found one more: trapping plastic pollution in natural bundles of fiber known as “Neptune balls.”

Guardian

One girl’s quest for clean water in Rwanda

BBC

Modern-day bounty hunters of South Africa

The fight against rhino poachers in South Africa is a lucrative business. Well-armed units patrol the parks and reserves – and have been accused of murdering innocent people.

Spiegel International

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

US bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region

he Trump administration announced an import ban on all cotton and tomato products from western China’s Xinjiang region over allegations that they are made with forced labor from detained Uighur Muslims.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Forest dwellers hope law will stop evictions

Nomad forest dwellers in Indian-administered Kashmir are pinning their hopes on the implementation of a 14-year-old law to save their land and homes, as the government announces plans to evict thousands of people it says are encroaching on protected land.

Al Jazeera

Young, black and more likely to die in Brazil

BBC

Photo of the Day

Harnai port in Konkan is the main fishing village. Every evening hundreds of fishing boats come back after fishing and gather to auction their catch, bullock carts are driven into the sea to unload the fish and bring it to the beach where the action happens. Witnessing the fish auctions here is an awe-inspiring experience. (Photo by Cj.samson) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other