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Congress confirmed President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory early Thursday morning, hours after a mob of loyalists urged on by President Trump stormed and occupied the Capitol, disrupting the final electoral count in a shocking display of violence. (Photo by Geoff Livingston) Photo used under CC BY

Pro-Trump siege of US Capitol sparks difficult new questions

One day later, the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Trump’s supporters forced painful questions across government — about his fitness to remain in office, the ability of the police to secure the complex and the future of the Republican Party in a post-Trump era.

Associated Press

Pro-Trump protesters storm US Capitol: In pictures

Deutsche Welle

House impeachment vote to take place by next week

Forbes

Almost 2.3M in need of aid in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Fighting is still going on in several parts of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and almost 2.3 million people need aid, a UN report said. Food supplies remain limited, as looting and widespread and insecurity remain high.

Reuters

Wartime sex slaves gain rights in S. Korean court

Wartime sex slaves from South Korea, known as “comfort women,” won their first legal victory against Japan in a landmark ruling. The court ordered Japan to pay reparations to the women who were forced to work as sex slaves during Japan’s colonization of Korea.

CBS News

UN rights body in shambles as tensions rise

Russia and China have opposed a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, creating a deadlock just as Washington may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018.

Reuters

Rich nations must end bilateral COVID-19 deals

The World Health Organization chief appealed to makers of COVID-19 vaccines and the wealthier countries buying them to “stop making bilateral deals,” saying they hurt a U.N.-backed effort to widen access to the jabs.

Associated Press

Pfizer COVID vaccine works against virus variants

NBCNews.com

Lebanon’s full hospitals deny COVID treatment

Lebanon‘s health care system was already weak. Now, a surge in COVID cases is overwhelming hospitals and leading doctors to tell families to care for loved ones at home because there’s no more space in the wards.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Trafficking scheme lures pregnant women

Dozens of pregnant women from the Marshall Islands have become victims of a brazen human trafficking ring, operating for years across the Marshall Islands archipelago and the United States.

Guardian

Faces of children in forced labor in Ghana’s Lake Volta

Guardian

Protests over killings spread in Pakistan

Reuters

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Catholic officials ask for silence on abuse report

Catholic Church officials asked for journalists’ “absolute silence” on a long-awaited report investigating decades of alleged sexual abuse of young people at the hands of clerics and the resulting institutional cover-up.

Guardian

S. Africa plans to record babies’ biometrics

The Department of Home Affairs‘ new draft policy aims to capture detailed biometrics of every child born in South Africa and link this data to parents’ identity numbers, which are printed on all ID documents.

Associated Press

Ugandan presidential candidate assaulted live on camera

NBCNews.com

Indonesian cleric linked to bombings released

Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been released, as authorities said the mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings would enter a deradicalization program amid concerns over his continued influence in extremist circles.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook extends Trump ban indefinitely

Major social media and e-commerce companies such as Facebook moved to further control outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s ability to post on their platforms after his followers stormed the Capitol building, a day earlier.

CBC News

Facial recognition identifies people in masks

Japanese company NEC, which develops facial-recognition systems, has launched one that it claims can identify people wearing masks. Verification takes less than one second, with an accuracy rate of more than 99.9%, NEC says.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Afghan mothers struggle to feed children

A report from the United Nations finds that nearly half of all children younger than 5 in Afghanistan, a total of some 3.1 million, are facing acute malnutrition. That’s a 16 percent jump since June 2020.

NPR

Brazilian women seek abortions in Argentina

Brazilian women without means have started traveling to Argentina to obtain abortions, to dodge the risks and legal obstacles they face if they were to seek such services at home.

NBCNews.com

Is pandemic causing surge in female genital mutilation?

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ashan Butt):

Has a ‘fifth-generation war’ started between India and Pakistan?

Al Jazeera

Column (Charles Kolb):

Xi Jinping‘s China and Hitler’s Germany: Growing parallels

The Hill

Column (Devorah Heitner):

Kids pay the price for adults’ failures to act against racism

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Turkey on mission to preserve fairytales

Dr Ignatuis Kunos, was among first to collect and write oral folktales of the Anatolian plateau. Over a century later, an academic project is collecting and indexing 10,000 stories to preserve for future generations.

Guardian

Leading Uganda’s climate change movement

Vanessa Nakate has become one of the most prominent African voices on climate change and wants to make sure that African issues are heard on a global stage.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit leaders react to Capitol Hill riots

Often left to pick up the pieces after a traumatic national event, leaders at the nation’s nonprofits are weighing in on the riot by President Trump supporters in Washington, D.C., and its impact on the nation.

NonProfit Times

Indigenous-owned nonprofit empowers locals

Full Circle Intertribal Center was founded in order to help build community among Moab’s Native population. Eighteen months later, the non-profit has turned its efforts toward keeping Native elders safe during COVID-19.

Kuer

ENVIRONMENT

America’s rivers are changing color

One-third of the thousands of mile-long river segments in the U.S. have shifted color since 1984. The chief causes of color changes are farm fertilizer run-off, efforts to fight soil erosion and man-made climate change.

ABC News

Recycling electric cars poses problems

This year, around 200,000 Germans will be driving electric vehicles. It will be a few years before those cars need to be scrapped. Hopefully, by then, the world will have figured out how to recycle them.

Deutsche Welle

Exposure to dirty air linked to miscarriage

Pregnant women in South Asia who have been exposed to air pollution face an increased risk of pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and stillbirth, according to a new study.

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Thai landfill becomes urban farm to feed poor

An urban farm developed on a former landfill site in northern Thailand boosted the food security and livelihoods of poor families during the coronavirus pandemic, and can be a model for unused spaces in other cities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pandemic pushes Indian people to mica mines

People continue to die in Indian mines four years after a Thomson Reuters Foundation expose into child deaths.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Faces of Peruvians going through hard year

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

An Intha fisherman in Myanmar uses an age-old technique for catching fish in the shallow water of Inle Lake. One leg is used to balance the boat while the other is used to guide their conical nets through the water. (Photo by Hans A. Rosbach) Photo used under CC BY

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