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Asylum seekers, including Syrians, Afghans, Iranians and Uzbeks, continue to wait near Tundzha river in Turkey’s Edirne to enter Greece on March, 5, 2020. Approximately one million people seek asylum every year. (Photo by Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman) Photo used under CC BY

US to let in thousands seeking asylum and waiting in Mexico

The Biden administration says it will start gradually allowing into the U.S. tens of thousands of asylum seekers currently forced to wait in Mexico. It says it will begin processing about 25,000 people with active cases.

BBC

The harrowing journeys to safety of asylum-seekers during a pandemic

NPR

Guinea officially declares new Ebola outbreak

Guinea’s Health Ministry has now confirmed a new outbreak of the rare but deadly virus that causes fever, aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding. DR Congo has also reported cases.

Deutsche Welle

Chocolate companies face child slavery lawsuit in US

Nestlé, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey and Mondelēz have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington D.C. on behalf of eight former child slaves who say they were forced to work without pay on cocoa plantations in the west African country.

Guardian

Designer speaks out against rise in anti-Asian attacks across United States

Guardian

Beijing imposes tight measures for another COVID new year amid celebrations

The Independent

Hope for Peru’s victims of forced sterilizations

Hundreds of thousands of indigenous women in Peru were the victims of forced sterilizations in the 1990s. Victims, their families, and activists been fighting for redress ever since. Now there seems to be some progress.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar’s creatives fight military rule with art

A community of artists based in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, is creating striking, often satirical images and circulating them as part of the civil disobedience campaign on social media and out in the streets.

TIME

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sanctions on Venezuela devastate human rights

A United Nations Special Rapporteur has issued a scathing report on the international pressure campaign on Venezuela, calling on the United States, United Kingdom and European Union to lift “devastating” economic sanctions.

CNN

Pope hails Colombia for giving Venezuelans protection

ABC News

First women to pit in NASCAR’s Daytona 500

Brehanna Daniels, Breanna O’Leary and Dalanda Ouendeno are all graduates of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program, an initiative by the organization to create diverse and inclusive pit crew teams.

People

Teen is one of first Black female Eagle Scouts

Kendall Jackson went on her first Boy Scout camping trip with her mother and older brother when she was just a toddler, and now the Indiana teen is one of the first Black females to become an Eagle Scout.

CNN

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

New generation faces old guard in Kosovo polls

Kosovars are going to the polls in an early election that could see a new generation of politicians take the lead after tapping into widespread frustration and fatigue with the political establishment.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan ends death penalty for prisoners

Pakistan’s supreme court ruled that prisoners with serious mental health problems cannot be executed for their crimes. The verdict was hailed by rights activists, who said it laid the groundwork for broader prison reforms.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ancient beer factory found by archaeologists

American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt.

NBCNews.com

Scientists discover new giant fish species off Japan’s coast

CBS News

How children learn to remember

Deutsche Welle

China aircraft sends Mars footage for first time

China’s space agency has released video footage from its spacecraft circling Mars, two days after it successfully entered the planet’s orbit in Beijing’s latest ambitious space mission.

Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

CDC encourages double masking in public

Double masking can significantly improve protection from COVID-19, new data from the CDC shows. Researchers found that layering masks can block 92.5% of potentially infectious particles from escaping.

CNN

Inside Latin America’s mass oxygen shortages

Brazil has the world’s second-highest Covid death toll with more than 221,000 fatalities. Now there are fears the lack of oxygen supplies seen there could unfold elsewhere in Brazil and even in other parts of Latin America

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Is there a democratic solution to Haiti’s current crisis?

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It’s time we stopped using the term ‘South Africa variant’

Al Jazeera

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Female child soldiers often go unseen but must not be forgotten

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Polish mayor honors man who got bus to move

Journalist Pawel Lukasik was reporting live on a traffic jam caused by a bus, when Dmitry Salogub strode up to the bus and began to push it. He has been honored with a free travel pass in Warsaw, Poland for his act.

BBC

Best friends find out they’re biological sisters

Two best friends learned after almost a decade of friendship that their strong resemblance and, perhaps in part, their unbelievable bond, is because they are, in fact, biological sisters.

Inside Edition

To lift lockdown gloom, Israelis keep calm and carry on screaming

Reuters

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Student’s nonprofit bakes for those in need

A high school student in California who‘s been giving away her baked goods to local homeless shelters since she was 13 has launched a nonprofit to mobilize other teens to do the same — and it’s now grown to 8 states.

SFiST

Minnesota non-profit offering equine therapy to first responders

NBCNews.com

UK roving teams bring vaccines to homeless

In a pandemic, homeless people face being more forgotten than they already are. But not by doctors like Dr. Anil Mehta, who is on a mission to bring the coronavirus vaccine to those hardest to reach in east London.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

When it comes to deforestation, burgers win

Researchers have known for decades that commodity agriculture is driving deforestation. But a new study by the non-profit WRI puts a much finer point on how this is dominated by just one product: beef.

Quartz

Trying to keep loggers out of Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Deutsche Welle

Noise pollution ‘drowns out ocean soundscape’

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Attacks on elderly Asian-Americans stoke fear

Police are stepping up patrols and volunteers are increasing their street presence after several violent attacks on older Asians stoked fear in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Chinatowns amid New Year celebrations.

South China Morning Post

Nigerian farmers can sue Shell over pollution

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that a group of Nigerian farmers and fishermen can sue Royal Dutch Shell PLC in English courts over pollution in a region where the Anglo-Dutch energy giant has a subsidiary.

ABC News

Colombia builds houses from coffee husks

A company in Colombia has found a new use for coffee husks that normally become waste and release methane. By combining the husks with recycled plastic, it creates a material that is strong enough to make the walls of a house.

Fast Company

Photo of the Day

Many Americans and hundreds of millions of people throughout Asia celebrate the Lunar New Year. 2021 is the year of the ox. Here, people in Manila, Philippines are celebrating by performing a dragon dance - a traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture usually seen during festive celebrations. (Photo by Ralff Nestor Nacor) Photo used under CC BY

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