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Pediatric psychiatrists worldwide have reported an increase in childhood mental health issues. Children suffering panic attacks, heart palpitations and other symptoms of mental anguish, as well as chronic addictions to mobile devices and computer screens that have become their sitters, teachers and entertainers during lockdowns. (Photo by Anna Hiatt) Photo used under CC BY

Childhood mental health worsens amid pandemic

The pandemic’s impact on the mental health of children is increasingly alarming, with suicide rates steadily increasing. Pediatric psychiatrists say they’re seeing children with coronavirus-related phobias, tics, and eating disorders, obsessing about infection in an unhealthy way.

Associated Press

LGBT+ community in Ghana is under attack

Attacks against the LGBT+ community in Ghana are on the rise, forcing many into hiding. The homophobia and discrimination are being promoted by the government, religious institutions, and the media.

BBC

Members of Ghana’s LGBT community speak out about anti-gay discrimination

BBC

Africans denied access to coronavirus vaccines

Charities in Africa slammed rich nations for blocking efforts to waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines, saying the move would prolong the pandemic for years in poorer nations and push millions of people across the continent deeper into poverty.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Gunmen continue to abduct students in Nigeria

Gunmen in northwest Nigeria kidnapped about 30 students from a forestry college, in the fourth mass school abduction since December. The college is in a region roamed by armed gangs, who often travel on motorcycles.

Al Jazeera

Female protesters in Mexico face violence

A new Amnesty International report analyzing human rights violations against protesters denouncing gender-based violence found that women who protested peacefully suffered excessive force, violence and sexual abuse.

NBCNews.com

Hate crimes against Asian Americans must end

President Joe Biden condemned the violence Asian Americans have endured throughout the coronavirus pandemic in his first national prime-time addresst.

NBCNews.com

Anti-French sentiment fuel protests in Senegal

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Myanmar protester describes beating in custody

A protester in Myanmar that was detained by troops for three hours as part of the crackdown against opponents of last month’s military coup has described being beaten with belts, chains, bamboo sticks, and batons.

Yahoo! News

Immigrants in UK decry two tier citizenship

Children of immigrants to the UK have watched in alarm as a young woman who left her home in London to join ISIS has been stripped of her citizenship after attempting to return. They fear the dangerous precedent this has set.

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Biden to broaden US-Mexican relations

President Joe Biden, who took office almost two months ago wants to change the current dynamic with Mexico and reinstate a broader agenda with the country to include more engagement on climate change and security.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar protests: UK tells citizens to flee

Britain has advised its citizens to leave Myanmar as authorities react with increasing severity to daily protests. The United Nations has said the junta is likely committing crimes against humanity.

Deutsche Welle

Mexico plans to legalize recreational marijuana

Mexico’s lower chamber approved a marijuana legalization bill, setting the country on the path to becoming one of the world’s largest legal marijuana markets.

The Independent

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Digital art sold as non-fungible token for $69M

A digital collage sold for more than $69 million at an online auction. The work sold as a non-fungible token, meaning the buyer now owns the work as a unique string of code that verifies its authenticity.

LiveScience

Russia slows Twitter to blunt free speech

The Kremlin has slowed down Twitter’s service, citing its alleged failure to remove material harmful to children. This is not the first time the Kremlin has used protecting minors as a pretext to limit free expression.

NPR

Tech giants fight against US news industry

Facebook and Google lobbyists threw their weight against new U.S. legislation that seeks to aid struggling news publishers by allowing them to negotiate against the tech companies over revenue sharing and other deals.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Conspiracies hamper Pakistani vaccine drive

Conspiracy theories related to the vaccine abound in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority country. According to a report, 49 percent of the population is reluctant to get vaccinated even if the vaccine is offered free of cost.

Deutsche Welle

Tanzania’s missing president has Covid

Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, is critically ill in a hospital in Kenya after contracting coronavirus, the threat of which he has repeatedly trivialized in his home country, an opposition leader has said.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Marianne Schnall):

Women have taken a staggering Covid hit. Now they offer the best hopes for the future

CNN

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Biden leaves Trump’s dystopia in the dust

CNN

Column (Tara Henderson, MD and Monica Gandhi, MD):

CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools. It should loosen rules now.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Nursing home residents can get hugs again

Nursing home residents in the U.S. vaccinated against COVID-19 can get hugs again from their loved ones, and all residents may enjoy more indoor visits, in a step toward pre-pandemic normalcy.

Associated Press

Man soaks in bean dip to save restaurant

In a bid to attract diners to a local restaurant that has been struggling amid the pandemic, a man soaked in a vat of bean dip for 24 hours, wearing a t-shirt with the restaurant’s logo and getting his arm tattooed with its logo.

Reuters

Wildlife watchers to help scientists ID Yorkshire bottlenose dolphins

BBC

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

‘Move for Hunger’ fights food insecurity in US

Move for Hunger provides boxes and information to people moving out of their homes so that food ends up at local food banks instead of in the trash.

Today

Teen donates sports equipment to kids in need

A local high school student is making sure all kids have a chance to get involved in sports. Luke O’Brien has spent the last year creating a foundation called Gear to Share donating sporting equipment to underprivileged kids.

WCVB News

A lifetime of volunteering for at risk kids

10News San Diego

ENVIRONMENT

Two-thirds of Earth’s tropical forests gone

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and according to a bleak new report. Ans the world’s dependence on coal, farming, soy, palm oil and mining is to blame.

CBS News

One key to healthy oceans? Sharks

NPR

Ecuador’s Sangay volcano erupts, spews ash

Ecuador’s Sangay volcano erupted spewing clouds of ash nearly 30,000 feet into the sky. The sky of Riobamba was overcast by an ash cloud. Riobamba is at least 30 miles away from the volcano.

Deutsche Welle

Volcano watchers in Congo raise alarms

Reuters

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Nationalizing Zambia’s copper mines

Zambia has taken over operations at a major copper mining company operated by companies based in Switzerland and Canada, in what is seen as a move towards increasing its direct control of the key mining sector.

Deutsche Welle

A year into the pandemic, the incarcerated among the most vulnerable

NPR

Venezuelan children subsist on garbage

For some children in Venezuela, garbage is the main source of their livelihood. But their work has become challenging during the pandemic due to reduced trash output.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

A young boy pets a calf on his family farm in Meerut, India. Three new agricultural laws introduced by India late last year have led to months of protests by farmers who say the legislation benefits large private buyers at their expense. (Photo by Anupdulhera) Photo used under CC BY

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