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Fighting and massive displacement of people, crippling fuel shortages and rising food prices have 50,000 Yemenis already caught up in famine and 5 million more a step away from it, United Nations says. Now, the United States has agreed to resume its aid to the war ravaged nation. (Photo by UNHCR/Mohammed Al Hasan) Photo used under CC BY

US resumes aid to Yemen amid famine, ongoing war

US announced a resumption of aid to Yemen’s rebel-held north to fight a looming famine as the country’s nearly six-year-old war grinds on. U.N. has warned that a blockade of fuel deliveries to the main port was heightening the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Associated Press

Fleeing Syrians lament loss of refuge in Sudan

Until the end of last year Sudan was the only country in the world that Syrians could travel to without a visa, a unique haven for those seeking a new life away from their country and its brutal civil war. Now the border is closed.

Guardian

Ten years of war in Syria: A timeline

Yahoo! News

India’s bonded laborers work to pay off debts

Bonded labor was made illegal in India in 1976, but never went away. A report from 2018, estimated around 8 million people in India were unpaid workers or held in debt bondage, though some campaigners believe the true figure is much higher.

CNN

Child labor in India increased during COVID-19: survey

The Hindu

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest, says she felt ‘violated’

Reuters

Ethiopia rejects allegations of ethnic cleansing

Ethiopia rejected U.S. allegations there has been ethnic cleansing in Tigray, pushing back against the latest criticism of its military operation in its northern region by the new administration in Washington.

Reuters

FEMA deployed to help process migrant kids

The Biden administration instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help process the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children entering U.S. border custody amid reports of overcrowding in holding facilities.

CBS News

Why migrants say they’re making the dangerous journey now

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Armed men attack another Nigerian school

Armed men attempted to kidnap more students in Nigeria’s Kaduna state overnight a state government official said, as 39 others from an earlier attack remain missing.

Reuters

Afghanistan investigates ban on girls’ singing

The Afghan education ministry says it is investigating a recent statement from the director of education in the capital, Kabul, which banned girls older than 12 from singing in public.

BBC

Minneapolis to pay George Floyd family $27M

The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27M settlement with the family of George Floyd, the unarmed US black man whose death last May sparked protests worldwide. Jury selection for the murder trial is currently underway.

BBC

Sri Lanka bans burqa, closes Islamic schools

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the face-covering burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Government sparks change in New Caledonia

For the first time in over two decades, the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia has a government made up mostly of pro-independence politicians, a historic turnover that analysts say could edge it toward becoming independent from France.

NPR

Afghanistan to attend US, Russia peace talks

The Afghan government has announced it would participate in two separate U.S.- and Russian-backed peace conferences in the coming weeks. The talks come at a crunch time for the peace process.

Reuters

US offers deportation relief to Myanmar citizens

US will allow people from Myanmar to temporarily remain in the United States, as the southeast Asian country is wracked by violence following a military coup, in the second instance of President Biden granting temporary protected status to migrants this week.

Forbes

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Researchers find fossil in 70M year old rocks

Scientists are celebrating the first discovery of a dinosaur preserved while sitting on a nest of eggs with fossilized embryos, including at least three that were visible.

CNN

Electronic textiles pave way for smart clothing

A wearable interactive display made of a flexible, breathable electronic fabric can display simple maps and text messages, potentially for use in future smart clothing, a research group reports in its latest paper.

MSN

GLOBAL HEALTH

US could reach herd immunity by summer

The pace of COVID-19 vaccine administration in the US continues to improve, each day bringing the country closer to herd immunity -- the point at which enough people are protected against a disease that it cannot spread.

CNN

12 months of indelible photographs from the pandemic in America and the stories behind them

TIME

Nurses fight conspiracies, coronavirus

Bogus claims about the virus have exploded since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. Officials have tried to push back against the falsehoods, but much of the job has fallen to front-line medical workers.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Kid CEO empowers Black girls to embrace hair

At just 9 years old, Zoe Oli is already behind Beautiful Curly Me, a fledgling business that hopes to make a change for young Black girls around the country with its line of Black dolls with curly and braided hair.

People

Zimbabwe‘s 16-year-old motocross champion on ’beating the boys’

BBC

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Doctor cares for protesting farmers in India

Dr. Swaiman Singh boarded a flight to India last December to provide free medical services for protesting farmers. His plan was to stay for a week, months later, he’s still there with no plans to leave.

CNN

Family nonprofit donated 30K pounds of food

When a Virginia family learned about the increased need food pantries experienced amidst the pandemic, they started a small food drive called the Be The Good Project and ended up donating over 30,000 pounds of food.

Southern Living

California teen to swim 25-mile marathon to fight food insecurity

ABC 7

ENVIRONMENT

Warming seas chill Quebec’s seal tourism

For the fifth time since 2010, a lack of ice means no visitors and an unstable future for the ice-dependent harp seal that migrate to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada from the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.

Guardian

Singapore intensifies homegrown food production

Deutsche Welle

Saving one of the world’s rarest toads from extinction

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Venezuelan kids seek valuables, food in trash

For some children in Venezuela, garbage is the main source of their livelihood. This has been the case for several generations of garbage collectors in Venezuela.

Associated Press

IRS starts delivery of round 3 stimulus checks

The IRS announced that it will begin delivering Round 3 stimulus payments this weekend. The $1,400 per person economic impact payments were part of the $1.9T COVID relief package President Biden signed into law.

Forbes

54M Americans without access to healthy food

Even in the richest parts of urban America there are pockets of deep food insecurity, and more often than not it is Black and Latino communities that are hit hardest.

Fast Company

Photo of the Day

Brazil’s government has initiated its COVID vaccination campaign. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has discovered that Pfizer employed “high-level bullying” against Brazil and Argentina during negotiations to acquire vaccines, including requesting the nations put sovereign assets as collateral for payments. (Photo by Governo do Estado de São Paulo) Photo used under CC BY

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