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School children in Manila, Philippines have been out of school for many months to curb the spread of COVID. The country has utilized various methods to continue education for children including lessons via radio and television, but the effects of lockdown like anxiety and depression remain. Pre-COVID, students are shown lined up to welcome the World Bank Group President. (Photo by World Bank Photo Collection) Photo used under CC BY

Homebound, kids in Manila face risks beyond COVID

Last year the Philippines enforced one of the world’s longest lockdowns in its capital region, Metro Manila, to stave off COVID-19. Now, depression and sexual abuse are among the challenges young Filipinos face as record-breaking COVID cases force another lockdown.

Al Jazeera

Philippines experience third generation COVID variant

Forbes

Taliban warns US to honor troop withdrawal

The Taliban warned the U.S. against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a “reaction," which could mean increased attacks by the insurgent group.

ABC News

Malnutrition, mass floods stalk S. Sudan’s villages

Two years of torrential rains have left 1.6 million people in South Sudan’s Jonglei province without crops and with their homes flooded. But, with extraordinary resilience, people in Old Fangak are working together to rebuild their lives.

Guardian

UN: South Sudan political, military leaders to blame for inter-communal violence

Voice of America

World Bank funds vaccines for poor nations

The World Bank has announced financing for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19. The countries are among Asia’s poorest nations by gross domestic product per capita.

Al Jazeera

US to ‘loan’ vaccines to Canada and Mexico

Al Jazeera

Cubans take to sea to escape economic crisis

While so far the numbers of Cuban migrants taking to the seas are far less than the rafters crisis of the 1990’s, when thousands of people attempted the dangerous crossing by boat, the increase is raising alarms.

CNN

Camera captures moment boat carrying Cuban migrants flips over

CNN

Lebanese businesses to strike economic crisis

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Growth of homelessness in 2020 ‘devastating’

America’s homeless population grew last year for the fourth year in a row. On a single night in January 2020, there were more than 580,000 homeless individuals in the U.S.

NPR

Terrorist activity surges in DR Congo in 2021

More than 200 people have been killed and an estimated 40,000 displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January in attacks attributed to armed groups affiliated to ISIS, the United Nations has said.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Welsh schools to require Black history lessons

All pupils in Wales are to be taught about racism and the contributions of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, the devolved government has said.

Guardian

Spain passes law allowing euthanasia

Spain has passed a law to legalize euthanasia, becoming the fourth country in Europe to allow people to end their own life in some circumstances - an offense that before passage of the law, was punishable by a jail term of up to 10 years.

BBC

Dictionary project may unite Korean peninsula

South Korea hopes that a joint project to create a comprehensive record of the two Koreas’ shared language can help bridge the divide between the nations.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Climate-friendly jet fuel made from food waste

A group of U.S. based researchers looked into the prospect of converting food waste into jet fuel. Chemically, the results are excellent, economically, the situation is not nearly so great, but the possibility is real.

Wired

The last children on an aging South Korean island

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Fight against tuberculosis set back 12 years

Twelve months of COVID-19 has reversed 12 years of global progress against tuberculosis, worse than previously estimated according to research published by a coalition working to end TB.

Guardian

Overcrowded hospitals during COVID cost lives

Two recent studies from both the U.S and the UK shows that when ICUs fill up, COVID-19 patients’ chances of dying from the disease rise dramatically — despite improvements in treatment and care developed since last spring.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic

Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday.

Reuters

Meet Maleesha Kharwa: The ‘slum princess’ of India

Deutsche Welle

Finland remains world’s happiest country

Finland has once again defended its coveted title as the world’s happiest country. It marks the fourth year in a row the Nordic nation has claimed the top spot, even amid a pandemic that has shaken the world.

CBS News

Climbing Europe’s tallest chimney

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits feed thousands of touring staff

Food insecurity nonprofits new and old are shifting focus to feeding and employing out-of-work tour crew members.

Billboard

Nonprofit helps veterans, kids with autism

Jan Lopez, funder and president of B.E.S.T Service Dogs has taken her passion of puppies and turned it into a service for children on the autism spectrum and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

KCRA 3

Boy helps save pups from dog meat trade

8-year-old Rhys Stevens from England, created a fundraiser to benefit canines rescued from the dog meat trade. Rhys was inspired to start the effort after watching a documentary about the dog meat trade.

People

ENVIRONMENT

Mice ravage rural communities in Australia

Rural communities in the Australian state of New South Wales are battling a “plague” of mice. Thousands of mice are invading grain silos, barns and homes and infesting the farmers’ bumper grain harvest.

Deutsche Welle

Polar seafloor exposed after years of ice cover

German scientists have inspected an area of seafloor newly exposed by the calving of mega-iceberg A74 and found it to be teeming with animals. Video cameras tracked abundant filter-feeders thriving among the soft muds.

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Why do women dominate child care sector?

Last year, data showed that during the first month of the UK-wide lockdown, “women were carrying out, on average, two-thirds more of the childcare duties per day than men” laying bare a “classic value and action gap.”

BBC

Naj Austin centers people of color through tech platforms focused on wellness and community

Well and Good

Photo of the Day

A woman lays flowers at a vigil for Sarah Everard in Sheffield, UK. Everard was kidnapped and murdered by a police officer igniting a global conversation on gender-based violence and women’s safety. (Photo by Tim Dennell) Photo used under CC BY

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