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Children in Sindh, Pakistan, play at a water pump in a village. Nearly 1,000 children die every day of illnesses linked to a lack of clean water, according to the UN. (Photo by DFID/Russell Watkins) Photo used under CC BY

One-third of globe lacks access to drinking water

It’s been more than a year since COVID was declared a pandemic. Many countries have begun to recover as vaccines become more readily available, but for much of the globe, one vital component to life remains inaccessible: Access to safe drinking water.

CBS News

Rallies in Atlanta, around US against hate

Hundreds of people of all ages and varied racial and ethnic backgrounds gathered in Atlanta and in similar rallies across the country, waving signs and chanting slogans to demand justice for the victims of recent shootings and to denounce racism, xenophobia and misogyny.

ABC News

Anti-Asian racism on the rise in Germany

Deutsche Welle

World-leading economies back COVID aid for poor

The world‘s seven largest advanced economies have agreed to support fresh aid to the world’s poorest nations hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The plan involves the first expansion of the International Monetary Fund’s reserves since 2009.

Deutsche Welle

Brazil exhausts COVID intensive care units

Brazil’s healthcare system has been plunged into the most severe crisis in its history, with doctors overwhelmed and COVID patients dying while they wait for intensive care beds.

Guardian

Brazil’s COVID-19 vaccine drive faces challenges in remote communities

Associated Press

Baby born with COVID antibodies offers hope

At 36 weeks pregnant, a South Florida frontline health care worker received her first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. She gave birth three weeks later to a healthy baby girl — with COVID-19 antibodies.

CBS News

Myanmar doctors kick off day of protests

Doctors and healthcare workers in Myanmar’s Mandalay kicked off another day of anti-coup demonstrations, staging a peaceful march at dawn in a bid to minimize the risk of confrontation with security forces.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hotel Rwanda’s hero now facing charges

A fierce critic of Rwanda’s powerful president, Paul Rusesabagina was lured back to Rwanda last year, where he was arrested and charged with financing terrorism, arson, armed robbery, abduction and murder.

NBCNews.com

Group gives alarms to Asian Americans

A New York City anti-hate group is distributing personal safety alarms to Asian Americans and immigrants to protect them from a recent surge of racially motivated violence.

CNN

Worsening violence in western Ethiopia

Members of local communities plan to relocate after attacks by armed militia targeting civilians of ethnic Amhara origin. Since February, women and children as young as seven have been brutally murdered in three attacks.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Philippines spots Chinese ships at disputed reef

The Philippines has expressed concern after spotting hundreds of Chinese military vessels at a reef claimed by both countries in the South China Sea, but did not immediately lodge a protest.

Al Jazeera

Saudi group launches raids on Yemen’s Houthi

The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck military targets belonging to the Iran-aligned movement in the capital, Sanaa. The raids come after the Houthis claimed responsibility for drone attacks on an oil refinery in the Saudi capital, Riyadh,

Al Jazeera

“Muslim ban” still affecting many families

When President Biden rescinded the ban on immigrant visas from many majority-Muslim countries on his very first day in office, those awaiting the change were elated. But many families remain stuck in the backlog.

NBCNews.com

Government attacks hospital in northwest Syria

Syrian government artillery fire killed five civilians, including a child, when it hit a hospital entrance in rebel-held northwest Syria, Turkey’s defence ministry and a war monitor said.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Going through trauma can change brain

Traumatic events can affect all aspects of your health, but it’s less well known that trauma can affect the brain. Traumatic events can leave scars in key areas of the brain, with long-term effects for its health and functioning.

Bustle

Apes may help explain human kindness

Researchers think bonobos, who share 98.7% of their DNA with humans, making them our closest living relatives, may help explain how humans evolved the capacity to be nice - at least some of the time.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

COVID technology used in fight against cancer

The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used COVID-19 vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge - cancer.

Associated Press

Striking pandemic warnings that were ignored

NPR

Tanzanian leader tasked with healing country

Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in Friday as the country‘s first female president, two days after the death of President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent COVID-19 skeptics, was announced.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Kidney donated to hockey rink manager

The mother of two NHL hockey players has donated her kidney to the ice rink manager who routinely went above and beyond the call of duty to ensure neighborhood kids could get in as many hours on the ice as possible.

Good News Network

Chefs cook dying customer her favorite dish

TODAY

Dad mics up his skiing toddler, captures her adorable pep talks

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Sarah Everard fundraiser raises over 730K

More than $730,000 raised in memory of Sarah Everard will go towards groups working “to change and save women’s and girls’ lives” under the remit of an established women’s charity, organizers have said.

MSN

Arizona nonprofits receive $2.1M in donations

Grants ranging from $7,500 to $45,000 are being distributed to 176 nonprofits that support teachers and students, aid older adults and help struggling families in Arizona.

MSN

Charity builds homes for Guatemalan widows

World Challenge, a Colorado-based nondenominational Christian organization helped to build 60 homes for impoverished widows in rural Guatemala.

Christian Post

Massachusetts gym owner offers free classes to kids

WCVB News

ENVIRONMENT

Fake news on social media harms climate fight

Fake news on social media about climate change and biodiversity loss is having a worrying impact in the battle to halt the growing environmental threats to the planet, a group of scientists and analysts have warned.

Guardian

6K - year - dormant Icelandic volcano erupts

After months of earthquakes, a long-dormant volcano in the southwest of Iceland erupted leading to dramatic videos and splendid red skies near the country’s capital city.

Vox

Deadly flash floods evacuates Australia

Dozens of people have been rescued from floodwaters, and residents in many low-lying communities of New South Wales have been ordered to leave their homes, with hundreds fleeing to evacuation centers in Sydney.

BBC

Shark nets in South Africa threaten sea life

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Black residents near Chicago get reparations

Evanston a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.

Reuters

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

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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