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The COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis and conflict are combining to drive ‘alarming’ levels of global hunger, the United Nations have warned. Most of the hotspots identified by the UN are in Africa, but some are in other regions, from Afghanistan in Asia, Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East and Haiti in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Photo by trokilinochchi) Photo used under CC BY

Over 30M people worldwide on brink of starvation, death

Acute hunger is likely to soar in more than 20 countries across the globe in the next few months, the UN has warned. An estimated 34 million people are struggling with emergency levels of acute hunger, meaning they are ‘one step away from starvation’.

Guardian

Mexico ramps up vaccinations as deaths rise

Mexico has surpassed 200,000 test-confirmed deaths from COVID-19, as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called vaccination efforts a race against time.

Al Jazeera

Serbia starts COVID-19 vaccinations at migrant camps

U.S. News & World Report

Half billion vaccine jabs given around the world

Free Malaysia Today

Ethiopian forces linked to atrocities in Tigray

The medical nonprofit, Doctors Without Borders, has revealed details from the gruesome war playing out virtually out of sight in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, reporting that government forces have executed and sexually assaulted civilians.

CBS News

Rape being used as weapon of war in Ethiopia

CNN

Eritrea agrees to withdraw troops from Tigray

Associated Press

COVID traps Congolese girls into sex work

A rising number of girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo have turned to sex trade as COVID deepens economic desperations for a large portion of the population that live in extreme poverty.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

US gives Palestinians $15M to fight COVID-19

The United States said on Thursday it is giving $15m to vulnerable Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Al Jazeera

China boycotts retailers over Xinjiang criticism

H&M, Nike and other big Western apparel brands are facing a boycott in China because of the stand they‘ve taken against the alleged use of forced labor to produce cotton in the country’s western region of Xinjiang.

MSN

HUMAN RIGHTS

New Zealand backs paid miscarriage leave

New Zealand’s Parliament has approved legislation that will provide three days of paid leave after a miscarriage or stillbirth, without needing to use sick leave.

NPR

Indigenous tribe under threat in Brazil

It is more than 50 years since Claudia Andujar began photographing the Yanomami, the people of the Amazon rainforest near Brazil’s border with Venezuela.

Guardian

Kenya demands UN close 2 refugee camps

Interior Minister Fred Matiang‘i told Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper the United Nations Refugee Agency had 14 days to present a plan to repatriate hundreds of thousands of people within four months.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar junta frees anti-coup protesters

Hundreds of people imprisoned for demonstrating against last month’s coup in Myanmar were released, a rare conciliatory gesture by the military that appeared aimed at placating the protest movement.

ABC News

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Libya demands foreign mercenaries pull out

Libya’s new unity government has demanded the “immediate” withdrawal of all foreign mercenaries ahead of year-end elections in a call backed by the visiting top diplomats of France, Germany and Italy.

Al Jazeera

Bangladesh marks 50 years of independence

The fight for independence can be traced back Britain’s colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent and the new nations that were carved out after its end in 1947.

Associated Press

Netanyahu appears to fall short of victory

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects for victory in Israel’s latest election appeared to move out of reach, as the nearly-complete vote count showed him and his right-wing allies falling short of a parliamentary majority.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

AI used to train crisis counselors for teens

The Trevor Project, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing suicides among LGBTQ youth, has turned to artificial language generators to create a hotline worker training simulator to mimic the experience of teens in crisis.

ADWEEK

5k year old cemetery discovered in Poland

A gigantic, 5,000-year-old complex of long barrows and stone-lined tombs has been unearthed in Poland, after archaeologists investigated lines in crops in a field that they’d seen in a satellite photograph.

LiveScience

Startup’s device captures carbon from trucks

A Detroit-based startup called Remora has designed a device that can capture carbon emissions directly from the tailpipes of trucks. The technology is the first to focus on mobile carbon capture.

Fast Company

GLOBAL HEALTH

Half of Israel fully vaccinated as Palestine lags

While half of Israelis have received a second vaccine dose, the vaccine rollout in occupied Palestinian areas is much slower.

Al Jazeera

‘Double mutant’ COVID variant found in India

A new “double mutant” variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India. Officials are checking if the variant may be more infectious or less affected by vaccines.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Octopus research yields new insight on sleep

A study published in Brazil this week shows that the octopus, already considered perhaps the smartest invertebrate, experiences two major alternating sleep states eerily similar to those in humans - and it even might dream.

Reuters

Handyman becomes a hero with kidney donation

CBS News

Teenage refugee makes big impact in community

Today

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Filmmaker donates $1M to justice nonprofits

Steven Spielberg said that he will donate his $1 million Genesis Prize to 10 nonprofits that are working for racial and economic justice. The film director and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, will match those donations with $1 million of their own.

ABC News

Household charity decisions drop 11.4%

Almost 62% of giving decisions by households are made together. This percentage shows sharp decline from 73.4% in 2005. With household gender roles shifting and evolving, non-profits need to rethink their engagement.

NonProfit Times

Oakland launches guaranteed pay plan

The mayor of Oakland, California has announced a privately funded program to give low-income families of color $500 a month with no rules on how to spend it

The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change fuels deadly heat in S. Asia

Deadly heatwaves in South Asia are likely to become more common in the future, with the region‘s exposure to lethal heat stress potentially nearly tripling if global warming isn’t curbed, researchers said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous the best guardians of forests

The embattled indigenous peoples of Latin America are by far the best guardians of the regions’ forests, according to a UN report, with deforestation rates up to 50% lower in their territories than elsewhere.

Guardian

African elephant recognized as two species

Poaching and the “silent killer” of human-driven habitat loss have caused sharp declines, with forest elephant numbers falling by 86% in the past 31 years and savanna elephants by 60% in the past half-century.

Guardian

Elephants driven to the brink by poaching

The ivory trade, loss of vital habitat and a deeper understanding of elephant biology have all combined to reveal a previously underestimated threat to Africa’s elephants.

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Thousands of Venezuelans flee to Colombia

Tensions on the border between Colombia and Venezuela continued to escalate, amid military operations that sent thousands of Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia from their homes located along the border.

Al Jazeera

‘My brother died fighting for Senegal’s youth’

BBC

Countries press China over vessels at sea

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed concern to China’s ambassador about Chinese vessels massing in the South China Sea, his spokesman said, as Vietnam urged Beijing to respect its maritime sovereignty.

Yahoo! News

US COVID response mismanaged

The United States squandered both money and lives in its response to the COVID pandemic, and it could have avoided nearly 400K deaths, research papers at a Brookings Institution conference concluded this week.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Women visit at a cafe in Istanbul. Turkey has pulled out of a landmark European treaty aimed at protecting women from violence, despite rising domestic abuse and the country’s high femicide rate, with some 77 women killed in the first 78 days of 2021. (Photo by Chris Schuepp) Photo used under CC BY

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