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A demonstrator in Amman, Jordan, raising the Palestinian flag earlier this week as the violence began to escalate between Palestine and Israel. The exchange of rockets and airstrikes between Hamas and Israel has been the most severe outbreak of violence since 2014. Forty-eight Palestinians and six Israelis have been killed and hundreds more have been wounded. (Photo by Raya Sharbain) Photo used under CC BY

Palestine-Israel escalation resembles 2014 Gaza war

Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes this week as the most severe outbreak of violence since a 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with dozens killed and no resolution in sight.

Associated Press

Global protests in solidarity with Palestinians

Al Jazeera

Palestinians mourn loved ones as Israel pounds Gaza

Al Jazeera

Cameroon persecuting LGBTQ, watchdog says

Cameroon security forces have arrested, threatened, or assaulted at least 24 people since February in a ramped-up crackdown on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Human Rights Watch said this week.

Reuters

Cities struggle to offset effects of climate change

One in four cities around the world lack the money to protect themselves against the ravages of climate breakdown, even though more than 90% are facing increasing risks of flooding, overheating, water shortages, and infrastructural damage.

Guardian

Pandemic derails Caribbean islands’ bid for greener, cheaper energy

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Global renewable energy industry grew at fastest rate since 1999 last year

Guardian

Variant studied as Indian COVID cases explode

A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily. But the country is behind in doing the kind of testing needed to track it and understand it better.

Associated Press

Slum turns the tide in Indian COVID fight

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Xinjiang birthrate dives amid Uyghur abuse

Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank.

Associated Press

Over 40% of expats may soon leave Hong Kong

Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Brazil police target indigenous leaders

Human rights activists in Brazil have warned that the country’s authorities are targeting indigenous leaders after police launched investigations into two prominent critics of the government of Jair Bolsonaro.

Guardian

Uyghur imams targeted in Xinjiang crackdown

China has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014 in its crackdown in the Xinjiang region, according to new research by a Uyghur rights group.

BBC

Race and white supremacy in US policing

In 2006, an FBI memo warned law enforcement and the military that they were the targets of an active campaign by white supremacists and extremists trying to infiltrate their ranks.

Rolling Stone

As violence rocks Israel, Arabs cite grievances

As rockets from Gaza streaked overhead, Arabs and Jews fought each other on the streets below and rioters torched vehicles, a restaurant and a synagogue in one of the worst spasms of communal violence Israel has seen in years.

Associated Press

Violence and mayhem offer Benjamin Netanyahu refuge

Guardian

EU citizens locked up after arriving in UK

European Union citizens are being sent to immigration removal centers and held in airport detention rooms as the UK government’s hostile environment falls on them after Brexit, according to campaigners and travellers.

MSN.com

Malta urged to stop criminalizing abortions

A Maltese lawmaker made history this week by calling for the decriminalization of abortion in the Mediterranean island, which has one of the world’s strictest bans.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Nepal aims to form new government amid crisis

Nepal has been thrown into political turmoil after the prime minister was forced to step down following public anger over his response to a deadly second wave of COVID-19.

CNN

Colombia protests enter 3rd wk with natl strike

Anti-government protests in Colombia entered their third week on Wednesday as unions, student groups and other organizations convened a national strike after fruitless talks with the government.

Reuters

Colombia’s pandemic response sparks deadly protests

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tech allows paralyzed man to form sentences

A man paralyzed from the neck down for almost a decade has used his mind to compose whole sentences in real-time through the use of tiny sensors implanted in his head.

CNN

Boosting transport in Zimbabwe with recycled batteries

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Uganda’s COVID-19 vaccine struggle

NBC followed a team bringing vaccine doses to remote regions of Uganda. This landlocked East African nation has only enough vaccines to protect just 1 percent of its population.

NBCNews.com

Nicaraguans work to expose COVID’S real toll

COVID-19 is ravaging Latin America, but one country, Nicaragua, insists it‘s tackling the pandemic better than any of its neighbors. Doctors and critics of the government say Nicaragua’s numbers are fake.

NPR

AIDS used to cure immune disorder in babies

An experimental gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, has successfully treated 48 out of 50 children who were born without an immune system due to a deadly disorder, a new study shows.

Al Jazeera

Corruption crushes Thailand COVID response

Thailand, commended for its exemplary COVID response last November, is now more of a cautionary tale of pandemic era risks of laxity, poor governance and even corruption as it experiences record spikes in daily cases.

Asia Times Online

Columns And Op-Ed

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European treaty against women‘s violence ’saves lives’

Deutsche Welle

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Alarming state of press freedom in Pakistan

Asia Times Online

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Digital apartheid: Palestinians being silenced on social media

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Uganda student brings her education home

A full scholarship launched Gloria Tumushabe’s engineering and computer science studies at a top U.S. school, but she says too many others in her native Uganda, 14,000 miles away, are left behind.

CBS News

10-year-old refugee becomes chess master

A 10-year-old refugee from Nigeria has just become the 28th youngest chess master in the United States.

A Plus

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

8-year-old boy’s mission to help the homeless

An 8-year-old boy in Virginia is going the extra mile to help the homeless.

CBS News

Affluent Americans shifted giving behavior

Americans’ generosity didn’t waver during the 2020 phrase of the COVID-19 pandemic but there were dramatic shifts in behavior.

NonProfit Times

Fundraising grew 5% in 2020, low retention

Total charitable giving increased 5.2 percent on a year-over-year basis in 2020, even as the typical nonprofit saw a drop in fundraising revenue.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Food workers in US cannot afford groceries

The pandemic caused terrible hardship for immigrant families, who were excluded from most government aid, including the stimulus checks and unemployment benefits.

Guardian

Philippines’ economy tanks as COVID rages

The Philippines is grappling with an intensifying double-crisis – as the country’s economic recession deepens, new COVID variants from India have entered the country and the number of daily infections is high.

Asia Times Online

100% of breast milk samples contaminated

Chemical companies have claimed in recent years that PFAS that are currently in use do not build up in humans, but the study found 16 compounds including several of the industry’s newer generation of chemicals.

CommonDreams.org

ENVIRONMENT

Indonesian women tackle climate problems

Forestry experts say reforestation initiatives have faced numerous challenges in Indonesia, such as weak seedlings and poor maintenance once the trees have been planted.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Asian cities hit most by environmental hazards

Of the 100 cities worldwide most vulnerable to environmental hazards all but one are in Asia, and 80% are in India or China, according to a risk assessment.

Guardian

Climate change and the growing risks of heat waves and power failures

CBS News

Spain approves ‘milestone’ clean energy bill

Spain is aiming to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest, but the nonprofit organization Greenpeace criticized that the law does not go far enough.

Al Jazeera

Brazil passes bill to ease deforestation permits

Brazil’s lower house of Congress has approved a bill contested by environmental groups that would loosen licensing requirements for infrastructure, mining and farming projects.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Portuguese youth sue Europe

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Environmental activists protesting the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Mexico City, Mexico. The destruction of the Amazon rainforest has proliferated under President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been under heavy scrutiny for ramping up deforestation after committing to curb deforestation. (Photo by Cleo Grimaldi) Photo used under CC BY

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