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A young man in a drought-stricken field in Ethiopia in 2008. Many of the world’s most important food-growing areas will see temperatures increase and rainfall patterns alter drastically if temperatures rise by about 3.7C, the forecast increase if emissions stay high. (Photo by Kimberly Flowers/USAID) Photo used under CC BY

Climate crisis imperils global food production

A third of global food production will be at risk by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at their current rate, new research suggests.

Guardian

Hunger crisis grows for displaced Chadians

The number of people having to leave their homes in the Lake Chad region of central Africa has more than doubled over the past year, with aid agencies warning that they are struggling to feed people.

Guardian

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Southern Madagascar at risk of famine amid worst drought in 40 years

Climate Home News

Protesters around world stand with Palestinians

Protesters around the world stood in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend, demanding an end to deadly Israel airstrikes. “This is not just a Palestinian issue,” said a student protest organizer in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. “This is a humanitarian thing."

USA TODAY

Israel pounds Hamas tunnels as conflict enters second week

CNN

Experienced Gaza doctors killed in Israeli attacks

Al Jazeera

No fraud in Myanmar elections, observers say

The independent election observers from the Asian Network for Free Elections have rejected claims of voter fraud in Myanmar’s 2020 election. The military has justified its coup by alleging massive fraud, without any evidence.

BBC

Pope urges peace, unity during Myanmar Mass

Associated Press

Environmental disaster is brewing in Ukraine

Across Ukraine’s war-torn Donbas region, neglected and abandoned mines are filling with toxic groundwater, contaminating the drinking water, while other toxins threaten to cause earthquakes and explosions.

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rape used as weapon of war in Ethiopia

Ethiopian nun speaks of widespread horror she and colleagues are seeing on a daily basis inside the heavily isolated region of Tigray.

Guardian

DR Congo sentences 30 people to death

Thirty people were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a one-day trial for their role in anti-police violence marking the end of Ramadan in the capital.

Al Jazeera

Afghans who helped US fear being left behind

Interpreters and other civilians who worked for the U.S. government or NATO can get what is known as a special immigrant visa, or SIV, under a program created in 2009 and modeled after a similar program for Iraqis.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Italian workers refuse to assist Israeli army

An Italian port workers’ union has refused to load an arms shipment destined for Israel, stating that they would “not be an accomplice in the massacre of the Palestinian people.”

The Independent

Violence escalates after clashes in Jerusalem

CNN

Independents are gearing up for victory in Chile

With more than 90% of ballots counted, projections show that Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s coalition, Chile Vamos, has secured just 21% of the votes, according to the electoral authority Servel.

Deutsche Welle

Mali strike paralyzes banks, government offices

UNTM official Ousmane Traore told AFP that workers in banks, the treasury and the departments of customs and taxes were mostly following the strike.

MSN.com

Modi under fire over India’s Covid second wave

Outside Mankian village in Haryana, a village that previously voted for the BJP, anti-Modi sentiment is now so high that a sign was recently erected prohibiting any BJP politicians from entering the village.

Guardian

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

Indonesia at risk of COVID ‘timebomb’ after Eid

Each year millions of Indonesians fan out across the sprawling archipelago after Ramadan to celebrate Eid al-Fitr and visit extended families, in a tradition known as “mudik”.

Reuters

COVID crisis reaches India’s neighbor Nepal

As COVID-19 ravages India, there’s a new fear that neighboring Nepal is starting to suffer a similar fate. Cases have been exploding in the country over the last few weeks.

NBCNews.com

Growing power outages pose grave threat to people who need medical equipment to live

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Azeezah Kanji and David Palumbo-Liu):

The faux anti-imperialism of denying anti-Uyghur atrocities

Al Jazeera

Column (Jonathan Freedland):

Once this violence in Israel and Gaza ends, there can be no return to ‘normal’

Guardian

Column (Nitasha Kaul):

India’s COVID catastrophe rooted in Modi’s vanity

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

111-year-old advocates eating chicken brains

Australia’s oldest-ever man, retired cattle rancher Dexter Kruger, has included eating chicken brains among his secrets to living more than 111 years.

Associated Press

‘Luckiest man alive’ survives car crash

An Alabama teacher that has had many brushes with disaster had yet another almost-miss, when his car was crushed by an oak tree during a storm, while he was driving it.

USA TODAY

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Indian law stops NGOS giving out COVID aid

Legislation brought in by the Indian government prevents nonprofit organizations from supplying oxygen concentrators to those who desperately need them.

BBC

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

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Homeless in India unable to get vaccinated

As millions of Indians pick up their smartphones to sign up for the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program, one group of people is conspicuously left out.

VICE

UN confirms military blocking aid in Tigray

The United Nations has confirmed that military forces are impeding humanitarian access to parts of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Senegal architects ditch concrete for earth

Earth naturally regulates heat and humidity, say the founders of Worofila, an architecture firm specializing in bioclimatic design.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sierra Leone sells rainforest to China

A $55m deal struck by the government of Sierra Leone with China to build an industrial fishing harbor on 250 acres of beach and protected rainforest has been criticized as “a catastrophic human and ecological disaster."

Guardian

The ghost town created by coal

Around a sharp bend in the road, and emerging over the crest of the snowy hill is the General James M Gavin Power Plant. It suddenly appears on the horizon, thick clouds emerging from its smokestacks.

BBC

Explosives in the Baltic Sea

1.6 million tons of munitions from both world wars are in the Baltic Sea off Germany’s coast. Some never exploded and others were dumped into the sea after the war ended.

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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