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A Niger nurse returning from her shift screening patients at the front gate. As COVID continues to rattle India, India has decided to greatly reduce the number of vaccines exported to the rest of the world. This greatly impacts South East Asian and African countries that have been subject to slow vaccine relief. (Photo by Anna.psiaki) Photo used under CC BY

India trims vaccine exports, leaving poor states casting

India is unlikely to resume major exports of COVID vaccines until at least October as it diverts shots for domestic use worsening supply shortages from the global COVAX initiative. The move has left South East Asian and African countries scrambling for alternate supplies.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

G7 urged to donate ‘emergency’ supplies to vaccine-sharing scheme

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Leaders hold talks to revive African economies

More than 20 heads of state and government from Africa held talks in Paris with the heads of international organizations this week on how to revive the continent’s economy, which the COVID pandemic has impacted deeply.

Associated Press

New fossil fuel projects prevent net zero by 2050

Development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year and no new coal-fired power stations can be built if the world is to stay within safe limits of global heating and meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, the world’s leading energy organization has said.

Guardian

England embarks on ‘net zero’ equivalent for nature

BBC

15K people flee coup-hit Myanmar for India

The number of people from Myanmar seeking shelter in India has swelled to more than 15,000, with more likely to cross over as fighting intensifies in parts Myanmar following a coup, an Indian government official said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Report says Myanmar internet a ‘virtual battlefield’

Associated Press

US adds new sanctions against Myanmar junta

CNN

Palestinians hit streets to protest violence

Israeli warplanes continued to pound Gaza this week and rocket fire into Israel resumed after a brief lull, as Palestinian protesters hit the streets in cities across the West Bank and elsewhere.

CNN

In show of unity, Palestinians go on strike

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

People face ‘horrific’ situation in Tigray

Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region is facing a horrifying situation with people dying of hunger, health services destroyed and rape “rampant”, according to the World Health Organization chief, who is from the region.

Al Jazeera

Social media blackout in Ethiopia has been lifted

Reuters

Brazilians protest racism, police violence

Protesters in Rio de Janeiro held candles and signs reading “Don’t kill me, kill racism”, a week after a police raid in a slum left dozens dead. Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police in Brazil, experts say.

BBC

Underage marriages increase in Lebanon

Child protection campaigners say closed schools and rising poverty during the pandemic, along with the lack of a legal minimum age, are pushing more girls under 18 into marriage.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Destruction of Al Jazeera’s Gaza offices decried

Al Jazeera condemns in the strongest terms the bombing and destruction of its offices by the Israeli military in Gaza and views this as a clear act to stop journalists from conducting their sacred duty to inform the world and report events on the ground.

Al Jazeera

Israel-Gaza conflict intensifies

Deutsche Welle

What you need to know about Hamas

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar town that resisted coup is attacked

The U.S. and British embassies in Myanmar expressed concern about reports of fierce government attacks on a town in western Chin state, where the ruling junta declared martial law because of armed resistance to military rule.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russia’s facial recognition tech causes fear

Data activists in Russia are concerned about the increasingly widespread usage of facial-recognition technology in Moscow’s retail outlets. Proponents say it makes things more efficient for consumers, saving them time.

Deutsche Welle

New species of dinosaur found in Mexico

A team of paleontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilized remains almost a decade ago.

Reuters

Study finds alcohol is harmful to the brain

There is no safe amount of alcohol consumption for the brain, with even “moderate” drinking adversely affecting nearly every part of it, a still to be peer-reviewed study in the UK has found.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

UK aid cuts affect thousands of children

Save the Children said the British government will spend less than around $37 million this year on vital nutrition services in developing countries. The charity said the cuts will leave tens of thousands of children at risk of famine.

Guardian

Thailand virus cases soar with prison clusters

Thailand reported a new daily high of nearly 10,000 COVID cases this week, more than two-thirds of them in prisons, as the kingdom battles its third wave of the pandemic.

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Indigenous skateboarders defy gender roles

In Cochabamba, young women go skateboarding in their traditional indigenous clothes. They’re breaking with traditional gender roles, while affirming their people’s identity - and having fun at the same time.

Deutsche Welle

6-year-old boy with leukemia granted wish

A 6-year-old boy who is battling cancer was recently given the chance to live out his dream — and he’s now the youngest UPS driver in the world!

People

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Actress focuses on racial bias in schools

Actress Taraji P. Henson is on a mission to combat racial bias in the classroom — and the mental distress it causes Black children.

People

Program offers paid internships to students

The City of Houston and rapper 50 Cent announced they are partnering with Houston Independent School District to launch the inaugural G-Star program at three local high schools in the area.

ABC 13 News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Thousands of Cambodians going hungry

Tens of thousands of Cambodians are going hungry under the country’s strict lockdown as Covid cases continue to rise amid criticism from human rights groups that the government and the UN are being too slow to act.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Volcano erupts in Iceland after 6,000 years

Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still. That’s perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6,000 years, give or take a year or two.

Associated Press

Jaguars may be reintroduced in Southwest US

Scientists and other environmentalists make the case for bringing back the third-largest big cat, after tigers and lions, in Arizona and New Mexico in a paper published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice.

Guardian

Powerful cyclone hits land in India amid surge

A powerful cyclone that emerged in the Arabian Sea made landfall on India’s western coast, hours after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID vaccinations in one state.

ABC News

Photo of the Day

A line of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala waiting for breakfast in Ciudad Deportiva Magdalena Mixhuca temporary camp in Mexico City. Due to Title 42, a measure implemented under former President Donald Trump, thousands of migrants are being returned to Reynosa, Mexico by the U.S. in a matter of hours of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Reynosa is one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico, and migrants are returned there with no money, becoming easy prey for human traffickers. (Photo by ProtoplasmaKid) Photo used under CC BY

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