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Uyghur children playing in Kashgar, China. China’s recent policy shift allows for married couples to have three children, up from two, but birth rates for Uyghurs and other ethic minorities in China have been tightly controlled over the last few years resulting in huge birth rate drop offs. (Photo by Sherpas 428) Photo used under CC BY

China policies could slash Uyghur births by millions

Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s projected minority population, according to a new analysis by a German researcher.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

China leans on Pakistan to round up Uyghurs

Muslim Uyghur families are fleeing China’s Xinjiang western province to avoid official persecution and taking refuge in neighboring Pakistan, a gathering exodus that is putting bilateral relations under new strain.

Asia Times Online

Rohingya refugees feel trapped, fear monsoons

Rohingya refugees moved to a Bangladesh island fear they will be exposed to terrible conditions during the upcoming monsoon season, and are struggling with “inadequate” health and education facilities.

Al Jazeera

Climate neglect to crush G7 countries’ economies

The economies of rich countries will shrink by twice as much as they did in the COVID crisis if they fail to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions, according to research, resulting in G7 countries losing $5T a year by 2050 if temperatures rise by 2.6C.

Guardian

Climate risks threaten more conflict

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Wealthy nations breaking climate pledge with gas dash in global south

Guardian

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to go on trial next week

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go on trial next week with the Nobel laureate facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting COVID restrictions during elections last year.

Asia Times Online

Mali junta leader sworn in as interim president

Colonel Assimi Goita has become the new interim president of Mali. The young army officer has instigated two military power grabs in the impoverished country, provoking international concern.

Deutsche Welle

Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and in the country’s north, the U.N. humanitarian chief said, warning there’s a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die.

Associated Press

Children suffer as fighting in Ethiopia drags on

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ugandan court frees dozens of gay men on bail

A court in Uganda granted bail to 39 people, most of them gay men, jailed after what police said was a raid on a same-sex wedding that violated COVID rules, but which a rights group described as a round-up at an LGBTQ+ shelter.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indian high court calls for sweeping reforms to respect LGBTQ rights

CNN

Activists gather to defy Hong Kong vigil ban

Hundreds of people gathered near a Hong Kong park this week despite a ban on an annual candlelight vigil to remember China’s deadly crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

Associated Press

Journalists who fled Myanmar find refuge

Three journalists from military-ruled Myanmar who were convicted of illegal entry after they fled to Thailand have been sent to a third country where they are safe

The Independent

Myanmar: The mysterious deaths of the NLD party officials

BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Syria likely used chemical weapons 17 times

The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog has investigated 77 allegations against Syria and has concluded that in 17 cases, chemical weapons were likely or definitely used.

Associated Press

Violence eclipses upcoming elections in Mexico

With campaigning finished as Mexico’s midterm elections approach, many hope the bloodshed is over in what experts have described as one of the bloodiest election seasons in recent history.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why astronauts are printing organs in space

With a global shortage of organs suitable for transplant into critically ill patients, some researchers are looking at 3D printing of living tissue as a solution – but to do it they might need to go into orbit.

BBC

Nigeria blocks Twitter on tenuous grounds

Nigeria said that it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

China reports first human case of rare bird flu

China reported the world’s first human infection of the H10N3 bird flu strain this week but said the risk of it spreading widely among people was low.

CBS News

Japan gives more than 1M vaccines to Taiwan

Tokyo is donating more than 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccines to Taiwan, Japan’s foreign minister announced this week, as Taipei struggles to secure jabs, accusing China of interference.

Asia Times Online

Denmark trial uses virtual reality game to boost COVID vaccinations

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo):

If we can vaccinate the world, we can beat the climate crisis

Guardian

Column (Adnan Abu Amer):

How the Gaza war affected Palestinian politics

Al Jazeera

Column (Jieyu Liu):

China’s three-child policy unlikely welcomed by working women

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

FDA approves new Alzheimer’s drug

The FDA has approved a new Alzheimer‘s drug, for the first time since 2003, notwithstanding warnings that the treatment hasn’t been shown to help slow the progression of the disease.

NBCNews.com

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Google pledges $4M for LGBTQ+ recovery

Google has announced commitments totaling $4 million in support of building an inclusive and equitable COVID-19 recovery for the LGBTQ+ community.

Philanthropy News Digest

Governors offer incentive to return to work

As some states end their participation in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits, others are offering extra cash incentives to get people back to work.

Good Morning America

Teen gets college scholarship, donates savings to help other students in need

Good Morning America

Rhode Island sends 200K COVID tests to India

Care New England’s COVID-19 Crisis Relief Effort and the Rhode Island Department of Health have sent 200K COVID tests to India, along with protective equipment, ventilators, medications and other medical supplies.

Associated Press

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Cost of food rises at fastest pace in over 10 yrs

Global food prices have jumped at their fastest monthly rate in over a decade, according to the United Nations.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Deforestation, less rain hits Brazilian farmers

Forest losses in the southern Amazon are driving up to $1 billion in lost farm income a year - a warning for broader areas as deforestation surges, researchers say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought

Sea ice across much of the Arctic is thinning twice as fast as previously thought, researchers have found. Less ice means more global heating, a vicious cycle that also leaves the region open to new oil extraction

Guardian

UN: World’s soils ‘under great pressure’

The world’s soils, which provide 95% of humanity’s food, are “under great pressure,” according to a UN report on soil pollution.

Guardian

Climate activists sue Italy over failure to act

Environment campaigners in Italy are suing the government for failing to sufficiently tackle the climate crisis in what is the first legal action of its kind in the country.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

A bride and her maid of honor in the Mukono district of Uganda take a moment to pause for a photo without their masks while observing social distancing. More restrictions are to be reinforced in Uganda to curb the spread of a second wave of amid a sharp rise in cases. (Photo by Esther Banyenzaki Kalanzi) Photo used under CC BY

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