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Myanmar pro-democracy activists hit the streets with flowers to celebrate detained president Aung San Suu Kyi’s 76th birthday. Myanmar’s health system has been in shambles since the military coup in February. But citizens of Myanmar continue to risk their health amid rising COVID cases in order to recover democracy. (Photo by Brian Kelley) Photo used under CC BY

COVID pushes Myanmar on the brink of decimation

Myanmar’s population will be decimated by at least 10 million to 15 million by the time COVID is done with Myanmar, predicts a reputable public health specialist. Half of Myanmar’s 55 million people have been predicted to be infected by COVID within the next three weeks.

Asia Times Online

COVID response runs underground in Myanmar

Reuters

Activists among 50K targets of Israeli spyware

An investigation by an international consortium of journalists published this week revealed that activists, journalists, and politicians from around the world were targeted by a military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group.

Deutsche Welle

Space tourism could be giant leap for pollution

Companies want to make space tourism more common. But this launch of a new private space industry that is cultivating tourism and popular use could come with vast environmental costs, says Eloise Marais, an associate professor of physical geography.

Guardian

Commercial space cowboys reach for the stars

Deutsche Welle

Astronauts are spicing up the International Space Station

CBS News

Eid kept by ‘happy few’ amid Lebanon crisis

Celebrating Eid al-Adha has become an afterthought for many Muslims in Lebanon. Lebanon’s economic crisis, political instability and shortages of basic necessities means Eid has become a luxury only a few can afford.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon: Can youth bring about radical reform?

Al Jazeera

Trial resumes for S. Africa’s jailed ex-president

The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma resumed this week, more than a week after his imprisonment for contempt of court in a separate case set off rioting in parts of the country.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tigray forces enter neighboring Afar region

Forces from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have mounted attacks in neighboring Afar region, a spokesman for Afar said, marking an expansion of an eight-month-old conflict into a previously untouched area.

Reuters

Hong Kong press crushed by new security laws

Hong Kong’s press freedoms are “in tatters” as China remolds the once outspoken business hub in its own authoritarian image, the city’s main journalist union said this week, adding it feared “fake news” laws were on their way.

Asia Times Online

Egyptians call on use of new harassment laws

Egyptian women’s rights activists called this week for laws protecting women to be better enforced after the introduction of stronger penalties for sexual harassment offences.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Interim Haitian PM Claude Joseph steps down

Haiti’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph, whose leadership of the nation has been disputed since the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, told the Washington Post newspaper he will cede power.

Al Jazeera

Columbian ex-soldiers in on Haiti murder plot

Colombia’s President Iván Duque says some of the Colombian suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse had “detailed knowledge” of the plan to kill the leader.

BBC

Incoming Lebanon PM resigns amid crisis

Citing key differences with the country’s president, Lebanon Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down after failing to form a government for over the past eight months.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Teenager to fly into space with Jeff Bezos

An 18-year-old is to become the youngest person to fly to space when he joins Jeff Bezos on the first human flight by his space company.

BBC

App blocks 2M Indian users over ‘spam abuses’

WhatsApp has blocked more than 2 million users in India in just a month for violating its rules, the United States-based company has disclosed in its first compliance report under India’s controversial new social media rules.

Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

Bangladesh lifts lockdown, to experts’ dismay

The suspension has been panned by health experts who warn it could exacerbate an ongoing surge fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, which was first detected in neighboring India.

Associated Press

Cuba has highest COVID rate in Latin America

Cuba, which kept coronavirus infections low last year, now has the highest rate of contagion per capita in Latin America. That has strained its healthcare sector and helped stoke rare protests that have roiled the Communist-run island.

NBCNews.com

Nepal sees huge rise in maternal deaths

Since the start of the pandemic, maternal deaths have soared. According to the department of health, 258 women died as a result of pregnancy or childbirth between March 2020 and June 2021.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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South Africa’s deadly unrest, looting reveals state failures

Deutsche Welle

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It’s time to reform India’s environmental education

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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What is really behind the crisis in Haiti?

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Parents find abducted son 24 years later

After 24 years of heartache and searching, a Chinese couple were reunited with their son who was abducted as a toddler outside their front gate.

NPR

Boy makes friends with hospital staff using Post-it notes

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation sets up social impact pitch contest

The Richard King Mellon Foundation in Pittsburgh has announced a $1 million “pitch competition” for for-profit companies — to be judged on the basis of potential social impact.

Philanthropy News Digest

Harassed fundraisers rarely report behavior

34 percent of fundraising professionals said that they experienced discrimination or bias from their co-workers and that during the past year, 25 percent said that they were harassed or were the victim of micro-aggressions.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Poverty, income inequality have spiked in Haiti

The very modest gains in poverty reduction in Haiti, according to the World Bank, has gone into reverse, with 60% of the country living in poverty and the richest 20% of the population holding more than 64% of its income.

Guardian

Poorest nations deprived of health workers

The loss of frontline health workers dying of COVID around the globe is being compounded in the hospitals of developing nations by trained medical staff leaving to help in the pandemic effort abroad, according to experts.

Guardian

Art can help girls in Nepal get an education

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Global calls for ‘global green deal’

People around the world need a “global green deal” that would tackle the climate crisis and restore the natural world as we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of politicians from around the world said.

Guardian

Death toll from floods in W. Europe nears 200

Extreme weather has brought wrenching scenes of devastation in western Europe. The scale of the deadly flooding that hit huge swathes of Germany and Belgium was still becoming clear.

CBS News

Greenland stops oil exploration to save climate

The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it is “a natural step” because the Arctic government “takes the climate crisis seriously.”

Associated Press

Burkina Faso invests in renewable energy

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A nomadic Somali woman builds her house. These nomadic homes are precisely designed so that families can dismantle the structure, pack it onto the backs of their camels, and reconstruct it at a new location. (Photo by Mouseawale88) Photo used under CC BY

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