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Thai police use water cannons to drive off protesters in October 2020. Police are now using rubber bullets in an effort to stop protests. (Photo by Prachatai) Photo used under CC BY

Defiant Thai demonstrators are facing rubber bullets

Thai police used rubber bullets against protesters rallying against the government and its handling of the COVID crisis. Demonstrators in Bangkok defied a ban on public gatherings as Thailand tries to curb its worst virus outbreak so far – more than 21,000 cases in a day.

Asia Times Online

Tunisian activists say they will keep up pressure on president

Reuters

China quietly scraps birth control penalties

China has quietly scrapped most, if not all, its draconian birth control penalties as authorities reverse policy recourse to tackle a looming demographic crisis. The changes follow the earlier easing of family planning restrictions.

Asia Times Online

Poor, vulnerable Asians fear bleak climate future

At-risk communities in disaster-prone Asia are warning that they have “no hope” of coping with more climate catastrophes and some even fear “extinction,” after the UN said global warming was close to being out of control.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

11-year-old starts environmental cleanup nonprofit

CBS Tampa

Once-in-50-year heat waves will happen every decade

Thomson Reuters Foundation

10K migrants overwhelm dry Colombian town

Necoclí, a town of 20,000 people better known for its beaches and seafood cocktails, is struggling to accommodate around 10,000 new arrivals, amid chronic water shortages.

Guardian

Major climate changes inevitable, irreversible

Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible,” climate scientists have warned, bringing widespread extreme weather.

Guardian

Thousands flee in Greece as wildfires strike

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hungary hides sales of LGBTQ-themed books

Hungary ordered shops this week to sell children’s books seen as promoting homosexuality in “closed wrapping.”

Reuters

Children fleeing violence spikes in Mozambique

Growing numbers of children have been forced to flee fighting in Mozambique, according to a report released this week. The report shows a 40% increase in the number of unaccompanied children arriving at refugee camps.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Zambians to vote in polls as economy struggles

Zambians will decide this week whether to re-elect President Edgar Lungu after the country’s worst economic performance in decades.

Al Jazeera

Young voters may hold the cards in Zambia election

BBC

Brazil’s Congress rejects voting changes

Members of Brazil’s lower house of Congress have voted down a plan by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to alter the country’s voting system despite an unusual display of military hardware by the armed forces.

Al Jazeera

China bans karaoke songs for ‘national security’

China will ban karaoke songs perceived to “endanger national security,” as state controls attempt to muzzle the mics of karaoke bars.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Women ‘violated’ in Pegasus phone hack

Dozens of women across India, the Middle East and North Africa who were likely targeted for surveillance by governments using Pegasus spyware are now at a heightened risk of being blackmailed or harassed, tech experts and victims say.

Al Jazeera

AI tool could be used to diagnose dementia

Artificial intelligence may be able to diagnose dementia from a single brain scan. Researchers are starting a trial to test the approach.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Guinea confirms first case of Marburg virus

Guinea confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease, the World Health Organization has said, the first recorded in West Africa of the virus that is related to Ebola and, like COVID-19, passed from animal hosts to humans.

Al Jazeera

Slow vaccinations in Iran fuel anger

Iranians are suffering through yet another surge in the COVID pandemic and anger is growing at images of vaccinated Westerners without face masks on the internet or on TV while they remain unable to get the shots.

Associated Press

Indonesia is now Asia’s pandemic hot spot

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Sarah Haacke Byrd):

Women in charity can create a more equitable world

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Dnyanesh Kamat):

Water scarcity biggest threat to stability in Middle East

Asia Times Online

Column (Haythem Guesmi):

Tunisia’s COVID-19 crisis is not of its own making

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Catherine Lux, Matthew Leonard, Eliza Villanueva and Ashley Nawn.

GOOD NEWS

Mattel created dolls honoring frontline workers

Mattel is honoring frontline workers continued bravery throughout the COVID pandemic with dolls modeled on real-life doctors and nurses.

TIME

Brothers raise money to help students afford to attend college

Good Morning America

Singer’s voice comforts cancer patients

Amanda Visconti tunes her acoustic guitar and warms up her vocals, as the 25-year-old singer-songwriter prepares for her audience at Miami Cancer Institute, as a member of the Art in Medicine program.

Microsoft News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundations award $4M for social justice

The Wilf Family Foundations in Short Hills, New Jersey, has announced grants totaling $4 million in support of twenty-seven organizations working to foster equity and social justice.

Philanthropy News Digest

Parents create nonprofit to find a cure for son’s rare disease

Good Morning America

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Congo’s child miners swap hammers for books

A new scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which costs more than a third of its $6.8 billion budget, has enabled 4 million children to go to school, according to the education ministry.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Indonesia urged to ban palm oil plantations

Indonesia should make permanent its temporary ban on new permits for palm oil plantations to advance progress on tackling deforestation and meet its climate goals, environmentalists say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The illegal gold mines killing rivers, livelihoods in Ghana

BBC

No Fish, no future: The disappearing lake

Deutsche Welle

Madagascar has worst drought in decades

The Indian Ocean island nation’s worst drought in 40 years has left hundreds of thousands of people fighting for survival as the crisis gets more dire by the day.

Deutsche Welle

Wildfires in Algeria kill soldiers, civilians

At least 25 soldiers died saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of Algeria’s capital, the president announced this week night as the civilian toll rose to at least 17.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

A young Congolese boy walks to school in the town of Kitschoro, Democratic Republic of Congo. Recent education initiatives in Congo have helped make schooling more accessible to Congolese children. Despite these initiatives, poverty prevents millions of Congolese children from receiving an education. (Photo by M. Hofer) Photo used under CC BY

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