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A Russian battle tank drives through the streets in 2010. Russian forces are building up near the Ukrainian border despite the U.S. threatening unprecedented sanctions against Russia if it goes ahead with an invasion. (Photo by Dmitry Terekhov) Photo used under CC BY

US says Russian forces planning Ukraine takeover

The U.S. has alleged that Russian intelligence is recruiting current and former Ukrainian government officials to take over the government in Kyiv and cooperate with a Russian occupying force.

Guardian

US rushes weapons into Ukraine

CBS News

What are US military options to help Ukraine?

Associated Press

27 drug makers to start making COVID-19 pill

A U.N.-backed organization announced that it has signed agreements with more than two dozen generic drug makers to produce versions of Merck’s COVID-19 pill to supply 105 developing countries.

Associated Press

Aid reaches Tonga 5 days after volcanic eruption

The first aircraft carrying humanitarian supplies arrived in Tonga, five days after the South Pacific island nation was hit by a volcanic eruption and tsunami.

NBCNews.com

Aftermath of the Tonga eruption, tsunami

Al Jazeera

Waves from eruption cause oil spill in Peru

Al Jazeera

N. Korea to consider restarting nuclear tests

Accusing the United States of hostility and threats, North Korea said it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities” it had paused during its diplomacy with the Trump administration.

CBS News

UN says Ethiopia working toward Tigray peace

The United Nations secretary-general said he was delighted to hear “there is now a demonstrable effort to make peace” in Ethiopia after more than 14 months of war.

PBS

US denounces Sudanese protest crackdowns

Sudanese head of judiciary and judges condemned violence against anti-military protesters, while the U.S. said it would consider steps against those holding up efforts to resolve Sudan’s political crisis.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Saudi airstrike on Yemen prison kills at least 60

An airstrike on a prison in northern Yemen killed at least 60 people and wounded 200 more, as Saudi-led reprisals to a Houthi drone attack on the United Arab Emirates intensified.

Guardian

Drone footage shows scale of destruction after airstrike on Yemen prison

Guardian

EU urges stronger borders against migrants

Ministers from European Union nations asked for more action to protect the bloc’s external borders as well as for rules to return migrants to their homelands.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

US offers Russia summit to stop slide to war

The U.S. has offered to hold a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin as a last-ditch effort to stop the slide to a new war in Europe.

Guardian

How an armed conflict could play out for Ukraine

Asia Times Online

The message behind N. Korea’s missile tests

Experts have put forth various reasons for the recent test launches by North Korea, but none of them represent a serious game-changer.

Asia Times Online

China, Russia block US bid to sanction North Koreans at UN

Al Jazeera

Security and China dominate US-Japan talks

The leaders of the U.S. and Japan agreed in a virtual meeting to boost cooperation on pressing economic and security issues, including China’s growing might, North Korea’s missiles and Russia’s aims in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tonga volcano plume reached halfway to space

An indicator of the great power of the volcanic eruption in Tonga is the height reached by its plume. UK scientists examining weather satellite data calculate it to be around 35 miles above Earth’s surface.

BBC

Scientists racing to understand the fury of Tonga’s volcano

Wired

Europe in middle of messy nuclear slowdown

Germany has almost finished phasing out nuclear plants, and aging infrastructure is leading neighbors down the same path. But will green energy goals suffer?

Wired

GLOBAL HEALTH

What does it mean for COVID-19 to be endemic?

Diseases are endemic when they occur regularly in certain areas according to established patterns, while a pandemic refers to a global outbreak that causes unpredictable waves of illness.

Associated Press

Special section:

The coronavirus pandemic is far from over

Deutsche Welle

Omicron undermining care for other problems

The omicron surge this winter has not only swamped U.S. hospitals with record numbers of patients with COVID-19, it has also caused frightening moments for people trying to get treatment for other ailments.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Clara Thompson):

What Germany’s climate movement got right: Breaking rules

Al Jazeera

Column (Jack Erickson):

China’s expanding influence in the Pacific

Asia Times Online

Column (Jeannette Cwienk):

Nuclear energy too costly for humans — and the planet

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Teen pilot completes solo round-world record

A teenage pilot has become the youngest woman to fly solo around the world following a five-month challenge.

BBC

Coach tells players to shovel snow for elderly

A western Pennsylvania high school football team is getting praised after their coach canceled a weightlifting session and told them to shovel driveways for those in need following a snow storm.

CBS News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

FAO has plan to avert hunger crisis in Africa

More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said.

allAfrica.com

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Poverty in West Africa rises nearly 3 percent

The proportion of people in West Africa living on less than $1.90 a day jumped from 2.3 percent to 2.9 percent in 2021, while the debt burden of countries increased amid slow economic recovery.

UN News

COVID-19 spike worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes

NPR

Canada, US, allies meet to discuss aid for Haiti

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said immediate action is needed to fix the security situation in Haiti and that additional aid was a central topic of a virtual meeting with allies.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Giant pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti

Marine explorers have discovered a “pristine” 2-mile coral reef at depths of 100 feet off the coast of Tahiti, French Polynesia.

BBC

False banana offers hope for warming world

Scientists say the plant enset, an Ethiopian staple, could be a new superfood and a lifesaver in the face of climate change. The banana-like crop has the potential to feed more than 100 million people.

BBC

Photo of the Day

A woman extracts the edible part from an enset, the staple food crop in Ethiopia. Enset, or “false banana,” has the potential to feed more than 100 million people in Africa as the climate crisis worsens. (Photo by Italian boy) Photo used under CC BY

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