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A woman in Sao Paolo, Brazil, displays her COVID-19 vaccination card. Vaccination rates in many Latin American countries, including Brazil, Cuba and Chile, are now outpacing countries in Europe and North America. (Photo by Sao Paulo State Government) Photo used under CC BY

S. America outpaces US, Europe in vaccinations

The tide is turning in many Latin American nations today, where COVID-19 vaccination rates are outpacing countries in Europe and North America and helping drive down deaths.

CNN

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Tracking COVID-19’s global spread

CNN

Public shaming returns in China amid COVID

Police in southern China have been captured on camera parading four alleged offenders accused of smuggling people across China’s borders in a public shaming exercise.

BBC

Flight to Shanghai turned back because of COVID rules

Associated Press

Russian court shuts down second rights organization

A Russian court has ordered the closure of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a day after the supreme court revoked the legal status of its sister organization, Memorial International.

Guardian

Much of Africa still opposes LGBTQ rights

Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice. But the South African archbishop’s campaign had limited impact in the rest of Africa.

Associated Press

Pilots detail collapse of Afghan Air Force

Hours before Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the Afghan Air Force was melting down. Instead of unleashing air attacks against advancing insurgents, some airmen were fighting each other.

Reuters

Indonesia agrees to accept Rohingya refugees

Indonesia has announced it will allow a boat packed with Rohingya refugees, which had become stranded off its coast, to dock after calls from aid organizations to allow the vessel to seek refuge.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Roma women in Serbia fight for equal rights

Young Roma women in Serbia are rapping against child marriages and for equal rights. In recognition of their efforts, the musicians have been invited to the “Women of the World Festival” in London.

Deutsche Welle

Normalization failed to mask suffering in Syria

The year 2021 marked a decade since Syria’s uprisings erupted, and the country is still mired in poverty and violence.

Al Jazeera

Bahrain appoints new ambassador to Syria

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Sudanese forces fire tear gas at protesters

Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas at anti-coup protesters in the capital. Demonstrators came close to the presidential palace before they were met by a heavy security presence.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar celebs who supported protests jailed

A court in military-ruled Myanmar jailed three prominent show business figures for three years each for their part in protests against a February coup, media reported.

Reuters

Ghani blames allies over Afghanistan’s fall

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has broken his silence with his first interview since fleeing Kabul four months ago, in effect blaming the international community, and in particular the U.S., for the fall of the republic.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

James Webb telescope comes to life in space

Heralded as NASA‘s premier space observatory of the next decade, the James Webb telescope launched on Christmas Day, and it still has a ways to go before it is in orbit and observing the universe.

CNN

Veteran Hubble vs. new Webb space telescope

Associated Press

Researchers ID 14 new shrews in Indonesia

Louisiana researchers have identified 14 new species of shrews on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where seven in that genus were previously known.

ABC News

Nickel oxide’s ability to learn could fuel AI fields

A unique material, nickel oxide, demonstrates the ability to learn things about its environment in a way that emulates the most basic learning abilities of animals.

Asia Times Online

GLOBAL HEALTH

Thousands of Peru kids orphaned by COVID

Peru has been battered by COVID-19, with more than 202,500 deaths in a population of under 33 million. One of the most tragic effects of the pandemic there is the number of children who have been orphaned.

BBC

Listen: Peru’s left-behind children

BBC

Israel approves 4th dose of COVID vaccine

Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for residents who are most vulnerable to COVID-19. Israel, one of the first countries to do so, made the decision as it braces for a wave of infections fueled by the Omicron variant.

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

College alum anonymously donates $180K

Physics professor Vinod Menon doesn’t get much mail at the office, so when the City College of New York returned to in-person classes this semester, he was greeted with a nondescript package.

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Man raises £5K for Typhoon Rai survivors

A man from Jersey who lives in the Philippines has raised more than £5,000 in the aftermath of Typhoon Rai, which killed at least 375 and left many more homeless.

BBC

SC mechanic donates cars to those in need

Eliot Middleton fixes vehicles in need of repair and gives them away to people in need in his rural area of South Carolina.

People

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ethiopia seeks extra $2.5B to rebuild from war

Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth $2.5 billion to help finance programs to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian aid, the finance ministry said.

Reuters

Ethiopia to create national dialogue commission

Deutsche Welle

Syrian asylum seekers struggle to rebuild lives

Syrian asylum seekers in Cyprus face a host of difficulties amid delays in processing of applications, as the government renews the call for European solidarity.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

More than 500 new species discovered in 2021

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the “hell heron” and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London.

CNN

Alaska Icemageddon warning follows high heat

The coldest U.S. state of Alaska has recorded its hottest-ever December day, amid an unusual winter warm spell. The weather extremes have prompted warnings of an “Icemageddon” from authorities.

BBC

Eco costs of illegal gold mining in Mozambique

Thousands of miners descended on Chimanimani National Park to find their fortune digging for gold. But environmental costs have been high.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Young children on the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve in Peru gaze at the camera in 2016. In a country battered by COVID-19-related deaths, at least 93,000 children have been left orphaned by the pandemic. (Photo by Alan Kotok) Photo used under CC BY

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