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Fast fashion workers fear starvation in Bangladesh

Garment workers making clothes in Bangladesh say they are facing starvation and are having to steal and scavenge food from fields and bins to feed their children, as protests continue over a new minimum wage.

Guardian

Bangladeshi woman killed after police open fire on protesting garment workers

Guardian

Cyclical drought hurts Angola pregnant women

Angola is struggling with its worst climate crisis in 40 years as it severely affects the lives of its pregnant women. Drought-related challenges often make it difficult for some pregnant women to access hospitals.

Al Jazeera

War threatens to unravel Gaza’s close-knit society

In Gaza, fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Sickness rips through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats.

Associated Press

Palestinians leaving Gaza fear dispossession

Palestinians trudging past Israeli tanks and decomposing corpses out of encircled Gaza City said they feared a new “Nakba,” the “catastrophe” of their mass dispossession after Israel was founded in 1948.

Reuters

Thousands of Palestinians flee northern Gaza

Deutsche Welle

Sudanese refugees wait in fear for protection

Hundreds of Sudanese refugees are cornered in the Zarzis olive groves in Tunisia, fearing local anger and hoping for U.N. protection and status recognition.

Al Jazeera

Thousands flee ethnic killings in Sudan’s Darfur

BBC

Mariana survivors face ill health, lost culture

When a dam burst eight years ago in a Brazilian mining town, the toxic mud swept downriver, crushing all before it. Communities are still mourning a way of life lost.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Devastating effects of war on Gaza’s children

Gaza‘s Hamas-run health ministry says 10,022 people, including 4,104 children, have been killed in the territory since Israel’s campaign began. The BBC reports on the impact the war is having on children and their families.

BBC

Hamas terrorist: We heard children inside and shot until we didn’t hear a sound

i24 News

Call to stop Indigenous evictions in Rift Valley

Human rights groups are calling for the Kenyan government to halt forced evictions of the Indigenous Ogiek community from their ancestral land in the Rift Valley.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israel warned against occupying Gaza post-war

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned that Israel cannot reoccupy Gaza after the war with Hamas ends. Blinken also insisted Hamas could not continue to rule there as it risked a repetition of the 7 October attacks.

BBC

Israeli military says Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza

YouTube

Latvia’s parliament legalizes same-sex unions

Latvia’s parliament voted to allow same-sex couples to establish civil unions, providing them with legal recognition but fewer rights than married couples.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Influencers use AI clones to pump out content

Chinese influencers, or key opinion leaders (KOLs), particularly in the e-commerce industry, are increasingly turning to digital clones to pump out content 24/7.

Guardian

Abused African women log on for online lifeline

With real world support lacking, South Africa’s abused seek help online in a country where violence against women is endemic.

Context

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zimbabwe blocks nurses from overseas jobs

Zimbabwean nurses eager to escape deepening poverty say their government is barring them from pursuing opportunities overseas as it seeks to stem a brain drain of health workers.

Context

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Jamie Rickman and Sumit Kothari):

Break investment bias to get climate finance to countries in need

Devex

Column (Anatol Lieven):

It looks inevitable that the war in Gaza will spread. Is it?

Guardian

Column (Espen Barth Eide):

One day, the war between Israel and Hamas will be over

Al Jazeera

Column (Ploy Achakulwisut):

Fossil fuel reduction targets should be part of every climate plan

Context

Column (Grant Newsham):

How does US rank crises in Taiwan, Israel, Ukraine?

Asia Times Online

Column (Tatiana Kununnikova):

How anti-Semitism is a breeding ground for terrorism

Asia Times Online

Column (Jeremy Corbyn):

The ICC must investigate the crime of genocide in Gaza

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Indonesia palm plantations to be made forests

Some 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the state to be converted back into forests, a government official said.

Reuters

Angola project educates underprivileged kids

A new literacy project in Luanda, Angola’s capital, has taken to the streets. The project aims to combat illiteracy and promote educational opportunities.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Cease-fire in Gaza to let aid in, hostages out

International mediators were closing in on a possible deal for a cease-fire in exchange for the release of around a dozen hostages held by Hamas. The deal would also allow a small amount of fuel to enter the territory.

CBS News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Will Israel-Hamas war affect India’s economy?

India’s economy has been a recent success story, but the growing conflict in the Middle East has raised geopolitical concerns about stable prices and oil supply.

Deutsche Welle

India bars protests that support the Palestinians

Associated Press

Thai farmhands in Israel facing tough choices

Militants killed some 1,400 people in Israel that day and took 240 hostages into Gaza, according to Israeli authorities. Among those killed were more than 50 citizens of Thailand.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Thieves target Mediterranean century-old trees

Surging olive oil prices, driven in part by years of drought in Spain, has meant opportunity for criminals across the Mediterranean.

ABC News

Ghana outrage after 300-year-old tree felled

BBC

Filipino typhoon survivors join the climate fight

A decade on, survivors of Haiyan in the Philippines are fighting to make big polluters pay for losses caused by climate disasters.

Context

Photo of the Day

A farmer harvests rattan from forest near Anduna Village, South Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Khairul Abdi/CIFOR-ICRAF) Photo used under CC BY

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