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Women in Ivory Coast denounce rape, femicide

With their chants ringing through the streets, nearly 200 women and girls march through the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam. The march is the culmination of 16 days of activism to denounce femicide in the West African country.

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Guardian

Families of hostages in Gaza endure uncertainty

Many relatives of people held in Gaza find no reprieve in reports of negotiations toward a deal. Still, they dedicate themselves to lobbying for loved ones’ freedom.

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Associated Press

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What children in Gaza wish for most

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Israel escalates Gaza bombardment

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Al Jazeera

Fighting Afghanistan’s forgotten hunger crisis

Development aid ended abruptly after the Taliban regained power in 2021, and humanitarian assistance is falling. Non-government groups are trying to fill the void as mothers beg aid workers for food.

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Reuters

Large refugee returns could overwhelm Syria

Large-scale returns of refugees to Syria could overwhelm the country and even stoke conflict following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, the U.N. migration agency said.

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Reuters

More than 700 killed in siege of Sudanese state

More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the U.N. human rights chief said, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to halt a siege of the city.

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Al Jazeera

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Sudan’s RSF fighters say they plan to work with a new government, raising partition fears

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Reuters

Life for women inside notorious Iranian prison

While people have spoken about conditions in Evin prison after they have been released, it is rare to get details of inmates’ lives while they are still inside.

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BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Syrian girls’ right to schooling unrestricted

Syria will remove all references to the former ruling Baath party from its educational system, but will not otherwise change school curricula or restrict the rights of girls to learn, the country’s new education minister said.

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Reuters

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What women hope for in a new Syria

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Syria’s chemical weapon victims share trauma

Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s chemical weapon victims have recounted their trauma without fear of reprisal.

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Al Jazeera

Rights group accuses Israel of genocidal acts

Human Rights Watch accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in a campaign that amounted to “acts of genocide.”

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Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Myanmar soldier-spies help rebels make gains

The once formidable Myanmar military is cracking from within - riddled with spies secretly working for the pro-democracy rebels, the BBC has found.

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BBC

Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants

Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany, and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home.

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Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bans, breakups, AI: Digital frontiers for 2025

From internet blackouts that hobbled farmers’ protests in India to Romania re-running its presidential primary partly due to social media manipulation, 2024 has revealed both the expanding power and the frailties of Big Tech.

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Context

Moon may be 100M years older than thought

New research challenges the idea that the moon formed roughly 4.35 billion years ago after a Mars-sized object smashed into the early Earth.

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NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Gaza children arrive in Ireland for medical care

A group of Palestinian children have arrived in Dublin to receive medical treatment in Ireland. The eight children were evacuated from Gaza, accompanied by eight carers and 11 siblings.

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BBC

Giant rats transforming the fight against TB

After success in Tanzania, other African countries may introduce the rodents to help sniff out the disease.

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Guardian

Seaweed could be used to make antibiotics

Seaweed is increasingly being seen as a resource that can be used to manufacture goods sustainability. One lab in Norway is working on a new method to make antibiotics, by training bacteria to eat seaweed.

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Fencing in Kenya: A chance for a better life

Fencer Alexandra Ndolo is making sports history. Together with Ashley Ngoiri, the country’s first female fencing coach, the Olympian wants to establish the sport in Kenya.

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NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Child transplant recipient helps Make-A-Wish

At only 9, Prince Wise has refined food tastes. When Make-A-Wish needed a past recipient to make a signature meal as a fundraiser, the organization turned to Prince.

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Today

Aid to Gaza mostly blocked for last 2 months

Humanitarian aid to north Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said.

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Associated Press

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Myanmar junta is suppressing hunger crisis

Myanmar’s ruling junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis gripping the country by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, a Reuters investigation found.

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Reuters

UN peacekeepers guard Congolese farmers

Under a scorching sun in Democratic Republic of Congo, many of the farmers tending to their fields in the troubled eastern region are guarded by United Nations peacekeepers.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Residents in Mayotte plead for water and food

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey Cyclone Chido’s destruction and was confronted with a first-hand account of devastation across the French territory.

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Associated Press

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Aftermath of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte

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Al Jazeera

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Macron receives angry welcome in cyclone-battered Mayotte

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Swimming mouse among new species in Peru

An amphibious mouse with webbed feet and a blob-headed fish are among 27 new species scientists have discovered in Peru.

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BBC

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Soha, the WeWorld-GVC education coordinator, sits with one of the girls who is enrolled in the EU-funded self-learning program in northern Jeb Abyad, rural Aleppo. The aim is to reach out-of-school children and transition them into formal education. (Photo by Anouk Delafortrie/European Union) Photo used under CC BY

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