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Women and a child walk in Herat, Afghanistan (Photo by Marius Arnesen) Photo used under CC BY

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Afghan women feel unsafe amid strict Taliban decrees

Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their homes alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the UN mission in Afghanistan.

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Associated Press

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Women-only restaurant feeds customers in Afghanistan’s Herat

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Associated Press

Satellite shows Egypt building Gaza border wall

Satellite images show Egypt levelling land and building a wall along its border with the Gaza Strip near the Rafah crossing. The construction suggests Egypt is preparing for a possible influx of displaced Palestinians.

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Al Jazeera

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Palestinians in Rafah feeling trapped amid Israeli offensive

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Zimbabwe LGBTQ to lose chance to get scholarship

Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ people, a move that human rights groups described as a perpetuation of the African country’s homophobic practices.

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NBCNews.com

China, Russia, Cambodia target critics in exile

Scores of attacks, including assassinations and assaults, were perpetrated by 25 governments against people outside their borders in 2023, analysis shows. Russia, Cambodia, and China were the biggest perpetrators.

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Guardian

Myanmar’s youth take up arms against junta

Three years after the Myanmar coup, an armed resistance has emerged among young Burmese. They have joined the many ethnic armies that already existed in Myanmar, battling to bring down the military regime.

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France24

Inflation pushes Nigeria currency to record low

Nigerians are facing one of the worst economic crises in years triggered by surging inflation, pushing the currency to an all-time low against the dollar. The situation has provoked protests across the country.

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ABC News

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High cost of living affecting Nigerians

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Thousands shelter in hospital amid DRC war

Thousands of people are seeking shelter inside an “overwhelmed” hospital amid an escalation of fighting in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned.

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CNN

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Violence in eastern Congo stirs resentment against the West

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Venezuela orders UN to close rights office

Venezuela’s government ordered the local United Nations office on human rights to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of assisting coup plotters and terrorist groups.

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Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Indian police tear gas, detain protesting farmers

Indian police used tear gas and detained some farmers who clashed with them and tried to break barricades blocking their way to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices in a repeat of 2021 protests.

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Associated Press

Deadly protests wreak havoc on Senegal region

At least three people have died and scores more have been arrested in protests against Senegal’s delayed presidential elections.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Japan agency may have clues of moon’s origin

An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said.

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NPR

Are computers or books better for learning?

As technology advances, the debate over whether books or computers are better learning tools will only intensify. The real issue is not education but poverty and accessibility to education.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

Gaza doctors measure children for malnutrition

Medical workers held strips of plastic around the upper arms of small children in a Rafah tent, measuring the circumferences of their arms for signs of wasting flesh as a hunger crisis hits Gaza.

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Reuters

Children are most at risk amid measles outbreak

Cases of the disease have surged in India, Azerbaijan and elsewhere after COVID disrupted childhood vaccination campaigns.

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Context

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Sewers helping us to monitor disease outbreaks

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BBC

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Race to understand ‘immune amnesia’

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse

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Africa’s Higher Education Needs More Investment and Entrepreneurship

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Newsweek

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I stood up for ‘woman, life, freedom’ in Iran. Now I speak up for women in Israel

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The Hill

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Myanmar junta must stop targeting women and children

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Asia Times Online

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Indonesia’s election points to a multipolar, nationalistic world

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Asia Times Online

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Will rich nations step away from fossil fuels, as they promised?

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GOOD NEWS

Para-cyclists deliver aid to displaced Gazans

Al Dali, co-founder of the Gaza Sunbirds para-cycling team, moves from one shop to another with the help of crutches, haggling for lower prices so he can deliver parcels to the highest number of displaced people possible.

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Cambodia ‘upcycler’ turns bottles into brooms

A Cambodian entrepreneur wants to reduce plastic pollution in his community, in a city that produces 38,000 tons of waste each day, according to its environmental department. A fifth of what is used is single-use plastic.

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Reuters

Rhinos are returned to plateau in central Kenya

Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades.

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Associated Press

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Aid groups sounding alarm over DRC violence

Civilians facing bombs, thousands forced to flee, and lost children – aid organizations have again sounded the alarm over the impact of escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Al Jazeera

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ghana suspends controversial tax after uproar

Ghana’s government has suspended plans to implement a 15% tax on power, following a public uproar that it will worsen the cost-of-living crisis. The value-added tax (VAT) was to be levied on domestic consumers of electricity.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Greenland ice losses were underestimated

Better tracking of declines at the edges of the ice sheets suggests previous estimates missed 20 percent of the meltoff. The research highlights the role AI can play in accurately capturing the glaciers’ decline.

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Inside Climate News

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Amazon’s crucial water cycle is facing collapse

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NBCNews.com

Tides move oil spill from Tobago to Caribbean

A week after an oil spill was first spotted near Tobago‘s shore, portions of the stain are moving in opposite directions into the Caribbean Sea, the island’s emergency management agency (TEMA) said.

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Reuters

All-women team tends to a Senegal mangrove

Experts say the management model can be adopted by communities across Senegal and elsewhere in the world.

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Al Jazeera

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A farmer tends to her maize crop, an example of recession agriculture on the floodplains of the Tonle Sap at Phat Sanday, Cambodia. (Photo by Neil Palmer/IWMI) Photo used under CC BY

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