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Quarter of poor countries are worse off than in 2019

A quarter of countries in the developing world, many in sub-Saharan Africa, are poorer than they were in 2019 before the COVID pandemic, the World Bank has found.

Guardian

Iran plans swift trials, executions of protesters

Iran’s judiciary head signaled there would be fast trials and executions ahead for suspects detained in nationwide protests despite warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Associated Press

Iran protests persist amid Internet blackout, mass arrests

Deutsche Welle

Iran protests: What we know so far

Guardian

Iran has aired at least 97 coerced confessions

Iran alleges these confessions, which often include references to Israel or America, are proof of foreign plots behind Iran’s nationwide protests. Activists say they are coerced.

Associated Press

AI fakes and old videos mislead on Iran protests

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Asylum laws ‘toxic’ to refugees’ mental health

Many refugee children are spending their childhoods living in limbo, and experts warn of lifelong mental health impacts.

Context

Asylum seekers brace for bleak 2026 as countries clamp down

Context

Indian Christians faced with Hindu extremism

Anti-Muslim violence has soared for more than a decade under Indian PM Modi’s government. Now, Christians face the brunt of Hindu majoritarianism, too.

Al Jazeera

Murder led to a better deal for garment workers

After a 21-year-old employee was raped and killed by her supervisor in 2021, campaigners ensured conditions at the factory were overhauled. But its order book never recovered.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Many in Venezuela say repression continues

Many in Venezuela warn that, despite efforts by the regime to appear more open after the seizure and rendition of Nicolás Maduro, repression continues.

Guardian

Venezuela’s acting president vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro

Associated Press

No end to conflict between Kurds, government

The past week’s fighting between the Syrian army and Syrian Kurdish paramilitaries shows how difficult the military integration of the two will be to achieve.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Free Starlink access a boon to Iran protesters

Iranian demonstrators’ ability to get details of nationwide protests out to the world has been given a strong boost, with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service dropping its fees.

Associated Press

US lawmakers call on Donald Trump to restore internet access in Iran

Guardian

Uganda called to end blackout before elections

Uganda is facing mounting calls to lift a nationwide internet blackout before a contentious election, with the United Nations saying the government-imposed restrictions are “deeply worrying.”

Al Jazeera

Elections in Uganda marred by violence and intimidation

Deutsche Welle

Moon eats molecules from Earth’s atmosphere

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Doctors arrested after 9 newborns die in Russia

Russian police have arrested the chief physician and the acting head of intensive care at a Siberian hospital where nine babies died this month, prosecutors said.

CBC News

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GOOD NEWS

Nigerian woman rethinking recycling in cities

Nigeria’s Rita Idehai, a geoscientist and social entrepreneur in Abuja, has built West Africa’s first locally manufactured reverse vending machine — rewarding users via a mobile app for handing in waste plastic bottles.

Deutsche Welle

Man’s mission to save injured birds in Nairobi

In Kenya, birds often get caught in telephone wires or poisoned by food people give them with the best intentions. But there are a few rehabilitation centers. One man in Nairobi has made it his mission to rescue them.

Deutsche Welle

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

EU grants Syria $722M for humanitarian aid

The European Union will grant Syria around $722 million this year and next for ‌post-war recovery, bilateral support and humanitarian aid, European Commission ‌President Ursula von der Leyen said.

Yahoo! News

US to give $45M in aid to Thailand, Cambodia

The United States will be providing $45 million in aid packages to Thailand and Cambodia to help ensure regional stability and prosperity.

Associated Press

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Numbers behind Iran’s economic implosion

A currency crash led thousands of Iranians onto the streets late last month. We look at how Tehran was plunged into economic crisis — and why it is unlikely to improve.

The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

This casing for electronics dissolves in water

As the world’s appetite for electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. Aquafade, a new type of plastic casing for electronics, fully dissolves in water in about six hours.

CNN

5 reasons to hold hope for Amazon rainforest

Slowing deforestation in Brazil and pledges to ban oil drilling in Colombia offer slivers of hope for the Amazon.

Context

Another near-record hot year a ‘warning shot’

Earth’s average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate that warming could be speeding up, international climate monitoring teams reported.

Associated Press

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A woman in Northern Ethiopia threads cotton. (Photo by Adane Firde/European Union) Photo used under CC BY

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