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Nigerian women challenge land ownership injustice

In Nigeria’s Plateau state, women till the soil, grow the food and sustain households — often on land they don’t own. Now, some are fighting to secure the farmland that sustains them.

Deutsche Welle

How Nigerian women are reclaiming real estate

Prime Progress

Iran starts 2026 facing protests and inflation

At the end of 2025, many Iranian merchants closed their shops to protest rampant inflation. At the start of 2026, the government faces further fallout from sanctions, economic crisis and environmental threats.

Deutsche Welle

Protesters in Iran clash with security forces

Deutsche Welle

Five things you need to know about protests in Iran

Al Jazeera

Pakistani woman fighting gender expectations

Health worker Naushaba Roonjho was ostracized by her family in Pakistan for wanting to work, but now she is campaigning for political office.

Guardian

The gendered cost of Pakistan’s unsustainable population growth

Dawn

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistan sentences seven for inciting violence

A court in Pakistan’s capital sentenced seven people, including three journalists, two YouTubers and two retired army officers, to life imprisonment, after convicting them of inciting violence during riots in 2023.

Associated Press

Indians protest suspected racial killing of man

Protests and candlelight vigils have spread across Tripura after a 24-year-old man died from injuries sustained in a violent attack, intensifying a national debate over racism, policing and student safety.

The Independent

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Saudi warplanes strike UAE-backed separatists

Saudi warplanes have reportedly struck forces in southern Yemen backed by the United Arab Emirates, a separatist leader says.

Associated Press

Two of the Middle East’s most powerful countries are facing off in Yemen. Here’s what to know

CNN

Israeli bulldozers claw down West Bank homes

Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory’s refugee camps.

PBS

Junta leader wins Guinea’s presidential election

Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election, according to incomplete results released, the country’s first election since a 2021 coup.

Deutsche Welle

Bolivian miners clash with police over economy

Bolivian miners set off dynamite sticks and launched fireworks at police, the eighth consecutive day of protests against economic reforms decreed by incoming President Paz.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm

People are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google’s artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found.

Guardian

AI data boom in Mexico fuels rise in dirty energy

A boom in U.S. data centers is devouring fossil fuels in Mexico — and hitting locals with power cuts and pollution.

Context

GLOBAL HEALTH

Contaminated water kills at least 10 in India

At least 10 people have died and hundreds were rushed to hospitals in India’s “cleanest city” due to a diarrhea outbreak caused by contaminated water.

The Independent

Rabies death inspires dog-vaccinating mission

Robyn Thomson immunized thousands of animals in Cambodia after the shocking death of her mother from rabies.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Marina Zucker-Marques, Kevin P. Gallagher and and Marilou Uy):

This jubilee year must herald a new era of debt relief for the world

Devex

Column (Inger Ashing):

The world is still failing its children. We can change that in 2026

Al Jazeera

Column (Eman Abu Zayed):

The ceasefire did what it was meant to do — make Gaza invisible

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Rachel Barrus, Catherine Lux and Ashley Nawn.

GOOD NEWS

Stories of hope from newsrooms around world

From the construction worker who won a place at medical school to an art exhibition in a country with no galleries, we asked journalists for their most optimistic tales of the year.

Guardian

Countries mark 2026 with defiance and hope

Drummers pounded in the New Year and a stampede of computer-generated horses was shown over part of the Great Wall as China and the rest of Asia marked the start of 2026.

Associated Press

Photos of New Year’s celebrations across the globe

Associated Press

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Ardern rescues project saving mothers’ lives

A project to save the lives of mothers during childbirth in two crisis-hit countries, which was axed by U.S. foreign aid cuts, is getting off the ground after former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern rescued it.

The Independent

UN makes first visit to el-Fasher since its fall

A U.N. humanitarian team visited el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region for the first time since a paramilitary force overran the city in October.

AOL News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Protests grow in Iran over rising living costs

Protests are spreading across Iran, as living costs rise and inflation spirals out of control. Videos published online show protesters taking to the streets with the image of one protester defying police going viral.

Deutsche Welle

Iran’s central bank chief resigns amid protests, currency turmoil

YouTube

Africans turn to farming as inflation increases

Across much of Africa, farming has long been seen as low-status work, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs. But that perception is changing.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Climate crisis changing an ancient way of life

Families have been raising livestock in the Afar region of Ethiopia for centuries, but Nick Ferris finds that these traditions are changing thanks to the impact of the climate crisis.

The Independent

Bauxite boom pollutes water, crops in Guinea

In West Africa’s Guinea, villagers say mining for the critical mineral bauxite has polluted water and decreased crop yields.

Context

Industry under fire for sea spill in Philippines

A major industry spill that spewed toxic waste into a protected strait off the Philippines has raised concerns about governance of the nation’s rich waterways and what can be done to safeguard dwindling biodiversity.

Context

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A salesman in the textile market in Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Steve Evans) Photo used under CC BY

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