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66K Afghans displaced amid fighting on border

The U.N. says nearly 66,000 people have been displaced in Afghanistan as heavy shelling and explosions marked a seventh day of fighting along the country’s border with Pakistan.

Al Jazeera

Hospital scenes in Afghanistan after Pakistan strikes back

YouTube

Pakistan students recount escape from war-hit Iran

Iran hosts some 3,000 Pakistani students, who stare at an uncertain future after the United States and Israel bombed the country and forced them to flee.

Al Jazeera

Debunking social media claims about Iran war

Deutsche Welle

US sinks Iran’s ships, slams missile launchers

The war with Iran stretched into a fifth day, with Israel launching a new wave of strikes in Tehran and the U.S. saying it torpedoed an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka.

NPR

Did the strikes on Iran break international law?

Deutsche Welle

Satellite imagery shows strike that destroyed Iranian school

NPR

Why did US and Israel attack Iran?

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Life under El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law

Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under El Salvador’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fueling a new wave of criminalization.

Guardian

Raising awareness about femicide in Kenya

In Kenya, the number of women killed each year has been rising, but femicide is not even a legal term. The NGO Usikimye is working to change that and to raise awareness about gender-based violence.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israel tells Lebanese to leave ahead of attacks

The Israeli military has told civilians living in a large swathe of southern Lebanon to leave their homes immediately and move north of the Litani River because of intended military action against Hezbollah.

Yahoo! News

Trinidad and Tobago declares new emergency

Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency, only about a month after the end of the previous one, as authorities in the Caribbean nation continue to grapple with high levels of violent crime.

Associated Press

South Sudan risks return to full-blown civil war

South Sudan is reeling from an escalating conflict between the government-aligned army and opposition forces and allied groups that observers say risks returning the country to a full-blown civil war.

Guardian

26 Doctors without Borders workers remain unaccounted for in S. Sudan

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tech firms, AI ‘playing with the food system’

Tech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading food security experts have warned.

Guardian

Some West African farmers turn to TikTok

When Senegalese farmer Pape Fall first downloaded TikTok, it was to watch football and funny videos. In the last two years, he’s experimented with it to promote his produce and now sells most of it via the platform.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vaccine promises to rid India of deadly malady

Dengue infects up to 400 million people and kills thousands every year, but an Indian company is now inching closer to a vaccine breakthrough.

The Independent

DRC fears disease after mass grave discovery

Residents of Uvira in Democratic Republic of the Congo expressed concerns that decomposing bodies might spread disease after authorities said 171 bodies were found in mass graves following the withdrawal of M23 rebels.

Associated Press

The war raging in Democratic Republic of the Congo

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Celebrating the Hindu festival Holi globally

Millions of people are celebrating Holi, the festival of colors, in India and across the world. The spring festival, which celebrates the victory of good over evil, also marks the end of winter.

Yahoo! News

In India, Holi welcomes spring with a Festival of Colors

Deutsche Welle

Ukraine cheerleaders refuse to be defeated

They’re in their 50s and 60s — some have grandchildren. They wear matching Ukraine T-shirts and shake silvery pompoms to the beat of “She’s A Lady” by Tom Jones.

NPR

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Battle to end AIDS pandemic amid aid cuts

Rachel Hagan speaks to some of the researchers behind the push for a full HIV vaccine — whose trial had to be saved after the U.S. slashed its grant.

The Independent

Volunteers filling Sudan’s humanitarian void

Local volunteer groups have taken over support for Sudanese displaced by two years of civil war pitting government forces against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Al Jazeera

Charity kitchen workers in Sudan another casualty of war

Associated Press

DRC, US agree to $1.2B health partnership

The Department of State said it will provide up to $900 million over the next five years to support the Central African country to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child mortality, and other infectious diseases.

Associated Press

Anger grows over ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African nations

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Zimbabwean kids working in ‘hazardous’ jobs

Zimbabwean boys as young as 6 years old scout for scrap metal to sell in a country where 14% of children have jobs, despite child labor laws that prohibit employment for children below the age of 16.

Al Jazeera

Kenya braces as Middle East conflict escalates

As tensions rise across the Middle East, Kenyans fear economic shocks, disrupted exports and risks to the more than 400,000 Kenyans working in Gulf states.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Millions more people at risk from rising seas

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are.

Yahoo! News

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Boys in Jaipur, India, celebrate Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors. (Photo by Alan Greenhead) Photo used under CC BY

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