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How corruption is killing Kenya’s newborn babies

Across Kenya, families are losing newborns because of shortages in medical facilities and care. Evelyn, an expectant mother, shares her story — and the fears many women face when giving birth in a strained health system.

Deutsche Welle

After US cuts anti-HIV funds, Kenya’s health staff work without pay

Erasing 76 Crimes

Iranians describe worst ‘night of terror’ yet in war

Sleeplessness, fear and exhaustion gripped residents of Tehran as successive waves of strikes struck the Iranian capital, judging from messages sent by people in the city after the latest overnight onslaught.

Guardian

Evidence suggests deadly blast at Iranian school was likely a US airstrike

Associated Press

At least 13 hospitals hit during attacks on Iran

Guardian

Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes displace 100K

Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border as the U.N. said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.

Yahoo! News

Massive protests break out in Afghanistan’s Kabul; anti-Pakistan slogans raised

YouTube

HUMAN RIGHTS

Militants abduct more than 300 Nigerian people

Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, abducting more than 300 people, including women and children, local officials said.

Associated Press

Peru responsible for forced sterilization death

The highest human rights court in Latin America condemned Peru over the death of Celia Ramos, who died at the age of 34 in 1997 after undergoing sterilization “under coercion.”

Guardian

911 calls at ICE’s largest detention facility

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana in Texas, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a day for five months.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Beirut evacuees ‘sleeping in tents and cars’

In Lebanon, some residents in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh have left their homes amid evacuation orders and ongoing air strikes by Israel.

BBC

Lebanon: Israel’s evacuation order ’a humanitarian disaster’

Deutsche Welle

Israel strikes Beirut after evacuation warning sparks panic

Yahoo! News

Ghana peacekeeping battalion hit by missile attacks in Lebanon

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

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Indonesia to ban social media for under 16s

Indonesia says it will ban social media and other popular online platforms for children under 16, becoming the latest country to introduce restrictions aimed at protecting young people from online abuse.

Yahoo! News

How AI is being used in contemporary conflicts

The operation Epic Fury in Iran, the apprehension of Maduro in Venezuela, and ICE surveillance demonstrate that AI is influencing contemporary conflicts.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Malawi dual practice ban divides health sector

Malawi has introduced a ban on dual practice, blocking public health workers from holding private medical jobs. The government says the move tackles corruption, but doctors warn it could deepen staff shortages.

Deutsche Welle

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

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GOOD NEWS

Marsupials thought extinct for 6K years found

In 2015, scientists found what appeared to be a “Lazarus species”: one that had vanished from the fossil record — 6,000 years ago — only to reappear alive.

The Independent

Former poachers saving Uganda’s pangolins

Former poachers in Uganda now protect endangered pangolins. One of the world’s most trafficked mammals, pangolins provide vital services to farmers and forests.

Deutsche Welle

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

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Iran’s rocketing prices make food unaffordable

Iranians are discarding shopping trolleys — instead only buying a few goods at a time at the supermarket as the ongoing conflict prompts a sharp drop in purchasing power.

The Independent

Iran’s Strait of Hormuz closure risks food crisis

The global food system has far thinner buffers than energy markets. Tehran is moving to restrict — or effectively close — the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, as part of the latest escalation in the war involving Iran.

The Independent

Controversial wall causes uproar in S. Africa

As Cape Town, South Africa, plans security measures along the N2 highway, shack dwellers say the project will separate the poor from the rich.

Al Jazeera

Cuba on edge amid fuel shortages, hardship

Havana’s streets have changed as a U.S. fuel blockade restricts the movements of vehicles and people and hits businesses.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

New research shows Earth heating even faster

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters has found.

Time

Demand for critical minerals to triple by 2030

Demand for critical minerals that power technology from smartphones to missiles could triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040, the United Nations political chief told the U.N. Security Council.

Associated Press

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