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Water, power shortages hit crumbling Venezuela

Electricity and water outages are becoming the norm across Venezuela. With infrastructure crumbling and services failing, experts warn of a growing nationwide emergency that will affect health and food.

Deutsche Welle

Inside Venezuela’s economic crisis after Maduro’s capture

YouTube

Venezuela signs deal with US energy giant to rebuild power grid

BBC

Cuba approves an emergency economic plan

Cuba’s powerful Communist Party approved an emergency economic package featuring unprecedented free-market measures aimed at opening up the struggling island’s economy as pressure heightens.

Associated Press

What to know about Cuba’s economic measures aimed at opening up the island’s economy

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Africa backs push for tougher anti-LGBTQ laws

Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBTQ rights.

Yahoo! News

Deadly unrest eclipses life in Pakistani Kashmir

Life has ground to a halt across Pakistani Kashmir following weeks of deadly unrest, which has claimed at least 24 lives and plunged the region into its most severe crisis in years.

The Independent

Why does unrest keep flaring up in Pakistani Kashmir?

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israel, Hezbollah agree to ceasefire in Lebanon

Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire, a senior U.S. official told Reuters, after hostilities between them had escalated sharply overnight in Lebanon.

Reuters

For Lebanon, a US-Iran agreement raises questions beyond Hezbollah

NPR

Afghanistan strikes hideout targets in Pakistan

Afghanistan has launched air strikes on what it called hideouts used by armed groups and “hostile intelligence circles” inside Pakistan, Kabul has announced.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe bill would scrap presidential election

Zimbabwean lawmakers have approved a bill that would replace direct presidential elections with a vote by parliament.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

India’s gene-edited rice to boost food security

India is the first country to approve gene-edited rice to boost food security. Can this innovation help farmers weather climate change?

Deutsche Welle

The universe’s expansion is still accelerating

Taking a fresh look at data involving a specific type of stellar explosion, a team of researchers says it has confirmed the long-accepted notion that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Plastic sheet could save thousands in labor

An innovative plastic drape could save tens of thousands of women’s lives from excessive bleeding during childbirth, according to new research — and could be manufactured for less than a dollar.

The Independent

Midwives on frontline of childbirth deaths crisis denied visas for key summit

Guardian

Sri Lanka battles worst surge in dengue fever

Sri Lanka is battling the worst outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever in years, with more than 44,000 cases and 28 deaths recorded since January, an official said, putting public hospitals under strain.

AOL News

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GOOD NEWS

Kenyans aiming to turn sand into fertile soil

On a remote Kenyan island where the ground is sandy and freshwater is scarce, an innovative experiment is reshaping how food can be grown.

Deutsche Welle

Startup is drawing electricity from bacteria

British startup Bactery says its “bacteria-powered battery” uses soil’s naturally occurring microbes to generate a steady trickle of power.

YouTube

‘Period tax’ will soon be abolished in Pakistan

Pakistan plans to abolish “period tax,” in a victory for young campaigners who had taken the government to court over the charges.

Guardian

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

50M Africans connected to power by agencies

Fifty million Africans have been connected to electricity in the space of just two years through what has been described as an “unprecedented” partnership between development agencies.

The Independent

UN chief Guterres to visit gang-ravaged Haiti

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Haiti in a show of solidarity with victims of violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation, which has suffered for years.

France 24

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Indonesia scales back school meals scheme

Indonesia is set to suspend its flagship nationwide free meals program for children during school holidays and will also significantly reduce its overall reach, according to officials.

The Independent

Lebanon airport revival brings economic hope

Rene Mouawad Airport will serve Istanbul, Dubai and Mersin as part of plans to revitalize northern Lebanon’s economy.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Bali police foil plan to trade protected turtles

Authorities in Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali foiled an attempt to illegally trade 21 protected green sea turtles, police said.

Associated Press

Countries step up efforts against illegal fishing

Fifteen countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific adopted a declaration to step up efforts to combat illegal fishing, a practice that experts say costs the world economy up to $50 billion annually.

ABC News

10 places where water is disappearing globally

The world is losing an estimated 85.6 trillion gallons of freshwater each year, enough to meet the needs of 280 million people annually, according to a 2025 World Bank report.

Al Jazeera

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A woman from the nomadic Bakarwal tribe in Kashmir is surprised to get her picture taken. (Photo by Deepak Bhatia) Photo used under CC BY

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