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Clashes between the extremist fighters, aligned with the Islamic State group, and government forces in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have caused massive numbers of local residents to flee their homes. The violence is now risking the start of yet another humanitarian crises in the region. (Photo by La Priz) Photo used under CC BY

Extremist insurgency, hunger on rise in fragile Mozambique

The World Food Program says the escalating extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique has displaced 310,000 people, creating an urgent humanitarian crisis. The conflict has killed more than 1,500 people since it began in 2017 and caused widespread upheaval.

ABC News

Outrage over US death turns to mass protests

More than six months after Breonna Taylor was shot, outrage and heartbreak boiled over into protests across the US after news broke that none of the three officers involved in Taylor’s death were charged with her killing.

CNN

Top world leaders criticize haphazard virus response

World leaders criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken nearly 1 million lives in its march across the globe. In the words of Kazakhstan’s president, it was “a critical collapse of global cooperation.”

Associated Press

Venezuela President blasts US to world leaders

Associated Press

COVID makes life harder for HIV patients in Uganda

Deutsche Welle

With 200,000 dead, over 90% of Americans are still at risk of COVID-19

CBS News

Female voices ‘drowned out’ amid COVID-19

Women’s voices have been “worryingly marginalized” in reporting of the coronavirus, partly due to the war-like framing of the pandemic, according to a report analyzing stories across six countries.

Guardian

Mexico investigating US forced ‘sterilizations’

A whistleblower alleged that hysterectomies were being performed on six migrant women in US detention centers without their consent. Mexico is now investigating the claims, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has said.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

World becoming less tolerant of migrants

The world is becoming less tolerant of migrants, according to a poll released as Europe prepared to unveil a new asylum plan in the wake of a blaze at an overcrowded camp in Greece that left thousands without shelter.

Al Jazeera

Salvadoran freed after 6 years for stillbirth

A woman sentenced to 30 years in jail after a stillbirth that was judged to be her fault has been released from jail in El Salvador. Cindy Erazo, 29, from San Salvador, was granted conditional freedom after six years in jail.

Guardian

2 officers shot during Breonna Taylor protests

Two policemen in Louisville, Kentucky, have been shot amid protests in the U.S. over a decision not to charge any officers over the killing of Breonna Taylor.

BBC

Indian boy’s death spotlights bonded labor

The death of an 8-year-old boy whose parents worked as bonded laborers has triggered demands for authorities to crack down on thousands of other suspected cases in nearby villages in central India.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indonesia’s Islamic school fights for transgender rights

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Anwar on the verge of countercoup in Malaysia

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed to have secured the parliamentary majority needed to form a new federal government in a surprise announcement signaling another change of government.

Asia Times Online

Saudi Arabia dissidents launch opposition party

A group of Saudi dissidents exiled in Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere announced the launch of an opposition party the first organized political resistance to King Salman’s rule.

CBS News

China’s Sri Lanka foothold a dilemma for India

From all appearances, a renewed U.S.-Indian move is afoot to undermine China’s Belt and Road projects in Sri Lanka, especially the flag carrier – Colombo Port City.

Asia Times Online

India, China stop sending troops to border

CNN

Duterte tightens grip as Philippines falls apart

Facing an acute economic crisis, a persistent COVID-19 outbreak and declining popularity, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has fittingly extended a state of national calamity for another year.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bus-sized asteroid to pass close to Earth

As interstellar traffic goes, this is a close one. According to a report in The Independent, an asteroid the size of a mini-bus is set to fly past Earth in the coming hours.

Asia Times Online

Jurassic sea predator remains found in Chile

Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the world’s driest desert in Chile. Pliosaurs were reptiles from about 160 million years ago.

NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Man responsible for Indonesia’s COVID crisis

It’s not clear to many Indonesians why President Joko Widodo has maintained faith in Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto, the military doctor who initially sought to play down the coronavirus threat and has since been missing in action in battling the pandemic.

Asia Times Online

At UN, Africa urges fiscal help against virus ‘apocalypse’

Associated Press

Anti-COVID efforts quash flu season in S. Africa

The COVID has delivered a lot of devastating news over the past few months, but in South Africa, the virtual elimination of the common flu stands out as a rare positive side effect.

CBS News

COVID: US death toll passes 200,000

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Vivekanand Jayakumar):

How technology shapes globalization

The Hill

Column (Neve Gordon):

Redefining anti-Semitism on Facebook

Al Jazeera

Column (Daniel Griswold):

A BRAC-style commission on tariffs is needed to bolster economy, COVID response

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Ugandan cafe creates jobs for deaf workers

A coffee chain in Uganda has opened a cafe staffed by deaf people. The chain says it wants to serve the deaf, and create jobs for this marginalized group.

Deutsche Welle

These dads are building desks for students

Dozens of students in Maryland learning from home during the coronavirus pandemic are able to study at their own personal desks thanks to a group of local dads.

Good Morning America

10-year-old has raised over 100k for rare pediatric diseases

Yahoo! News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Saudis give UN $200M for aid to Yemen

Saudi Arabia has signed a series of deals to provide more than $200 million to United Nations aid agencies operating in Yemen, a war-stricken nation in an aid funding crisis.

CNN

Nonprofit aims to help special needs students disrupted by COVID-19

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

’Wonder Woman’ hits illegal mining in Amazon

Peru is the world’s sixth largest gold producer, partly fueled by the illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios that has become a multibillion-dollar black market.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Millions of acres burning across S. America

Millions of acres across South America have been devastated by fires due to a combination of drought and multiple fires that authorities say are manmade.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

VW to compensate workers over Brazil torture

Workers and their families sued the carmaker five years ago over human rights violations. A 2016 review found that VW agents gave employees’ names to police hunting for people described as “subversives”.

BBC1

World’s workers lost $3.5 T in COVID: UN

Asia Times Online

Palm oil labor abuses linked to top brands

The AP interviewed more than 130 current and former workers from two dozen palm oil companies who came from eight countries and labored on plantations across wide swaths of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Associated Press

300K used condoms packed for sale in SE Asia

Police in Vietnam said they found about 320,000 recycled used condoms that were being repackaged as new, local media reported according to the Associated Press.

CBS News

US restricts imports of Cuban rum, cigars

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced new sanctions on Cuba restricting imports of Cuban rum and cigars and banning Americans from staying at properties owned by the Cuban government.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A mural outside Blackfin Ameripub in Washington, D.C., pays tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the revered U.S. Supreme Court justice who died last week. President Donald Trump plans to announce his pick for Ginsburg’s replacement at week’s end, denying Ginsburg’s dying wish that her replacement be named by the president elected in November. (Photo by Elvert Barnes/Mural by Shawn Perkins and Dez Zambrano) Photo used under CC BY

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