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Children in Yemen receive food rations from the United Nations World Food Programme. Soaring food and fuel costs have halved the amount of aid the WFP is able to give to millions in countries like Yemen, Afghanistan, Chad and more. (Photo by Julien Harneis) Photo used under CC BY

Ukraine war could worsen Yemen, Afghanistan crises

Soaring food and fuel costs, together with budget cuts in some traditional donor countries, have forced the WFP to halve the amount of food it is giving to millions of people in Yemen, Chad and Niger.

BBC

EU plans to counter Russia with food diplomacy in North Africa, Balkans

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Venezuelans can’t afford food at rising prices

High food prices set in dollars leaves most unable to afford goods, especially older adults, despite a recent increase in the amount of their monthly pensions.

NBCNews.com

UN urges investigation of Ukraine rape claims

The United Nations has called for an independent investigation of the increasing reports of rape and sexual violence against Ukrainian women and children during the Russian invasion of the country.

CNN

The children who survived Bucha’s horrors

Bucha, Ukraine, witnessed some of the ghastliest scenes of Russia’s invasion, and almost no children have been seen in its silent streets since then.

CNBC

Photos: The horrors inflicted on Bucha

Associated Press

Sri Lanka doctors warn of ‘catastrophic deaths’

Drugs to treat heart attacks and tubes to help newborn babies breathe are in short supply, while blackouts are forcing doctors in rural Sri Lanka to stitch wounds and treat snakebites in the dark.

Al Jazeera

Indonesia passes tough sexual violence law

Indonesia’s Parliament has approved a far-reaching law setting punishments for sexual violence after being spurred into action by a recent case in which a boarding school principal raped and impregnated students.

ABC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ukraine’s stateless people trapped in warzone

Tens of thousands of stateless people live in Ukraine, but without identification documents or citizenship it is hard to cross the border - and they may never be able to return home.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Flee now or risk death, Ukraine tells people in east

BBC

Millions of Ukrainian children are still in school

Safety, housing, food, and medical care are the top priorities, but a surprising number of families are also keeping up with school. When the war started, Ukraine’s Ministry of Education declared a two-week school holiday.

NPR

A shrinking public space for Afghan women

The Taliban is reimposing draconian restrictions, especially against women, that are reminiscent of their past regime.

Al Jazeera

Can green push boost Bangladesh labor rights?

The ILO has put the government on notice for allowing continued violations of workers’ rights, while fashion giants are pushing for greener and socially just business models.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Sri Lanka Cabinet resigns amid public outrage

Sri Lanka’s sports minister and the president’s nephew, Namal Rajapaksa, has resigned from his position amid growing public outrage over the country’s economic crisis and shortages of food, fuel and medicines.

NPR

Photos: Sri Lanka protesters defy curfew

Al Jazeera

N. Korea warns of nuclear response if provoked

For the second time this week, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated South Korea for touting its supposed preemptive strike capabilities against the North.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Twitter to limit Russian government accounts

Twitter has limited content from more than 300 official Russian government accounts, including that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BBC

Satellite pollution threatens view of night sky

The night sky as we know it is on the precipice of changing dramatically due to the proliferation of satellites just a few hundred miles above Earth.

CNN

James Webb Telescope: views of the abyss

The James Webb Space Telescope takes us deeper into space than ever before. It also brings astronomer Knud Jahnke much closer to black holes.

Deutsche Welle

Researchers create slimy, magnetic ‘soft robot’

Researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a “soft robot” made of slime containing magnetic particles, which can be manipulated using external magnets.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

The endless search for the origins of COVID-19

Even as COVID-19 enters its third year as a pandemic, the world is no closer to knowing the source of the virus that sparked it all.

Al Jazeera

10,000 sent to help control Shanghai outbreak

China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 from the military, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID outbreak.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Boaventura De Sousa Santos):

Europe sleepwalking into another world war

Asia Times Online

Column (Fiona Fox):

Scientists must be free to communicate without politicians’ spin

Guardian

Column (Mindy Hernandez):

We can fight the climate crisis by shifting human behavior

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Kids write letters for dogs waiting for adoption

These second-grade students wrote letters for 24 dogs and 20 found their fur-ever homes.

Good Morning America

This teacher has life lessons for her students

“Kids aren‘t computers,” said Maddie Richardson, a science teacher at Parker Performing Arts School. “They can’t be all analytics and all data all the time.”

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Star chef treating Ukrainian refugees in Lviv

The Russian onslaught has sent millions of Ukrainians on the run. For many of those arriving hungry in the western city of Lviv, there‘s been a pleasant surprise – provided by one of Ukraine’s top chefs.

Deutsche Welle

Fortnite maker, Xbox raise $144M for Ukraine

Epic Games says that it has raised $144 million in conjunction with Xbox to aid humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

BBC

Moldova to receive over $760M from EU donors

EU countries have pledged more than $760 million in aid to Moldova to help it cope with the fall-out from Russia’s war.

Al Jazeera

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Millions of Ukrainian children displaced by war

More than half of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children have been displaced by the war. While some have fled with their mothers, others have been separated from their families or sent away on their own in the hope they will reach safety.

Deutsche Welle

World Bank says war shocks to drag on Asia

Disruptions to supplies of commodities, financial strains and higher prices are among the impacts of the war in Ukraine that will slow economies in Asia in coming months, the World Bank says in a report.

Associated Press

Fertilizer ban hits Sri Lankan food stocks

Inflation is spiraling in Sri Lanka, making food more expensive. And now a new law concerning fertilizers is making even locally made staples hard to come by.

Deutsche Welle

Syrian fuel smugglers defy deadly crackdown

Smugglers say they have no other option but to engage in the illegal trade to feed their families, risking their lives during a Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham crackdown.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

WHO: 99% of world breathes poor-quality air

The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use.

Associated Press

WHO urges accelerated action to protect human health and combat the climate crisis

World Health Organization

Green energy brightens Rwandan refugee lives

Solar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of three camps that house more than 42,000 people.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Thousands of people are trying to escape Ukraine’s Donbas region as Russia shifts the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) Photo used under CC BY

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