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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

Deportation of Rohingya woman sparks fear

The deportation of a Rohingya woman back to Myanmar has sparked fears that India is preparing to expel many more refugees from the country.

Guardian

Turkish women’s group targeted by prosecutors

Turkish public prosecutors have sparked outrage among feminists by demanding the closure of the country’s largest women’s rights group accusing it of being “against morality”.

Guardian

Bolivian indigenous women learn self-defense

In their traditional costumes, women from the community of Yampupata, in the Bolivian Altiplano, learn self-defense, Taekwondo techniques and resources to anticipate male violence and femicide.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Sri Lanka engulfed by debt crisis and protests

Mismanagement, the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread corruption have caused Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since its independence over 70 years ago. As people are protesting, the country has defaulted on its debt.

Deutsche Welle

Sri Lankan protesters mark new year near president’s office

Associated Press

Hear from Sri Lankans grappling with economic crisis

CNN

Why people don’t vote in Somalia’s elections

Most of Somalia’s new MPs have been sworn in following a unique election for its parliament - known as the House of the People. But the people did not vote in a poll that has been dragging on for a record four months.

BBC

Israel-Palestine tensions are rising in Ramadan

The situation in occupied Palestinian territories is escalating, as Gaza residents worry about another war.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Privacy fears surround Indian criminal data bill

A proposed new Indian law gives sweeping powers to law enforcement agencies to collect biometric data - a move that has sparked concerns over privacy.

BBC

Mutations across species reveal clues to aging

Researchers discovered that mammals - from tigers to humans - have roughly the same number of mutations by the time they die of old age.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hospital in Tigray struggles to treat patients

Patients at the flagship hospital in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying amid shortages of life-saving drugs and oxygen, according to health officials.

Associated Press

WHO on alert over new omicron subvariants

The World Health Organization said it is monitoring a few dozen cases of two new subvariants of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, BA.4 and BA.5.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Peter Kalmus):

Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested

Guardian

Column (Richard D. Wolff):

The role of capitalism in the war in Ukraine

Asia Times Online

Column (Daniel Rothenberg):

Why the US should investigate Russian aggression in Ukraine as genocide

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Taxi driver reuniting adoptees with families

Since 2002, Andrew Silva, a 56-year-old father of two and cab driver in the coastal city of Negombo, Sri Lanka, has been connecting international adoptees to their birth mothers in the island nation.

Al Jazeera

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Zelenskyy thanks US for $800M in millitary aid

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s “sincerely thankful” to President Biden and the U.S. for the new round of $800 million in military assistance.

YouTube

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Refugees struggle in cash-strapped Lebanon

Food inflation in Lebanon has exceeded 400 percent since 2019, while prices of diesel and petrol have skyrocketed.

Al Jazeera

Nigerian shopkeepers forced to scale back

As the Ukraine war fuels food price inflation, women running small retail businesses in the West African nation are reducing their stock and taking out loans to stay afloat

Thomson Reuters Foundation

How humanitarian corridors work in wartime

For tens of thousands of civilians trapped in active combat zones in Ukraine, the establishment of humanitarian corridors could mean the difference between living and dying, experts said.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

South Africa floods kill more than 300 citizens

The death toll in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has reached more than 300, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area this week.

BBC

Deadly floods wreak havoc in South Africa

CNN

Bearing the brunt of extreme storms in Madagascar

Al Jazeera

Green farming gets a boost among Kenyans

Efforts by farmers to prepare for climate change impacts may also help deal with other crises, from COVID-19 to the Ukraine war.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Drought and heat cripple crops on Iraq farms

Climate change-related losses are squeezing Iraq’s parched farmers - and driving growing migration. Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country in the world to extreme temperatures and water shortages.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Graves of local residents who died during the fighting with Russia are seen in a street behind private houses in an area that Russian-backed separatists claim to control in the Ukraine city of Mariupol. (Photo by AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov) Photo used under CC BY

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