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• The Beirut explosion, in photos .usnews.com 31659
  

• 300,000 made homeless by Beirut explosion, ‘catastrophic’ food shortages predicted .forbes.com 31658
  

• Women in Xinjiang shine a light on a campaign of abuse and control by Beijing .cnn.com 31656
  

• Air Quality Disparities Persist Despite Overall Gains .npr.org 31654
  

• From 2.5 million to just 1,000: Socially distant crowds mark a very different hajj news.yahoo.com 31652
  

• Pilgrims pray on peak Hajj day in shadow of Coronavirus .bloomberg.com 31650
  

• From 2 million to 1,000: Striking photos show socially-distanced Hajj .cnn.com 31649
  

• Two monumental depictions of the Hajj to Mecca .sothebys.com 31648
  

• ‘Unprecedented’ Hajj begins — with 1,000 pilgrims, rather than the usual 2 million .cnn.com 31644
  

• Coronavirus-Linked Hunger Tied To 10,000 Child Deaths Each Month .huffpost.com 31642
  

• How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected .theguardian.com 31634
  

• Ocean Plastics Could Triple If We Don’t Act Now, Warn Experts .huffpost.com 31631
  

• U.S. labs buckle amid testing surge; world virus cases top 15M apnews.com 31628
  

• Un-HolyLand? An Arab Muslim Reckoning With Racism .npr.org 31626
  

• U.S. spends millions of taxpayer dollars on ineffective voting restrictions .theguardian.com 31622
  

• Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say .nytimes.com 31611
  

• My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves .bbc.com 31606
  

• Crisis at the commission: inside Europe’s response to the coronavirus outbreak .thebureauinvestigates.com 31605
  

• Most polar bears to disappear by 2100, study predicts .theguardian.com 31600
  

• Dramatic footage fuels fears Amazon fires could be worse than last year .theguardian.com 31596
  

• The most powerful renewable energy .bbc.com 31594
  

• Rwanda’s Genocide Ended 26 Years Ago. Survivors Are Still Finding Mass Graves .npr.org 31592
  

• Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born .bbc.com 31588
  

• Hagia Sophia, what happens now? .trtworld.com 31584
  

• School reopenings: what can the U.S. learn from other countries’ experiences? .theguardian.com 31581
  

• Jaw-dropping stats and what a vaccine could do for the economy insights.osu.edu 31579
  

• Zero COVID-19 Deaths in Vietnam .outbreakobservatory.org 31578
  

• Why clothes are so hard to recycle .bbc.com 31575
  

• Coronavirus: White House targets U.S. disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci .bbc.com 31570
  

• Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19 .nature.com 31568
  

• British-Bangladeshi doctor becomes a face of NHS as it marks 72nd anniversary .thedailystar.net 31567
  

• Saudi Arabia issues protocols to ensure safety of pilgrims during Hajj .arabnews.com 31558
  

• Clean energy future ‘is vital’ – U.N. chief .bbc.com 31557
  

• Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air .theguardian.com 31553
  

• How to rid East Africa of locusts? Serve them in a kebab or drive them to cannibalism news.trust.org 31550
  

• The Difference Between Eggs In The U.S. And The Rest Of The World .huffpost.com 31546
  

• The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay .theatlantic.com 31542
  

• Masks are effective only if you wear them properly. Here’s the right (and wrong) way .cnn.com 31541
  

• Islam’s anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today .yahoo.com 31540
  

• Hajj 2020: What you need to know about this year’s pilgrimage .aljazeera.com 31538
  

• An Italian glacier is turning pink. And that’s not good news .cnn.com 31536
  

• Planting trees doesn’t always help with climate change .bbc.com 31534
  

• Nerve agents: from discovery to deterrence .nature.com 31532
  

• 30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact .theatlantic.com 31529
  

• Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized by U.S. Customs .cbsnews.com 31527
  

• U.S. secures world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir .theguardian.com 31520
  

• Schools Provide Stability For Refugees. COVID-19 Upended That. .huffpost.com 31519
  

• As Coronavirus Surges, How Much Testing Does Your State Need To Subdue The Virus? .npr.org 31516
  

• data shows 10 countries risking coronavirus second wave as lockdown relaxed .theguardian.com 31502