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World
Gender Inequality and COVID-19
New global data from U.N. Women, the United Nations’ entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, has suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic could eradicate twenty-five years of increasing gender equality. The data show women are doing significantly more household chores and family care as a result of the pandemic. Before COVID-19, women on average around the globe spent 1.6 times more on unpaid care work and chores than men, this rose to 4.8 times more in Japan and 9.2 times more in Egypt. This map by the BBC shows the proportion of women in countries around the world who say they’re spending more time on at least one domestic chore since the beginning of the pandemic. An estimated 865,000 women dropped out of the labor force in the United States in September of this year, compared to 200,000 men, mainly due to the increased care burden placed upon them. The U.N. is calling on governments and businesses to acknowledge that unpaid work exists and implement measures such as extra family leave, or extra paid leave.
This map depicts the proportion of women in some of the countries who say they’re spending more time on domestic chores since the beginning of the pandemic. Click on the map to learn more.
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Germany
Car Plows Into Pedestrians
On Tuesday, five people including a nine-week-old baby girl were killed and up to 15 injured when a speeding SUV plowed into a central pedestrian zone in the western German city of Trier located 720 kilometers (447 miles) west of Berlin, near the border with Luxembourg. According to reports, the incident occurred at about 1:45 pm local time in the pedestrian Brotstrasse shopping area. Eyewitnesses said the suspect zig-zagged for about 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) “hitting people at random on his way”. Authorities reported, the driver, a 51-year-old local man, had drunk a significant amount of alcohol and there was no sign of a religious or political motive, but added an assessment of the suspect’s mental health would be necessary to determine whether he could be held criminally liable. The incident echoes the 2016 attack in Berlin when an Islamist militant drove a hijacked truck into a Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others.
This map depicts the path the SVU drove before being apprehended. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Daily Mail
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Ethiopia
UN Deal to Bring Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations (UN) and Ethiopia reached an agreement today that will bring in much needed humanitarian assistance to the northern region of Tigray, where a month of war has caused countless deaths and instability. The agreement will enable UN officials to send aid workers to the war-torn region, where Ethiopian federal troops have been fighting with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). It’s estimated this crisis has killed thousands, while around 45,000 refugees have fled to Sudan, with many more displaced within Tigray. Before the fighting started, about 600,000 people were already dependent on food aid, and medical resources were already low. The new deal will allow for “unimpeded” humanitarian access in the region, providing food, medicine, and other aid. However, the fugitive leader of the TPLF has stated that fighting continues despite Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s victory declaration.
This map depicts the northern region of Tigray, Ethiopia where fighting has created a humanitarian disaster. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Which cave, discovered in 1986 and stretching only 240 m (0.15 mi) and spanning 12,000 sq m (130,000 sq ft) is famous for remaining isolated for 5.5 million years?
A: Movile Cave, Romania
In the south-eastern part of Romania near the coast of the Black Sea and the Bulgarian border, Movile Cave was discovered in 1986 by workers testing the ground to see if it was suitable for a power plant. The cave is a treasure trove for researchers as it could revolutionize the theories of life on Earth. Scientists were able to identify a stable and unique chemoautotrophic ecosystem. Rather than using light as an energy source (photosynthesis), bacteria get their energy from oxidizing inorganic compounds in the cave and are the base of the food web. The cave is so isolated that radioactive isotopes common in the soil of Romania after the Chernobyl accident were not present.
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Q: The largest iceberg ever recorded, measuring almost 4,250 square miles (11,000 square kilometers) in area, broke off from what ice shelf in 2000?
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