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Hello. We cover political unrest in Haiti, orphaned children in India and another scorching heat wave in the United States

Haiti on the brink

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last week, political chaos has gripped Haiti. On Sunday, the country rushed to a constitutional crisis, as its main managers at the same time rushed for control.

Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph tried to turn the words of support from the United States into the appearance of a mandate, but Haiti’s last elected officials organized to block it. Only 10 of Haiti’s 30 Senate seats are filled, but eight of the remaining senators signed a resolution calling on Joseph Lambert, the president of the Senate, to temporarily take control. Here is live updates.

“We cannot let the country go astray,” said one woman Martine Moïse, the president’s widow, said in audio clip posted on Twitter. She suggested that the perpetrators “don’t want to see a transition in the country.”

Haiti asked United States and the un to send troops and security assistance, a move criticized by intellectuals and members of Haitian civil society, who argue that international support has often added to the country’s instability.

Response from the United States: Biden administration officials are reluctant send even a limited American force into the midst of the mess. Instead, a team of U.S. government investigators will assess how they can help the assassination investigation.

Power: Rony Célestin, senator and political ally of Moïse, bought a $ 3.4 million villa in Canada. The house has become a powerful emblem of the growing gap between Haiti’s impoverished citizens and its wealthy political elite.

Covid orphans in India

Thousands of Indian children lost their parents during calamitous wave coronavirus infections this spring. Many of the more than 3,000 orphans are at risk of being neglected and exploited when attention inevitably wanes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed support and Indian states have compensation announced of about $ 7 to $ 68 per month for each orphan, plus pledges of free food and education.

But advocates are worried about long-term protections. Traumatized children often have difficulty obtaining death certificates to qualify for government benefits. Some may find it difficult to return to school or to avoid human trafficking and child marriage.

An empty line: Nine-year-old Kahkashan Saifi lost both his parents and then his house because the owner locked her up with her siblings on unpaid rents. Almost every day, Kahkashan picks up the phone and calls his mother, speaking to her as if she is on the other end of the phone. “Mother, when will you come? ” she says.

Regional scan: Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are struggling with epidemics powered by the Delta variant of the virus. Indonesia and Malaysia are cracking under the pressure. Japan and South Korea enact severe new restrictions.

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In other developments:

A stifling heatwave in the United States

After a recent spike in temperature killed nearly 200 people in Oregon and Washington state, the western United States suffered another “heating domeWhich has raised temperatures this weekend, the third wave to sweep the region this summer.

Death Valley, California, timed 130 degrees Fahrenheit, one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on Earth. In Arizona, two people helping fight a 300-acre wildfire died saturday when their plane crashed.

Heat waves, which scientists say were virtually impossible without the influence of man-made climate change, have exacerbated a widespread drought, sets the stage for what should be another catastrophic fire season and mass killed marine fauna on the pacific coast.

Other climate news: In Turkey, the Sea of ​​Marmara, legendary for centuries for its sapphire blue color, is full of pollution and suffocate under a viscous secretion caused, in part, by warming waters.

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An inked memory

At the end of the pandemic, some people tattoos in commemoration, permanent totems for deceased loved ones, for their own survival or for the lessons of this strange timeless era.

Glamor magazine editor Samantha Barry got a little portrayal of the New York skyline, a tribute to the walks that kept it going. “We’ll talk about 2020 when we’re old and gray, and now I have something on my body that symbolizes where I was,” she said. Rachael Sunshine, a 44-year-old woman with a degenerative nerve disease, has twice survived Covid-19. She got a tattoo of a heart surrounded by advanced coronavirus protein, which is the logo of a group that connects survivors. “Tears kept falling from my eyes,” she said.

Katie Tompkins, who works for a medical lab, took a different approach. For her first tattoo, she got a small roll of toilet paper.

“I wanted to have something to look at and say to myself ‘Oh my God, do you remember when all these crazy things happened?'” She said. “It’s my way of highlighting a situation that is not great.

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