Rural Alaska teachers race to teach with limited internet
Corey Shepherd struggles to educate fifth graders across 11 remote villages in Alaska where travel relies on planes and snowmobiles. With schools closed for COVID-19, many students lack reliable home internet while providers waive fees for some families.
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Asylum seekers aid Dutch village with disinfecting carts
In Ter Apel, Iraq-born electrical engineer Raffat Altekrete volunteers to wipe shopping carts at a local Jumbo. Refugee groups also work with residents to counter stigma while migrant families, many housed at Camp Ter Apel, await asylum decisions.
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UN General Assembly to vote on rival COVID-19 resolutions
The UN General Assembly may adopt one or both rival COVID-19 resolutions under a new silence procedure. One text, led by Ghana and others, urges intensified international cooperation and WHO guidelines, while a Russia backed draft calls for ending trade wars and avoiding unilateral sanctions without UN Security Council consent.
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