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Americans waste an astounding 150,000 tons of food each day — about one pound per person — and it turns out that the biggest culprits are healthy eaters. (Photo by Taz) Photo used under CC BY

Americans waste pound of food each per day

Every day in the United States, consumers throw out nearly a pound of food each, according to new research. The report also showed a link between quality of diet and food waste: the healthier a person’s diet, the more food they threw in the trash.

CBS News

Report: Americans throw away 150,000 tons of food every day

The Independent

Black US moms, babies dying at alarming rates

According to the Centers for Disease Control, Black women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related complications. Statistics like that are why Black Maternity Health Week exists.

The Grio

A health crisis for black mothers and babies in America

WNYC

Yazidis freed from ISIS forced to convert to Islam

The Yazidis, who were recently the target of massacre, rape and sex slavery by Isis, are facing forcible conversion to Islam under the threat of death from Turkish-backed forces that captured the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in March.

The Independent

Cuba gets first post-Castros leader

Cuba has a new president— and for the first time in six decades, his last name is not Castro. Cuba’s National Assembly has elected First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel to replace Raúl Castro, 87, who took over as Cuba’s leader in 2006 after his brother Fidel Castro fell ill.

Business Insider

Cuban-Americans discuss their hopes and expectations for Cuba’s new president

NPR

Kim: N. Korea no longer needs nuke tests

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the regime no longer needs nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile tests, state-run KCNA reports.

CNN

Myanmar police set up Reuters reporters

A Myanmar police chief ordered officers to “trap” a Reuters reporter arrested in December, telling them to meet the journalist at a restaurant and give him “secret documents”, prosecution witness Police Captain Moe Yan Naing told a court.

Yahoo! News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tanzania: Freedom of expression deteriorating

Tanzania’s new law regulating online content is continuing to generate protest. Critics say President Magufuli is deliberately targeting freedom of expression.

Deutsche Welle

Denmark brokers human rights reform package

Following a high-level conference in Copenhagen, the Council of Europe has formally adopted a declaration on human rights reform.

The Copenhagen Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Erdogan calls for early elections

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caught Turkey off guard by calling early elections for June, in a move that could cement his grip on power a year ahead of schedule.

PBS

The end of the Castro era

Members of Cuba’s National Assembly are holding a two-day session in Havana which will mark the end of the Castro era.

BBC

Erdogan declares early elections on June 24

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan has called a snap presidential and parliamentary election on June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency.

Reuters

Turkey‘s anti-war protesters detained: ’Everything is a crime’

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Invasive alien plants are harming S. Africa

Over 380 invasive alien plant species are depleting South Africa’s water supply, intensifying wildfires, reducing agricultural productivity and threatening globally significant biodiversity, say experts.

Mail & Guardian

NASA’s spacecraft on quest to find new planets

NASA’s Tess spacecraft has embarked on a quest to find new worlds around neighboring stars that could support life. Tess rode a SpaceX Falcon rocket through the evening sky, aiming for an orbit stretching all the way to the moon.

Phys.org

The global race for 5G technology is on

Around the world, the race is on to deploy new, powerful 5G technology. Despite the United States’ technological dominance in the past, there are troubling signs that we may be falling behind in a global contest that several other countries are intent on winning.

Forbes

China is beating the United States in the race for 5G

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Malaria experts fear disease’s resurgence

For the first time in 10 years, global malaria cases are no longer falling, sparking concerns about a resurgence of the too often deadly disease. Experts, and philanthropist Bill Gates, are urging country leaders gathering at the Commonwealth summit in London to pledge more money to fight the illness.

BBC

Africa: Blood transfusion can spread malaria

allAfrica.com

A flesh-eating disease is spreading in Australia

Experts warned that cases of Buruli ulcer, an infectious disease that causes “severe destructive lesions of skin and soft tissue” and can leave permanent damage or result in death, are “rapidly increasing,” particularly in the Australian state of Victoria.

Teen Vogue

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Reihan Salam):

Is It Too Late to Stop the Rise of Marijuana, Inc.?

The Atlantic

Column (David Love):

Beyond Starbucks: America is still living out the days when ‘Black Codes’ were legal

Atlanta Black Star

Column (Robyn Beere and Silomo Khumalo):

Africa: Lend children with disabilities a hand

Mail & Guardian

Column (Rebecca Harding):

There are no winners from a weaponisation of trade

The Telegraph

Column (Myles E. Johnson):

The Beyonce beyond colour: What it means to be proud, black and smart

Gulf News

Column (Walter E. Williams):

‘White Flight’ is not why cities are struggling

Newsweek

Column (Ines Pohl):

Anti-Semitic violence? Germany must decide

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Ghanaian teens earn top scholarships

Three Ghanaian teenage girls’ SAT scores were astronomically higher than 99 percent of all test takers in the world and they’ve been accepted into the most prestigious colleges in the U.S.

Atlanta Black Star

Customer leaves $2,000 tip at restaurant

“Mike” from Seattle tipped $300 on his $769 meal (or 39 percent) before going into the kitchen and giving each of the 17 kitchen staff members a $100 bill, praising them for the service and food.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

$3.8B pledged to halve malaria cases

Governments, businesses, and philanthropies have pledged a total of £2.7 billion ($3.8 billion) in support of efforts to halve the number of malaria cases in Commonwealth countries over the next five years.

Philanthropy News Digest

#MeToo hits the nonprofit world

One in four women fundraisers have been sexually harassed on the job, according to an exclusive Chronicle and Association of Fundraising Professionals survey.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

UK may ban plastic straws, stirrers, swabs

The UK plans to ban plastic straws, stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton swabs, Prime Minister Theresa May announced. “Plastic waste is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world,” May said in a statement.

NPR

Sea levels rising rapidly, new research shows

Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world’s oceans on average will be at least 2 feet higher by the end of the century compared to today.

Deccan Chronicle

Study: Global warming is weakening key ocean circulation

U.S. News & World Report

China’s pollution war may be at a “stalemate”

Air pollution rose by more than a quarter in parts of northern China in March, and the region has been hit by another bout of smog in the second half of April, which the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has blamed on weak air circulation.

Reuters

ECONOMY

Ethiopia is Africa’s fastest-growing economy

The International Monetary Fund has revised its 2018 economic growth forecasts and West African darling, Ghana, has lost Africa’s top spot to East African giant, Ethiopia.

Face2Face Africa

Nigerians living in dire conditions demand reform

Al Jazeera

US cities with the fastest-growing wealth gaps

Migration from crowded and expensive Pacific Coast cities has propelled Boise -- the capital of Idaho -- onto the list of top 10 gainers in the Bloomberg rich versus poor gap ranking of metropolitan areas from close to the bottom.

Bloomberg

Inspection opened into Tesla for workplace safety

CNNMoney

Rising debts pose risk to Nigeria - IMF

The International Monetary Fund has expressed concerns about Nigeria’s debt servicing capacity, as the size of the total debt keeps rising against its revenue.

allAfrica.com

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Children greet a visiting photographer in Tatopani, a village in central Nepal. (Photo by Charles Ng) Photo used under CC BY

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