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Central American migrants find refuge in southern Mexico in 2008. Migrants often travel in groups to make the trip more manageable. Hundreds of migrants from the U.S.-bound caravan have already crossed. (Photo by Peter Haden) Photo used under CC BY

Hundreds of US-bound migrants reach Mexico

A U.S.-bound caravan that once totaled more than 3,000 Central American migrants looked to be about a third that size when its members woke up on a bridge that divides Guatemala and Mexico and waited to get past a crossing guarded by hundreds of Mexican federal police.

CBS News

WhatsApp used to disinform Brazilians

Over the past few months, the 120 million Brazilians who use WhatsApp, the smartphone messaging application owned by Facebook, have been deluged with political messages that spread fake news and disinformation.

The Independent

Brazil’s Bolsonaro does not rule out retaining central bank chief Goldfajn

Reuters

Nigerian gangs trafficking kids into Irish sex trade

Sophisticated organized crime gangs are trafficking children from Nigeria to Ireland to work in the sex trade by exploiting the migrant crisis, Europol has warned.

The Irish Times

Voting extended after issues, Afghanistan

The electoral commission extended voting in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election after several polling stations failed to open due to lack of voter materials or system problems.

Al Jazeera

Afghans brave violence, chaos to cast votes

Guardian

Call for referendum on independence in Taiwan

Several thousand pro-independence demonstrators rallied in Taiwan’s capital to protest against Beijing’s “bullying” and called for a referendum on whether the island should formally declare independence from China.

Reuters

Thousands march for Taiwan independence

Al Jazeera

Trump questions Saudi account on Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia’s explanation of how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died is “all over the place,” President Donald Trump said in an interview.

CNN

Jamal Khashoggi’s Washington Post editor calls Saudi explanation ’utter bullshit’

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Estimates of slavery in UK reach 136,000

People trafficked into the UK are coerced by debt, fraud and false promises, as well as violence and physical intimidation. One story told of a family forcing the mentally ill into working for them without payment.

Guardian

Indonesians subjected to virginity testing

Women looking to become police officers in Indonesia are reported to have to undergo an invasive “two-finger” virginity test and be “pretty” as a part of the recruitment process.

abc.net.au

UN agencies urge to end virginity testing

TIME

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Thousands march for new referendum on Brexit

Hundreds of thousands of protesters opposed to Britain’s impending exit from the EU marched through central London, demanding a new referendum and to have a say on the government’s final Brexit deal with the EU.

CBS News

US exits nuclear treaty, Russia warns retaliation

President Donald Trump said Washington will exit the Cold-War era treaty that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons due to Russian violations, triggering a warning of retaliatory measures from Moscow.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Will humanity survive 21st century?

One of the world’s leading cosmologists, Martin Rees gives civilization a 50-50 chance of surviving the 21st century, an estimate he reached after surveying ways humanity could destroy itself. His biggest fear? Enhanced tech.

Vox

Data project aims to stop human trafficking

IBM Corp’s, company Western Union Co and European police launched a project that will collect information on money moving around the world and compare it to known ways that traffickers move their illicit gains.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Indonesia’s children are not growing normally

37 percent of Indonesia’s children are stunted, a rate on par with some far more impoverished nations of Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank says. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has now elevated the issue to a national priority.

Voice of America

How scientists hope to wipe out malaria

Up to 10,000 genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in Burkina Faso, Africa. This possible alternative solution would wipe out malaria carrying mosquitoes through blocking female reproduction in the species.

Telegraph.co.uk

Researcher studies effects of dung burning

Animal dung is used globally for heating and cooking. People from poor countries cannot afford cleaner fuels and must rely on biomass fuels to live. A researcher aims to find out how biomass smoke contributes to lung disease.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Belgium squashes migrant-smuggling ring

Belgium has broken up a Brussels-based ring of human traffickers who smuggled mainly Sudanese and Eritrean migrants into Britain in UK-bound refrigerated lorries.

express.co.uk

‘Peaceful’ Greek refugee camp raises hope

Run by Lesbos residents, a short distance from Moria, one of the world’s worst camps, Pikpa provides for the most vulnerable — families with children, pregnant women, disabled refugees and those with medical conditions.

Al Jazeera

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Aid workers being overrun by Boko Haram

Aid workers struggle to serve the millions of people in need of assistance in the Borno State of Nigeria. Humanitarian access to Boko Haram-controlled areas is limited because of raids and kidnappings.

IRIN

Meteorologists push for climate change awareness

NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Climate data gap leaves poor countries behind

Much of the data coveted to fight climate change doesn’t exist for continents made up of poor countries. This leaves countries at a huge disadvantage when trying to fight the affects of global warming.

The Atlantic

UN panel to fund climate adaptation projects

Gizmodo

Trump on climate change: ‘It’ll change back’

Guardian

Landless Brazilian workers revitalize land

When a group of Brazilian families occupied disused farmland, they found lifeless soil and water. Fifteen years on, they have brought it back to health. Their story is part of a larger battle over Brazil’s farming future.

Deutsche Welle

Diwali fireworks add smog to Delhi air

With a toxic smog beginning to envelop New Delhi, residents of the Indian capital are set to make matters a lot worse by burning hundreds of thousands of firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month.

Reuters

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Here‘s what’s happening in Italy

Italy’s rule-defying budget plan is fast becoming a key concern for global markets, as investors monitor the growing likelihood of a showdown between the European Union and Rome’s populist government.

CNBC

Jordan’s economy suffers amid refugee crisis

Jordan faces “a severe debt crisis due to low economic growth as a result of closed borders, reduced international assistance and low economic productivity,” according to Jordan’s minister of planning.

The Irish Times

Nigeria, others to benefit from €2.6B European Union funds for growth

Guardian.ng

Thai government to reform agro sector

The Thai government plans to increase livelihoods for 1.3 million rice farmers by growing alternative crops, while help is being extended to sugarcane growers too.

Asia Times Online

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Children at play in Manado, Indonesia. (Photo by Ben Pederick, Good Morning Beautiful Films / DFAT) Photo used under CC BY

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