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Africa needs a new approach in its battle against hunger

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Slobodan Praljak suicide ‘could not have been prevented’

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Africa hunger initiatives bearing some fruit

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Why nothing will stop people from migrating

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HUMAN RIGHTS

How laws changed to protect women in 2017

Recent revelations of sexual harassment and allegations of assault by men in all different sectors, from movie producers to senators, have transformed global outrage into action.

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Teen Vogue

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The ‘invisible problem’ of family violence

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Channel NewsAsia

The year the US refugee program unraveled

With Trump’s travel ban, plus a scaled back refugee program, 2017 was an assault on immigration by the Trump administration, says Jennifer Quigley, a refugee advocate with Human Rights First, a nongovernmental organization in Washington.

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Refugees in Greece reflect on another year of waiting

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Israel votes for push to annex West Bank

The central committee of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party voted for a resolution urging Likud parliamentarians to push to annex the occupied West Bank.

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News24

Kim Jong Un offers rare olive branch to S Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held out a rare olive branch to the country’s southern neighbor, offering talks over sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month.

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CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The biggest technology failures of 2017

Past year, social media threatened the planet, homemade CRISPR injections went viral, and a security robot drowned itself. Meet the technologies that we wish we hadn’t.

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Changing technology continued to challenge brands

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Ten things science did not say in 2017

Science denialism, clickbait headlines, and absurd pseudoscience: Favorite science debunkings from 2017.

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Snopes

GLOBAL HEALTH

Kenya to ban shisha smoking over health risks

The highly toxic tobacco substance is smoked using a hookah (water pipe) and gained popularity at entertainment establishments in Kenya over the last year.

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The Star

Radiologist have a new tool to detect cancer

Scientists are working on finding new ways to detect breast cancer while at the same time they are studying existing screening methods to find out what is best.

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2017 was safest year ever for air travel

Zero deaths were reported for passenger jet travel in 2017, making it the safest year on record for commercial aviation, according to the Dutch aviation group To70 and the Aviation Safety Network.

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The Hill

2017 IN REVIEW

The 99 best things that happened in 2017

In 2017, it felt like the global media picked up all of the problems, and none of the solutions. To fix that, here are 99 of the best stories from this year that you probably missed.

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Quartz

Coal mining deaths skyrocket in 2017

Workplace deaths in the coal mining industry increased last year to their highest point in three years. A total of 15 miners died on the job in 2017, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) data show, compared with eight in 2016.

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NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Corporation grants $10.8M to medical research

The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil), a limited liability corporation has announced grants totaling $10.8 million in support of high-risk medical research.

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Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Germany’s Green Belt: Death zone to lifeline

In the nearly three decades since German reunification, the area has remained relatively undisturbed and become an ecological treasure trove of biodiversity. The uninhabited land has been transformed from “a death zone into a lifeline."

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The Caribbean is stressed out

The largest, longest program to monitor the health of the Caribbean coastal ecosystems, CARICOMP revealed that water quality decreased at 42 percent of the monitoring stations across the basin.

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ScienceDaily

BUSINESS AND TRADE

This was the year Brexit began to bite

The price of consumer goods spiked in 2017, business confidence slumped, growth slowed dramatically and the property market stalled. One more blow: Britain dropped out of the world’s top five economies.

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CNNMoney

Three timeless investment lessons of 2017

Humility is always a virtue in investing, but especially so today. That’s because there have been an unusually large number of spectacularly wrong forecasts over the past year, and there’s no reason to expect 2018 to be any different.

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