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Food aid is distributed in Mwenezi district in January 2017, during a drought. (Photo by Jason Taylor/USAID) Photo used under CC BY

UN: Zimbabwe is on brink of ‘manmade’ starvation

At least 7.7 million Zimbabweans are food insecure, a UN special envoy says. Meanwhile, the government has removed duty on all foodstuffs in a bid to ensure essential foodstuffs remain available. Zimbabwe is in the grip of an entrenched economic crisis.

allAfrica.com

UN says Zimbabwe’s cash shortage hurts aid delivery efforts

Associated Press

HK police chief warns against violence at rally

Hong Kong’s police chief has appealed to protesters joining a mass protest approved for Sunday to reject violence as he called on organizers to be proactive in condemning disorder if it breaks out.

South China Morning Post

Hong Kongers worry about tear gas exposure

Time

Raids, murders stalk Filipino environmentists

The Philippines recently was named the world’s deadliest for environmental defenders by the international watchdog Global Witness. In 2018, at least 30 environmental and land defenders were killed in the country.

Al Jazeera

Burmese back Suu Kyi as genocide trial looms

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi travels to The Hague, Netherlands, next week for hearings in her genocide trail. At home, people are rallying behind her.

Reuters

AP finds mass graves, latest evidence of Rohingya genocide in Myanmar

CBS News

Marchers, strikers oppose Macron reforms

More than 800,000 people have marched in cities across France as railway workers, teachers and hospital staff struck against Emmanuel Macron’s plans to overhaul the pension system.

Guardian

Australia humiliated refugees, Kurd says

Iranian Kurd refugee and author Behrouz Boochani has accused the Australian government of seeking to humiliate asylum seekers and take away their identity at a detention center in Papua New Guinea.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Game lets players attack Hong Kong protesters

China’s state-operated Global Times says there’s a new hit mobile game called Fight the Traitors Together, which lets players join in assaulting and beating Hong Kong protesters.

Vice

Tokyo’s role in “comfort women” revealed

The “Kono Statement,” named after then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono acknowledged Japanese authorities’ involvement in coercing women and girls (comfort women) to work in brothels. Many were of Korean descent.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Trans activists protest trans rights bill in India

India‘s new legislation purports to protect transgender rights, but many trans activists say it’s a huge blow to India’s already vulnerable transgender community and undoes a lot of progress made over the past few years.

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Unvaccinated families hang red flag on door

Families that have not been vaccinated against measles in Samoa have been asked to hang a red flag outside their homes to help fight a deadly outbreak of the disease.

BBC

World leaders mock Trump at NATO Summit

As Democrats prepared to resume their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in Washington, members of the royal family and world leaders were openly mocking him at a NATO-summit event in London.

Vice

Syrians cut off from dollars stashed in Lebanon

This year they were finally able able to deposit their money for safekeeping however, they are restricted from access to their savings, even as they work under the ever-present threat of deportation and hopes to emigrate.

Asia Times Online

Slovakia rejects bill for pre abortion ultrasound

Lawmakers in Slovakia have rejected a proposed bill that would have made it obligatory for women seeking abortions to first have an ultrasound and obtain the consent of the father before having the procedure.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Doctors use YouTube for surgical procedures

Tens of thousands of surgery-related videos are on YouTube, and the number keeps climbing every year. Some doctors say that medical students and residents rely on YouTube to fill in gaps in their training.

CNBC

Solar probe finds unexplainable things near sun

Scientists say the unexplained rogue waves and high winds mean we are “missing something really fundamental in our standard models of the Sun.”

Vice

Images show how bees and humans see a field

USA TODAY

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hijab wearers face unique discrimination

U.S. maternal mortality rates are at an all-time high and women of color are being affected most, there’s a segment of the population that is not properly accounted for: Muslim women who live in the United States.

Vice

Spike seen in cellphone-linked face injuries

Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them. That’s according to a study that found a spike in U.S. emergency room treatment for these mostly minor injuries.

Associated Press

WHO estimates 142k deaths from measles

The worldwide surge in deadly measles outbreaks is showing no sign of abating, with nearly 10 million cases and 142k deaths last year and three times more cases reported so far this year than at the same stage in 2018.

Guardian

Samoa shuts down during battle against measles

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Nobel-winners speak out on immigration

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo shared the Nobel Prize in economics and are immigrants that both think the evidence shows we need more people like them.

Vox

Coffee shop run by adults with disabilities

Unemployment rates for adults with special needs are high, so Pam Donovan and speech Pathologist Marcia Gurian opened a nonprofit coffee shop that employs and educates adults with special needs.

Today

Olive Garden waiter goes viral with stunning ‘happy birthday’ serenade

Today

Four kids making the world a better place

Four young people are disproving negative stereotypes about Generation Z. Their selfless work helping others will be featured on "Young Wonders: A CNN Heroes Special.

MSN

Adorable baby smiles with new hearing aids on

USA TODAY

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Influential Gates Foundation CEO leaving

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the $50 billion Gates Foundation said she would leave her post due to health and family issues, ushering in a new era at what has been viewed as the tech sector’s most successful giant charity.

Vox

Secret Santa uses bus drivers to give out thousands of dollars

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Warming could sink fishing, reef tourism

Countries from Egypt to Mexico could lose 95 percent of their income from coral reef tourism, and parts of West Africa could see their ocean fisheries decline by 85 percent if planet-warming emissions continue to rise.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Underwater fish farm pipe still spewing blood

In 2017, an underwater fish farm pipe in British Columbia was found churning a stream of intestinal worms, gore, and more into the water. New footage shows the pipe is still churning out virus-infected blood and guts.

Vice

Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate

Oxygen in oceans is being lost at an unprecedented rate. “Dead zones” are proliferating and hundreds more areas show oxygen dangerously depleted, as a result of the climate emergency and intensive farming.

Guardian

Australia fires: blazes ‘too big to put out’

Dozens of fires will burn across Australia for weeks, fire authorities say, including a “mega-fire”, already the size of greater Sydney, that is too big to put out.

Guardian

India’s tech cities choke on their success

India’s energy needs are rising as it tries to extend the manufacturing and tech boom to lift millions more out of poverty. That means more factories, more offices, more residences and vehicles.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Brutal impact of oil in the Niger Delta

In Bayelsa and elsewhere along the Niger Delta, communities have faced an environmental catastrophe. About 10.5 million gallons of oil are spilled annually across the Niger Delta.

Guardian

Uber reveals sexual assault reports

Uber just released its first-ever safety report that covers sexual assault. In 2017, Uber received 2,936 reports pertaining to sexual assault, and received 3,045 in 2018.

TechCrunch

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A motorcyclists transports a Christmas tree in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in December 2007. (Photo by Lucas Jans) Photo used under CC BY

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