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Breastfeeding Week backs health advantage

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from Aug. 1-7 to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates an international commitment to promote breastfeeding.

World Health Organization

Babies’ twitching in sleep may aid development

Iowa Now

Syrians describe sex slavery in Lebanon

Syrian women lured into sex slavery have described how they were tortured and abused in Lebanon’s largest sex trafficking ring. Women were tortured on a table set up like a crucifix and shocked with an electric prod.

The Independent

Yazidis aim to bring ISIS sex slavers to justice

BBC

US lags in converting wealth to well-being

Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Albania, Germany and Ethiopia do better than average when it comes to turning their national wealth into a better life for their citizens. The US is among countries that do worse than average.

NPR

$400M flown to Iran as U.S. prisoners freed

The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran in January to settle a decades-old legal dispute just as the Iranians were releasing four Americans detained by Tehran.

USA TODAY

ISIS names new Boko Haram boss in Nigeria

Book Haram, the group most famous for kidnapping more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in 2014, has a new leader — though it’s unclear what happened to its old one. ISIS calls Abu Musab al-Barnawi its governor for West Africa.

The Atlantic

Aleppo fighting rages as Russian jets strike

Intense fighting has continued around the Syrian city of Aleppo, where a rebel offensive is trying to break a government siege of rebel-held areas.

BBC

Syrians fleeing fighting pour into Kurdish city

ARA News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Roma Holocaust victims honored at Auschwitz

A ceremony commemorating the mass killing of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz-Birkenau was held at the former Nazi German death camp to mark Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.

Radio Poland

A ceremony honoring Roma Holocaust victims

Human Rights Europe

Food shortage remedy decried as forced labor

The Venezuelan decree that forces workers to take agricultural jobs has been denounced as “forced labor”. The Nicolás Maduro administration calls the regulation an attempt to curb the country’s food shortages.

PanAm Post

Thousands flee Venezuela for food security

NBCNews.com

Turkey may back away from EU refugee deal

Turkey would have to back out of its agreement with the European Union to stem the flow of refugees and migrants into the bloc if the EU does not deliver visa-free travel for Turks, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Turkey is warned against coercion on visas

Germany’s vice chancellor has warned Turkey that if it wants visa-free travel with EU countries it should adhere to European standards of law and not blackmail.

Newsweek

South Africa’s ANC faces tough challenges

South Africa’s National Congress is facing its toughest challenge - and not just from opposition parties. The hotly contested campaign has been marred by squabbles within the governing party.

BBC

Indonesia pays price of drug executions

The third wave of executions announced by the Indonesian attorney general’s office has created an uproar and made headlines all around the world.

The Diplomat

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Uber sells China operation to fierce rival

Uber Technologies Inc. is selling its China operations to fierce rival Didi Chuxing, ending an expensive price war and freeing it up to focus on other markets and possibly an IPO.

Bloomberg

Trade backlash frustrates business

Business groups found themselves on the outside looking in during the Republican and Democratic conventions, with both parties expressing indifference or outright hostility to their top economic priorities.

The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China‘s elevated ’straddling bus’ hits the road

It may look like something from the future, but China’s long-awaited “straddling bus” ran its inaugural test in Hebei province this week. The Transit Elevated Bus straddles the cars below, allowing them to pass through.

BBC

Crowd-sourced data unearths depression genes

Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites – the first ever – linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Instead of sequencing genes, the researchers analyzed data shared by people who had bought genetic profiles.

National Institutes of Mental Health

Apple may launch iPad mini 5 in September

Apple is expected to announce the much-talked-about iPhone 7 in September. Now, it’s rumored that the tech giant will also introduce the iPad mini 5. The new iPad is expected to be thinner and come with a more-efficient A9 processor.

Design&Trend

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pregnant women urged to check Zika exposure

All pregnant women in the U.S. should be assessed for possible Zika exposure during every prenatal visit, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

USA TODAY

‘Hyena men’ paid to have sex with women

The practice of hiring a man to have sex with a girl after her first menstruation is viewed as a way to ritually cleanse girls after their first period, usually within a three-day window.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Conner Narciso):

It’s an easy choice: everyone in the US military should vote for Clinton

Guardian

Column (Flavia Bustreo):

Early childhood development begins with a mother’s breast

World Health Organization

Column (Irene Pritzker):

Education in the developing world: Giving low-fee private schools a seat at the table

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Former gang rivals providing gourmet meals

Tired of life on the streets, friends in Los Angeles are putting aside gang colors to provide home-cooked, gourmet meals to members of their community. Their popularity has grown enormously thanks to social media.

NBCNews.com

Ice bucket challenge led to gene discovery

Project MinE has identified a gene that is responsible for ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in part because of the contributions made by the millions of people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge.

CNN

NGOs

NGOs enlist traditional healers to reach poor

Despite delivering results of varying quality, traditional healers are often integral members of their communities and local culture and heritage. They thrive in places where doctors are few and far between, such as Madagascar.

Al Jazeera

45 NGOs call for end to tiger farming, trade

On Global Tiger Day this year, midway through the Global Tiger Recovery Program, 45 NGOs released a joint statement raising the alarm of increasing tiger poaching and call for ending all tiger farming and tiger trade.

National Geographic

Special section:

Protecting tiger habitat

Tigers in Crisis

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Scholars indifferent to study of philanthropy

If you believe that philanthropy is one of the most powerful forces shaping U.S. society — and increasingly, public policy — the near-indifference to this subject among academics is nothing short of bizarre.

Inside Philanthropy

Business of aid: Making money by doing good

When governments pledge aid money, it is rarely handed directly over to poor countries in cash, despite the rhetoric from both the right and the left about how much money is “given” each year.

Mail & Guardian Africa

Is global aid reaching Syrians in need?

Charities trying to deliver aid across Syria to help victims of the worsening conflict, have admitted it is hard, if not impossible, to know where supplies end up and fear future funding could be at risk.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

US agencies told to project climate change

The White House Council on Environmental Quality recommends that agencies both calculate direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a project and assess how climate change might affect a project.

Scientific American

Trump, Clinton worlds apart on climate science

Science is slowly coming into focus in the U.S. presidential campaign. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are fleshing out their positions on climate change, education and biomedical research.

Scientific American

Photo of the Day

Two people were swept away to their deaths and more than 100 others had to be rescued after heavy rains caused severe damage in Elliott City, Maryland, over the weekend. (Photo by WJZ-CBS Baltimore/Forsaken Fotos) Photo used under CC BY

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