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Located behind a mangrove along the Philippines coast, the Masepla 2 transitory site is known by the local community as the ECHO Village. The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) has provided all basic humanitarian services to the community here. (Photo by AMISOM Public Information) Photo used under CC BY

Mindanao residents ask court to lift martial law

Mindanao residents and cause-oriented groups have petitioned the Supreme Court to nullify Proclamation 216 declaring martial law in Mindanao for 60 days due to the attack carried out by the Maute terror group in Marawi City.

Inquirer.net

Comey: White House lied about reasons for firing

Fired FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he was “confused” and “concerned” when President Donald Trump told the public he was firing him for undermining the morale of the agency he had led since 2013. “Those were lies, plain and simple,” Comey said.

NBCNews.com

Comey quotes Henry II: ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’

USA TODAY

Trump lawyer accuses Comey of ‘improperly’ leaking memo to press

The Hill

UK election: Conservatives may lose outright majority

British Prime Minister Theresa May spectacularly lost her electoral gamble, according to an exit poll that suggested her Conservatives would fall short of a majority in parliament, throwing her Brexit plans into disarray. The exit poll predicted a “hung parliament” with no clear winner.

Reuters

May’s future in question as swing to Labor grows

Guardian

Qatar vows ‘no surrender’ in Arab dispute

Qatar has vowed it will “not surrender” its foreign policy in a row with other Arab states over its alleged connections to extremism. Qatar’s foreign minister said he favored diplomacy to resolve the escalating crisis and that there was no military solution.

BBC

Millions of Yemenis go hungry during Ramadan

While Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan with special meals and tasty treats, millions of Yemenis are suffering from an acute lack of food as the country’s two-year war rages on. According to aid agencies, 17 million people do not have enough to eat, in what the UN calls the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”

Al Jazeera

Why are there still famines?

BBC

Merkel in Mexico talking trade and digital rules

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is struggling to duck her Mexican visit’s symbolism, south of Donald Trump’s planned border wall. She has discussed trade and digital rules.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Anti-Muslim rallies across US denounced

A wave of anti-Muslim rallies planned for almost 30 cities across America on Saturday by far-right activists has drawn sharp criticism from civil rights groups and inspired counter-protests nationwide.

The Guardian

Germany asked to arrest CIA deputy director

A civil rights group is asking German authorities to issue an arrest warrant for the recently appointed deputy director of the CIA over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects 15 years ago.

CBS8.com

Many casualties in Mosul from heavy weapons

Large numbers of civilians are being killed and injured in western Mosul because Iraqi and U.S.-backed coalition forces are relying on the use of heavy weapons as they struggle to push Islamic State group militants from the city, human rights organizations warned.

Mysanantonio.com

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Venezuelans reject plan for new constitution

President Nicolas Maduro’s plan to rewrite the constitution is opposed by 85 percent of Venezuelans, according to a survey by polling company Datanalisis carried out as protests calling for presidential elections grew increasingly intense.

Reuters

Trump targets immigrants that had reprieves

The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of illegal immigrants who, like Velasquez, had been given a reprieve from deportation, according to government data and court documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with immigration lawyers.

Reuters

Puerto Rico could become the 51st state!

Some Puerto Ricans are raring to cozy up with America to jump-start a flagging economy; meanwhile, plenty of residents would just as soon maintain the status quo, and others would prefer to break ties all together.

CNN

Puerto Rico votes again on statehood but US not ready to put 51st star on the flag

The Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Merkel says digital world needs global rules

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the digital world needs regulations like those that exist for financial markets in the G20 and for trade under the World Trade Organization.

Reuters

Ancient fossils mess up modern human origins

Dated to more than 300,000 years ago, the finds raise key questions about the defining features of Homo sapiens and how our kind came to be

Scientific American

The Human Race Actually Started Much Earlier Than Believed

International Business Times

Bosch to use radar sensors to improve maps

Bosch said that by 2020, cars with radar sensors could start collecting data that would be integrated into TomTom maps. “We currently expect that we will need fleets for freeways in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific that each consist of around one million vehicles in order to keep our high-resolution map up to date,” Dirk Hoheisel, a member of Bosch board of management, said in a statement.

Popular Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zika fears rise as Trump proposes aid cuts

Zika has faded from the media spotlight in recent months, but public health officials are gearing up for the virus to resurface as the summer brings warmer weather and mosquitos, through which it is primarily transmitted. The virus is linked to serious birth defects in babies of mothers who were infected while pregnant.

Yahoo.News

‘Catastrophic’ cholera outbreak hits Yemen

UN officials have warned that the number of cases could double every two weeks if left unchecked. Yemen’s government has announced a state of emergency in the capital, saying it cannot keep up with the outbreak.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Mohammed Cherkaoui):

The ‘Trump factor’ and the implosion of the Gulf union

Al Jazeera

Column (Jamie Peck):

It’s not just the 1%. The upper middle class is oppressing everyone else, too

The Guardian

Column (Joshua Geltzer and Jon Finer):

Trump’s message to the world: Do it yourself

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Gardening brings taste of home to refugees

The farm, which began in 2012, became a nonprofit this spring after creating a board of directors last year, said Linda Seyler, executive director and “head weed puller.” The group receives so many requests for garden plots that there’s a wait list of 60 families, Seyler said. Often, newly arrived refugees are so eager to begin growing foods that remind them of home that they reach out to the farm while still learning to speak English and navigate the “L.”

MSN

Kidnapped Iraqi girl reunited with family

A six-year old Iraqi Christian girl, kidnapped by Islamic State when she was three, was reunited with her family on Friday, and getting used to saying “mum” and “dad” once more.

Huffington Post

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

How are funders boosting arts engagement?

We occasionally stumble across a news item that compels us to step back and take stock of the larger arts philanthropy landscape as a whole. Such is the case with news out of New York City, where an impressive cadre of funders joined forces to engage diverse audiences.

Inside Philanthropy

Buffett charity lunch sold for over $2.6M

An anonymous bidder has agreed to pay more than $2.6 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett, with the auction proceeds going to a California homeless charity.

Associated Press

Interview:

A billionaire defends modern philanthropy

The Atlantic

Hungary to modify law regulating NGOs

The Hungarian government has announced that it will modify much-criticized legislation that would have required nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funding to register as such, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reports.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Microplastic debris: the next threat to our seas

Recently, a new type of trash — microplastics — has become a focus for marine researchers, and they fear the impact of this type of debris may be especially dire.

Environmental News Network

Climate will last longer than Trump presidency

The German official‘s trip to California to talk climate-efforts with Brown demonstrates determination of some U.S. governors, some 200 U.S. mayors, business leaders and others to keep cutting Americans’ output of climate-changing emissions from fossil fuels, Brown said.

ABC News

Humans affected environment 11K years ago

Man-made environmental change isn’t new: A study found human activities such as farming and logging led to erosion around the Dead Sea some 11,500 years ago, the earliest ever discovered.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Canada’s tech firms capitalize on immigration

Canadian tech companies are eager to capitalize on anxiety among international visitors and would-be immigrants following President Trump’s travel ban and other immigration policies. Meanwhile, the Canadian government is making it easier for highly skilled workers to move there.

NPR

Indian tech firm: Trump is a risk to its business

One of India‘s biggest outsourcing firms has formally called out President Trump as a danger to its business. Bangalore-based Wipro has included Trump’s election as U.S. president in a list of “risk factors” in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

CNNMoney

US abstains to fight corporate tax evasion

Less than a week after President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, the U.S. government abstained from signing another multilateral agreement in the French capital meant to combat tax evasion by companies operating in multiple countries.

International Business Times

Photo of the Day

Somalians line up for emergency food aid. In drought- and war-stricken Somalia, millions of children are at risk of death. (Photo by AMISOM Public Information) Photo used under CC BY

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