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The ruins of 1500-year-old Huaca Pucllana are surrounded by the heart of the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru. (Photo by McKay Savage) Photo used under CC BY

Peru’s ancient ruins feel squeeze of urbanization

Thousands of historic sites, are being crowded out or destroyed as roads, schools, residential neighborhoods and stadiums are built to meet growing population. An estimated 46,000 pre-colonial sites dot Peru’s landscape, and about 400 are located in Lima.

Associated Press

‘Super beans’ help hunger-prone African areas

The so-called “super bean,” a fast-maturing, high-yield variety, is being promoted by Uganda’s government and agriculture experts amid efforts to feed hunger-prone parts of Africa. Researchers also hope to create a “super, super bean.”

ABC News

Former Yemen president Saleh killed in Sanaa

Footage circulating on social media appearing to display a body resembling Saleh, with one video showing how armed militiamen used a blanket to move the corpse into the back of a pickup truck.

Al Jazeera

Saleh’s death redraws Yemen’s landscape, sharpens Saudi-Iran rivalry

CNN

Military men get key Zimbabwe cabinet jobs

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has named his cabinet, appointing senior military figures to high-profile positions. Critics have said that it has dashed hopes of change in the country.

BBC

Zimbabwe: A look back through Mugabe’s media legacy

Al Jazeera

The sex trafficking trail from Nigeria to Europe

For decades, Benin City, the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria, has been tied to trafficking to Europe. Here, a potent mix of poverty and spiritualism drives thousands of young women to make the dangerous journey.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pope Francis uses the term Rohingya

Pope Francis met with a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on Friday, offering them blessings and hearing their stories — and saying their Muslim minority’s name, something he avoided doing during his visit to Myanmar, where Rohingya have faced persecution.

NPR

Pope explains why he didn‘t use the word ’Rohingya’ in Myanmar

CNN

Pope Francis On Meeting Rohingya Refugees: ‘I Wept’

Huffington Post

Slavery in Libya has long been ignored

The world has all of a sudden woken up to the reality of slavery in Libya, thanks to CNN’s expose, but the reports of slavery emanating out of Libya from rights groups have for years been falling on deaf ears.

IOL

Saudi Arabia’s Lebanon gamble may pay off

Saudi Arabia’s gamble to pressure Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Shiite militia, by forcing Prime Minister Saad Hariri to resign, may be paying off despite widespread perceptions that the maneuver backfired.

Huffington Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI

The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has charged retired lieutenant general and former national security adviser Michael Flynn with making false statements to the FBI.

NPR

Syrian government quits Geneva talks

Syria might not return to continue peace talks in Geneva following a weekend break, condemning “provocative” statements from the opposition about the fate of President Bashar al-Assad.

Daily Mail

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tesla builds world’s biggest battery

The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery has plugged into an Australian state grid, an official said Friday, easily delivering on Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk’s 100-day guarantee.

USA TODAY

Biohybrid robots are almost here

There may come a day when humans take on the form of cyborgs with integrated, robotic parts to enhance our abilities. But long before then, a seemingly opposite type of integration may take place, with robots being equipped with human cells to make them more lifelike.

LiveScience

China’s dark matter probe detects signals

Satellite DAMPE has opened a new window for observing the high-energy universe, unveiling new physical phenomena beyond our current understanding, says scientist.

The Economic Times

GLOBAL HEALTH

New tool may trace Alzheimer’s risk in elderly

The new tool, called the QuoCo, which uses percentile curves, helps health care professionals to determine a normal cognitive decline and distinguish the onset of a neurological disease.

Siasat Daily

Insecticide resistance spreads in Africa

The largest genetic study of mosquitoes has found their ability to resist insecticides is evolving rapidly and spreading across Africa, putting millions of people at higher risk of contracting malaria.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Holocaust survivor gives $1M to relief projects

An 83-year-old French Holocaust survivor, Bernard Darty, donated $1 million to hurricane relief projects as a thank you to the GIs who rescued him 73 years after they stormed the beaches of Normandy.

Daily Mail

11-year-old wins $25,000 science prize

Gitanjali Rao, a seventh grader from Colorado, has been awarded the title of “America’s top young scientist” for designing a compact device to detect lead in drinking water, which she believes can be faster and cheaper than other current methods.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Facebook dumps fees, adds $50M for charities

Facebook will eliminate all transaction fees for donations made through its platform and will establish a $50 million annual matching fund for charities. Those changes were announced during the second annual Social Good Forum in Lower Manhattan.

NonProfit Times

Facebook is dropping its fundraising fees for nonprofits, but not for personal causes

Quartz

Nonprofits may have helped end ’90s crime

In more than 20 years across 264 cities, nonprofit organizations focused on things like reducing crime, mitigating violence and building community per 100,000 have been proven to reduce murder rates, violent crime, and property crime.

MinnPost

ENVIRONMENT

‘Zero tolerance’ plan eyed for plastic pollution

A plan for zero tolerance of plastic pollution of the oceans may be agreed by nations at a UN environment summit. Governments are being asked to move towards a legal treaty banning plastic waste from entering the sea.

BBC

Rising sea levels will swallow historic sites

Almost 14,000 archaeological sites and national monuments in the United States could be lost by the year 2100 as seas rise due to climate change, a new study has found. The findings offer a glimpse into the vast amount of global cultural heritage that could be destroyed.

The Independent

BUSINESS AND TRADE

US regulator approves Bitcoin trading

Bitcoin has taken another step toward the financial mainstream, after a U.S. regulator said it would let two traditional exchanges, CME Group and CBOE Global Markets, begin trading in Bitcoin-related financial contracts.

BBC

Bitcoin rebounds to $10,500 after U.S. regulator approves futures

Reuters

US manufacturing expands at healthy pace

U.S. manufacturing expanded at a robust pace in November amid a burst of production and rising orders that signal durable gains in the industry, figures from the Institute for Supply Management showed Friday.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

A voodoo ceremony takes place in a small village in Togo. Photo taken on October 20, 2017. (Photo by Jasmine Nears) Photo used under CC BY

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