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A South Sudanese family that lost its home and belongings in 2014. A prolonged civil war in their country has displaced over a million and pushes the new country toward mass starvation. (Photo by World Humanitarian Summit) Photo used under CC BY

Civil war pushing people of S. Sudan into starvation

As South Sudan enters its fifth year of civil war, 1.25 million people are facing starvation, according to the latest analysis by the United Nations and the government.

New York Post

South Sudan’s orphans are finding solace through song

ABC News

Myanmar’s stateless Chin refugees in India

As the Supreme Court of India deliberates the government’s plan to deport thousands of Rohingya refugees scattered across the country, other stateless Burmese ethnic groups fear a similar fate.

Al Jazeera

Winter in refugee camp: a harsh battle to survive

For the men, women and children forced to call Moria their home, the refugee camp is a daily battle for survival in conditions so desperate that even the Greek migration minister has warned they could be life-threatening.

Guardian

Greece to help refugees prepare for winter

Al Jazeera

More civilians than ISIS fighters killed in Mosul

A new report from the Associated Press puts the civilian death toll between 9,000 and 11,000, a third of those reportedly killed by the U.S.-led coalition or Iraqi forces.

PBS

Traumatized and vulnerable to abuse, orphans from Mosul are ‘living in another world’

NPR

Mosul is a graveyard: Final IS battle kills 9,000 civilians

ABC News

Child sex crimes rise in South Africa

In October, South Africa’s police minister, Fikile Mbalula, announced that 9 percent of all reported rapes in the country were against children age 9 or younger.

Guardian

Endangered by deviant passion: Rescuing the girl child

New Telegraph

HUMAN RIGHTS

Refugees escaping Libya arrive in France

The French government stepped up its fight against slavery as the first group of refugees rescued from Libya touched down in Paris from Niger. France plans to take in 10,000 refugees by 2019, 3,000 coming in from Niger and Chad.

CNN

How refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar are sustained by their food memories in Delhi

Economic Times

The Sikh community secretly exploited in Italy

According to labor unions and community leaders, Italy’s largely hidden community of Sikh migrant workers are increasingly vulnerable to exploitation and intimidation in some of Italy’s biggest food-producing regions.

Guardian

Why the Indian government must help Italian Sikhs

Hindustan Times

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

UN votes to condemn US Jerusalem decision

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration’s decision to recognize the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by a 128-9 vote.

NPR

Mahmoud Abbas urges EU to take lead in peace efforts

Al Jazeera

Jerusalem: Palestinian leader Abbas spurns US peace plan

BBC

Peru’s president survives impeachment bid

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski survived a pell-mell impeachment effort over allegations that he lied about dealings with Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA.

Bloomberg

President’s narrow survival is good news for Peru

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Baby born from embryo frozen 24 years ago

Emma Wren Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born a few days after Thanksgiving in 2017, more than 25 years later. It’s the longest an embryo is known to have been frozen before being born as baby.

The Atlantic

Boy robot passes agility tests

The design of a new life-size bot named Kengoro closely resembles the anatomy of a teenage boy in body proportion, skeletal and muscular structure, and joint flexibility.

Science News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hydrocephalus surgery developed in Uganda

A new brain surgery that could save tens of thousands of babies, even a hundred thousand, each year has been developed by neurosurgeons from Boston and Mbale, Uganda.

NPR

Group singing can improve mental health

Singing in groups can help people recover from mental illness, making them feel valued and increasing their confidence, research shows.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Hurricane plays matchmaker for two seniors

When Denise Praz and Joseph Mazur exchanged vows Dec. 15, it was a marriage that probably would not have happened had Irma not pounded their Florida community Sept. 10.

USA TODAY

Police officer donates kidney to stranger

San Francisco Police Officer Anna Cuthbertson hadn’t considered organ donation until she listened to a podcast about a woman who had done it. After some research, she decided to donate a kidney to help a stranger live.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Fund awards $380M for HIV, TB, malaria efforts

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has announced six grants totaling $380 million to strengthen Kenya’s response to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Philanthropy News Digest

Tax changes will impact revenue generation

The largest piece of tax reform since the Reagan administration is complete and nonprofits of all types face a brand new giving landscape based on various features in the law.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change increases volcanic eruptions

A warming planet due to human-induced climate change will likely contribute to an increase in volcanic activity, according to a recent study in the journal Geology.

NPR

Scientists look to Bali volcano for clues to curb climate change

Scientific American

Rwanda leads the way on tree planting

Rwanda is one of the only countries in the world that has a positive rate of forestation. Every year more trees are planted and protected in Rwanda than cut down.

allAfrica.com

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Unemployment hits record low in 13 states

Thirteen states around the country have recorded their lowest unemployment rates in more than 40 years in 2017, according to newly released government data.

The Hill

Refugee-made upcycled bag business thrives in Greece

Al Jazeera

UnitedHealth to buy Chile’s Banmedica

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to buy Chilean healthcare company Banmedica for $2.8 billion, expanding the health insurer’s footprint in South America.

Reuters

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Children put on a Christmas pageant at Trinity Church in Boston on Christmas Eve 2012. (Photo by Ralph) Photo used under CC BY

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