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Man waits to receive identity card at Oxfam’s cash distribution in Yemen. Conflict continues to be the main driver of hunger across Near East and North Africa. More than two-thirds of hungry people in NENA, approximately 34 million people, live in conflict-affected countries, compared to 18 million hungry people in countries that are not impacted directly by conflict. (Photo by Wolfgang Gressmann/Oxfam) Photo used under CC BY

52M in Near East, N. Africa face hunger amid conflicts

Hunger in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) continues to rise as conflicts and protracted crises have spread and worsened since 2011, threatening the region’s efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Zero Hunger.

Africanews

Yemenis struggle to buy food to break fast

Al Jazeera

UN says US sanctions violate human rights

A UN rights expert has voiced deep concern at the unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, saying the use of economic coercive measures for political purposes violates human rights and international law.

The Nation Pakistan

Survey finds US hotbed of climate change denial

The US is a hotbed of climate science denial when compared with other countries, with international polling finding a significant number of Americans do not believe human-driven climate change is occurring.

Guardian

Forced hysterectomies enslaving India’s poor

Many women in rural India, often young, are targeted by doctors driven by profit by prescribing hysterectomies for minor ailments. The operation and later costs drive families into becoming victims of debt bondage.

Economic Times

Iran steps away from parts of nuclear deal

Iran has informed ambassadors from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Russia that it would stop implementing parts of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, a year after U.S. withdrew from the accord.

NBCNews.com

People suffer and starve as Venezuela’s political and economic crisis drags on

CBS News

A third of world’s great rivers are free flowing

Only a third of the world’s great rivers remain free flowing, due to the impact of dams that are drastically reducing the benefits healthy rivers provide people and nature, according to a global analysis.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cuba cancels annual LGBTQ rights parade

Cuba announced that it has cancelled this year’s edition of a parade widely seen as a sign of progress on gay rights on the island. The issue is controversial due to resistance from Cuba’s growing ranks of evangelical Christians.

NBCNews.com

Cuban LGBT community calls out government for canceling parade

Reuters

Pakistani girls are being sold to Chinese men

Parents in poor Pakistani Christian families are being pressured to sell their daughters to Chinese husbands, with members of the clergy complicit in the smuggling operations and sometimes helping brokers scout for brides.

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Brazil’s Bolsonaro signs decree easing gun laws

President Jair Bolsonaro is loosening Brazil’s strict gun laws with a new decree, delivering on a campaign promise to make it easier for Brazilians to buy guns and ammunition.

FOX News

How Brazil’s culture wars are being waged in classrooms

BBC

S. Africans head to the polls in key election

Twenty-five years after the dawn of democracy in South Africa, citizens are heading to the polls. They will have 48 parties to choose from in national and provincial elections, with over 22,000 polling stations across the country.

CNN

South Africans go to the polls – in pictures

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists are creating 100% recyclable plastic

A new research effort led by scientists at Berkeley Lab could provide a solution in the form of plastics that are designed from the ground up to be fully recyclable.

New York Post

Device generates electricity from cold universe

An international team of scientists has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to generate a measurable amount of electricity in a diode directly from the coldness of the universe.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Racial disparity found in US pregnancy deaths

BBC

Medical care lapses in immigrant shelters

At the federally funded immigrant youth shelters run by the New Jersey-based Center for Family Services, staff fail to provide children with essential medical care, says a pediatrician who worked at the facilities.

Mother Jones

Plants from Mauritius could help fight cancer

A recent study concludes that medicinal herbs found in Mauritius contain chemical compounds that inhibit the propagation of cancer cells.

Medical News Today

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GOOD NEWS

Boy dances after receiving prosthetic leg

In Afghanistan, 5-year-old Ahmad Rahman lost his leg to a landmine as a baby. Now, with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross Afghanistan, he is dancing again after receiving a prosthetic leg.

CBS News

Mom follows sons to college, earns degree

Rather than leaving mom Madelyn McClarey behind in South Florida, Aaron and Aubrey Hough insisted she join them in Tallahassee. They will now celebrate as she graduates with an English degree from Florida A&M.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Billionaire gives $30M to study homelessness

San Francisco billionaire and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that he is donating $30 million to fund homelessness research at the University of California, San Francisco.

The Hill

S. Sudan aid sector ‘infected’ with bribery

Corruption relating to the allocation of grants and jobs in South Sudan’s aid sector is rife, according to South Sudanese humanitarians, civil societies, private organizations, and local aid groups.

Devex

ENVIRONMENT

President Trump’s team kills off Arctic accord

The United States killed an accord with other Arctic nations on how to address regional challenges. The accord was important as it accurately stated how climate change threatens the Arctic region.

Thinkprogress

London ‘bee corridor’ to boost insect numbers

A recent study blamed the decline of wildflowers as a factor behind the drop in pollinating insect numbers in the UK since the 1980s. A seven-mile long “bee corridor” is being planted in London in a bid to tackle this.

BBC

Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

South Africa remains most unequal country

According to the World Bank, despite 25 years of democracy, South Africa remains the most economically unequal country in the world, as disadvantaged South Africans have fewer assets, fewer skills and lower wages.

CNN

China’s $670B ‘sheconomy’ continues to grow

A “sheconomy” is booming in China, driven by a seismic shift in younger women’s spending habits. The value of the Chinese women’s market is expected to reach $670 billion in 2019, according to research analysts.

NBCNews.com

Photo of the Day

Children play at Vale do Catimbau, Brazil in November, 2013. This national park is situated in the state of Pernambuco, in the north eastern part of Brazil where the region is characterized as “Caatinga”, a type of desert vegetation. Droughts occur frequently and its habitants are regarded as the poorest of Brazil. (Photo by Bart van Dorp) Photo used under CC BY

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