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Venezuelan refugees children in Colombia. About 20,000 children of Venezuelan parents have been born in Colombia, according to government figures, and many are not eligible for either nationality, leaving them stateless. Stateless people are often unable to access health care and education and cannot travel, get married, open a bank account, or rent or own a home. (Photo by Cristal Montanez) Photo used under CC BY

Colombia-born Venezuelan kids being left stateless

Thousands of children born in Colombia to Venezuelan mothers are stuck in legal limbo with no identity documents, putting them at risk of statelessness, the United Nations Refugee Agency has warned.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela ‘on track to be worse than Syria’

Progressive.org

Aid workers caught off guard by Somali drought

Somalia’s aid community has been caught off guard by severe drought conditions and growing food insecurity, and now says time is ticking to raise awareness of a looming crisis.

allAfrica.com

School students walk out in global climate strike

School students around the world have gone on strike to demand action on climate change. Organizers expect more than one million young people to join the protests in at least 110 countries.

BBC

Brazil’s top court makes homophobia a crime

A majority in Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted to make homophobia and transphobia crimes like racism, a decision coming amid fears the country’s far-right president will roll back LGBTQ gains.

Camden Advertiser

In pictures: Asia’s first same-sex marriages

CNN

Poor conditions, sickness in US migrant center

U.S. Customs and Border Protection shut down its largest migrant processing center in South Texas for 24 hours after 32 detainees got sick with the flu.

NPR

Indonesia curbs social media, blaming hoaxes

Indonesia has introduced curbs on social media in a bid to prevent the spread of hoaxes, some calling for violent post-election attacks, and quell two days of protests.

Yahoo! News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Kenya upholds law criminalizing gay sex

Kenya’s High Court has ruled against campaigners seeking to overturn a law banning gay sex. Gay sex in Kenya is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

BBC

Is gay sex in Kenya impacting tourism?

Al Jazeera

Almost one in three Russians would disown a gay friend, study finds

The Independent

Spain’s parliament leads EU in gender-equality

Despite the rise of far-right, at 47 percent, Spain has a bigger proportion of female lawmakers than even Sweden, which has a far longer history of promoting gender equality.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Theresa May resigns as UK PM amid Brexit

Britain’s Theresa May announced her resignation as prime minister, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to an abrupt end. She will officially step down as Conservative Party leader on June 7.

CNBC

Theresa May’s most memorable moments as PM

YouTube

Modi declares crushing victory in Indian polls

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured another five-year term after his Bharatiya Janata Party won a crushing victory, winning more than 300 of the 543 seats in parliament.

BBC

Hindu nationalism reshapes politics in India

The Atlantic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Major Martian ice discovery thrills scientists

Scientists have discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars’ north pole that could help unlock the Red Planet’s history. The ice could be the remains of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of Mars’ largest reservoirs.

FOX News

Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

Phys.org

Study shows tiny fishes fuel life on coral reefs

A new study suggests, an unlikely group of tiny, mostly bottom-dwelling creatures called “cryptobenthic” reef fishes support fish life in nutrient-poor waters.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO: Algeria, Argentina is now malaria-free

Algeria and Argentina have become the latest countries to be recognized as malaria-free by the World Health Organization, after recording no new cases for more than three years.

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

How the malaria vaccine could change world health

BBC

Philippines fighting worst measles outbreaks

The measles outbreak got so bad in Manila, Philippines, that San Lazaro Hospital had to set up tents in the parking lot, the courtyard and even the landing at the top of the stairs outside the pediatric ward to house patients.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Greta Thunberg):

Young people have led the climate strikes. Now we need adults to join us too

Guardian

Column (Charlotte Edmond):

India is investing more money in solar power than coal for first time

World Economic Forum

Column (Pallavi Gogoi):

America is in full employment, so why aren’t we celebrating?

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Firefighters rescue kitten from storm drain

Members of the San Jose Fire Department rescued a six-week-old who had fallen into a storm drain in Cupertino, California, and was spotted by a woman who called for help.

MSN

In photos: Animal amputees walk again

MSN

Teen mom graduates with honors, funding

Tennessee teen mom Lamyrical Harris received more than $1 million in scholarships from at least 25 colleges after graduating as valedictorian from Trezevant High School.

Inside Edition

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

$41M UK funding to be spent on ‘super crops’

Tens of millions of dollars are to be spent on developing “super crops” to improve diets in poor countries in the face of climate change, the UK government has said.

The Independent

NY nonprofit training refugees for restaurants

Brooklyn restaurant Emma’s Torch doubles as a culinary training program for refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking. It trains and helps place them in restaurant jobs across New York City.

Eater.com

ENVIRONMENT

Population without electricity drops by 400M

The global population without electricity has dropped to 840 million from 1.2 billion in 2010. If the world does not step up efforts on renewable energy, it will fall short of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Forbes

Palestine opens solar plant for energy independence

New York Post

Humans are shrinking nature, study predicts

Humanity’s ongoing destruction of wildlife will lead to a shrinking of nature, with the average body size of animals falling by a quarter, a new study predicts.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Colorado signs new equal pay for work law

Colorado governor Jared Polis has signed equal pay for equal work into law. Labor statistics indicate women get paid 80 cents for every dollar a man makes in Colorado, with statistics for minority women, even worse.

FOX News

Can Kenya’s Chinese railway revive economy?

Kenya took on huge debt to buy a modern railway from Beijing that it hopes will boost its economy, despite the controversy it has attracted. Now China appears to be unwilling to fund further sections of the line.

CNN

Photo of the Day

Elizabeth Moringue, 20, teaches young children in her boma, or community, in Tanzania’s Monduli district, how to use a computer in February 2015. The community has only recently gained access to electricity, thanks to a USAID-supported Power Africa program. Moringue now uses the Boma’s electricity to run classes for the community’s children, showing them how to use Google, email and other basic computer functions. (Photo by Morgana Wingard/USAID) Photo used under CC BY

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