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A Somali boy. Somalia is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change with potentially deadly consequences. UN has issued a warning as climate-change-related drought hits Somalia ‘out of the blue’ putting 2.2 million people at risk of starvation this year, more than 1.1 million being children. (Photo by UN Photo/Tobin Jones) Photo used under CC BY

Drought has put 2.2M Somalis at starvation risk

Climate-change-related drought in Somalia could put 2.2 million people at risk of starvation this year, according to the United Nations. The drought has badly affected farmers who rely on rain to grow crops.

Irish Times

Food shortage hit Somalia in Ramadan

Africanews

In Colombia’s remote tribes LGBT face abuse

Colombia’s LGBT people who live in black and indigenous communities must cope with violence, humiliation and efforts to “cure” them of their sexual identities, according to research.

Devdiscourse

Philippines president Duterte says he cured himself of being gay

Newsweek

Most refugees in Libyan detention centers at risk

Thousands of refugees held in Libyan detention centers are at risk because of the deteriorating security situation in and around Tripoli, according to an internal UN document.

Guardian

In world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya children face a desperate choice

PBS

Zimbabwe locks up its disabled citizens

Thousands of people with a host of disabilities are locked away in Zimbabwe, both in homes and institutions, due to widespread fears they bring bad luck or practice witchcraft.

Reuters Africa

Young DRC kids dying from ebola at high rate

Children under five infected with Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are dying at a higher rate than other patients as their parents shun special treatment centers, the World Health Organization said.

Yahoo! News

US-led anti-IS coalition killed 1,300 civilians

The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group says it has unintentionally killed more than 1,300 civilians in Iraq and Syria since 2014. A U.K.-based monitoring group says the true toll is much higher, estimating up to nearly 13,000 civilian fatalities.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Brazilians rally against education budget cuts

Thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest a decision by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to slash education funds. Officials have said this could affect scholarships, utility services, maintenance.

FOX News

Shrinking Brazil economy predicts recession

Al Jazeera

In Italy, migrant tobacco pickers allege abuse

In Italy, African migrants, some of them children, pick tobacco leaves that supply Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands. They say they are forced to work in inhumane conditions for very low pay.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

New Zealand unveils new ‘well-being’ budget

New Zealand’s liberal-led government announced a new budget worth billions of dollars to benefit mental health services and child poverty in its first “well-being” budget.

FOX News

Plunge in migration deepens New Zealand labor shortage, chokes businesses

Reuters

South Africa gets a gender-balanced cabinet

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a new cabinet in which, for the first time in the country’s history, half of all ministers are women.

BBC

Austria appoints first woman chancellor after video scandal

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Diamonds made from Earth’s recycled seabed?

By mimicking how the planet cooks up the sparkly gems, scientists discovered what may be a key ingredient for the formation of diamonds: ocean sediments.

National Geographic

Snow might be the next clean energy source

Two UCLA scientists have invented a device that uses silicone to capture the electrical charge from snow and create electricity. Their tool is uncomplicated, small, inexpensive, and needs no batteries.

Popular Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nepal moves to improve health care facilities

In Nepal, 3.5 million people still lack basic access to water, and 11.3 million don’t have use of a decent toilet. In a country where dirty water and poor sanitation jeopardizes millions, moves are afoot to improve health facilities.

Guardian

Pakistan will now tax tobacco, sugary drinks

On May 31, World No Tobacco Day, Pakistan announced a health tax on cigarettes to cut rising tobacco consumption that kills nearly 160,000 Pakistanis every year.

Gulf News

Studies link processed foods to early death

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Marshall Auerback):

What does it mean to live in a multipolar world?

Asia Times Online

Column (Catherine Rottenberg):

Abortion and the decimation of American democracy

Al Jazeera

Column (José Graziano da Silva and Gilbert F. Houngbo):

It’s time to celebrate family farming

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Filipino students must plant trees to graduate

The Philippines, a tropical island nation in the Pacific, will now require by law all graduating students from elementary school to college plant 10 trees each before they can graduate.

Forbes

Woman raises cash for high schoolers in debt

ABC News

World’s smallest surviving baby goes home

Believed to be the world’s smallest surviving baby, Saybie weighed 8.6 ounces when she was born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns in December. Now more than 5 pounds, she is going home.

Inside Edition

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Humanitarian groups must localize approach

As humanitarian organizations must support more populations impacted by natural and man-made crises, they must embrace localization as a way to make the sector more responsive and innovative, experts say.

Devex

Alabama may return gift over donor dispute

The University of Alabama may return Hugh Culverhouse, Jr.’s $21.5 million gift, the largest in the school’s history, and strip his name from the law school, over a dispute regarding the administration of the funds.

Philanthropy News Digest

University supercharges fundraising for girls

Martha Taylor and Lori Diprete Brown founded a program that enhances fundraising for women at University of Wisconsin-Madison. It also covers everything from ending trafficking to aiding child rearing in Malawi.

Inside Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Pesticides can increase mosquito numbers

A study reveals that mosquitoes have evolved resistance to common chemicals meant to kill them and other pests. The mosquitoes’ predators, meanwhile, have failed to evolve and died off, allowing mosquitoes to thrive.

National Geographic

As climate hurts wines, pesticide use grows

Deutsche Welle

Study: Climate crisis led to mass puffin deaths

Researchers believe the 3,150 to 8,500 tufted puffins who starved to death in the Bering Sea died due to the loss of energy-rich prey species, which was triggered by increased sea and atmospheric temperatures.

Guardian

Thousands of puffins die in ‘mass mortality event’

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Pan-African free trade deal comes into force

While US-China trade tensions continue to escalate, Africa is putting together a free trade agreement. This will create a single market for goods and services by removing existing trade barriers across Africa.

CNN

Trump threatens new tariffs on Mexican imports

CNN

Having college degree widens gender pay gap

The United States Census Bureau released a new study that shows having a college degree widens the gender earnings gap. Among the educated, women earn 74 cents for every dollar men make.

ABC News

Photo of the Day

Children from the Maguari community in Goias, Brazil in April, 2004. In the Maguari community, National Forest Area in the Brazilian Amazon, children walk long distances in groups, through the jungle to get to their poorly resourced school to complete their primary studies. (Photo by Ismar Borges De Lima) Photo used under CC BY

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