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A migrant boy rescued from the Mediterranean receives medical care in May, 2015. Europe, despite Italian opposition, has tentatively agreed on a plan to redistribute rescued migrants. (Photo by British Royal Navy) Photo used under CC BY

European nations forge refugee redistribution plan

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said European countries have reached a tentative agreement on how to redistribute migrants rescued from the Mediterranean, an effort criticized by Italy’s far-right.

Guardian

Mexico police accused of harassment at migrant shelter

Reuters

Greece struggles with refugee mothers’, babies’ needs

PRI

Refugee rescue boats to defy ‘criminal’ EU policy

The Independent

UK spends $845M in aid on fossil fuel projects

The UK has spent $845 million of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel projects since 2010, according to analysis that highlights the UK’s failure to align diplomatic, trade and aid policies with Paris climate agreement goals.

Guardian

Greta Thunberg slams critics in French parliament

Deutsche Welle

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As Arctic ice melts, the Inuit strive to keep their culture alive

National Geographic

Children join Papua rebels in Indonesia conflict

Evidence is emerging that children are joining the long-running conflict in Indonesia’s West Papua province, after the military stepped up its crackdown on separatist rebels following the murder of 17 road construction workers.

Al Jazeera

Drug-resistant malaria spreads across SE Asia

Drug-resistant strains of malaria are spreading across Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, raising fears of a “potential global health emergency,” two new studies published in The Lancet have found.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

US to ramp up rapid deportations with new rule

The Trump administration said it will expand and speed up deportations of migrants who enter the U.S. illegally by stripping away court oversight, enabling officials to remove people in days rather than months or years.

Reuters

Job posting for doctor at an immigrant detention facility catches people’s attention

NPR

Mexico boasts of cutting Central American migrant flow to US by a third

Guardian

Record trafficking victims rescued in Thailand

The number of human trafficking victims rescued in Thailand is set to hit a record high this year, according to government data, with demand for cheap labour in neighboring Malaysia causing a jump in the illegal trade.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

New Zealand plans registry, tighter gun laws

New Zealand’s government has further tightened the country’s gun laws to establish a firearm register and overhaul licensing systems after 51 people were gunned down as they prayed at two mosques in Christchurch.

Al Jazeera

Boris Johnson to be UK’s next prime minister

Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader and will become the next UK prime minister. In his victory speech, he vowed to deliver Brexit, unite the county and defeat Labor party’s Jeremy Corbyn.

BBC

No-deal Brexit risk may have already pushed UK into recession, says NIESR

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bangladeshi invents ‘green’ throw-away bag

A Bangladeshi scientist has found a way to turn burlap into low-cost biodegradable cellulose sheets that can be made into greener throw-away bags that look and feel much like plastic ones but degrade after three months in soil.

Yahoo! News

Tech advances helped find missing submarine

Minerve, a French submarine that vanished on January 27, 1968, has finally been found about 28 miles off the southern coast of France, near the port of Toulon, thanks to recent tech advances in underwater exploration.

CNN

India launches its second mission to the moon

India has successfully launched its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 from Sriharikota space station, a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag.

BBC

Europe space agency to join new race to the moon

Telegraph.co.uk

GLOBAL HEALTH

Global warming may increase fungal infections

Scientists have a new theory about the origins of Candida auris, a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus that can strike the sickest patients in hospitals and other facilities that provide long-term care: global warming.

NBCNews.com

Millions should stop taking aspirin for heart

Millions of people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported.

Associated Press

Cuttlefish ink, a promising cancer treatment?

Phys.org

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GOOD NEWS

Female-only workspaces grow in Saudi Arabia

Many employers separate the sexes to balance the conservative values of a majority-male workforce with the country’s apparent desire to get more women into work.

Guardian

Lullaby singers bring hope to Ebola frontline

In Congo’s Ebola treatment centers, a survivor of Ebola, now immune to the disease, is on hand to offer solace and encouragement to patients. Their presence is so soothing that they are called “lullaby singers.”

Telegraph.co.uk

Woman creates dog hospice for dying dogs

Nicola Harrison runs the Grey Muzzle Canine Hospice Project from her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where she provides end of life care for abandoned and terminally ill dogs who have less than six months to live.

Sunny Skyz

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Thunberg donates cash prize to climate groups

Greta Thunberg, the teen who inspired a youth movement to combat climate change, received Normandy’s Freedom Prize. She will donate the prize money of $27,883, to groups working for climate justice.

The Hill

NGO removes 40T trash from ‘Garbage Patch’

Sunnyskyz

Tycoon donates $25M to tackle cancer gene

Private equity tycoon Jonathan Gray and his wife Mindy announced $25 million in funding for research on pernicious genetic mutations that can lead to breast and ovarian cancer.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Animals not adapting to speed of climate crisis

The speed of climate disruption is outstripping many animals’ capacity to adapt, according to a study that warns of a growing threat to even common species such as sparrows, magpies and deer.

Guardian

Study suggests global warming causing extinction of Joshua trees

Earth Sky

Argentina plans jaguar reintroduction project

Plans for the groundbreaking Jaguar Reintroduction Project at Iberá National Park in Argentina are underway. This is the first attempt to repopulate the big cats into an area where they were once hunted into extinction.

NBCNews.com

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Widespread blackout hits Venezuelan states

More than half of Venezuela’s 23 states lost power, a blackout the government blamed on an “electromagnetic attack.” The blackouts exacerbated an economic crisis that has halved the size of the economy.

CNBC

Delivery apps using tips to pay workers’ wages

Delivery apps like DoorDash are using tips to make up the worker’s base pay. This is a common practice in U.S. where employers pay workers less than the minimum wage and rely on tips to make up the payments they owe.

The Verge

Goodwill head who makes $164K fired disabled workers after minimum wage hike

CBS News

Photo of the Day

School kids participate in a global climate strike in London in March 2019. Inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, an estimated 1.4 million students in 112 countries around the world joined her call in striking and protesting for climate on March 15, 2019. (Photo by Garry Knight) Photo used under CC BY

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