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Autocratic regimes that hold elections, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s, are more stable than autocracies that don’t, researchers report. (Photo by Jedimentat44) Photo used under CC BY

Autocrats rig elections by exploiting divisions

While more elections are being held around the world than ever before, the average quality of democracy around the world has fallen for the last 10 years. The reason is that authoritarian leaders have learned how to rig elections.

The Conversation

‘Men only’ job ads common in China

Sexist job advertisements remain common in China, with some recruiters reportedly using the “attractiveness” of female colleagues to bring in male applicants, according to rights group Human Rights Watch.

CNBC

Goldman Sachs, Google women march ahead with gender bias suits

Bloomberg

Bangladeshi workers face safety hazards, meager pay

Five years after an eight-story factory in Dhaka collapsed, killing 1,134 people, progress has been made in ensuring worker safety but fire safety initiatives are soon to end, unions are stifled, and wages are the lowest in the world.

Guardian

Slight improvements since Rana Plaza horrors

Deutsche Welle

Far-right attacks increase tension in Lesbos

Mob of far-right protesters attack group of refugees and migrants, sparking clashes on the Greek island.

Al Jazeera

Trump orders DHS to turn away caravan migrants

Newsweek

Egypt’s Sinai battle a humanitarian crisis

An Egyptian military campaign to defeat Islamic State militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula is choking essential food and medical supplies to thousands of residents in the desert region, Human Rights Watch has said.

Reuters

Scavenging grime for gold on Mumbai streets

Along the narrow alleys of one of India’s largest bullion markets, men and women scrape a living scouring the dust and even the drains for specks of the precious metal.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cambodia king urges Senate to protect rights

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni urged senators to protect justice and human rights as the upper house of the country’s parliament met for the first time since the ruling party swept a controversial election in February.

Reuters

Thousands rally in Pakistan for Pashtun rights

Thousands of people have attended a rally in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore demanding basic rights for ethnic Pashtun citizens and others. The leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement called for an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Iran warns against negotiating with Trump

A U.S. push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warned as U.S. and North Korean leaders prepare to meet for denuclearization talks.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Punchline fact: Uranus smells like rotten eggs

There‘s a lot of really smelly stuff wafting around Uranus. The clouds in Uranus’ upper atmosphere are composed largely of hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that makes rotten eggs so stinky, a new study suggests.

SPACE.com

‘YouTube illegally collects data on children’

Complaint filed with US watchdog urges sanctions for Google allegedly failing to comply with child protection laws around data collection.

Guardian

YouTube ads for hundreds of brands still running on extremist and white nationalist channels

TechCrunch

Cow could soon be largest land mammal: Study

The cow could be left as the biggest land mammal on Earth in a few centuries, according to a study that examines the extinction of large mammals as humans spread around the world.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Injured vet gets first penis-scrotum transplant

A veteran badly injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan is recovering from the first-ever transplant of a penis and scrotum, doctors said. The soldier lost both legs above the knee, his penis and the area around it when the IED — improvised explosive device — blasted him.

NBCNews.com

Does cannabis extract CBD relieve anxiety?

By one estimate, the CBD industry has doubled in size over the last two years, and is now worth $200 million. But with this popularity the hype may have gotten ahead of the science.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Yury Barmin):

Syria and the beginning of a new Cold War

Al Jazeera

Column (Cyndi Suarez):

Does your nonprofit teach democracy?

Nonprofit Quarterly

Column (Peter Hartcher):

Is democracy in its death throes?

Sydney Morning Herald

Column (Matt Ford):

What happened to Alan Dershowitz?

The New Republic

Column (Dylan Matthews):

The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy

Vox

Column (Joanne M Pierce):

Serious Question: What Is Hell?

Newsweek

Column (Linda S. Heard):

‘Liberal Democratic values’ exist only on paper

Gulf News

Column (Kehinde Andrews):

Racism is as British as a cup of tea

CNN

Column (Alan Dershowitz):

The epic struggle for Michael Cohen’s soul and testimony

The Hill

Column (Maina Kiai):

Despite decades of education, sensitization, FGM has yet to go away

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GOOD NEWS

At 96, woman fulfills dream of going to school

Guadalupe Palacios, who is seeking to live out her dream of finishing high school by her 100th birthday, is also the most enthusiastic student in the classroom.

msn.com

Suspicious message sparks unlikely friendship

Ben Taylor traveled 6,500 miles to confront the West African man who tried to scam him on the internet, although confront probably isn‘t the right word. Joel Willie says scam isn’t the right word either. He says he was just looking to make a friend.

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

The rise of Africa’s new philanthropists

Five of the African billionaires on the Forbes 2018 list have created sizeable private or corporate foundations: Aliko Dangote, Nicky Oppenheimer, Patrice Motsepe, Mohammed Dewji and Strive Masiyiwa.

Inside Philanthropy

World Food Program receives $2.4M donation

The World Food Program, the food assistance arm of the United Nations, has received a $2.4 million contrbution from Belgium to support its innovative projects, including blockchain solutions to fight hunger around the world.

Block Tribune

World Food Programme calls for peace in Syria

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Bloomberg offers $4.5M for Paris deal

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he will pay $4.5 million to cover the lapsed US financial commitment to the Paris climate accord. He said he had a responsibility to help improve the environment because of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the deal.

BBC

China refuses to recycle more of the world’s trash

CNNMoney

Refugees in Bangladesh face monsoon season

Aid workers tending to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are ramping up preparations in the weeks before the start of monsoon season, amid warnings that makeshift shelters in their Bangladesh camps could be destroyed by mudslides and flooding.

CBC News

ECONOMY

Amazon’s top-secret plan to build home robots

Amazon.com Inc., the retail and cloud computing giant, has embarked on a top-secret plan to build a domestic robot. The project is codenamed “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family.

Bloomberg

Britain keen on rocket-launching industry

The United Kingdom Space Agency, working with British companies in the sector, has established how intends to grow its 6.5 percent stake in the $350 billion space economy over the next 12 years.

CNBC

This ‘tsunami’ will affect aspects of biz world

The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that in less than five years, more than 25 percent of U.S. workers will be 55 years old or older. It notes that the steady graying of the U.S. workforce is referred to as the silver tsunami.

Herald Whig

Photo of the Day

Rabbi Leib Tropper, founder of the Kol Yaakov Yeshiva and Torah Center in Monsey, New York, leads a discussion. (Photo by Leib Tropper) Photo used under CC BY

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