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Kibera, outside Nairobi, is Kenya’s biggest slum. In a country where abortion is illegal, women turn to various hazardous ways to end pregnancies. Some seven women die every day from unsafe abortion procedures. (Photo by Ninara) Photo used under CC BY

Unsafe abortions cause tragedies in Kenya slum

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in the country’s largest slum rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies. The consequences can be fatal.

Guardian

Mass shootings in US deadlier, more frequent

Mass shootings have become deadlier. Gun violence is insanely expensive. The copycat effect is real.

Mother Jones

UN panel: Damaging land courts climate disaster

Humans need to stop chopping down rainforest and draining peatlands if we want to avoid catastrophic levels of climate warming, scientists on the UN’s major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn at at a meeting in Geneva this week.

The Independent

Airplane contrails add to warming, and the problem is getting worse

NBCNews.com

‘Unprecedented’ Arctic fires belching carbon

Grist

Italy’s Chinese hookers exploited at every turn

Female migrants quit exploitative factory jobs for sex work to survive and provide a better life for relatives back home.

Al Jazeera

Strikes cancel flights, halt traffic in Hong Kong

Hong Kong has been hit by widespread strikes that brought chaos to much of the city’s transport network, including Hong Kong International Airport.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

New Zealand announces bill to legalize abortion

New Zealand announced a bill to legalize abortion for all women that would reclassify terminations as a health matter rather than a crime permissible only in limited circumstances.

Guardian

Indian state partners with ILO to curb child labor

A top cotton-producing state in India is to start mapping its entire supply chain as part of a unique collaboration with the International Labor Organization to weed out child labor and slavery from its fields and factories.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Nigerian Shia leader released for treatment

A Nigerian court has allowed the leader of a banned pro-Iranian Shia Muslim group to seek medical leave in India after more than three years in custody. Supporters of Ibrahim Zakzaky have sought his release for months.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Media warns about right-wing extremism in US

Alongside condolences from foreign governments following recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, leading international newspapers warned about the threat posed by growing white nationalism in America.

NBCNews.com

This Is the number of US mass shootings so far in 2019

Huffington Post

In pictures: Americans mourn victims of mass shootings

Guardian

India strips disputed Kashmir of special status

India’s government has revoked part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status, in an unprecedented move likely to spark unrest.

BBC

Kashmir turmoil: Internet, phone services snapped

India Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Procedure could delay menopause by 20 years

Women can now delay menopause, and health problems like heart conditions and osteoporosis that are brought on by it, by up to 20 years thanks to a new medical procedure launched by the same scientist who developed IVF.

The Independent

Google-owned artificial intelligence can predict acute kidney injury before doctors

FOX News

First human-monkey hybrid created in China

In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País.

MSN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Rich Kenyans seeking cancer treatment abroad

At least 33,000 people succumb to cancer annually in Kenya, but affluent politicians are flocking to India for therapy, due to a lack of adequate facilities at home. Kenyans now want the disease declared a national disaster.

Deutsche Welle

A quarter of world is at risk from tuberculosis

A new study has shown that 1 in 4 people globally carry the tuberculosis bacterium in the body. This affects more than 10 million people every year, and kills up to 2 million, making it the most deadly of the infectious diseases.

ScienceDaily

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GOOD NEWS

Rescued Iraqi refugee seeks to save others

It was the kindness of strangers that propelled single mother Dalya to a new life in London. Now the Iraqi refugee wants to help sponsor a fleeing family of her own.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Group homes senior, terminally ill shelter dogs

Puppies are often the first dogs adopted from animal shelters, while senior or terminally ill canines are left waiting. A New York City-based group is working to ensure these vulnerable dogs go to a forever home too.

MSN

USPS releases stamp collection honoring military dogs

The Hill

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

T-Mobile donates $1M to Feeding America

T-Mobile is donating $1 million from the sales of its CEO John Legere’s popular #SlowCookerSunday cookbook to support Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.

Yahoo! News

China sends 7K metric ton food aid to Ethiopia

The government of China has donated 7,987 metric tonnes of emergency food aid worth approximately $7 million to Ethiopia to support the country’s humanitarian response.

Relief Web

ENVIRONMENT

McDonald’s new paper straws aren’t recyclable

McDonald’s has reportedly admitted that its new paper straws, rolled out last year to help “protect the environment,” can’t be recycled — unlike the plastic versions they replaced.

CNN

Yellowstone grizzly bears listed as threatened

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service restored grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to the U.S threatened species list.

Science Mag

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Zimbabwe inflation sees fuel prices hiked 26%

Zimbabwe has increased the price of petrol and diesel by up to 26 percent after the finance minister raised import tax on fuel last week, adding more pressure on citizens grappling with triple-digit inflation.

Al Jazeera

Tesco is cutting 4K jobs in Metro restructuring

Supermarket chain Tesco is cutting 4,500 jobs from its Metro stores to improve the efficiency of a format that is increasingly used by customers. The chain is the biggest retailer and largest private sector employer in Britain.

Reuters

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A vegetable vendor at a market in Zimbabwe in November 2014. The prices of food, clothing, furniture and health care all surged by more than 200 percent in June 2019 from a year before, according to the country’s statistics office. (Photo by Kay McGowan/ USAID) Photo used under CC BY

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