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A Yazidi refugee with her children in Turkey. Yazidi women abducted and raped by members of ISIS are being forced to abandon their babies in order to return their communities. (Photo by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid) Photo used under CC BY

Yazidi survivors of rape forced to abandon babies

Women who were abducted by ISIS and had children as the product of rape are faced with the dilemma to abandon their babies in order to be allowed back into the Yazidi community, or keep the babies and remain ostracized.

The Independent

Germany pursues justice for survivors of Yazidi genocide

Deutsche Welle

US slow to call white nationalism ‘terrorism’

The massacre in El Paso will be treated as a domestic terrorism case, but the FBI still does not classify much white nationalism-fueled violence as such, stoking concerns that the government is not doing enough to fight it.

NBCNews.com

Special section:

How US gun culture compares with the world

CNN

Extreme water stress affects quarter of world

A new reports says a quarter of the world’s population across 17 countries is living in regions of extremely high water stress, a measure of the competition over water. Qatar, Israel and Lebanon were the most stressed.

Guardian

Fires, floods challenge Russia’s stance on climate crisis

CNN

Special section:

Plundering Cambodia’s forests

Al Jazeera

Migration tops Europe concerns, survey shows

While climate change is growing in the public consciousness, migration is still the major issue for more EU citizens, according to the results of the European Commission’s biannual Eurobarometer public opinion survey.

Deutsche Welle

Why young Eritreans are going to keep risking deadly migration crossings to Europe

Quartz

Colombia to grant citizenship to 24K children

Colombia has said it will grant citizenship to more than 24,000 children born in the country to parents from crisis-hit Venezuela since 2015, as well as to those who will be born over the next two years, in a move aimed at preventing them from being stateless.

Al Jazeera

Trump freezes all Venezuelan government assets

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN calls for sanctions against Myanmar army

UN panel calls for the international community to sever all ties with Myanmar’s military, urging financial sanctions, an arms embargo and a consumer boycott over Rohingya abuses.

Al Jazeera

Pro-LGBTQ advertising stirs furor in Hungary

Advertisements by Coca-Cola at Sziget festival, a popular music festival in Hungary that promote gay acceptance have prompted a boycott call from a senior member of the conservative ruling party.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Sweden town launches official begging permit

Eskilstuna has become the first town in Sweden to introduce an official begging permit, requiring anyone who asks for money in the street to pay a fee upfront for a license.

Guardian

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

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

Robots could replace humans cleaning sewers

Instead of humans, some Indian engineers want to send robots into manholes. Genrobotics, a Kerala-based startup that developed the robot is calling it Bandicoot, a species of rat found in sewers in India.

NPR

Now, an artificial tongue to tackle fake whisky?

An artificial “tongue” which can taste subtle differences between whiskies could help tackle the counterfeit alcohol trade, according to engineers.

BBC

French inventor crosses Channel on hoverboard

New York Post

GLOBAL HEALTH

Philippines declares national dengue epidemic

The Philippines has declared a “national dengue epidemic” after at least 622 people lost their lives from the mosquito-borne disease this year. This, so officials can identify areas in need of emergency attention.

BBC

A quarter of world is at risk from tuberculosis

ScienceDaily

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

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GOOD NEWS

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

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

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Airlines donates $75K each to El Paso, Dayton

American Airlines has announced it is donating $75,000 each to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas communities after mass shootings over the weekend.

WTHR

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

ENVIRONMENT

Poor nations add least global CO2, suffer most

Burundi’s contribution to rising temperatures is marginal— carbon emissions of one Briton is equal to CO2 produced by over 200 Burundians. But impoverished nations like it will keenly feel the impacts of climate change.

BBC

Paris plans new urban parks, forests by 2020

A new $80 million project unveiled in Paris will create urban parks and gardens by adding 74 acres of green space and plantation of 20,000 new trees by the end of 2020.

Deutsche Welle

New study aims to help protect the world’s trees and forests from harmful pests and diseases

Phys.org

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

California’s largest recycling business closes

California’s largest operator of recycling redemption centers, RePlanet has shut down, laying off 750 employees. The decision was driven by increased business costs and falling prices of recycled aluminum and PET plastic.

Yahoo! News

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

Photo of the Day

Rohingya children play at a UNICEF child friendly space, supported by UK aid, inside Batukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, in November 2017. According to Save the Children, since August 2017, 700,000 Rohingya children and families have fled to Bangladesh following an alarming escalation of violence in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. Now over 370,000 of Myanmar’s children are living in overcrowded refugee camps. Relying on food rations to survive, 40 percent of Rohingya child refugees suffer from stunting due to malnutrition. (Photo by Anna Dubuis /DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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