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Pollution in Haiti. Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists warned in a report, citing the largest-ever database on the world’s water quality. (Photo by Alex Proimos) Photo used under CC BY

Water pollution leaving all global goals unmet

A World Bank report warns of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, economies, education and agriculture of rich and poor countries alike.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

World’s water quality is deteriorating

Guardian

India fights traffickers with child-friendly courts

Infrastructure changes in India’s courts ensure trafficking victims do not face the accused in court, nor made uncomfortable during questioning by defense lawyers.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

US slashes protections for child migrants

Migrant families who cross the southern border of the U.S. illegally could be detained indefinitely under a new regulation announced by the Trump administration.

BBC

U.S. won’t give flu vaccines to migrants in border detention centers

CBS News

Homeless British kids living in containers

Children in England are growing up in shipping containers, office blocks, and bed and breakfasts, a report into youth homelessness has found.

CNN

Gender bias rife in India’s healthcare industry

A study conducted by experts from India and Harvard University reveals that Indian women suffer gender bias while accessing health care.

Deutsche Welle

Venezuelan women forced into motherhood

The socialist government of Venezuela promised to provide every woman access to family planning. Recent surveys and interviews with health professionals indicate access to contraceptives remains insufficient.

AP News

HUMAN RIGHTS

In a first, Kenya census to count intersex people

Kenya will become the first African country to recognize its intersex population in a census that counts people born with a sexual anatomy that does not fit typical definitions for male or female bodies, according to a top official.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UN postpones anti-torture conference in Egypt

The UN has postponed an anti-torture conference scheduled to be held in Cairo, a decision taken after backlash from rights groups and activists decrying the Egyptian government’s human rights record.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Italy descends into crisis as PM Conte resigns

Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigned, blaming his deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini for putting “his own interests and those of his party” ahead of Italy’s, at the risk of political and financial instability.

Vox

Migrants disembark rescue ship in Italy after 19-day standoff

FOX News

ISIS gathering new strength in Iraq and Syria

Five months after U.S.-backed forces ousted ISIS from its last shard of territory in Syria, the terrorist group is regaining strength, military and intelligence officers have warned.

The Independent

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

E-cigarettes change blood vessels after one use

A new study is the latest to show changes in cardiovascular function after vaping e-liquids, though in this case, those liquids didn’t even contain nicotine.

CNN

Nearly 100 people hospitalized with severe lung issues after vaping

CNET News

FDA proposes graphic warnings on cigarettes

NPR

Scientists discover star dust in Antarctic snow

A team of scientists hauled 1102 pounds of fresh snow back from Antarctica, melted it, and sifted through the particles that remained. The snow held significant amounts of a form of iron that isn’t naturally produced on Earth.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nigeria goes 3 years without a case of polio

Nigeria has gone three years without a case of polio, putting it on the brink of being declared free of the disease. In 2012 the country accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, the WHO has said.

BBC

UK loses its measles elimination status

The World Health Organization has linked air pollution to deadly diseases like lung cancer and stroke, and new research suggests that polluted regions see more cases of neurological disorders like depression and bipolar disorder.

National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

Man makes ‘one-legged’ trek to S. America tip

A Venezuelan man who lost his left leg in a traffic accident has walked to the bottom tip of South America, hoping to inspire his daughter and his compatriots to pursue their dreams despite difficult times.

MSN

Homeless valedictorian goes to Yale medical

Chelesa Fearce, 23, who finished top of her class at Clayton County’s Charles R. Drew High School with a 4.5-grade point average while homeless and living sometimes on one meal, is now starting Yale Medical School.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

News outlet forgoes party to donate funds

Entertainment business news website Variety has decided to forgo their annual Emmy Awards’ nominees party in order to donate the allocated funds to Planned Parenthood.

Washington Examiner

Billionaire donates $35M to study microbiome

Billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, announced a $35 million donation to a pair of Bay Area universities that will go toward medical research involving the human microbiome that’s linked to obesity, autism.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil Amazon rainforest burning at record rate

Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.

CNN

Spike in wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

YouTube

Why 500 million bees have died in Brazil in three months

BBC

Deadly fungus threatens future of bananas

A deadly fungus that’s particularly adept at killing bananas has finally reached Latin America, a major supplier of the world’s bananas, as scientists long feared it would.

LiveScience

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Big Swiss firms must study women’s pay gap

Major Swiss companies will be required to review pay gaps between male and female staff from next year under rules adopted by the government, part of a bid to close gender divide in one of the world’s richest countries.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Middle-class, poor kids ditching youth sports

The rising cost of playing sports, coupled with rising economic inequality, is increasingly leading poor and even middle-class families to hang up their cleats. Participation among wealthier children in sports is rising.

CBS News

Recent college grads likely to be unemployed

Yahoo! News

Photo of the Day

A baby is temporarily marked to verify that he received the polio vaccine in Nigeria, in January 2015. In 2016, there were only four cases of wild poliovirus in sub-Saharan Africa, all detected in Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa. According to WHO, as of 2019, Nigeria has gone three years without a case of polio, putting it on the brink of being declared free of the disease. (Photo by Mary Alleman/CDC) Photo used under CC BY

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