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Surge in sexual attacks on children in Somalia

Recently, there has been a rise in the number of reported cases of sexual violence involving children, according to the Somali Women Development Center.

Guardian

Somalia president wants end to senseless hostilities between regions

africanews.com

US to house migrant children on bases

The Trump administration appears to be moving forward with plans to separate parents and children at the southern border, reportedly weighing options of where to house minors who enter the United States illegally.

Newsweek

Special section:

A personal testimony of the migrant caravan

NPR

Torture inside Chinese re-education camps

Chinese authorities have ensnared tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Muslim Chinese — and even foreign citizens — in mass internment camps where prisoners are physically and mentally tortured.

Business Insider

Muslims forced to eat pork and drink alcohol at Chinese camps, inmates claim

Newsweek

Venezuela political prisoners ‘revolt’ in jail

Relatives of political prisoners held in one of Venezuela’s most notorious prisons say the inmates have staged an uprising.

BBC

Venezuelans head to polls with great hunger, little hope

ABC News

Inequality persists in Spain despite recovery

Despite an intense recovery of the job market, inequality in Spain is dragging on longer than it did after other economic crises.

El Pais

Nairobi ejects beggars out of business district

The number of street beggars netted by the Nairobi County Enforcement Unit in the city’s CBD has increased to over 200. City Hall Head of Inspectorate Peter Mbaya says the operation will be continuous since the CBD has been declared “beggars-free zone”.

Standard Digital

HUMAN RIGHTS

With 60 killed in Gaza, UN criticizes Israel

Shortly after Israeli forces fired on protesters and killed 60 Palestinians along the Gaza border, the U.N.’s human rights commissioner says that those who were shot included women, children, journalists, first responders and bystanders.

NPR

Special section:

Did Israel use excessive force at Gaza protests?

BBC

US Democrats approaching a turning point on Israel

CNN

The world reacts after Gaza killings

NPR

UK accused of funding rights abuses in Bahrain

Human rights group Reprieve has accused the Foreign Office of being complicit in abuses in Bahrain and failing to be transparent about its $6.7 million security and justice reform program in the kingdom.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Left unfazed by Trump assault on democracy

Drawing on the findings of political scientists who have studied democratic governments, and how they can collapse into authoritarianism, the democracy movement has sought to build cross-partisan coalitions to prevent Donald Trump from perverting or suborning government institutions into instruments of unaccountable power.

New York Magazine

N. Korea threatens to cancel US summit

North Korea canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over military exercises between Seoul and Washington

ABC News

Europe and Iran in talks to save the nuclear deal

NBCNews.com

Hungary leads Europe’s retreat from democracy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says Europe is being “de-Christianized” by elites who wanted a “new, mixed, Islamized” continent. He stands for white, Christian Europeans who reject the European Union’s liberal, “globalist” values.

The New Republic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Early star formation presents new mystery

New observations suggest that stars began forming just 250 million years after the Big Bang — a record-breaker that will likely open a new line of cosmological inquiry.

Sky & Telescope

Earth has 400 straight above-average months

Last month marked the planet‘s 400th consecutive month with above-average temperatures, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced. The cause? Climate change, caused by humanity’s burning of fossil fuels.

USA TODAY

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola spreads to big Congo city, auguring ill

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a crossroads city of more than 1 million people in a troubling turn that marks the first time the vast, impoverished country has encountered the lethal virus in an urban area.

U.S. News & World Report

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Quardricos Bernard Driskell):

Graduation Season: The anti-intellectualism in America

The Hill

Column (Ines Pohl):

An anniversary, an embassy, and the destructive power of Donald Trump

Deutsche Welle

Column (Carmel Rickard):

Adultery in Africa - How courts view the ‘other woman’

allAfrica.com

Column (Rachel Shabi):

US has thrown a matchstick into Jerusalem

Gulf News

Column (Janet Langhart-Cohen):

Israel faces ugly reckoning on refugees and racism

CNN

Column (Mariya Salim):

It’s time to address online violence against women in India

Al Jazeera

Column (Rachel Feltman):

Sexually transmitted diseases are at an all time high. But why?

Popular Science

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GOOD NEWS

Double amputee conquers Everest on fifth try

A Chinese double-amputee who lost his feet to frostbite in a previous effort to scale Mount Everest is among the first group of climbers to summit the world’s tallest mountain this year.

Newsweek

Mom of five graduates from law school

One morning nine years ago — at the height of her despair — Ieshia Champs thought about ending it all and driving her car off a freeway bridge after dropping her children off at daycare.

People

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NGOs urge Taiwan to protect migrant fishers

An NGO coalition is urging the Taiwanese government to improve conditions for migrant workers on fishing vessels, who, as they claim, currently face human rights abuses.

FIS

Philanthropy tackles tropical diseases

Improving the primary health system in low-income countries by tackling the treatment and health of the population rather than the individual offers a highly effective, low-cost path out of the cycle of poverty and disease.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

Canada guards vast coniferous forest

Canada will soon have the largest protected boreal forest — an area twice the size of Belgium — on the planet.

BBC

Hawaii volcano blast poses aviation risk

Explosions intensified on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, spewing ash and triggering a red alert for aircraft for the first time since the latest eruption began 12 days ago.

Huffington Post

ECONOMY

Moscow urged to recycle, not burn rubbish

Protests have been growing in recent months over the stench from landfill sites around Moscow, overflowing with millions of tonnes of rubbish. Authorities have now decided on a plan to tackle the problem – generating energy by burning the waste instead.

Gulf News

What can Spotify tell us about the economy?

Recent research used data collected from the US Billboard top 100 and the UK’s Official Charts Company. The results showed that the positivity and energy of the most popular songs has been falling since 2000, while the tempo and loudness has remained stable.

BBC

Photo of the Day

A Thai student performs a cultural dance for Cope Tiger 13 participants from the U.S. Air Force, Royal Thai Air Force and Republic of Singapore Air Force. (Photo by PACAF) Photo used under CC BY

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