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A report from the Famine Early Warning Network says a fifth of households in the South Sudanese town of Pibor could already be classed as hitting famine levels of hunger. (Photo by UN Photo/JC McIlwaine)

Millions in South Sudan on the verge of famine

Oxfam have called for action to prevent millions of people in South Sudan being hit by a deadly famine where communities have suffered through four years of warfare that have depleted food stocks.

The Independent

Oxfam calls for urgent action in South Sudan as famine worries loom

Deutsche Welle

Hungary may penalize aiding the undocumented

Hungary is set to vote on possible criminal penalties against individuals or groups accused of supporting illegal migrants. Under the new bill, any individual or group accused of helping illegal immigrants could face a criminal penalty.

Deutsche Welle

Thousands of women in UK enslaved in forced marriages

More than 3,500 reports of forced marriage were made to police over a three-year period, a Guardian investigation has found, as charities warned that there were thousands more victims living in conditions of modern slavery in homes across the UK.

Guardian

Saudi Arabia to criminalize sexual harassment

Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet has approved a measure criminalizing sexual harassment, the state news agency SPA reported, weeks before a decades-old ban on women driving is set to expire.

Reuters

Nicaragua ‘using mobs to quash protests’

Amnesty International has accused the Nicaraguan government of colluding with paramilitary groups to suppress weeks of student-led demonstrations against President Daniel Ortega.

BBC

Nicaragua using ‘shoot to kill’ strategy on protesters, Amnesty International says

CNN

How Mexico’s government controls journalism

Government advertising provides a lifeline to Mexico’s media outlets, but it comes at a price — their independence.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ramadan, American Muslims in Trump era

At a time of deep introspection for Muslims around the world, this year’s month of fast in Hamtramck brings with it both a sense of foreboding and a deeper connection to community as residents grapple with a climate of heightened Islamophobia.

Guardian

Muslim students attacked and chased with stun gun at McDonald‘s: ’You don‘t deserve American food!’

The Independent

N. Ireland rally urges May to ease abortion rules

Hundreds of women’s rights activist rallied in Belfast to put pressure on British Prime Minister Theresa May to reform Northern Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion rules after neighboring Ireland’s vote to liberalize its laws.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Italian populist coalition is failing to govern

The mounting tensions between President Sergio Mattarella and Italy’s latest would-be government, comprising the populist Five Stars and the far-right League party, has led to a clash of institutions not seen since Italy established its republic in 1946.

Deutsche Welle

Efforts underway to revive N. Korea summit

At the Truce Village that separates the two Koreas, American diplomats have taken the rare step of crossing the border to meet with their North Korean counterparts. The U.S. delegation is led by veteran diplomat Sung Kim.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Fleet of autonomous boats could service cities

Researchers have designed a fleet of autonomous boats that offer high maneuverability and precise control. The boats can be rapidly 3-D printed, making mass manufacturing more feasible.

ScienceDaily

Great Barrier Reef on sixth life in 30,000 years

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, under severe stress in a warmer, more acidic ocean, has returned from near-extinction five times in the past 30,000 years, researchers have found.

Yahoo! News

Unique telescope link-up to scan deep space

Scientists in South Africa launched the world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe.

Gulf News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Evidence suggests supplements are useless

A new systematic review of data and trials published between January 2012 and October 2017 found that many popular multivitamins — as well as vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium supplements — had no real advantage to people’s health and that there was no evidence taking them reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, or early death.

The Insider

Puerto Rico hurricane death toll 70 times higher

Nearly 5,000 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria, more than 70 times more than the official government death toll, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Man saves boy dangling from Paris balcony

Incredible footage has emerged showing 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama risking his life as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched.

ABC Online

Georgia police officer saves choking baby

MSN

Chinese double amputee conquers Everest

A Chinese mountaineer who lost both feet trying to summit Everest 43 years ago and then had his legs amputated due to cancer has climbed the mountain on his fifth attempt.

Guardian

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

MI economy would gain $92B with racial equity

The U.S. state of Michigan could realize a $92 billion increase in economic output by 2050 if racial disparities in health, education, incarceration, and employment were eliminated, a report from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and a nonprofit organization finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

Foundations team up to fight poverty in DRC

Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife Foundation announced a new partnership funded by the Arcus Foundation to reduce poverty and to protect the endangered Bonobo population in the biodiverse Lomako region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

WENY News

ENVIRONMENT

Japan kills whales for ‘scientific research’

More than 120 pregnant females were among hundreds of whales slaughtered in Japan’s latest hunt in the Antarctic, prompting condemnation and calls for international action.

The Independent

National Geographic publishes startling plastic images

BBC

Two plans to save the world’s ice sheets

Scientist says giant walls and cooling tunnels may be the best ways to save polar ice.

NBC News

ECONOMY

Italy paying a high price for its political crisis

Italy, the heavily indebted nation, found buyers for nearly $7 billion of its bonds, a sign that market fears that Italy could ditch the euro may be receding.

CNNMoney

Duterte will ‘go to war’ over South China Sea

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said China will cross a red line if it unilaterally mines the natural resources of the South China Sea, according to the country’s Foreign Minister Alan Peter Cayetano.

CNN

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