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Analysis of lifetime earnings across 141 countries suggests failure to reward women and men equally generates huge global loss. (Photo by European Union 2015 - European Parliament) Photo used under CC BY

Gender pay gap costs global economy $160T

Gender equality would enrich the global economy by an estimated $160 trillion if women were earning as much as men in the workplace, a study by the World Bank has found.

Guardian

The gender pay gap isn‘t just about what you make. It’s about what you do

CNNMoney

Beijing’s brutal mass evictions and demolitions

Beijing has launched a campaign to get rid of its poorest residents. Entire neighbourhoods are being bulldozed, with residents often only given a few days to pack up their belongings and find new homes.

Al Jazeera

Report: Rural US poverty is ‘an emergency’

The United States does not stack up favorably when compared to other nations with advanced economies when it comes to childhood poverty worldwide, according to a new report.

NPR

A ‘wake-up call’ about what‘s killing America’s young people

CNN

Allies vow to retaliate for Trump metal tariffs

President Trump is imposing steep tariffs on steel and aluminum from three of America’s biggest trading partners — Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

CNNMoney

Nail salons used as a front for modern slavery

British police have warned British high street nail salons - particularly Vietnamese nail bars - are operating as a front for organised crime, including trafficking and slavery.

The Week

Infant deaths up in fundamentalist areas

A study found that babies born in counties with a higher proportion of conservative Protestants, especially fundamentalists, have greater odds of dying in infancy than babies born in areas with more “mainline” Protestants and Catholics.

U.S. News & World Report

HUMAN RIGHTS

Concerns about right to justice in Malawi

Although access to justice is a basic human right, many Malawians still have no access to it, this is according to National Programs Coordinator for Paralegal Advisory Service Institute, Chimwemwe Tasauka Ndalahoma.

allAfrica.com

Italy vows to ‘send home’ the undocumented

Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has declared that one of the new populist government’s top priorities will be to “send them home”, signalling that he intends to keep a campaign promise to round up hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in Italy.

Guardian

Meet the populist players taking power in Italy

CNN

Will populists put Italy on collision course with Europe?

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Cuba to update Soviet-era constitution

Cuba’s parliament is scheduled to name the commission to draft a new constitution, consulting with the citizenry and eventually bringing it to a referendum.

ABC News

Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy forced out of office

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been forced out of office by a no-confidence vote in parliament. Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, who filed the motion after Mr Rajoy’s party was implicated in a corruption scandal, will become prime minister.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google explains ‘weird’ 1975 text message bug

Google has addressed an unusual glitch in its Search and Assistant apps that made SMS text messages appear when specific search terms were entered.

BBC

World’s oldest lizard fossil found

A newly studied fossil specimen is being hailed by researchers as the “mother of all lizards” because it‘s thought to be an early species from which all of today’s squamates—lizards and snakes—eventually evolved.

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

Early detection cancer test may now be possible

A blood test for 10 different types of cancers could one day help doctors screen for the disease before patients show symptoms, researchers at the world’s largest gathering of oncologists have said.

Guardian

Why it’s so hard to wipe out polio in Pakistan

violence aimed at vaccinators, whatever the cause, is partly why Pakistan is one of the world’s last holdouts against polio, alongside Afghanistan and Nigeria.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Kindergarteners start day with hugs, greetings

Every day starts the same for a kindergarten class in Keene, Texas: A handshake, a hug, or a hello. A video that teacher Ashley Coston Taylor posted online shows her kindergarteners at Keene Elementary School lining up to give a handshake or a hug to classmates.

KLTV

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

Cop has impromptu boxing match with teen after noise complaint

New York Post

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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Families prepare to break the Ramadan fast during the Iftar in Fort Meade, MD. (Photo by Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office Follow) Photo used under CC BY

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