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The Saudi-led coalition has launched an offensive against the Houthi rebel stronghold of Hodeida, a port city through which 70 to 80 percent of commercial and humanitarian supplies enter Yemen. (Photo by EU/ECHO/T. Bertouille) Photo used under CC BY

New offensive threatens to deepen Yemen’s crisis

Yemen’s civil war has already led to what the United Nations described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis — with 8 million people on the brink of starvation. A Saudi-led assault on Hodeidah, a Houthi-held port city, will make will make the catastrophe ieven worse.

PBS

Austria wants anti-migration ‘axis’

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for the formation of an anti-migration “axis of the willing” with Germany and Italy, to push for more restrictive border policies at an EU level.

The Independent

Austrian Muslims denounce decision to close mosques and expel imams

The Local Austria

Myanmar seeks to dodge accountability for abuses

The hapless spin doctors of Myanmar’s embattled National League for Democracy government have made a belated gambit to stave off international pressure aimed at seeking accountability for military abuses against minority Rohingya Muslims.

Asia Times Online

Trump downplays N. Korea’s human rights abuses

Time

The perils of being a journalist in Modi’s India

Journalists and rights groups say there are increasing efforts to silence the media in India from both government and society.

Al Jazeera

Viral list of alleged aggressors divides Indian feminists

Deutsche Welle

Lagos seeks to end bias against albinos

The Lagos State government has appealed to the public to stop all forms of discrimination against albinos, saying albinism is not their choice, neither is it a disease.

allAfrica.com

Perils of global trade in bootleg liquor

Up to half of all alcoholic drinks consumed in Africa and Latin America are illicit, often with fatal consequences.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Being Korean in Japan

As North Korea agrees to denuclearisation, Koreans living in Japan hope for a more peaceful future where the Zainichi, the Japanese term for Korean migrants, often face discrimination.

Al Jazeera

US Navy rescues migrants off the coast of Libya

A US Navy ship rescued 40 migrants off the coast of Libya. The expeditionary fast transport ship "USNS Trenton, in accordance with its obligations under international law, rendered assistance to mariners in distress.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Migrants saved but stranded on US warship

A U.S. Navy warship did the right thing. It saved the lives of dozens of people drowning off the coast of Libya. But what does it do with these people who have suffered so much?

Daily Beast

Congo President Kabila won’t seek third term

Congo’s current President Joseph Kabila won’t seek a third mandate in the African country’s upcoming December elections because of constitutional term limits.

Reuters

NATO puts forces in E. Europe to counter Russia

At the Warsaw Summit in July 2016, NATO underscored its renewed emphasis on collective defense and deterrence. The last of four multinational battle groups became operational in August 2017, numbering in just over 4,500 troops and civilians in total.

Business Insider

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans caused warming on the moon, too

According to the new study, the 12 Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972 kicked aside so much dust that they revealed huge regions of darker, more heat-absorbing soil that may not have seen the light of day in billions of years. That raised the moon’s temperature.

LiveScience

Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity

A new study has found psychedelics, specifically DOI, DMT, and LSD, can change brain cells in rats and flies, making neurons more likely to branch out and connect with one another.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Millions taking drugs that hike risk of suicide

Currently, more than one third of Americans are taking drugs that come with an increased risk of depression and—whether or not they realize it—patients are feeling the impact.

Quartz

India set to ban e-cigarettes for good

Delhi is all set to ban e-cigarettes. Under provisions of law, sources in health ministry said, the government has already banned international expo on e-cigarettes in Delhi. Recently, the government also denied permission to a huge consignment of e-cigarettes in Delhi.

India Today

Hong Kong set to regulate e-cigarettes in same manner as traditional smoking

South China Morning Post

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GOOD NEWS

In Denver, ‘Food is in when school is out’

Schools in Denver are wrapping up the school year, and that means many children may not be eating enough because they’re missing out on free or reduced school breakfast and lunch. The Summer for Food Service Program is available to alleviate that stress.

CBS Denver

Gymnast with prosthetic leg breaking boundaries

NBCNews.com

Research: Face of God is in eye of beholder

University of North Carolina psychologists found that most Christians think God looks a lot like them — and he’s not a she.

NBCNews.com

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Common errors made by emerging nonprofits

A new nonprofit organization comes into being when a good-hearted, smart person sees a need that is not being met and sets out to address it. Here are four common mistakes that we see new and emerging nonprofits routinely making and how you can avoid them.

Forbes

Nonprofit news groups have alternative models

Nonprofit news sites beginning their second decade might still get flashbacks to the bad old days of flailing around in pursuit of a viable business model. No more. It’s not that nonprofit news sites don’t have to struggle to get launched and stable, but now they can chose from basic business models.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change to slash global veggie supply

The world’s supply of vegetables could fall by more than a third by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to combat climate change, according to a new study.

The Independent

Alien Anthropocene: How would other worlds battle climate change?

Scientific American

ECONOMY

Canadians boycott US goods over Trump tariffs

Canadians have started to boycott U.S. goods in the wake of President Trump’s war of words with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the recent steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, the European Union, and Mexico.

The Hill

A $1.4T ‘surplus’ Trump’s not talking about

The U.S. has a surplus of $20 billion with China and $1.4 trillion with the rest of the world. That’s not a normal trade balance, of course, but an “aggregate sales surplus” which measures both direct trade and the sales of multinational companies.

Bloomberg

The UK moves to clean up dirty money

The British government of Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to staunch the flow of ill-gotten gains into the country via wealthy Russians in the wake of the attempted murder in March of Sergei Skripal.

U.S. News & World Report

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A traditional performer from Futuna island, Vanuatu. (Photo by Graham Crumb / DFAT) Photo used under CC BY

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