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US Army: Climate change promises blackouts, war

Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The U.S. Army study also found that the U.S. military might collapse over the next two decades.

Vice

Koran schools mask Nigerian ‘torture houses’

A Nigerian Koranic center was one of series of institutions raided over the past month where parents have been sending troublesome children and young men who may be addicted to drugs or have committed petty crimes.

BBC

Wealth gaps, poor services are fueling Chile’s protests

Chilean protesters say they are united by frustration with the so-called neoliberal model that has left Chile with region-topping prosperity along with two-tiered health and education systems that provide better results for the minority who can afford to pay.

TIME

Hundreds shot and beaten as Chileans take to streets

Guardian

Chile’s president promises to reshuffle Cabinet after massive protests in Santiago

NPR

Uighurs in exile fear for loved ones in China

Mass detention camps and heavy surveillance in Xinjiang, China, are affecting Uighurs abroad. Many have remained silent, out of fear for those still in China. But now, in desperation, they are telling their stories.

Al Jazeera

80,000 march against Catalan independence

Tens of thousands of people have joined a protest against independence in Barcelona, calling for Spanish unity and peaceful coexistence in Catalonia after the violent unrest of the past fortnight.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Stopover in Yemen means torture for migrants

The EU has provided funding to Ethiopia to crack down on people smugglers. Arrests of known brokers have prompted people to turn to unreliable traffickers, take more dangerous paths, increasing the risk of abuses.

Al Jazeera

The transgender women on the trail of Pakistan’s missing children

Guardian

Migrant cash can buy palace in Vietnam village

A billion dong may only be $43,000, but in the rural Vietnamese town of Do Thanh, the money goes a long way, and even farmers live in palatial mansions, paid for with money sent back by family members working abroad.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Portugal’s PM targets 25% minimum wage rise

Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa promised to raise the monthly minimum wage by 25 percent to $830 by 2023 as he started his second term in the office.

Reuters

Trudeau victory prompts ‘Wexit’ talk in Canada

Political leaders representing a large chunk of Canada are talking about breaking off from the rest of the country in the wake of Justin Trudeau’s reelection — and this time they’re not primarily in French-speaking Quebec.

Politico

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facial recognition might have a gender problem

Facial recognition software can now categorize the gender of many men and women with remarkable accuracy. But if that face belongs to a transgender person, such systems get it wrong more than one third of the time.

TechXplore

NASA shares spooky photos for Halloween

NBCNews.com

Origin of modern humans ‘traced to Botswana’

Scientists have pinpointed the homeland of all humans alive today to a region south of the Zambezi River. Our ancestors settled for 70,000 years, until the local climate changed, researchers have proposed.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Study: Global warming can cause undernutrition

Monash University researchers are warning that global warming is likely to increase illnesses caused by undernutrition, due to the effects of heat exposure.

MedicalXpress

New TB drug in developing nations will cost $1K

A newly-approved three-drug treatment for tuberculosis will cost more than twice the amount previously proposed by advocacy groups for other treatments.

Al Jazeera

‘White death’ in Argentina: The hunger of poverty feeds tuberculosis

Yahoo! News

Women, kids addicted to drugs in Afghanistan

Women and children in Afghanistan are being entangled in drugs. From an estimated 200,000 opium and heroin addicts in 2005, the numbers rose between 1.9 million to 2.4 million in 2015, according to the UN.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Ex-soldier climbs 14 high peaks, breaks record

Nirmal “Nims” Purja, 36, a former soldier from Nepal has climbed the world’s 14 highest peaks in just over six months, smashing the previous record by over 7 years.

CNN

Teen helps feed thousands of homeless people

Shreyaa Venkat founded the non-profit organization, NEST4US, which has helped tens of thousands of people in the U.S. They’ve served over 12,000 homeless people by providing food and other supplies.

Reader’s Digest

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Conservation program awards $9.3M in grants

NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program has awarded more than $9.3 million in grants to support coral conservation projects and scientific studies. The target regions are seven U.S. states and territories.

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk pledges $1M to plant trees globally

Elon Musk pledged to donate $1 million to #TeamTrees. The initiative aims to plant 20 million trees around the globe by January 1, 2020, at a cost of a dollar per tree.

Mashable

Coffee growers help reforest Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

China’s ocean waste surges 27% in 2018

China dumped a total of 200.7 million cubic meters of waste into its coastal waters in 2018, a 27 percent rise on the previous year and the highest level in at least a decade, the country’s environment ministry has said.

Reuters

Chile cancels climate summits amid protests

Chile has pulled out of hosting two major international summits, including a UN climate change conference, as anti-government protests continue.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Women’s earnings drop after having a child

Many factors drive the gender pay gap, but one of the most common explanations is the “motherhood penalty,” or the way that women’s earnings are negatively impacted by raising children, while men’s earnings are not.

CNBC

30% bisexual women, trans people live in poverty

A new report has found the relatively high rate of poverty in the LGBTQ community is not evenly distributed, with bisexual women and transgender people shouldering a disproportionate poverty burden.

NBCNews.com

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A mother feeds her baby in Sahel, a region faced with severe food insecurity and high malnutrition, in March 2014. (Photo by EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie) Photo used under CC BY

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