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This mural outside the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, conveys the sorrow and bitterness the UC disaster has spawned. (Photo by Jessie Bhangoo) Photo used under CC BY

Historic industrial disaster still unfolding in India

In 1984, tons of a toxic gas spewed from the factory in Bhopal, India, and ruined lives of many people outside these walls. It remains the world’s deadliest industrial disaster. Other sites of industrial waste have been cleaned up, but this site in Bhopal is mostly unchanged.

The Atlantic

Peacekeeping is overwhelmingly African

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has identified 63 multilateral peacekeeping operations throughout the world. Africa hosts the largest number, with 25 missions, some 75% of all peacekeeping personnel, and for the majority of the troops.

(Council on Foreign Relations)

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Africa needs more infrastructure investment

CNBC

Calamity afflicts 1 in 4 of the world’s children

A quarter of the world’s children are affected by wars or disasters, proved a recent investigation by UNICEF showed during a meeting on children and armed conflicts. A situation that experts warn goes “almost beyond comprehension” and involves at least one child out of four in total.

Asia News

Toxic narrative on migration endangers lives

Countries introducing laws that restrict help to those in need, endangers lives, and risks pushing humanitarian standards back.

Guardian

Asylum claims surge despite drop in violence

Asylum requests from Central American immigrants claiming fear of murder and violence back home have surged over 800%, despite a 30% drop in murder and violence, according to DOJ and United Nations statistics.

Washington Examiner

Separated families return to Guatemala

San Francisco Chronicle

Improving Latin American cities is essential

An increase in infrastructure investment, better metropolitan governance, urban planning, and human capital are key to taking advantage of the region’s potential.

Daily Herald

HUMAN RIGHTS

Syrians cross for doctor visit in Israel

To keep a doctor’s appointment in Israel, Syrian children and their mothers stepped across a tense Golan Heights border in the night under the gaze of Israeli soldiers.

Reuters

Boys from Thai cave have had to endure more

The extraordinary rescue of the youth soccer team has been a rare cause for cheer in Thailand, a nation that has endured four years of military governance, a growing rural-urban divide and stateless ethnic minority issues.

Seattle Times

Rescue mission from Thai cave in pictures

Guardian

S. Sudan atrocities may constitute war crimes

Horrific accounts of gang rape, throats being slit and mass shootings in South Sudan are described in the latest United Nations report on the country.

BBC

Artist captures war as seen by children

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ugandans protest over social media tax

Ugandan police on Wednesday used tear gas and bullets to break up a street protest against a new tax targeting social media users. Two protesters were arrested in downtown Kampala, the capital, after a scuffle in which some policemen were assaulted.

ABC News

Ramaphosa to be asked of safety of Nigerians

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to face tough questions relating to the country’s plan to safeguard Nigerians living in South Africa. Attacks on Nigerians in SA are expected to come under the spotlight when Ramaphosa meets with his Nigerian counterpart this week.

News24

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Senegal to benefit from NASA mission

A mission of 40 NASA scientists is heading to Senegal at the start of August, to help with the planning for the final stage the New Horizons space mission to observe the outer planets.

SciDev

Zimbabwe launches space agency

The African nation will deploy global navigation satellite systems, geospatial technologies for better farming, mineral exploration, wildlife conservation and infrastructure management and disease surveillance.

The East African

Earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

Scientists have found the earliest evidence of a human presence outside Africa. Ancient tools discovered in China suggest primitive humans were there as early as 2.12 million years ago.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola can cause long-term brain damage

Ebola virus survivors suffer greater long-term neurological consequences than doctors have believed. In some cases, survivors could no longer care for themselves and issues ranged from migraines, strokes and nerve damage.

U.S. News & World Report

North Korea in need of humanitarian aid

Although humanitarian supplies or operations are exempt under U.N. Security Council resolutions, international sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs are exacerbating humanitarian problems by slowing aid deliveries.

Reuters

New virus detected in Myanmar’s bats

PREDICT researchers in Myanmar have hit pay dirt with a never-before-seen virus that infects wrinkle-lipped bats, a virus in the same family as the ones that cause SARS and MERS.

Smithsonian Magazine

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GOOD NEWS

EU mobilizes €191M for Sahel countries

The amount is meant for food security and the vulnerable in the Sahel. In mobilizing the funds, it aims at reaching more than 1.1 million people in need of emergency food assistance while supporting treatment to over 650,000 severely malnourished children.

The Sun

Training gives hope to refugees in France

Refugees are learning code at a center where low-skilled workers are trained in digital tech, outside Paris, as part of a $18 billion push by the President to make France’s training programs relevant and lower unemployment.

Reuters

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Role of foreign aid in Bangladesh

Foreign aid and development partners have played an important role in Bangladesh’s growth story. Its importance has also been acknowledged by successive governments.

Daily Star

Officials and nonprofits try to reunite families

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Huge iceberg breaks off Greenland glacier

The team was observing the Helheim Glacier, Greenland’s large outlet glaciers and a fast flowing glacier along the eastern edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Scientists have been keeping a close eye on the frozen river as an indicator of global warming and sea-level rise.

New Atlas

Vietnam’s bear bile farms are collapsing

Consumer interest in farmed bear bile seems to be declining in Vietnam. But this isn’t necessarily good news, because it raises concerns for both captive and wild bears.

Mongabay

Monsoon kills more than 50 across Nepal

The extreme weather affected 36 of Nepal’s 77 districts, Ram Krishna Subedi, a spokesperson of the Home Ministry said, with nine people reported missing and infrastructure, including bridges and roads, damaged.

Al Jazeera

ECONOMY

Asian markets close sharply low

Markets in Asia have closed steeply lower this week, with most major indexes tumbling following the release of a list of an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods on which the U.S. is considering imposing tariffs.

CNBC

Ireland backs law to ban trade with settlements

The Irish Senate gave its support to a legislation prohibiting the import or sale of goods and services produced in occupied territories around the world, including Israeli settlements considered illegal under international law.

Al Jazeera

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Drummers perform in Labadee, Haiti. (Photo by Ricardo Mangual) Photo used under CC BY

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