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Scorching, dry conditions are spurring historic wildfire outbreaks across the Arctic. More than 40 fires dotted Sweden, causing firefighters to scramble and hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. (Photo by NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens) Photo used under CC BY

Climate change lurks over the world’s shoulder

The world sweats through another hot summer. Japan has declared its scorching temperatures a disaster while Europe is baking, with destructive wildfires in Greece and, unusually, the Arctic.

Scientific American

The world burns as global warming crisis explodes

People’s World

US officials split over punishing Myanmar

A year after Myanmar’s military launched a bloody crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, Trump administration policy toward the nation is paralyzed by an internal battle over how to punish those responsible for the genocide.

Politico

Myanmar appoints panel to probe Rohingya abuses

Reuters

Zimbabwe election unrest turns deadly

Soldiers joined police in clashing with protesters in Harare who say the presidential election is rigged. Police fired water cannon and teargas to disperse protesters as military helicopters flew overhead.

Guardian

Live Look: Harare protests turn violent leaving one dead

The Independent

Papua New Guinea gripped by malnutrition

Malnutrition is an urgent threat to more than half a million of the nation’s children. It’s been reported that some feed newborns sago mixed with water from a swamp containing human and animal feces.

Guardian

India’s WhatsApp news problem turns deadly

India is WhatsApp’s largest market, and while the app was designed as a messaging platform for one-on-one exchanges or small groups, in India it has taken on a life of its own.

TIME

Ebola virus breaks out in Congo again

This time the country could be ahead of the game. Vaccines were shipped to the country during the last outbreak and specialists geared up to test samples, educate and get experts to the site of the outbreak quickly.

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

‘Burqa ban’ implemented in Denmark, protests

Supporters and opponents of a ban on garments covering the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, clashed verbally as the law took effect in Denmark.

CBS News

Danish Muslim woman speaks out against Denmark’s ’burqa ban’

Daily Mail

Electricity cuts make summer unbearable, Iraq

Residents of Baghdad say their lives have become “intolerable” as power outages continue across much of the country, being forced to endure summer highs of 118º under an aluminium roof, without a source of cool air.

Al Jazeera

Nigeria launches app to fight human trafficking

Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency has launched an app called iReport that allows people to report cases of human trafficking in the country to the local authorities.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Kosovo president rejects ethnic partitions

Kosovo President ruled out partition of the country with Serbia along ethnic lines, an idea raised in Belgrade to settle a long-running dispute that is hindering both sides’ ambitions to join the European Union.

Reuters

Comoros passed disputed constitutional reform

Comorans have voted overwhelmingly in favour of controversial constitutional reforms that will allow President Azali Assoumani to seek another term, according to electoral officials.

Al Jazeera

South Africa to amend constitution to allow land seizure

BBC

Exiled DRC leader returns for presidential bid

Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi plans to return home this week after two years in exile to submit his candidacy for December’s presidential election, his political platform said.

Reuters

DRC: Former warlord Bemba’s return raises hope for change ahead of election

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists sight rare whale-dolphin hybrid

For the first time, biologists have reported the sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin off the coast of Hawaii.

ZME Science

India expected to be next gaming’s boomtown

The digital gaming landscape in India was marked at $890 million in 2017, roughly 1% of the global share. But the Indian gaming industry will develop rapidly to touch double digit growth in a year.

Venture Beat

GLOBAL HEALTH

Blood biomarker may help diagnose depression

New findings suggest that people with major depressive disorder have lower levels of the molecule acetyl-L-carnitine in their blood.

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Breastfed newborns get a best start to life

Breastfeeding babies within an hour of birth significantly increases their chances of survival. However, only 40 percent of infants are breastfed in the first hour of life.

VOA News

Nigeria recalls cough syrup to prevent abuse

Codeine-based cough syrups are commonly abused alongside prescription drugs like tramadol by young Nigerians. The drug came under scrutiny last year after three million bottles of cough syrup were consumed daily.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Positive stories exist in fight for sustainability

Targets laid down to raise millions out of poverty are lofty. For the first time in a decade, the number of people undernourished has increased worldwide. However, there are still positive stories of change.

CBS News

Employee’s kind gesture toward autistic teen

A grocery store employee is being lauded for letting a teen with autism stock shelves with him as he was mesmerized by what the store employee was doing.

WBAL TV

UK refugee wins biggest math prize

Caucher Birkar, a Kurd that went to the UK as a refugee from Iran, has received one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics.

BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

EU sends Morocco funds to help halt migration

Spain’s foreign minister says the European Union’s executive branch has allocated $64.2 million to manage an upsurge of migrant arrivals, mostly from Morocco.

ABC News

Aid sector complacent over sex abuse scandal

The aid sector is guilty of “complacency verging on complicity” over an “endemic” sex abuse scandal, a damning UK report has said.

BBC

Libya’s coast guard picks up 574 migrants

Libya’s coast guard picked up 574 migrants from inflatable boats in three operations off the North African country’s coast, naval forces spokesman Ayoub Qassem said.

Arab News

ENVIRONMENT

We are consuming the planet’s resources, fast

Earth Overshoot Day 2018, the day when we tip into consuming more natural resources than the planet can regenerate in a year, has come. In the first seven months of 2018 we devoured a year’s worth of resources.

Huffington Post

Study sees big rise in heatwave deaths by 2080

The number of people dying from heatwaves is likely to rise sharply in some regions by 2080 if policymakers fail to take mitigating steps in climate and health policies, according to the results of a study.

Reuters

Deadly heatwaves to hit China this century

Guardian

Largest colony of king penguins falls by 90%

The planet’s largest colony of king penguins has declined by nearly 90 percent in three decades, alarmed researchers said.

CBS News

ECONOMY

Why the World Bank is investing in women

The World Bank has put its money where women-led businesses are through the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, and a year into the investment, it says it’s seeing promising growth.

Politico

Basic income experiment to end in Ontario

Ontario’s new government said it will end the province’s basic income experiment, calling it expensive and unsustainable, bringing an abrupt end to North America’s first government-backed trial in decades.

Guardian

Puerto Rico’s Medicaid faces even deeper cuts

Despite residual effects from 2017’s devastating hurricanes, Puerto Rico is moving ahead with major cuts to its health care safety net that will affect more than a million of its poorest residents.

NPR

Judge orders further extension of aid to Puerto Rico storm evacuees

Reuters

Photo of the Day

An Afghan boy smiles after being seen by doctors during a free clinic at the Mannakhil Comprehensive Health Care Center in Sherzad District in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell) Photo used under CC BY

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