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A man, expelled by force from a homeless shelter, sits outside in 104-degree heat in Bucharest, Romania, in this 2017 photo. People who are poor and isolated quietly suffer the most in the heat as unprecedented peak temperatures engulf the planet. (Photo by Paul Arne Wagner) Photo used under CC BY

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Global heat wave divides the A/C haves, have-nots

2018 is on pace to be among the hottest since records began. The deadly global heat wave has made it impossible to ignore: In cities worldwide, we are now divided into the cool haves and the hot have-nots.

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Guardian

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Climate change is contributing to the migration of Central American refugees

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PRI

India: Sex workers furious over trafficking laws

Sex workers in New Delhi have reacted with fury to new anti-trafficking legislation that they believe will penalize them as it makes no distinction between women who are forced into sex work and those who choose to do it.

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Guardian

Peruvian superstition drives child sex trafficking

Superstitious miners believe that having sex with a girl — especially a virgin — brings them good luck. The true scale of sex trafficking is unknown, as fear and shame prevent victims from coming forward to report these crimes.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

US asylum laws leave abuse survivors afraid

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a decision that makes it harder for domestic abuse survivors to apply for asylum. Abuse survivors and their advocates warn that the decision will lead to more deaths.

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Al Jazeera

Syrian government calls on refugees to return

Syrian government officials say they will ensure the safe return of refugees and are urging Western countries to lift sanctions. They also said they’re working to rebuild hospitals, schools and other infrastructure.

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CNY Central

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UN report says 20,000-30,000 ISIS fighters are left in Iraq, Syria

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Al Jazeera

Morocco migrants arrested, bused away

A human rights group in Morocco has said authorities are busing would-be migrants away from departure points to Europe.

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Italy refuses safe harbor to charity ship carrying migrants

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Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tunisia announces inheritance equality bill

The proposal to equalize inheritance is a hotly debated topic, guided by a commission the president set up a year ago. The commission suggested inheritance should by default be shared equally among male and female heirs.

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Channel NewsAsia

EU governments urged to take in 141 refugees

Officials in Italy and Malta have refused to let the Aquarius dock after it picked up the people from overcrowded wooden boats adrift off the coast of Libya. Charities have appealed for EU governments to refuge to those on board.

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The Independent

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Migrants in Italy wary of new government’s agenda

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DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ethiopia: Misinformation swirl after clashes

Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed said that Ethiopia would remain a unified country, despite what he characterized as talk of secession, divisive rhetoric and false accusations.

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Indian state partners with NGOs on education

The Jharkhand government signed three memoranda of understandings with NGOs working in the school education sector on a zero investment innovation model.

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Debates begin over new Cuban constitution

Cuban society has begun a debate on issues ranging from one-party rule and socialism to inequality, gay rights, private property and restructuring of the country’s government as it replaces an older constitution.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Space probe starts journey to touch the sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft precedes a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible.

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ScienceDaily

Killer whales struggle to adapt to new world

It was not so long ago that killer whales were reviled as vicious pests, harpooned by whalers. But our love affair with killer whales may have come too late, as declining fish stocks and marine pollution push them to extinction.

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National Geographic

Older adults less likely to recognize their errors

A new study found that conscious error detection is impaired in older age, a process which seems to be associated with a decrease in self-awareness.

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ZME Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Malawi urges wider use of successful vaccine

A rotavirus vaccine introduced in rural Malawi has reduced deaths from infant diarrhea by more than a third, proving for the first time that a major intervention in a low-income country can be highly effective.

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Guardian

Italy’s anti-vaccine push could spread globally

Experts worry that a bill to suspend compulsory vaccination of children could spread the anti-vaccine movement across borders. Pushed by populism, the bill will become law if approved.

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Axios

Columns And Op-Ed

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What stands in the way of AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have desires

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From Jinnah to ‘Naya Pakistan’: a journey moving in circles

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Asia Times Online

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The next populist revolution will be Latinx

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The Atlantic

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African cities on the cusp of major foreign investment need to fix these problems first

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Quartz

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How engineering the climate could mess with our food

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Grist

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How worried should we be about Steve Bannon‘s ’Movement’?

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Al Jazeera

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The nuclear fail: the dubious distinction, and literary legacy, of Leo Szilard

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GOOD NEWS

Student chooses charity over corporate life

While volunteering, Tay came across a boy who was high on glue and roaming the streets. That experience revealed the complexity of poverty at the transit points of the drug trade between the Golden Triangle and Bangkok.

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Channel NewsAsia

Man making 10-mile walk to work getting car

About six weeks ago, a worker’s scooter broke down. It was his only form of transportation to get to his job. It’s an over 10-mile trek, but he never came late to work. His community banded together to buy him a car.

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WMDT

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

China leaps Australia as biggest Pacific donor

China could overtake Australia as the biggest donor to Pacific nations, but only if Beijing follows through on its promises of aid and support that are currently billions of dollars short of being realized.

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CNN

America has room for more nonprofits

Too many nonprofits could spread donor dollars thin. How many youth organizations does a town need? Research suggests that anyone worried about too many nonprofits should focus on density and competition.

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San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change raises tensions in Central Asia

Tensions flared after ethnic Uzbek and police blocked access to a water reservoir. Fistfights and potshots have been common, and for farmers scraping by from dry land, water is lifeblood, and worth fighting for.

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Nautilus

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Tribe claims ‘water war’ has been waged against them

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India Times

Jakarta succumbing to rising oceans

It sits on swampy land, the sea laps against it, and rivers run through it. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that flooding is frequent in Jakarta but it is getting worse. This massive city is literally disappearing into the ground.

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BBC

ECONOMY

Turkey scrambles to save economy

Turkey‘s central bank on Monday announced it was taking all necessary measures to ensure financial stability after the collapse of the lira, promising to provide ’all the liquidity the banks need.’

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Al Jazeera

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Erdogan: ‘The US has stabbed us in the back’

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Pakistan economy finds self looking over cliff

Foreign exchange reserves are at four-year lows, pressuring the local rupee and triggering worries that Islamabad may soon be unable to finance monthly import bills. The developing country is also awash in external debt.

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CNBC

Colombia, Honduras tackle coffee rust disease

In 2008, coffee rust almost killed Colombia‘s coffee industry. A decade later, it’s about to harvest its biggest crop. Colombia managed to turn things around with government help, research and by planting resistant varieties.

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CNNMoney

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A woman of the Kayan people works at her loom. Photo shot in Tachileik, Myanmar. (Photo by Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas) Photo used under CC BY

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