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Despair drives refugee kids to suicide on Nauru island

Suicide attempts and horrifying acts of self-harm are drawing fresh attention to the suffering of refugee children on Nauru, in what is being described as a “mental health crisis.”

BBC

Riot breaks out at Australian immigration detention centre after alleged suicide attempt

The Independent

India’s Smart Cities ignore poor, marginalized

Most cities in India’s Smart Cities Mission are only upgrading small areas. Advocacy groups believe that focusing on technology may widen inequality while raising the risk of gentrification and evictions.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The men fighting India’s female feticide

Guardian

Lake Chad region thrust into humanitarian crisis

Africa’s Lake Chad region, which includes parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, is facing a massive humanitarian crisis driven by poverty, climate change and conflict.

Reliefweb

Malaysian crackdown on migrants stirs fears

Malaysia is set to launch a major crackdown on undocumented migrant workers after the end of a scheme that allowed them to turn themselves in, but critics say human trafficking victims could be wrongly targeted.

The News

Mediterranean crossings deadlier than ever

More than 300 people have perished on sea route from North Africa to Spain so far in 2018, compared with 200 in all of 2017. The UN urges Europe to muster the humanity to save lives.

The Independent

UN details possible war crimes in Yemen

A report by the United Nations says that the Saudi-led forces in Yemen, as well as the Houthi rebels they are fighting, may have committed war crimes. Saudi officials claim the organization is biased against them.

Deutsche Welle

Saudi coalition spokesman denies war crimes in Yemen following report by Human Rights Watch

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Myanmar imprisons investigative journalists

A Myanmar court has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for breaking the Official Secrets Act while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims.

CNN

World reacts to sentencing of Reuters journalists in Myanmar

Al Jazeera

Cellphone data provides hope for Rohingya

CNN

Fate of those in ‘slaughterhouse’ jails revealed

Families in Syria scrambled to track down their imprisoned relatives and scraped together money to try to secure their release. Much of the time, their efforts were in vain.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ugandans protest detention of lawmakers

Protests have erupted in the Ugandan capital after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care.

Reuters

Malawi’s ex–president to contest polls

Former Malawian president Joyce Banda will be seeking another mandate to run the country after her People’s Party’s chose her to lead it into next year’s national elections.

Africanews

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Machine learning used to aid quake knowledge

Scientists have used machine learning to calculate the pattern of aftershocks following an earthquake. Researchers hope this and similar techniques will improve our understanding of earthquake behavior.

BBC

Ketamine acts like opioids to treat depression

The anesthetic ketamine has drawn excitement in recent years as a fast-acting and effective treatment for severe depression.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vaccine skepticism makes measles prolific

More than 41,000 people in Europe were infected with measles during the first half of 2018, according to the WHO, smashing 12-month totals for any year since 2010.

Axios

Ebola survivors in Congo met with stigma

Health officials face the challenge not only of combating a deadly virus in what is effectively a war zone but also of pushing back against possible stigma and fears of the unknown.

Detroit News

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GOOD NEWS

Man, 99, walks 6 miles a day to visit sick wife

A 99-year-old man from Rochester, New York, walks six miles round-trip every day to visit Waverlee in the hospital. He says, “I got a wife. I don’t want to wait on the bus. I want to go up there to see my wife.”

MSN

Woman creates website for refugee academics

When Germany opened its borders during the worst refugee crisis in recent years, one woman felt compelled to help people who had left behind high-flying careers in academia.

Positive News

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

UN defends criteria for Palestinian refugees

Palestinian refugees “cannot simply be wished away,” the head of a UN agency said, hitting back at a U.S. cutoff and allegations its work only perpetuates their plight.

Reuters

UNRWA funding cut could close Palestinian schools within weeks

NBCNews.com

Museum takes art to city neighborhoods

The New Orleans Museum of Art is creating a pop-up museum that travels throughout the city. This new offsite art museum experience, is the result of creative forces coming together to build and deploy a “museum without walls.”

NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change likely erased Neanderthals

Records gathered from Romanian caves show two extremely cold periods correspond with the disappearance of Neanderthals.

Smithsonian Magazine

Illegal fishing net kills endangered turtles

About 300 sea turtles have died on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast after they were trapped in an abandoned illegal fishing net. The office for environmental protection says the turtles drowned after getting caught in the net.

CBS News

ECONOMY

World markets have trouble finding ground

Global stock markets fell for a third straight day, hurt by worries over the escalation of trade disputes between world powers and a sell-off across emerging market currencies.

Reuters

Saudi Arabia moving forward with plans to turn Qatar into an island

Business Insider

Venezuela’s cryptocurrency remains hidden

Venezuela’s petro is hard to spot almost anywhere. Residents say they have seen no efforts by the government to tap oil reserves. They have little confidence that their village has a front-row seat to a revolution in finance.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A young Rohingya refugee girl in a UNICEF temporary learning center, in Kutapalong, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (Photo by Russell Watkins/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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