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A young tribal girl in a village around Koraput, Odisha. Researchers have examined health conditions for India’s 104 million indigenous people, and called for resources to be directed specifically towards improving health care and food security among the country’s 705 tribal groups. (Photo by Saurabh Chatterjee) Photo used under CC BY

Malnutrition, child deaths plague India’s indigenous

Among indigenous communities in India, 57 out of every 1,000 children die before age 5, compared to 37 deaths in other social groups, according to the first government study on health among tribal groups.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

From hypertension to cancers, alarm bells ringing in India’s tribal belts

DownToEarth

Liberia shifts land control to local communities

Liberian President George Weah has signed a long-sought land reform law that gives local communities greater rights over “customary land” and lets foreigners and charities own property as long as it is used for the purpose given at the time of purchase.

News 24

Migrants forced to sail, take heat for trafficking

Asylum seekers, who are used by traffickers to sail boats full of other migrants and asylum seekers, are later accused of sailing migrant boats into the country and arrested and sentenced to prison. Boat drivers are frequently forced to sail against their will at gunpoint.

Guardian

Austria seeks to block refugees, migrants from entering

Al Jazeera

Rights group accuses S. Sudan of ‘war crimes’

South Sudan’s government and its allied militias have been accused of carrying out war crimes of “staggering brutality” during an offensive earlier this year, Amnesty International has said in a report.

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia’s reforms challenged by unrest

Ethiopia’s stunning political reforms are now threatened by long-standing ethnic tensions that have roared back to life since a young prime minister took power just five months ago and promised greater freedoms.

Nazret

UN accuses Kyrgyzstan of rights violations

UN experts have accused Kyrgyzstan of continuous “bride kidnapping” human rights violations for failing to assist victims of abduction, rape and forced marriage.

Jurist

HUMAN RIGHTS

Basketball takes DRC migrant to Greece

Chris Wamba fled hardship and unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with nothing but his ball and a change of clothes. Now Wamba is training with a pro basketball club in Europe.

Reuters

Migrants on the move: Spain, Morocco border

YouTube

Opposition figure arrested on arrival in Uganda

Uganda’s music star opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi was taken by police after arriving back in the country from the United States, where he had gone to receive medical treatment for alleged torture.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump suggests Spain build Saharan wall

President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister says. Trump’s pledge to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico was one of his election promises.

BBC

Tarnished poll to be rerun in Russia’s Far East

A regional election in Russia’s Far East will be re-run, the local election commission said, dealing a rare blow to the Kremlin after allegations the vote had been rigged in its candidate’s favor.

Channel NewsAsia

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Giant pandas can tell a mate from its calls

Scientists investigated the calls of giant pandas and found that they can identify each other from their sheep-like bleats at up to 20 meters.

BBC

Praying mantises hunt and eat fish

National Geographic

African researchers hampered by visa issues

Researchers from Africa and Asia are three to four times more likely to experience visa problems when traveling for work than are Europeans and Americans.

Nature

GLOBAL HEALTH

TB remains world’s deadliest disease

Tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease although efforts have averted millions of tuberculosis deaths.

Greater Kashmir

Gates warns destitution may reverse course

More people are being born in the world’s poorest countries, which could halt the decline in the number of extremely poor people and possibly even cause the number to rise.

CNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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The perils of the non-apology apology in the #MeToo movement

The Walrus

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Tech gurus don’t let their kids have smartphones. Here’s why

Spectator

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Are Muslims observing a Jewish holiday?

Al Jazeera

Column (Ben Reed):

Trump has finally brought us to dystopia

The Millions

Column (Peter Salisbury):

No diplomatic solution will succeed in Yemen without on-the-ground legitimacy

The New Republic

Column (Stephanie Wykstra):

What really helps the poor?

Aeon

Column (Robert Malley and Aaron David Miller):

Trump is reinventing the US approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Inmate’s golf drawings lead to exoneration

A convict whose talent for art caught the eye of a prison warden has been exonerated of murder. The man’s color pencil drawings of golf courses prompted advocates to uncover flawed evidence in the case.

BBC

Crossing guard honored for service

Naomi Thomas is celebrating five decades of service keeping kids safe on the way to class. Her friends, co-workers and boss all got together to show her their gratitude.

WDRB

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Widely used nonprofit tool doesn’t work

A recent study finds that the tool most often used to assess the efficiency of nonprofit organizations isn’t just inaccurate — it is negatively correlated with efficiency.

ScienceDaily

The US ranks low in global aid deployment

According to an annual index that ranks 27 of the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. scored dead last on foreign aid contributions and quality — despite being the largest donor in dollar amount.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change skeptics face reality

Scientists warn that climate change is responsible for the growing severity of storms. But deep in Trump country, many don’t believe global warming fueled it and don’t think humans are the problem.

Guardian

Mummified penguins give clues on climate change

Mashable

Bulgarian dams threaten the environment

Bulgaria is banking more on hydroelectric power, authorizing the construction of 300 new dams. But environmental organizations say these will destroy valuable ecosystems and won’t produce much electricity either.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMY

Global economic growth may have peaked

The west’s leading economic think-tank has warned that the expansion in the global economy may have peaked after cutting its growth forecasts for an array of rich and developing countries.

Guardian

Ukraine struggles to join global economy

Ukraine is moving ahead with a plan to complete the privatization of its maritime cargo handling system. While some ports will remain state-owned, the government is looking for a handover to businessmen.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

A man hauls a pig carcass to the weekly market of Chiana in the Kassena Nankana District of Ghana. (Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR) Photo used under CC BY

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