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Indonesian children in Central Kalimantan wearing masks to guard against toxic smoke from peat land fires. According to the World Health Organization, 1.8 billion children around the world are breathing toxic air. (Photo by CIFOR) Photo used under CC BY

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90% of world’s children are breathing toxic air

Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, according to a report from the World Health Organization.

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Guardian

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India tops global chart of pollution-related child deaths

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The Wire

Indian villagers lose homes to feed power sector

As energy-hungry India seeks to fuel its continued economic growth, millions of people are being robbed of their homes by companies building power plants on their land or mining the coal below it, activists and villagers say.

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Japan Times

Minorities in Afghanistan face persecution amid war

The war in Afghanistan is forcing people from religious minorities to leave the country. But not everyone can afford to escape persecution and seek a new life abroad.

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Al Jazeera

Latvia’s law aims to limit Russian in schools

The prevalence of Russian in public life is one reason why Latvia’s government has passed a law that will limit Russian as a language of instruction in the country’s schools, beginning next year, angering the sizable Russian minority in the country.

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Kyiv Post

Racial, economic inequality persist in S. Africa

South Africa is marked by a rapidly growing gap between rich and poor – and between black and white, despite an overall reduction in poverty. The country ranks as the world’s most unequal country.

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US to deploy 5K troops to halt migrant caravan

The Pentagon will deploy up to 5,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to prevent members of a migrant caravan from illegally entering the country.

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USA TODAY

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Migrant caravan continues for US border after rejecting Mexico’s offer to stay

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TIME

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights violations loom over Turkish airport

The airport known, for now, as Istanbul New Airport is on track to be the biggest the world has ever seen. But as many as 400 have died on site, with working conditions likened to those in a concentration camp.

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NEWS.com.au

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Facebook temporarily bans posts of article with image of starving Yemeni girl

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The Independent

Black voter suppression rampant in Georgia

Georgia’s Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an investigation revealed his office has not approved 53,000 voter registrations – most of them filed by African-Americans.

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PBS NewsHour

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Sri Lankan politics puts nation on edge

Pressure is mounting on Sri Lanka’s president to allow parliament to decide between two men claiming to be the country’s lawful prime minister, amid warnings that the constitutional dispute could lead to a “bloodbath”.

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Guardian

Far-right candidate becomes Brazil’s president

Supporters of Brazil‘s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro took the streets of Rio de Janeiro after the politician was declared the winner. The victory caps one of the most polarizing and violent campaigns in Brazil’s history.

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CNN

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Bolsonaro in his own words

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists learn from nature and innovate

In the emerging field of biomimicry, scientists and inventors take inspiration from trees, whales and coral. Paying close attention to nature gives rise to robust techniques that can solve many of the world’s climate problems.

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NBCNews.com

University pivots to Austria in quest for liberty

An international university in Budapest that has been at the center of a struggle between Hungarian liberals and the country’s right-wing government has decided to transfer its next batch of students to Austria.

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Nature

GLOBAL HEALTH

Polio poses threat besides recent victories

Vaccination rates have increased worldwide with the number of polio cases decreasing. In recent years, the figure has been below 100 per year. Last year, 22 cases of polio were registered; this year there are 20 worldwide.

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DRC healers are exacerbating Ebola outbreak

Kids in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are dying from Ebola at an unprecedented rate due largely to poor sanitary practices at clinics run by traditional healers.

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Reuters

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Dogs can be trained to sniff out malaria carriers

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Smithsonian Magazine

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GOOD NEWS

Muslims crowdfund for synagogue victims

The Muslim-American community has raised tens of thousands of dollars in a crowdfunding effort to help the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left at least 11 people dead and six wounded.

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Al Jazeera

Baseball champ assists hurricane-struck PR

The Boston Red Sox manager says he asked for a plane full of supplies to help struggling people after Hurricane Maria. Along with necessities, the plane brought along new baseball equipment for kids.

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CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Fishing grant started to protect oceans

Millions of pounds’ worth of funding to tackle global overfishing and protect coral reefs will be announced at a conference in Indonesia.

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Guardian

Palu on slow path to recovery after disaster

More than 200,000 people lost their homes in the earthquake disaster and are struggling to find shelter to last not only through the looming rainy season but beyond.

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Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil’s president-elect will sell off the Amazon

Brazil’s president-elect Bolsonaro has threatened to close environment agencies and throw open indigenous lands to development. Empowering the indigenous is seen as the best way of combating deforestation.

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Climate change is reshaping world’s borders

Climate change is reshaping aspects of our environment that many of us thought were static — from where deserts begin and end, to what we can grow in community gardens.

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Axios

Special section:

How the world’s climate zones are shifting

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Yale Environment 360

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Aussie employers are stealing migrants’ wages

Fewer than one in 10 migrant workers took action to recover unpaid wages even though most know they’re underpaid. The most cited barriers were concerns about the amount of effort involved to fight wage theft.

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NEWS.com.au

Turkey uses crisis to extract concessions

Turkey and the US are still at loggerheads on many fronts, but the Khashoggi crisis has helped reset relations and in the process, revive investor confidence to a degree.

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Al Jazeera

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A family waits for an appointment at a mobile health clinic in the Central African Republic. (Photo by EU/ECHO/Malini Morzaria)

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