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The Musahar, a socially marginalized and poor community that relies closely on the forest for subsistence, are allowed to collect fuel wood for personal use each Wednesday in the Bagmara Buffer Zone in Nepal. (Photo by Jason Houston for USAID) Photo used under CC BY

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The ‘Rat Eaters’ of Bihar: poorest of India’s poor

The 2.5 million Musahar are one of India’s most marginalized communities. Surviving largely on rats, the Musahar have no access to government services. Most survive as dollar-a-day laborers. Even the browbeaten low-caste Dalits look down on them.

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The Star

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In Uttar Pradesh, Musahars battle starvation

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ISIS withdraws from last urban Syria stronghold

Islamic State extremists have withdrawn from their last urban stronghold in Syria after weeks of intensifying clashes with Kurdish-led fighters that have splintered the remnants of the group’s leadership.

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Guardian

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Over 900 corpses found inside mass graves left by ISIS in eastern Syria

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Workers pay huge price for China’s development

Even as hundreds of millions of people have left poverty, workers are reminders of the heavy human toll of China’s development, and authorities have sought to censor information and suppress protests.

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Reuters

Migrant girls flee Indonesia to escape poverty

The National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers has counted more than 2,600 cases of dead or missing Indonesian migrants since 2014.

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Japan Times

Nigeria accuses UNICEF of spying, halts work

The Nigerian military has accused UNICEF staff of spying for ISIS in northeast Nigeria and suspended the agency’s activities there.

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Reuters

Melting of Greenland’s ice is ’off the charts’

Greenland’s massive ice sheets contain enough water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet, and a new study shows that they are melting at a rate “unprecedented” over centuries — and likely thousands of years.

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CNN

Tanzania denies gay rights as donors pull cash

Tanzania’s government says it’s facing a difficult financial time after donors pulled funding over its treatment of the gay community, but it says it won’t back down.

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ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty: ISIS ‘annihilation’ of Iraq is war crime

ISIS’s “deliberate, wanton annihilation” of agricultural land, looting livestock, burning orchards, planting land mines, sabotaging water pumps in northern Iraq amounts to a war crime, Amnesty International has said.

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Al Jazeera

Tunisia’s violence against women law is failing

Nearly a year after a law aimed at protecting women from violence took effect in Tunisia, government officials and activists met to assess how well it’s working — and the report card wasn’t great.

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Huffington Post

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Most victims of violent crime in New Zealand are women

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Stuff

Irish Senate sends abortion bill to president

The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018, a bill to legalize abortion services in Ireland, has passed all stages in the Irish Senate. It will now be given to President Michael D. Higgins to be signed into law.

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The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Kosovo to form army despite Serbia opposition

Kosovo’s parliament overwhelmingly approved the formation of an army, a move that has angered Serbia, which says it would threaten peace in the war-scarred region.

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Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka court rules Parliament sacking illegal

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that the president’s dissolution of parliament last month was unconstitutional, as a political crisis continues to grip the nation.

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BBC

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Sri Lanka’s crisis clouds fate of 20K missing people

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Asia Times Online

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Sri Lanka’s political crisis spurs tourists to cancel in peak season

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Reuters

Egypt’s president decries migrants fleeing to EU

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has told his people they should not expect the West to “open their doors” to migrants who refuse to abide by the laws, customs, traditions and culture of a country they moved to.

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Daily Mail

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

HHS department shuts down HIV research

The Trump administration has quietly shuttered a government-run study seeking a cure for HIV because Christian conservatives object to research using human fetal tissue.

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Salon

Satellites can reveal hidden pollution hot spots

Satellite data described in a new paper can help scientists pinpoint and measure ammonia hot spots, providing an independent way of tracking progress toward pollution targets.

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Bumblebees being turned into live drones

University of Washington’s Living IoTs platform includes sensors, wireless communication and location trackers that ride aboard live insects. Now, a bumblebee can scan fields and monitor temperature, humidity or crop health.

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CNBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s public health care to get $100B boost

India has pledged to spend $100 billion more on health care over the next seven years in a move partly aimed at reducing maternal mortality rates. The country will now spend 2.5 percent of its GDP on health care.

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Guardian

Breast cancer risk may increase after childbirth

Women who have babies may have a greater risk for breast cancer than women without children. The study found risk for breast cancer goes up for 24 years after a woman’s last child, peaking five years after childbirth.

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CBS News

Uganda AI lab creates app to diagnose malaria

Uganda’s first AI lab has developed a way to diagnose blood samples using a cell phone. The program creates its own criteria based on previous images, by which it learns to recognize common features of the infections.

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CNN

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Dutch drafting law to regulate body parts trade

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GOOD NEWS

Young honorees seek to create a better world

Solving homelessness and pollution might seem insurmountable, but not to one group of teens and tweens who saw an issue and tackled it with passion and energy.

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CNN

Aussie trees getting colorful correspondence

The Australian city of Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.

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ABC.net.au

9 million Brits plan to volunteer this Christmas

New research from a national volunteering charity finds that nearly one in five adults in Britain plans to volunteer over the Christmas period, with 14 percent intending to volunteer on Christmas Day itself.

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Santa goes scuba diving with a mermaid and Rudolph

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BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Head Start slashes likelihood of poverty

One of the United States’ most successful anti-poverty measures starts early in life: Head Start, a preschool program for poor kids, increased children’s education and reduced the likelihood of adult poverty.

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Phys.org

Ceasefire paves way for aid to Yemen

Yemen peace talks in Sweden have reached a ceasefire deal for Hodeida, a port city crucial for aid deliveries. UN chief Antonio Guterres said it includes the deployment of neutral forces and humanitarian corridors.

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ENVIRONMENT

Tehran sinking itself by tapping groundwater

In order to cover the increased water demand from the agricultural sector over the past 40 years, groundwater basins have been exploited. As a result, the ground above the groundwater basins in Tehran is sinking.

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Phys.org

New system could warn islands from floods

A recently developed early warning system can forecast floods on coral-lined coasts worldwide and could help save residents of low-lying island nations from unprecedented disaster, according to researchers.

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New reserves to protect endangered sea life

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National Geographic

Palm oil is immensely difficult to give up

After spending years reporting on palm oil, a journalist grapples with her own consumption. To see just how ubiquitous palm oil had become in our lives, she tracked every encounter with it throughout the day.

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National Geographic

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Greek debt has kids hungry and malnourished

Freed from the strict orders of international creditors, Greece is now in financial recovery. But years of budget cuts have left the country scarred and many Greeks starving.

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Slave labor drives sneaker production

Slave labor is still alive and well. A new report produced by the nonprofit KnowTheChain points out that your closet is likely full of clothes made through forced labor.

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Fast Company

S. Africa’s vintners serve Chinese tastes

South Africa is the eighth-largest wine producer in the world and the emphasis is on classic mid-range products that would suit the Chinese market, touted to become the world’s second-largest market for wine, behind USA.

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CNN

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Africa mulls differing business initiatives

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Pastoralist children from the Borana group in Yabelo, Ethiopia. (Photo by Leonard Tedd/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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