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Children who fled the escalating violence in southern Iraq share a small house with relatives in Turaq. Only Hungary sided with the U.S. in voting against a non-binding UN agreement that provides greater support for countries where most of the world’s more than 25 million refugees live. (Photo by UN Photo/Bikem Ekberzade) Photo used under CC BY

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US, Hungary vote against UN support for refugees

Only Hungary backed the U.S in a vote at the UN General Assembly against a non-binding agreement that provides greater support for countries where most of the world’s more than 25 million refugees live. Meanwhile, 181 countries voted in favor.

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The Independent

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US officials reject blame for migrant girl’s death

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PRI

Myanmar making Rohingya return difficult

The areas where the Rohingya lived in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State before the army ousted them are being dramatically transformed. Many who stayed behind say conditions are growing intolerable.

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Reuters

Lack of regulation killing thousands of coal miners

NPR has identified more than 2,000 coal miners suffering from advanced black lung disease from 2011-2016 — in just five Appalachian states. An NPR/Frontline analysis has revealed a tragic failure to recognize and respond to clear signs of danger.

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NPR

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From gold bars to barring mining, U.S. town awaits extractive ban ruling

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Italian law could make refugees homeless

Italy’s new Salvini law includes a crackdown on asylum rights by abolishing “humanitarian protection.” Critics say the law will condemn asylum seekers to a life without basic rights.

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Al Jazeera

UN predicts further exodus from Venezuela

A senior UN official is predicting that by the end of next year, more than 5 million Venezuelans will have fled their country, which is in the depths of an historic economic crisis and being battered by hyper inflation.

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Vatican News

Women on track for pay parity in 200 years

At the current rate of change, it will take two centuries for women to achieve “economic gender parity,” including in the workplace, the World Economic Forum said in a new report.

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WDEF

HUMAN RIGHTS

India’s trafficking victims push for new law

Indian campaigners, survivors and lawmakers are pushing for the passage of a long-pending anti-trafficking bill as they fear it will be stalled or shelved if not passed soon as India’s political attention turns to 2019’s general elections.

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Reuters

Germany approves an option for ‘third gender’

Germany is set to introduce a third gender option on official documents allowing people to be registered as “intersex,” after its parliament approved government plans.

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The Independent

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The next census will count LGBT Britons for the first time

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Economist

Thousands march against Serbian president

Demonstrators defied heavy snow in Belgrade, Serbia, to protest what they call a crackdown by President Aleksandar Vucic’s government on opposition parties and the media.

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Channel NewsAsia

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Poland undoes retirement age law on EU order

Poland has undone a law that lowered the retirement age of Supreme Court judges after the EU’s top court ordered its reversal. The country’s judicial reforms have been at the center of a dispute with the EU.

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Putin seeks to control rap music in Russia

Alarmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise means to control, rather than ban, the popular music.

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CNBC

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Russian artists on culture, identity and censorship

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Biologists turn viruses into bacterial assassins

Researchers have found a bacteria-killing virus that can listen in on bacterial conversations. And then they made it attack diseases including salmonella, E. coli and cholera.

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ScienceDaily

Now, an energy-efficient way to stay warm?

Engineers have found a cost-effective way to make thin, durable heating patches by using intense pulses of light to fuse tiny silver wires with polyester. This could not only reduce electricity bills but also carbon footprint.

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ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Obrador seeks to revamp health care for poor

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced a $5.7 billion plan to revamp the country’s health care system for the poor. He also said a program for euthanasia, should be considered.

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Associated Press

Three new strains of hepatitis C found in Africa

Researchers have found three brand new strains of the hepatitis C virus in patients in Uganda in one of the biggest studies of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

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‘Barbed wire-plus’: Borders know no love

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Al Jazeera

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Malnutrition: the new challenges are also the new opportunities…

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Africa’s youth deserve a museum that reflects their history, identity

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Citizen TV

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GOOD NEWS

Retiree drives low-income students to college

In the past eight years, Paul Goetchius, 76, a retiree from Syracuse, N.Y.,, has logged a jaw-dropping 64,368 miles driving low-income college students to and from universities all around his state for holidays and breaks.

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MSN

UK hotel shelters homeless for Christmas

A second hotel in Hull has stepped in to offer 28 homeless people rooms over Christmas after their previous booking by a homeless project was canceled.

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BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nicaragua seizes assets of blacklisted NGOs

Nicaraguan authorities had seized the assets of 10 blacklisted organizations, dealing another blow to civil society after months of protests against President Daniel Ortega that were met with a heavy-handed crackdown.

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Reuters

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Nigeria thinks UNICEF is spying, halts activities

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

NGOs sue France over climate change inaction

A group of NGOs including Greenpeace and Oxfam have launched a lawsuit against the French state accusing it of taking insufficient action to tackle climate change.

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Channel NewsAsia

ENVIRONMENT

China seen to regress on climate action

For urban Chinese residents, a pressing issue is pollution from power plants and factories. The government has made attempts to regulate heavy industry. But in the winter of 2018, there are concerns about backsliding.

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NPR

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Pakistanis planting trees to tackle climate change

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Pressure mounts on Ethiopian coffee, wolves

In the Harenna Forest of Bale Mountains National Park, a convergence of economic development, climate change and population growth threaten the health of the ecosystem.

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Mongabay

Laos faces systemic dam disaster

A dam failure in Laos this year left at least 35 dead and thousands homeless. The government promised to review the safety of dams and suspend the approval of new ones. But, work on 50 new dams continues.

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CNN

ECONOMY AND TRADE

China marks 40 years of market liberalization

Chinese President Xi Jinping has presented a picture of one of the world’s great stories of economic and social advance in a highly anticipated speech. The Communist Party is marking 40 years of “reform and opening up.”

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Haiti is enthralled in viciousness of poverty

Haiti’s capital is suffering from high inflation, corruption and a steep drop in the value of its currency. In the Fort National area, tiny homes and shelters made from plastic and tarps line trash-filled lanes, doused in sewage.

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Channel NewsAsia

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A Nicaraguan boy has a snack while perching on a skateboard. (Photo by Keely Joy) Photo used under CC BY

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