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Asylum-seekers in Tijuana, Mexico. Asylum-seekers face dangers waiting in violent Mexican border regions; cartels and smugglers kidnap migrants and hold them for ransom. (Photo by Daniel Arauz) Photo used under CC BY

US policy may strand asylum seekers in Mexico

The Trump administration’s new policy would force migrants seeking U.S. asylum to wait in Mexico until a U.S. judge rules on their cases. Advocates fear that migrants will likely be stranded in Mexico for months, possibly years, while their cases play out in U.S. courts.

PRI

Indonesia scrambles to find tsunami survivors

Indonesian military and rescue teams fanned out across a stretch of coastline, hoping to find survivors of a tsunami triggered by a landslide from a volcano that killed at least 373 people.

Reuters

Panic and devastation after Indonesian tsunami

Reuters

Venezuelan women sell hair, breast milk, sex to survive

Venezuelans fleeing the country – many with university degrees or decent jobs in what was once the wealthiest nation in Latin America – are now without passports or work permits and resorting to whatever it takes to survive.

FOX News

‘We arrive sick and hungry’: Venezuelans in Brazil – in pictures

Guardian

Heat presents growing risks in Hong Kong

While typhoons and fires grab headlines, heatwaves kill more people than any other weather-related disaster, experts say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Abuse victims in US at risk after law expires

The Violence Against Women Act expired as the U.S. government shut down and temporarily cut off funding for programs that help victims of sexual assault, domestic abuse and stalking.

The Independent

Migrants face arrests, deportations in Algeria

In 2018, Algerian authorities conducted dozens of mass expulsions of migrants, attracting international criticism over the country’s treatment of sub-Saharan citizens.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Libyans struggle to escape illegal smuggling

Detainees protest against smuggling networks in Libya, where many are allegedly sold and resold numerous times.

Al Jazeera

Top 10 countries most at risk of humanitarian disaster in 2019

Al Jazeera

UN spots ‘alarming’ trends in African drug trade

The UN drugs and crime chief has said that his office is registering “new, alarming trends” in drug trafficking in Africa that are destabilizing the ability of country’s to govern as well as security, economic growth and public health.

News Tribune

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Israel government falls, calls for early election

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government agreed to hold early elections in April after the ruling coalition appeared to come up short on votes needed to pass a contentious piece of court-ordered legislation.

ABC News

China encouraging couples to have more kids

After four decades of draconian restrictions around family planning through the one-child rule, China is now encouraging couples to have more kids as a matter of patriotic urgency.

NBCNews.com

Sudan roiled by protests against Bashir regime

Cities across Sudan have been shaken by protests triggered by an economic deterioration, with demonstrators calling for an end to President Omar al-Bashir’s 29-year rule.

Haaretz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists destroy HIV cells in big breakthrough

Researchers at Paris’ Institut Pasteur claimed to have successfully destroyed cells infected with HIV by finding a way to eliminate infected “reservoir” cells.

Daily Mail

A lung-inspired design now turns water to fuel

Scientists at Stanford University have designed an electrocatalytic mechanism that works like a mammalian lung to convert water into fuel. This could help existing clean energy technologies run more efficiently.

phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

China is getting tougher on vaccine producers

China’s lawmakers are considering the first draft of a law aimed at tightening control of a vaccine industry beset by scandals over faulty shots, fake data and fraudulent labeling.

South China Morning Post

Life expectancy rises in sub-Saharan Africa

People are now living longer in sub-Saharan Africa than they did two decades ago. This is an achievement, given that life expectancy in the region declined from 1990s to mid-2000s due to the HIV epidemic.

CNBCAfrica

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GOOD NEWS

Canadian coin celebrates end of anti-LGBTQ

The Royal Canadian Mint is releasing a new $1 coin design next year that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada.

CBC News

Buddhist nuns give yule gifts to Catholic nuns

While some Chinese local authorities have tried to ban Christmas, a group of Buddhist nuns in Tianjin, one of the country’s largest cities, has got into the Christmas spirit with a gift to their Catholic counterparts.

South China Morning Post

Lifeline Hospital train reaches Tripura; more than 1,000 patients treated in two days

Indian Times

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Taliban attempts to tax aid organizations

The Taliban in Afghanistan are becoming what one group calls a “government in waiting,” taxing individuals in the provinces and extending a kind of regulatory jurisdiction over medical clinics and other public institutions.

CBC News

Jordan implements new tech to go green

Jordan goes to great lengths to get water to its people. It‘s a dry country that requires a lot of power and the water still doesn’t always reach its destination. New tech is the solution.

Deutsche Welle

Nepal expects more Chinese investment in infrastructure to boost development

Global Times

ENVIRONMENT

India’s capital chokes over pollution levels

Pollution levels in New Delhi have hit their worst this year in the past two days — earning a “severe” to “emergency” rating and indicating conditions that can spark a public health crisis.

Reuters

Kids health vastly diminished by pollution

ScienceDaily

Climate change carries growing emotional toll

Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future.

NBCNews.com

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Sudanese protest over bread price hike

Sudanese demonstrators are demanding the ouster of President Omar Bashir, who has been in power since 1989. The sub-Saharan nation has been gripped by soaring inflation, a weak currency and food shortages.

Deutsche Welle

Brexit set to make UK child poverty worse

NBCNews.com

Clean energy boosts African cities’ economies

Green technologies can generate employment, ease pressure on infrastructure in rapidly growing African cities and lower energy costs, especially for poorer households.

Quartz

Photo of the Day

Swarna and her baby boy, Satyasworup, are safe and well after receiving treatment at a UNICEF- and UK-funded neonatal unit in Odisha, one of India’s poorest states. (Photo by Pippa Ranger/UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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