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Fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar, a Rohingya family takes refuge at a camp. A failed attempt to repatriate a first group to Myanmar and the construction of solid, concrete buildings on an island off the Bangladeshi coast signal an entirely new situation is emerging: a Palestine-like scenario with a permanent, stateless and impoverished refugee population. (Photo by Steve Gumaer) Photo used under CC BY

Permanent statelessness may radicalize Rohingya

Rohingya refugees are being courted by Middle East and South Asia extremist groups, a dynamic that could turn Bangladesh’s overflowing camps into a new vortex of regional instability. Some fear it may turn into a situation like Palestine.

Asia Times Online

Uncertainty takes toll on migrants at US border

Thousands of Central Americans who traveled north to the U.S. border this fall, drawing dire warnings from President Trump, have settled into an uneasy existence in Tijuana, facing a backlash on both sides of the border.

Press Herald

Second child dies in US custody at border

BBC

US youth at highest risk of death by gunshot

The United States led the world in the rate of firearm deaths in youth among countries with available data in 2016. The U.S. rate was 36.5 times higher than in a dozen comparable high-income countries around the world.

CNN

Child sex trafficking rife in Colombian city

Sexual exploitation and abuse is out of control in Cartagena, Colombia, authorities have admitted, after coming under fire for not doing enough to tackle the issue.

Guardian

Confusion, anger grow as DRC faces election

As the Democratic Republic of Congo hurtles toward an already troubled election, the opposition has urged mobile phone companies to disable SIM cards provided for voting machines as concerns grow about how some 40 million ballots will be counted and shared.

News 24

Iraq’s Basra plagued by poverty, violence

Basra, in southern Iraq, contains much of the country’s oil wealth — yet residents there are struggling just to survive. The city lacks basic services like clean water and reliable electricity, and jobs are rare.

PBS NewsHour

Venezuela’s indigenous migrants face Colombia discrimination

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tajikistan poverty tied to domestic violence

Unemployment and alcoholism are common problems for men in Tajikistan, and so is violence against women. The poorest country of all former Soviet states, Tajikistan relies on remittances from workers abroad.

Al Jazeera

Pakistani Hindu girls forced to wed Muslims

In a dark swirl of child abuse, sexism, religion, economic disparity and ineffective law enforcement, hundreds of underage Hindu girls are being forced into marriages with Muslim families in Pakistan per year.

Asia Times Online

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Japan to resume whale hunting, defying ban

Japan will restart commercial whaling in July 2019. It said it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission, which had banned the practice in 1986 after some species were driven almost to extinction.

BBC

Afghanistan president replaces security chiefs

At a critical stage of Afghanistan’s long war, President Ashraf Ghani appointed two staunch anti-Taliban veterans and former spy chiefs to head the country’s army and police forces, a major shake-up of the security leadership.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Egypt appoints new military intelligence chief

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Child poverty has lasting impact, study finds

Growing up in a less well-off family may negatively impact the brain, according to research showing how socioeconomic status can have a lasting impact on a person’s overall development.

The Independent

Could this hold promise for future antibiotics?

Chemistry researchers have developed a novel way to synthesize and optimize a naturally occurring antibiotic compound that could one day be used to fight lethal drug-resistant infections such as MRSA.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Thailand approves medical marijuana, kratom

Thailand’s legislature has agreed to amend the country’s drug law to allow the licensed medical use of marijuana, as well as kratom, a locally grown plant traditionally used as a stimulant and painkiller.

TIME

Obesity responsible for 4% of cancers globally

Excess body weight was responsible for 3.9 percent of cancer globally. The American Cancer Society notes that by 2030, there could be 21.7 million new cancer cases and 13 million cancer deaths around the world.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

No lessons learned: on Meghalaya mining disaster

The Hindu

Column (Martien Van Nieuwkoop):

To feed the world, we must tackle the digital divide

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Imad Zafar):

Sharif jailed – but masters may be losing control of game

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Community raises thousands for good deed

John Lopez Jr. was working when a woman realized she couldn’t pay for her groceries. Another shopper watched as Lopez bought them for her. The local community has raised money for the cashier’s efforts.

Inside Edition

Young blind girl inspires with radio show

Fifth-grader Faith Murray has her own segment on Massachusetts Talking Information Network, a radio station for people with visual impairment.

NBCNews.com

Strangers gift piano to boy with Autism

New Haven Register

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NGO haven an ‘enemy of state’ in Hungary

The Aurora, a Budapest nonprofit that rents office space to a diverse range of NGOs, is being threatened by closure from far-right attacks, police raids and municipality moves to buy the building.

CNN

Israel advances plans for nearly 2,200 settler homes

Channel NewsAsia

Legal aid cuts leave kids out of parental reach

Deep cuts to legal aid have inflicted such disarray in UK family courts that parents are abandoning efforts to maintain contact with their kids.

Guardian

Hundreds of rescued migrants spend Christmas at sea

Euronews

ENVIRONMENT

The US stalls in the face of climate change

Three decades have passed since scientist James Hansen testified before the Senate Energy committee and alerted the U.S. to global warming. These predictions have come true, with dire consequence for the planet.

Axios

US factory farms no longer have to report their air emissions

Mother Jones

Melting ice set to change culture of humanity

Another century is gone, and the planet has fully entered the Anthropocene — where humanity’s impact on Earth is so serious that scientists have declared a new epoch — and glaciers maintain a rapid, backward march.

National Geographic

BUSINESS AND TRADE

NYC workers to earn at least $15 an hour in ’19

The lowest-paid workers in New York state will look forward to something good this new year: a higher minimum wage, with the biggest boost coming to employees in New York City, who will make at least $15 per hour.

ABC News

Chocolate from Congo’s conflict hotspot

Deutsche Welle

Younger women still doing most of housework

Millennial women are working longer hours and earning more than ever before. While millennials are more likely to adopt egalitarian views about gender, those promises collapse from long-held gender stereotypes.

CNN

Housing crisis ‘puts sex workers at risk of exploitation’

Irish Times

Photo of the Day

Refugee children from Syria at a clinic in Ramtha, northern Jordan. (Photo by Russell Watkins/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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