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A newborn baby is held by a midwife hours after he was born in Kutapalong refugee camp. Neither Bangladeshi nor Burmese by birth, Rohingya children born in exile face lifetimes of uncertainty regarding rights, education and work. (Photo by Anna Dubuis/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

Stateless Rohingya babies await uncertain future

Rohingya children from Myanmar born in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh start life in a legal limbo, not considered Bangladeshi or Burmese by birth.

National Geographic

Brazil’s president issues decrees across sectors

Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro set to work quickly, issuing decrees affecting the economy, agriculture and society, while forging closer political ties with the U.S.

PRI

Bolsonaro removes LGBT concerns from human rights ministry

The Hill

China vows dedication to ending rural poverty

China’s economic miracle has lifted more than 740 million people out of poverty in rural areas, but critics say the nation must do more.

Asia Times Online

Indian state paralyzed over women at temple

Hindu hardliners shut businesses and clashed with police to protest women entering one of India’s largest pilgrimage sites.

NBCNews.com

3M women make human chain in India to fight for equality

RT.com

India’s smart city has no space for the poor

In one of the 100 cities selected for India’s Smart City Mission, Patna, the city administration often demolishes slums without following due process of law in order to seize the land in the name of beautification.

Quartz

Singapore digs up graves to build highways

Much of Singapore is built on old graveyards. Singapore’s government has said it would exhume about 4,000 graves in a defunct cemetery to build an eight-lane highway.

SCMP

HUMAN RIGHTS

Israel gets tougher on its Palestinian prisoners

Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced plans to “worsen” conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including rationing water supplies and reducing the number of family visits.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong is failing to tackle youth poverty

Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has failed miserably to improve the lives of the city’s poor children this year, a community youth group has said, rating the government 23 out of 100 in that area.

South China Morning Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ireland criminalizes emotional abuse in new law

Ireland’s latest Domestic Violence Act 2018 provides new protections for victims of “coercive control,” a type of emotional and psychological abuse aimed at stripping a person of their self-worth and agency.

CNN

Poland drops plan to legalize ‘one-off’ cases of domestic violence

Telegraph.co.uk

El Salvador murder rate drops third straight year

Homicides in El Salvador have fallen for a third straight year, but the gang-plagued Central American nation remains among the world’s deadliest. Murder rate was 50.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018, down from 60.8 in 2017.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China lands spacecraft on far side of moon

China says it has landed a spacecraft on the far or dark side of the moon, a feat which has never been achieved by humanity before. Previous missions have observed the far side of the moon, but none have ever landed on it.

The Independent

What’s behind China’s space program expansion?

BBC

Could breathalyzers soon detect early cancers?

The UK is testing a breathalyzer that could revolutionize cancer diagnosis. The Breath Biopsy device is designed to detect cancer hallmarks in molecules exhaled by patients.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Yemen’s cholera outbreak traced to E. Africa

Scientists have found that a strain of cholera causing an epidemic in Yemen, the worst in recorded history, came from eastern Africa and was probably borne into Yemen by migrants.

Reuters

Experts urge Egypt to rethink two-child strategy

Medics say limiting families is not the answer for Egypt, a country where a baby is born every 15 seconds.

Guardian

Worse than Japan: How China’s looming demographic crisis will doom its economic dream

South China Morning Post

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Richard D. Wolff):

Republicans and Democrats are wedded to capitalism. Americans deserve better

Huffington Post

Column (Noah Berlatsky):

White kids, racism and the way privileged parenting props up an unjust system

NBCNews.com

Column (Kevin Drum):

For the last goddamn time: Wages aren’t growing 3 percent

Mother Jones

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GOOD NEWS

Austria celebrates first same-sex marriage

Two Austrian women are the first same-sex couple to tie the knot in their predominantly Catholic country, following years of legal challenges from gay rights groups.

NBCNews.com

U.S. welcomes the most diverse Congress in history

Axios

Retired teacher brings math passion online

When Barbara Havrot retired from teaching in Ottawa, she took her passion for math into the online world of YouTube, where she now uploads videos of herself teaching everything from trigonometry to calculus.

CBC News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit fights food waste to feed the hungry

Leftovers from New York food markets are headed to a different location: A volunteer grabs the trays filled with uneaten food and begin a mile-long trip down the street before arriving at a shelter.

Daily Hampshire Gazette

Naples mayor welcomes NGO migrant boat

Naples is ready to defy Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and let in a charity-run ship carrying 32 migrants that is blocked in the stormy Mediterranean, per the city mayor.

Reuters

Netherlands ready to take in refugees from NGO ship off Malta

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Delhi air pollution surges to emergency levels

The air quality index in Delhi is currently at 12 times the U.S. government-recommended level and visibility is extremely poor.

Guardian

Floating plastic parks can help tackle pollution

One solution to the problem of plastic waste, the Recycled Park Project, is being floated in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Developed over the past five years, the idea is turning plastic waste into islands.

Phys.org

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Trade war is slowing China’s economic growth

The Trump administration’s trade war is sending a bit of a chill across the Chinese economy, and that has U.S. executives over a wide swath of industries bracing for a tough beginning to the new year.

CNBC

High debt, low deposits - Nigeria’s banks on the line

Al Jazeera

Old-age poverty creeps up on Germans

More and more Germans are worried about not being able to make ends meet when they retire, a new study has shown. Rising energy costs and low interest rates are also feeding fears of financial insecurity.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Women help each other through a hedge of cacti at a food distribution center in Afgoye, Somalia. (Photo by AU UN IST PHOTO / TOBIN JONES) Photo used under CC BY

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