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A Syrian refugee in Jordan. Syria has become the world’s largest refugee crisis, with more than 5.6 million Syrians fleeing to Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, who recently visited Syria, said around 70 percent of Syrian refugees live a “razor-edge” existence in poverty. The UN is seeking $3.3 billion for victims in Syria and $5.5 billion for refugees in the region, a similar call to 2018. (Photo by MaximilianV) Photo used under CC BY

UN to seek billions in aid for Syrian region refugees

The United Nations will seek billions of dollars in additional aid for Syria, seeking to overcome fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war and divisions over how to deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syria’s broken schools will make it difficult to fix the country

Economist

Zimbabweans dying from lack of meds, supplies

Doctors say patients in Zimbabwe’s biggest state hospital are dying from a lack of medicines and basic supplies, brought on by a cash crunch that has crippled the economy.

U.S. News & World Report

Ethiopians facing crisis as warnings go unheard

Despite reports of lynchings, rapes and beheadings, the Ethiopian government is trying to force people displaced by conflict to return to their villages. Aid workers say it is a full-blown humanitarian crisis.

Guardian

China strikes back at US over rights violations

Beijing urged the United States to “take care of its own affairs” before focusing on human rights abroad, responding to a scathing U.S. report. The Chinese rebuttal referred to U.S. gun violence and racism.

Deutsche Welle

Toxic dumping poisons school kids in Malaysia

Malaysian authorities have shut 111 schools, after a suspected chemical leak in the southern state of Johor poisoned more than 200 children, teachers and other people.

TIME

Study links Fukushima disaster to spike in infant heart surgeries

CBS News

UK urged to back trafficking survivors

Survivors of modern slavery in Britain should be allowed to remain in the country for a year to recover and help bring traffickers to justice, campaigners said as they urged the government to back a proposed law supporting victims.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Vietnamese kids trafficked to UK are abused

A new report says that children from Vietnam trafficked to the UK are often exploited by human smugglers and forced to work in nail salons and as prostitutes. Europe is ill-equipped to identify and handle the victims.

Deutsche Welle

Europe accused of failing UK-bound children trafficked from Vietnam

Reuters

Freedom of expression in Iran fearful, persistent

Whether on their phones, on the streets or in the courtroom, Iranians are trying to push back against tightening restrictions on their freedom of expression, though there are mixed views as to if they will succeed.

Deutsche Welle

The Netherlands’ burgeoning free speech problem

The New Republic

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Amid crisis, Cuba to revamp state, legal system

In the midst of a regional crisis over Venezuela and tough economic straits, Cuba is planning a makeover of its centrally planned, single-party system with new laws that could reshape criminal justice and market economy.

FOX News

Explainer: What is old and new in Cuba’s proposed constitution

Reuters

Have Kenyans lost hope of tackling corruption?

The revelation that Kenya spent $210 million in taxpayer money on two dams that were never built is only the latest scandal in a country long riddled with corruption.

BBC

Ghanaians told to seek Legal Aid’s help to report acts of corruption

Ghana Business News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New ‘zombie traffic lights’ deployed in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, Israel has taken its first steps toward assisting pedestrians distracted by their smartphones by embedding LED stoplights at crosswalks. This aims to minimize accidents between vehicles and inattentive pedestrians.

New York Post

OpenAI to make machines smarter than humans

Founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, OpenAI is an independent AI research lab whose mission is safely create software as capable as people. It is now seeking investors to compete with Google and Facebook.

Wired

GLOBAL HEALTH

50 years later, Nigeria grapples with Lassa fever

Fifty years since Lassa fever was first identified in Nigeria, experts work toward a vaccine as the country struggles with a new outbreak.

Devex

Thousands quarantined over mumps outbreak

U.S. immigration authorities say more than 2,200 people exposed to a mumps outbreak in at least two detention facilities have been quarantined. Mumps can spread quickly through coughing, sneezing or even talking.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Taif Alkhudary and Catherine Anderson):

It’s high time to hold Saudi Arabia to account on women’s rights

Al Jazeera

Column (Suraj Gogoi and Parag Jyoti Saikia):

Waiting for citizenship a global phenomenon

Asia Times Online

Column (Nathan Robinson):

Meritocracy is a myth invented by the rich

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

16-year-old nominated for Nobel peace prize

Greta Thunberg, the founder of the Youth Strike for Climate movement, has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize, just before the biggest day yet of global action.

Guardian

Stranger gives away car to struggling student

A good Samaritan at a California car dealership gave his car to a struggling college student who needed a car but couldn’t afford the down payment.

MSN

Generous ‘Robin Hood’ figure mystifies Spanish village

The Local Spain

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

$15 million gift to support integrative medicine

The University of Arizona has announced a $15 million naming gift from best-selling author Andrew Weil in support of integrative medicine education, research and innovation at the university.

Philanthropy News Digest

Donors urged to fund local women’s groups

With most long-term funding still going to large NGOs, donors are being urged to direct their giving to local, women-focused groups that can use the funds more effectively.

Devex

ENVIRONMENT

New York schools to have ‘Meatless Mondays’

New York will now have “Meatless Mondays”. Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced the new meal program, saying, cutting back on meat a little will improve citizens’ health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

CNN

Coca-Cola promises to help fix its recycling

Coca-Cola set an ambitious goal: Collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells by 2030. It has committed to making its bottles and cans out of at least 50 percent recycled material in the next 11 years.

CNN

Why you’re recycling wrong

Vox

ECONOMIC EQUITY

German gender pay gap unchanged at 21%

Women in Germany are still paid 21 percent less compared to men in terms of average gross hourly earnings. To highlight upcoming “Equal Pay Day,” female Berlin commuters are being offered gender-discount tickets.

Deutsche Welle

12 surprising women from history who paved the road to equal pay

Business Insider

Trade war could increase counterfeit goods

As the trade war between USA and China continues to heat up, Chinese nationals potentially could turn to a surprising way around tariffs: increasing the number of counterfeit goods, according to the FBI.

CNBC

Photo of the Day

Alongside mothers, nurses, religious leaders and community elders, Samburu warriors Robert (left), Matthew (middle) and Josephat (right) are working hard to end female genital mutilation in their community in this picture taken in February 2016. UK aid supports the Pastoralist Child Foundation which aims to end FGM and child marriage in Kenya through community action and education. (Photo by Jessica Lea/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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