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A boy drives his donkey laden with supplies just purchased from the Kajakan Bazar in the Shinwari District of Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s 17-year-war has taken a brutal toll on the country’s children. Some 927 children were killed last year, the most since records have been kept, according to a UN report. (Photo by David Elmore/Afghanistan Matters) Photo used under CC BY

Afghani children bear the brunt of the long war

Afghanistan’s 17-year war has hit children the hardest. Aid workers say they are seeing a growing number of children orphaned or forced to work in the streets and the number of Afghan children at risk has risen sharply in recent years.

CNBCTV

Afghanistan: The children caught in conflict

BBC

The long Afghan war takes a toll on children

Reuters

Violence in Yemen killing three people every day

Yemen is continuing to experience a steady stream of violence, claiming at least one life every eight hours – despite the agreements reached between the internationally recognized government and the Houthis at talks in Sweden just over three months ago.

Guardian

Drug gangs driving huge rise in UK child slavery

The number of suspected British child slaves referred to the government last year for support rose to 1,421, from 676 in 2017, amid rising concern from police about the growing “county lines” drug trade with gangs using children to sell their wares.

Jerusalem Post

Fourth migrant dies in US CBP custody

A 40-year-old Mexican migrant died in custody of the US Customs and Border Protection, the fourth known person to die in its custody in recent months.

CNN

Australia to slash annual permanent migrant intake

Economic Times

Japan urged to stop transgender sterilization

A 2004 Japanese law states people wishing to register a gender change must have their original reproductive organs removed and have a body that “appears to have parts that resemble the genital organs” of the gender they want to register.

TIME

Things to know about the LGBT community in Japan

Nippon.com

Amnesty accuses US of Somali civilian deaths

The U.S. military may be guilty of war crimes for killing large numbers of civilians in a sharply stepped-up campaign of air strikes in Somalia over the past two years, Amnesty International said.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Russia bans ‘fake news’ disrespecting the state

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law which will allow the punishment of individuals and online media for spreading what Russia calls “fake news” and information which “disrespects” the state.

NPR

Israel military censor banned, partially redacted more than 3,000 news items in 2018

Middle East Monitor

Hong Kong to build island to fix housing dearth

Hong Kong plans to build one of the world’s largest artificial islands, city officials have announced. This, as a solution to the pressing housing shortage in the city, which is notorious as the least affordable markets on the planet.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Finland tops world’s happiest country list

Finland is the happiest country in the world for the second time in a row, according to the World Happiness Report. Other Nordic countries like Denmark, Norway, Iceland and The Netherlands took the leading spots.

CNN

What Americans can learn from Scandinavians, the happiest people in the world

Thrillist

New Zealand PM promises tighter gun laws

New Zealand’s cabinet has agreed “in principle” to tighten gun control laws, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said, promising the changes will make the country safer.

NPR

Strict firearm laws reduce gun deaths: Here’s the evidence

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

WHO calls for strong gene editing framework

A WHO committee on editing human DNA will ask the UN agency to establish a global registry of such research, recommend editors not publish unregistered studies, and ask grantees to register their studies.

STAT

Chinese scientists clone ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of police dogs in bid to cut training times

The Independent

Research predicts why evolution goes back

New research by behavioral scientists shows that in certain cases evolution works in the opposite direction, reversing individual improvements to benefit related members of the same group.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Swine fever cases go unreported in rural China

Farmers and industry insiders say that China’s African swine fever epidemic is far more extensive than official reports suggest, making the disease harder to contain, increasing the likelihood that it will spread beyond China.

Channel NewsAsia

Cancer death rate falling for half decade in EU

Death rate from cancer has been falling for half a decade in the European Union, researchers have said, although the overall number is expected to rise to 1.4 million this year due to expanding population.

AFP

Teenager aims to improve breast cancer diagnosis in poor countries

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Biggest global climate mobilization should inspire grown-ups

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Kenya’s Gender Bill: Battling inequality, saving the constitution

Al Jazeera

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Online hate threatens us all. Platforms can and must do more to eradicate it

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Man drives stranger to see her dying mother

A driver made a 400-mile detour to help a stranger pay a last visit to her dying mother. He said, “I just did what anyone else would have done”.

BBC

Man with Down syndrome gifted new sneakers

CBS News

Firefighters help military dad surprise his son

Firefighters in Abilene helped U.S. Air Force Captain Manny Lamson surprise his 3-year-old son, Connor, after he returned from a six-month deployment to Qatar.

FOX News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Study finds gender differences in giving

Gender differences in charitable giving patterns appear consistent across racial/ethnic groups, according to a report from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Philanthropy New Digest

Chase to invest $350M to improve worker skills

JPMorgan Chase unveiled plans to commit $350 million to curbing the global skills gap and preparing today’s workers for higher skill job opportunities of tomorrow.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Hawaii wants to ban plastics across eateries

Hawaii would be the first state in the U.S. to ban most plastics at restaurants under legislation that aims to cut down on waste that pollutes the ocean.

ABC News

American cities confront a “slow-moving recycling crisis”

CBS News

Hundreds trapped by Mozambique cyclone

Aid workers rushed to save people trapped by floods around the Mozambican port city of Beira, after a powerful cyclone killed hundreds and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.

Reuters

In pictures: Cyclone Idai’s devastation

BBC

How to help cyclone victims in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe

PBS

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Yemen’s industrial hub Taiz hobbled by war

Taiz, once Yemen’s industrial engine, is now struggling to keep factory doors open amid years of siege, impediments to the import of raw goods, and competition from a flood of cheap Gulf and Chinese imports.

Asia Times Online

Wages in Ireland rose faster than EU last year

Irish wages rose faster than the EU average last year. But workers’ pay growth of 3.6 percent was middle of the road compared with some EU countries, where staff enjoyed hikes up to 11 percent.

Independent.ie

Photo of the Day

Palestinian children hold guns as they celebrate with others what they deemed a victory over Israel, following a ceasefire in Gaza City in this picture from August 2014. The 11-year Egyptian-Israeli blockade has severely curtailed the quality of life in Gaza, where a generation of children are on the brink of a mental health crisis, according to children rights groups. (Photo by Reuters/Suhaib Salem) Photo used under CC BY

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