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Kasturba Gandhi of India was imprisoned along with her freedom-fighting husband for advocating home rule during British occupation of her South Asian homeland. She died in prison in 1944. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons) Photo used under CC BY

South Asia’s brave female freedom fighters

You know Mahatma Gandhi, the loincloth-clad man who fronted India’s fight for independence from the British. But right beside him and other male leaders was an army of women whose trials and tribulations were just as compelling.

CNN

Pakistan marks 70 years of independence

Pakistan celebrated 70 years of independence with military pageantry, fireworks, and flag-hoisting, but also reflected on the turbulent and traumatic events that led to the country’s birth.

CNN

S. Korea’s leader urges US to help avoid war

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called on his U.S. ally to help prevent a war, amid worsening tension over the North’s nuclear threat. Moon told the visiting top U.S. military official that there must be a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

BBC

Top US general reassures South Korea

Bloomberg

Kenya cops blamed in 100 post-election deaths

Kenya’s main opposition said state security forces killed more than 100 people in clashes related to last week’s disputed elections. The authorities denied knowledge of any deaths and said the country remains largely peaceful.

Bloomberg

Protesters in N.C. topple Confederate statue

A group of protesters in Durham, N.C., pulled down a Confederate statue outside a government building. The statue, the Confederate Soldiers Monument, was dedicated to the city in 1924.

Time

Days after Charlottesville violence, Trump condemns hate groups, calls racism ‘evil’

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

UK rights group insists all jobs be flexible

All jobs should be advertised as available for flexible working, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said, as it said progress has been “painfully slow.” The commission made the proposal to tackle pay gaps affecting women, disabled people and ethnic minorities.

Telegraph.co.uk

Saudi activists given a century of sentences

A group of peaceful Saudi human rights defenders have been handed combined prison sentences and travel bans of 199 years, a civil society group said. Eleven activists have been detained since a government clampdown began nine years ago.

The New Arab

Death sentences of Shiites point to limits of Saudi reforms

CNBC

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Brexit: UK suggests ‘customs union’ with EU

The UK has set out the “ambitious new customs arrangement” it wants to secure with the EU after Brexit. Ministers said the plans would mean the “freest and most frictionless possible trade” with the rest of Europe.

BBC

Protesters greet president at Trump Tower

Donald Trump was given a rude homecoming as he returned to Trump Tower in New York for the first time since his inauguration. More than a thousand protesters were outside the president’s home as he arrived.

Guardian

CNN reporter to Trump: ‘Haven’t you spread a lot of fake news yourself?’

The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Discord shuts down alt-right server, accounts

TechCrunch

How your mind guards against hallucinations

How can we separate illusion from reality? A new study suggests our brain keeps tabs on reality by constantly questioning its own past expectations and beliefs. Hallucinations occur when this internal fact-checking fails, a finding that could point toward better treatments for schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hologram can improve remote diagnoses

A new system developed by UCLA researchers could make it easier and less expensive to diagnose chronic diseases, particularly in remote areas without expensive lab equipment.

Phys.org

Marijuana may raise risk of hypertension death

Marijuana use is associated with a three-fold risk of death from hypertension, according to research published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Compared to non-users, marijuana users had a 3.42-times higher risk of death from hypertension and a 1.04 greater risk for each year of use.

ScienceDaily

Factory farming creates global health risks

The use of antibiotics in factory farms in Asia is set to more than double in just over a decade, with potentially damaging effects on antibiotic resistance around the world.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Seniors, 98 and 94, marry after meeting at gym

Gertrude Mokotoff, 98, and Alvin Mann, 94, aren’t your typical newlyweds. The pair met eight years ago at a gym in Middletown, N.Y. Their first date was at a local restaurant, and they’ve been together ever since.

MSN

Do these siblings hold secret to wedded bliss?

CBS News

Mother reunites with 2 sons after 46 years

Many months of late-night calls – and a DNA test – had led to that life-changing moment. Now Elsie Ramirez, 64, was finally face-to-face with her sons, Raymond, 47, and Anthony, 46. She hadn’t seen them since they were infants.

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Illinois nonprofits struggle from budget lapse

In “Damage Done,” the Chicago Foundation for Women documented the devastating results of two years without a state budget in Illinois. The report details job losses, service cutbacks, and lasting damage to overall infrastructure. Trust in state government and its elected leaders seems to be another area of loss.

Nonprofit Quarterly

SF charity ousts free-spending socialite exec

Joy Venturini Bianchi, an out-of-control socialite who held the dual positions of board member and executive director at a San Francisco nonprofit, has lost her job in the wake of investigations into her spending habits.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Sierra Leone mudslide kills more than 200

A mudslide killed more than 200 people on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, sweeping away homes and leaving residents desperate for news of missing family members.

Reuters

Ecologists fight plan to reduce monitoring

The consortium that operates research at 12 long-term sites in Australia, comprising more than 1,100 individual field plots, will stop funding this network by the end of the year because of budget cuts and shifting priorities, say its leaders.

Nature

BUSINESS

US consumer prices inch up in July

Prices in the U.S. rose by less than expected last month, as inflation remained tame.

BBC

Minimum wage hike a net loss for workers

An ordinance to increase the minimum wage in Seattle lowered the earnings of low-wage workers in the city an average of $125 a month, a report funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

Photo of the Day

About 1,000 people gathered in Minneapolis to stand in solidarity with the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, and speak out against white nationalists who rallied there. (Photo by Fibonacci Blue) Photo used under CC BY

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