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Portrait of a farming mother and her daughter at home in southwestern Uganda. (Photo by CIAT) Photo used under CC BY

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Kids ripped from families to meet adoption demand

Fraudulent international adoptions are destroying families in Uganda and other developing countries. Unscrupulous brokers, weak institutions, and inadequate reforms have led hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children to be separated from their families in recent years.

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The Nation

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Indonesian mother among 4 arrested for attempting to sell babies on Instagram

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CNN

Fascist Hungary bans sleeping on streets

Now, being homeless in Hungary will violate the constitution. Under the new rules, homeless people who refuse to go to shelters when prompted by police will face enrollment in a compulsory work program — or jail.

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Guardian

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Italy leader wants ’little ethnic shops’ to close by 9 p.m.

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Politico

US subjects detainees to deprivation, miseries

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has published a scathing report confirming problems detainees have long denounced, including widespread indifference to attempted suicide.

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Myanmar’s denials prevent Rohingyas’ return

Myanmar officials refuse to acknowledge they have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Their denials make it impossible for Rohingya Muslims to return to Rakhine.

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France24

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FGM victims seek help in Germany

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Residents slowly return to Chernobyl housing

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone.

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BBC

China squelches outcry over faulty vaccines

There are fears for the safety of a woman campaigning about China’s defective vaccines. Authorities have been clamping down on families demanding redress over hundreds of thousands of doses issued by the government.

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Guardian

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Fewer U.S. kids are being vaccinated

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CBS News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Phllippines to join rights group amid concerns

The office of the president defended the Duterte administration’s human rights track record after a rights group said member countries of the U.N. should oppose the Philippines’ candidacy for the Human Rights Council.

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ABS-CBN

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UN experts urge Saudi Arabia to swiftly release women’s rights activists

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Press TV

Afghan refugees lack basic voting rights

Over 4 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran are not allowed to cast their votes in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary election. The refugees fear the next legislative body won’t protect their interests.

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DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Bosnia still awaits official election results

While Bosnia awaits the final results of the general elections, many experts and even MPs are complaining that the counting process is taking to much time and must improve.

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Syria’s Raqqa has been left in ruins

U.S.-led air strikes destroyed much of Raqqa while crushing Islamic State last year, but the coalition has done little to help it recover.

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Channel NewsAsia

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Authorities say it’ll take two years to build Palu

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VICE

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Argentine scientists struggle in tough economy

Argentina’s worsening financial woes are hurting research. The slipping peso makes it harder to purchase equipment from abroad, while rapidly increasing inflation has crushed scientists’ budgets and salaries at home.

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Nature

Facebook removes bad pages on technicality

Admins for these pages have complained that they did nothing wrong. But their pages weren’t purged for posting misinformation: they were purged for “inauthentic behavior,” which can include using fake accounts.

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The Verge

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Interview provides insight on first African female character on popular kid’s show

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Quartz

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WhatsApp works to stamp out fake news in India

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Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola shows no signs of stopping in Congo

The outbreak that’s currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo is different from all the others: For the first time in history, Ebola is spreading in an active war zone.

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WHO: Ebola to spread to Uganda, Rwanda

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Al Jazeera

Doctors warn of C-section ‘epidemic’

Millions of women are having unnecessary and potentially harmful caesarean sections instead of vaginal birth, doctors said in new research.

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Pope equates abortion to hiring a hitman

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GOOD NEWS

Syrian refugee restaurant wins ‘nicest’ title

A falafel restaurant owned by a Syrian refugee in Tennessee has become a pillar in the community, and a gathering place for people from all backgrounds and walks of life to come together over food.

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Teen cancer survivor turns her wish into aid

A 17-year-old cancer survivor granted a wish from Make-A-Wish Connecticut considered asking for a cruise but instead she chose to raise money toward bringing clean water to two schools and an orphanage in Africa.

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MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NGO creates jobs with refugee talent pool

A Washington-based NGO has built a refugee talent pool that matches candidates with employers from around the world, pulling displaced migrants out of poverty & alleviating labor shortages in western countries.

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Toronto Star

Obamas launch girls education initiative

Former first lady Michelle Obama launched a new Obama Foundation program, the Global Girls Alliance. A GoFundMe drive part of the fund will provide money to groups around the world devoted to girls education.

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Chicago Sun-Times

ENVIRONMENT

Indian activist dies from hunger strike

An environmental activist has died of a hunger strike to pressure the government to clean the Ganges river. The river is worshipped by most Hindus but is heavily polluted by discharge of untreated sewage and industrial waste.

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Guardian

Massive landslide hits eastern Uganda

Rescue teams were picking through the rubble, looking for survivors and victims of the disaster in the Bududa district. 34 have fallen to tragedy, and an unknown number of people are still missing.

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Al Jazeera

Fire fundamentally alters Amazonian carbon

Due to climate change, fires are becoming a more frequent phenomenon in the Amazon. New research shows that the burning of dead organic matter in the understory can release far more carbon into the atmosphere.

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Mongabay

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Missing journalist set to cost Saudi Arabia

Businesses are distancing themselves from Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of journalist Khashoggi, threatening the country’s bid to transform its economy.

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CNN

Pakistan seeks financial bailout

Pakistan’s new government has decided to approach the IMF for financial assistance as it faces an economic crisis marked by a mounting balance of payments deficit and dwindling foreign currency reserves.

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Al Jazeera

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Nigeria to stay world’s poverty capital

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Quartz

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Pakistanis displaced by flooding collect clean drinking water from a tapstand in Ghari Kharo in 2010. (Photo by Russell Watkins) Photo used under CC BY

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