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Displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine State. Sources say local and international NGOs are trying to persuade persecuted Rohingyas not to go back to Myanmar when given the choice. (Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Photo used under CC BY

NGOs are discouraging Rohingyas from returning

NGOs are allegedly discouraging Rohingyas from returning to their homes per the agreement reached between Bangladesh and Myanmar. Sources said the elongated presence of these people will benefit the NGOs financially.

The Independent

Kurds opt out of first local elections in Syria

Syria held its first municipal elections since 2011 amid tensions with the country’s self-administered Kurdish region, which refused to allow polls. Candidates aligned with the ruling Baath party were expected to win.

ABC News

Syrians vote in first local polls since 2011

Daily Star

Local customs facilitate child marriages in India

Field surveys by some NGOs in Assam revealed that customary practices of some communities and religious leaders are encouraging child marriages, which continue to be higher than the national rate.

Telegraph.co.uk

Mozambique clubs use education to help girls avoid early marriage

The Independent

Ethiopia, Eritrea to ink long-awaited peace deal

Ethiopia and Eritrea will attend a summit in Saudi Arabia to sign an agreement cementing the thaw between the two former Horn of Africa enemies, a UN spokesman disclosed.

africanews

Pope says populism should serve people

Pope Francis is recommending a Christian kind of populism after being attacked by Italian politicians for defending migrants.

TIME

OAS, ‘military action not ruled out’ in Venezuela

Al Jazeera

Myanmar protesters demand reporters’ release

A hundred Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists, warning that the prison terms threaten the public’s right to information.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Muslim militants free 3 Indonesian hostages

Muslim militants have freed three Indonesian men they kidnapped at sea early last year off Malaysia then brought them to their jungle hideouts in the southern Philippines.

ABC News

Facebook hiring director of human rights policy

Facebook is advertising for a human rights policy director to join its business, located either at its Menlo Park HQ or in Washington, D.C., with “conflict prevention” and “peace-building” among the listed responsibilities.

TechCrunch

Two more girls die due to FGM in Somalia

Two sisters have died in Somalia from complications that arose after undergoing female genital mutilation, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, who campaigns against it.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Portugal and Angola seek to repair ties

After years of tensions, Portugal and its one-time African colony Angola are seeking to put relations back on track, with high-level visits planned to push economic ties and repair their troubled past.

France 24

Haiti lawmakers back new government

Lawmakers at Haiti’s lower house voted in favor of the new government after a marathon session lasting more than 10 hours.

France 24

US silent as Guatemala attacks democracy

For a decade, the U.S. backed an international body investigating corruption in Guatemala. Now experts are asking why the White House is silent as the country’s president, Jimmy Morales, wages war on the panel.

Haaretz

Syrians trapped between regime and rebels, war

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans used to coexist with the largest birds

Humans are suspected to have killed off the largest birds that ever lived. Regardless of whether that’s true, new evidence shows that they coexisted for thousands of years.

LiveScience

NASA’s spacecraft to deflect incoming asteroids

NASA’s plans to launch a spacecraft capable of crashing into an asteroid to knock it off its collision course with Earth has now entered the final stages.

Daily Mail

GLOBAL HEALTH

Anger at crowdfunding scheme in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has launched a crowdfunding campaign to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has so far killed 25 people, mostly in the capital, Harare.

BBC

Nearly 10M people will die of cancer in 2018

Nearly 10 million people will die of cancer this year, and 18.1 million new cases of cancer will develop, according to estimates from the World Health Organization.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Disadvantaged girls change their communities

GirlsCoding is a free program run by the Pearls Africa Foundation that seeks to educate girls about computer programming. Since 2012, it has helped more than 400 disadvantaged girls.

CNN

France unveils ‘new battle’ against poverty

Al Jazeera

Many Ethiopians welcome once-banned group

Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians gathered to welcome returning leaders of the once-banned Oromo Liberation Front amid sweeping reforms to bring opposition groups back.

Associated Press

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Bangladesh can handle mega projects

Bangladesh can now manage multibillion-dollar development projects easily, thanks to high GDP growth and local engineers.

DhakaTribune

Which foreign aid programs work?

NPR

Germany ready to ‘help Iraq back on its feet’

German Defense Minister von der Leyen has met with Iraqi officials to determine how to continue to assist authorities in the country. But a debate about the Bundeswehr’s role in the region could soften its commitment.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

New species of fish would ‘melt’ if out of ocean

Using a deep-reaching device equipped with underwater cameras and a lure, researchers have discovered three new species of fish in the Atacama Trench.

Business Insider

Typhoon pounds south China after Philippines

Typhoon Mangkhut barreled into southern China after lashing the northern Philippines with strong winds and heavy rain that left at least 64 people dead and dozens more feared buried in a landslide.

ABC News

ECONOMY

Oil production at risk, violent protests in Iraq

Iraq’s oil-rich Basra province is being rocked by renewed violence as summer protests regain momentum, threatening oil facilities and the country’s leadership.

CNBC

India cuts Iran oil imports as sanctions loom

Indian refiners are reducing their intake of Iranian crude oil in preparation for the return of U.S. sanctions on Tehran. The reduction is being seen as an attempt to score a waiver from the U.S. Treasury Department.

oilprice.com

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Children at a refugee camp in Ghana. (Photo by Lauren Fritts) Photo used under CC BY

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