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The resignation of President Evo Morales has created a power vacuum in Bolivia. (Photo by Sebastian Baryli) Photo used under CC BY

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Morales’ abrupt exit rocks Bolivia, splits region

Looting and roadblocks convulsed Bolivia after President Evo Morales’ resignation ended 14 years of socialist rule and left a power vacuum his opponents scrambled to fill.

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Reuters

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The competing visions behind Bolivia’s conflict

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Americas Quarterly

Docs seek tighter regulation of Chinese meds

Europe’s leading doctors are to call for tighter regulation of traditional Chinese medicine, anxious that recent recognition by the WHO will encourage the use of unproven therapies that can sometimes be harmful.

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Guardian

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Skin food: How traditional Chinese medicine is driving millennial beauty trend

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South China Morning Post

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World directory delists 8 Chinese medical schools

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Korea Biomedical Review

Turkey to send ISIS fighters back to home countries

Turkey will send captured ISIL members back to their countries, even if their citizenships have been revoked, Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu has said.

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Al Jazeera

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ISIS isn’t dead yet — and could be poised for a resurgence

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Bangladeshi rape camp survivors speak out

The award-winning documentary“Rising Silence” preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during Bangladesh’s war of independence.

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Guardian

Qatar vows to welcome LGBTQ soccer fans

Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore says the soccer club have been given assurances by Qatari authorities that their LGBTQ supporters will be welcomed in the Gulf state for next month’s FIFA Club World Cup.

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Openly

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Intolerance toward LGBTQ grows in Malyasia

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Openly

Holocaust survivor faces anti-Semitic threats

Liliana Segre, an 89-year-old Auschwitz survivor, is under police protection after receiving anti-Semitic threats in Italy. Segre spearheaded the creation of a committee against hate, racism and anti-Semitism.

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CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Abuse in maternity care is a global problem

Respectful maternity care is a universal human right due to every childbearing woman in every health system around the world. Yet, women continue to endure violence, abuse and substandard care during childbirth.

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Guardian

French police clear makeshift migrant camp

Hundreds of French police have begun clearing more than 1,000 migrants and refugees from a makeshift camp in northern Paris, where they had been sleeping rough in squalid conditions for months.

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Guardian

Ambush displays Burkina Faso’s security crisis

Gunmen in Burkina Faso killed nearly 40 civilians in an ambush. The attack underlines growing instability in the Sahel - where Islamist extremists have become influential and powerful in the past decade.

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Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

The Gambia accuses Myanmar of genocide

The small west African nation of The Gambia has filed a lawsuit at the UN’s top court formally accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.

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BBC

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Gambia vs. The Gambia: What’s in a name?

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Culture Trip

Cook Islands appear set to retain gay sex ban

In an apparent U-turn on plans to decriminalize homosexuality, lawmakers from the South Pacific Cook Islands are pushing to retain a law that could jail men for gay sex in a blow to LGBTQ rights groups.

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US pressures USAID over grants for Iraq

The U.S. vice president and political appointees have been pressuring the U.S. Agency for International Development to direct its Middle East funding to Christian groups in Iraq.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rare ‘ice eggs’ found on beach in Finland

Thousands of “ice eggs” have been spotted in Finland. Jouni Vainio an ice specialist and experts, said the phenomenon was not common, but could happen about once a year in the right weather conditions.

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The Independent

GLOBAL HEALTH

First native Zika cases confirmed in Europe

The first native cases of Zika in Europe have been confirmed after three people became infected with the virus in France. Experts warn that climate change could lead to more cases emerging across the continent.

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CBS News

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HIV+ rugby star graces cover of UK magazine

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Openly

Spending time near water promotes happiness

Proximity to water – especially the sea – is associated with many positive measures of physical and mental wellbeing, from higher levels of vitamin D to better social relations.

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Guardian

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Barber gives cuts to men living with dementia

Lenny White is known as the “dementia-friendly barber.” Along with his assistant, Jonathan Wray, he visits care homes across Northern Ireland to cut the hair of men living with dementia.

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Hairdresser styles sumo wrestlers for 52 years

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Boy gives teacher raise with birthday money

Parker Williams got $15 for his birthday and instead of buying something for himself, he decided to give his teacher at Gorrie Elementary in Tampa, Florida a pay raise.

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5-year-old prodigy drums with high school band

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ABC News

DC academy trains people with disabilities

An all-expenses-paid academy in Washington, DC is training people with disabilities to become care providers for others with disabilities.

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BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Story on homeless man ignites action

After learning about a Yale graduate with professional experience who had been homeless for 10 years, fellow Yale alum Kim Hershman was compelled to intervene for him and against homelessness.

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CNN

Brewery features dogs up for adoption on cans

Fargo Brewing Company partnered with 4 Luv of Dog Rescue, a local rescue group, to help rescue dogs having a hard time getting adopted. The dogs are now featured on the brewery’s beer cans.

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NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Teens fight to save Lahore from toxic air

Lahore, Pakistan, has surpassed Delhi, India, to take the title of the world’s most unbreathable city. Lahore had an Air Quality Index of 551, forcing the provincial government to close schools.

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BBC

Arctic community literally falling into the ocean

Some residents of Tuktoyaktuk, on the northern tip of Northwest Territories of Canada, are facing relocation as they struggle with melting ground and a rising sea.

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Vice

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Flooding emergency will unfold in S. Sudan

The UN is warning of an unfolding emergency in the aftermath of flooding in South Sudan. More than 400,000 people are thought to have lost their homes following heavy seasonal rains that have hit much of the region.

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BBC

Mobile camel clinic brings nomads health care

A mobile camel clinic in Kenya is helping to bring free health services to pastoral communities that would otherwise be cut off.

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BBC

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Extinction Rebellion activists protest in London’s Trafalgar Square on Oct. 7, 2019. London police later banned Extinction Rebellion protests in the city. The UK High Court ruled on Nov. 6 that the ban was unlawful. Activists say the police could now face claims for false imprisonment from “potentially hundreds” of protesters. (Photo by Stefan Müller) Photo used under CC BY

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