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Former Gambian President Alhaji Dr. Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, right, ordered “witch hunts” in which hundreds of women were arbitrarily detained, according to testimony before a truth commission. Jammeh also allegedly participated in the rape and sexual assault of women brought to him. Jammeh has lived in exile in Equatorial Guinea since his departure from Gambia in 2017. (Photo by USAFRICOM) Photo used under CC BY

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‘Horrors’ under Jammeh reported to Gambian panel

A Gambian truth commission has heard testimony that president Yahya Jammeh was responsible for many grave crimes during his 22 years in office. These include ordering the killing and torture of political opponents and the murder of 56 West African migrants.

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Rouhani urges release of innocent protesters

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for the release of any unarmed and innocent people detained during two weeks of sometimes violent protests.

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One of the worst crackdowns in decades is happening in Iran. Here’s what we know

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CNN

Officials head for exits amid furor over Uighurs

Beijing is having trouble retaining officials to execute its policies in the Xinjiang autonomous region, including police crackdowns and the detention of Uighur Muslims in internment camps.

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South China Morning Post

Global emissions to hit another record high

Carbon dioxide emissions are expected to reach another record high this year, a new report found, with scientists warning the world is losing time to make the drastic reductions needed to avert a climate catastrophe.

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Greta Thunberg blasts world leaders’ inaction on climate change | NBC News

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Journalists probe corruption in Kenya

Africa Uncensored, an investigative journalism collective, is working to hold the government accountable. It is working on a massive story: The Kenyan government is believed to have misappropriated millions of dollars.

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Al Jazeera

Cambodia struggles to keep the lights on

Cambodia is racing to prevent a new spate of power outages, similar to the unexpected rolling blackouts suffered earlier this year that caused untold damage to the economy.

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Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Photos prompt Tunisia’s #MeToo anger

Photos of a man allegedly masturbating in a car outside a Tunisian high school have prompted an outpouring of stories by women about the sexual abuse and harassment they have experienced.

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BBC

Chileans with disabilities unite for rights

Thousands of Chileans with diverse disabilities marched in Santiago and in at least 20 other cities in Chile. They united behind 12 key demands, with constitutional recognition of people with disabilities at the top of the list.

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Al Jazeera

Human trafficking, serious but invisible

A 2017 study on the link between youth homelessness and human trafficking found that of the cities surveyed, Anchorage had the highest rate of trafficking.

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Arctic Today

Anti-slavery ads, stop relying on shock images

From chains to scarred backs, sensationalized images used to raise awareness of modern slavery risk doing more harm than good because they misrepresent the problem, researchers said.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Deaths at border caused by poor record keeping

The Department of Homeland Security’s inadequate medical technology and record-management for the thousands of migrants who pass through its custody are contributing to poor care and even deaths.

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Politico

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

U.S. HIV-prevention program misses a beat

The U.S. government will start a national HIV prevention program, giving free HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication (PrEP), to uninsured Americans, yet the program does not cover the blood work required for PrEP.

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NBCNews.com

New Zealand news mocks Samoa measles crisis

A New Zealand newspaper has caused outrage for publishing a cartoon that made light of the measles crisis engulfing Samoa, which has killed 55 people so far, most of them children under the age of four.

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Guardian

Zambia protests US after anti-gay law critique

In an escalating row over LGBTQ rights, Zambia has criticized the United States after a senior U.S. diplomat condemned the southern African country for sentencing two men to 15 years in prison for gay sex.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brain study could help cut suicide deaths

Researchers believe they have identified key networks in the brain that interact to increase the risk that someone will think about or attempt suicide. Around 800,000 people die globally by suicide every year.

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Sky News

Etymology of disease names cause harm too

In 2015, the WHO has asked people, reporters, scientists, and the public to avoid naming or nicknaming new diseases after individuals, groups of people, places, or animals to prevent stigma from careless disease names.

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Forbes

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Facial deformity in royal dynasty linked to inbreeding, scientists confirm

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Science Mag

Listening to Mozart can reduce stress

Researchers compared the effects of Mozart, Pearl Jam, and Enya on normal, healthy subjects. After listening to Mozart for 15 minutes, people reported a significant reduction in tension.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

150K people with HIV don’t know they have it

Over 150k Americans are infected with HIV and don’t know it, suggesting that testing and prevention services “have not reached enough Americans,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said.

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UPI

Mosquitoes bring ‘mystery illness’ to Nepal

More than 14,000 Nepalis have been diagnosed with dengue fever in an unprecedented outbreak leaving health professionals and the government reeling. Experts believe the actual number of infections is closer to 140,000.

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Guardian

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AIDS Activism, A Playbook For Global Health Advocacy

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Forbes

Measles outbreak set off by wrong injection

Samoa’s low vaccination rates are in part due to the deaths in 2018 of two children given a wrongly-mixed vaccine. Since then, 48 of the 53 who have been killed in the measles outbreak are children under age five.

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GOOD NEWS

China’s schoolkids officially smartest in world

The OECD’s triennial study of 15 year-old students across the world found that the four Chinese provinces tested outperformed in science and mathematics, even if household income is well below members’ average.

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Fortune

Ikea designs new line for life on Mars

Ikea sent a designer to live in a research station that mimics a Mars habitat to learn about designing for small spaces. Now, she’s redesigned the station itself.

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Fast Company

Mother and son survive tough surgery

Noah Broadway is a Memphis teen with three kidneys - two he was born with don’t work well and a third one, that was transplanted into his body in an operation that could have killed him and his mom, who it belonged to.

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MSN

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In a Wisconsin village, the doctor makes house calls — and sees the rarest diseases on Earth

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USA TODAY

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

DreamWorks cofounder donates $46M

DreamWorks cofounder David Geffen is donating $46 million to UCLA’s medical school, which is named after him. His contribution will support a scholarship fund at and will bring his total giving to UCLA to over $450 million.

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Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

UN urges action on climate health risks

Human health is paying the price of the world’s failure to curb global warming, the WHO warned, urging governments at U.N. climate talks to cut climate-changing emissions faster and provide funds to address growing threats.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Very hot weather prompts early births

Extremely hot weather appears to prompt early labor. The research, analyzed data on 56 million births from 1969 to 1988, matching the birth dates to weather events in the counties where babies were born.

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NBC News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Gun violence treated like contagious disease

Day or night, Robert Warner and his outreach workers are on North Philly streets mediating disputes, organizing basketball games between youth factions, dissuading folks from violence, and helping young people find jobs.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Malaria fight stalls with high level of deaths

Malaria still infects millions of people every year and kills more than 400,000 - mostly children in Africa - because the fight against the mosquito-borne disease has stalled, the World Health Organization said.

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Reuters

Slovakian women get pre-abortion ultrasound

Slovakian lawmakers will debate a proposed law that would compel women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound and listen to the embryo’s heartbeat, a move groups have decried as a backward step for women’s rights.

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Associated Press

Why COP25 matters to emergency aid sector

Facing soaring humanitarian costs in a warming world, campaigners are pushing for the divisive issue of climate-linked “loss and damage” to take center stage at the annual UN Climate Change Conference, or COP25.

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The New Humanitarian

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Tanzanian fruit vendors offer their wares along a road. (Photo by Jorge Cancela) Photo used under CC BY

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