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Syrian boy in Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan. The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib, as hospitals and schools are bombed by Syrian forces aided by Russia. Western powers have challenged Syria and its ally Russia to provide assurances that attacks on hospitals and schools will stop, while the UN secretary-general warned that a full-scale battle in Idlib “would unleash a humanitarian nightmare unlike any we have seen in Syria” to date. Now, the UN says, its “worst fears are coming true.” (Photo by United Nations) Photo used under CC BY

Syrian-Russian bombings create humanitarian crisis

The UN said its “worst fears are coming true” in Syria’s northwest Idlib province, where hospitals and schools are being bombed by Syrian forces aided by Russia, putting millions at risk.

Al Jazeera

In US schools, black girls face harsher penalties

Experts say that, while black girls don’t misbehave more, they receive more severe penalties in school for the same behavior as white peers and are subject to pervasive negative stereotypes dating back to slavery.

USA TODAY

Whites have majority access to addiction meds

ABC News

Island group becoming a nation of refugees

Tuvalu, an island archipelago in the Pacific and a nation that the UN says is resource poor and “extremely vulnerable” to climate change, is disappearing with rising sea levels and will likely be uninhabitable within 50 to 100 years.

Guardian

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Mexico City air pollution reaches dangerous levels

BBC

States revisit legal treatment of trafficked kids

In the U.S., juvenile victims of sex trafficking currently face decades in prison if they kill their abusers. But legislation being proposed in several states would overhaul how courts treat trafficked kids who commit murder.

Mother Jones

In Mozambique, violence rises after cyclone

According to a local anti-corruption NGO, at least 13 people have been killed this month in attacks in villages across Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, which was badly damaged after Cyclone Kenneth hit in April.

Al Jazeera

Rural Colombia builds a ‘culture of saving’

In rural Colombia, where banks have little presence, traveling to a branch takes time and money most people do not have. But a new government program is increasing financial inclusion in the country’s most remote areas.

Devex

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cambodia urged not to criminalize surrogates

Cambodia’s new laws on commercial surrogacy must not criminalize surrogate mothers, women’s rights campaigners said, after 11 women jailed for agreeing to carry a client’s baby were released from prison.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Surrogacy: Why the world needs rules for ‘selling’ babies

BBC

Sudan army rulers suspend talks with civilians

Sudan’s pro-democracy protesters said the ruling military council’s suspension of talks was a “regrettable” setback to efforts to forge a new democratic era following the overthrow of long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.

Al Jazeera

How Sudan targeted the women driving protests

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Poland plans double jail terms for pedophiles

Poland has announced plans to double jail terms for pedophiles after a documentary on priest sex abuse sparked outrage in the country. Convicted pedophiles could now face a maximum sentence of 30 years or life terms.

BBC

Panama sees surge in risky migrant crossings

Panamanian authorities are struggling to contend with a spike in migrants passing through what is known as the Darien Gap, a roadless, lawless region of tropical isthmus between South and North America.

NBCNews.com

Photos capture near-drowning of migrants on US-Mexico border

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists develop tech to capture tumor cells

Researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that separates elusive circulating tumor cells from a sample of whole blood. The device may allow physicians to gauge a patient’s response to treatments earlier than is possible.

Phys.org

San Francisco bans facial recognition tech

Legislators in San Francisco have voted to ban the use of facial recognition, the first U.S. city to do so. The technology will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, such as the city’s transport authority, or law enforcement.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Camel milk froths hopes in drought-hit Kenya

Camels are highly adapted to climate change, while their milk has been dubbed “white gold” by food experts who say it could help conquer malnutrition in drought-hit Kenya.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Suicide rates in girls are rising, study finds

Suicide rates for young girls are rising at a pace faster than that of boys, changing the established patterns that boys are more likely to die by suicide and that girls are more likely to consider it and attempt it.

CNN

Youth suicide crisis: How can families, government and the medical community help?

Iohud

Undercover docs fight Ebola in violent Congo

Some doctors fighting the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history are afraid to wear scrubs. They mask their identities to avoid harassment and violence in Congo, where the epidemic is spreading at the fastest rate.

LMTOnline

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GOOD NEWS

Dog rescues baby buried alive in Thailand

A dog in northern Thailand rescued a newborn baby after it was buried alive, allegedly by its teenage mother, who was trying to hide her pregnancy from her parents.

BBC

GPS jewelry helps needy refugee moms, kids

Two teens, Kunjal Bharatkumar and Supraja Sayee Srinivasan have designed a website and locator system to help mothers track when kids need vaccinations and lets health workers locate people in need.

Science News

Congrats and cash offers coming in for former homeless high school student accepted to 12 colleges

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

S. Korea to give $8M humanitarian aid to North

The South Korean government has decided to send $8 million in humanitarian aid to North Korea, days after Pyongyang claimed the country is experiencing extreme drought.

UPI

N. Korea suffering worst drought in decades

ABC News

$300M to fix inequality in Connecticut schools?

Connecticut grapples with disparity in public education. Now, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has pledged $100 million to help close the gap. That is, as long as the state and others match the funds.

WSHU

ENVIRONMENT

Antarctica glacier losses increasing rapidly

Satellite data reveals that the warming of the Southern Ocean is resulting in Antarctica’s glaciers sliding into the sea increasingly rapidly, with ice now being lost five times faster than in the 1990s.

Guardian

Addis Ababa enacts monthly car-free day

Deutsche Welle

Climate change drives Guatemalans north

Over the last two years, farmers in Guatemala have seen near-complete losses due to climate change. Now, driven by necessity, many are going north in search of work.

Al Jazeera

UN: Use carbon tax to fight climate change

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Unemployment in France falls to 10-year low

France’s unemployment rate fell slightly in the first quarter to hit its lowest level in a decade, official data showed. French President Emmanuel Macron, a pro-business centrist, has made cutting unemployment his main domestic priority.

Reuters

Heiress slams corporate payouts for CEOs

Philanthropist and filmmaker Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Walt Disney Company co-founder, blasted corporate executives for their “addiction” to money, “extreme unfairness” of paying their workers less than a living wage.

Vox

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Children from the Maasai tribe crowd around their elders as they distribute sweets in this photograph from November 2010 in Kenya. (Photo by Davida3) Photo used under CC BY

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