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Refugee children from DRC in a camp in Uganda in 2013. Renewed clashes between opposing Hema and Lendu groups in north-eastern parts of DRC are driving people across the border into Uganda at a rate of 311 a day, more than double the rate of refugee arrivals in to May (145 per day). Recent arrivals speak of extreme brutality. (Photo by EU/ECHO/Martin Karimi) Photo used under CC BY

Thousands escaping new violence in Congo

Around 7,500 Congolese refugees have arrived in Uganda placing strain on already badly overstretched facilities. Displacement since early June is now estimated at 300,000.

Africanews

DR Congo attacks: Struggle to get aid to those in need

Al Jazeera

Roads and deforestation explode in the Congo basin

ScienceDaily

Food insecurity leading to type 2 diabetes

A collaborative study by a team of Connecticut researchers shows there is a strong connection between food insecurity and insulin resistance, the underlying problem in type 2 diabetes.

UConn Today

Cocaine, meth fueling crime and chaos in Fiji

Meth and cocaine are packed into boats in Latin America and the U.S. and sailed to Australia and New Zealand to feed the countries’ lucrative drug habits, leaving a trail of addiction and violence in the Pacific nations they pass through.

Guardian

China accused of spying on Pakistan’s Uighur

A group funded by the local Chinese Embassy is collecting data on Pakistan’s Uighurs, worrying the community. The embassy claims it has never heard of the group.

Buzzfeed News

Xinjiang camps defended at UN human rights forum

South China Morning Post

Squalid conditions in Bosnia migrant camp

Aid workers sounded the alarm about health and hygiene conditions in a makeshift forest camp in Bosnia for hundreds of migrants as they face the spread of scabies and other diseases as well as food shortages.

National Post

Deadly clashes over cattle continue in Nigeria

As climate change brings harsher and longer droughts, northern Nigerian pastoralists have been pushed further south in search of grazing for their animals leading to deadly clashes.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Russia has rights restored in Council of Europe

The Council of Europe, Europe’s top human rights watchdog, is reinstating Russia’s voting rights, a major step in removing penalties for a country accused of grave human rights violations in Ukraine.

NPR

Americans underestimate LGBTQ discrimination

An overwhelming majority of Americans think there has been progress in the LGBTQ rights movement, according to recent polls. But they are also underestimating the amount of discrimination LGBTQ people face.

Think Progress

Queer California: Rare photos capture hidden LGBTQ history

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Denmark gets its youngest ever prime minister

Mette Frederiksen, the leader of Denmark‘s center-left Socialist Democratic party, has announced that she will form a left-leaning, one-party minority government, making her the nation’s youngest-ever prime minister at 41.

CNN

Democracy falls short for people around world

Only half of the world’s population thinks their country is democratic, a survey found, with many Western Europeans viewing banks and social media as threats to democracy.

Reuters

The countries where people are most dissatisfied with how democracy is working

Pew Research Center

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

UN, EU outline push to clean up space junk

European and U.N. bodies outlined a joint push for global action on space junk, saying that debris orbiting the earth must be cleaned up as satellites launched by private companies and other new entrants are adding to the crowding.

Reuters

‘Friendly’ bacteria could save frog species

According to research, bacteria living on the skin of frogs could protect them against a deadly virus and help save species such as the European common frog from being wiped out by a disease.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Common drugs tied to 50% higher dementia risk

Scientists have found a possible link between anticholinergic drugs and an increased risk of dementia. A study suggests the link is strongest with antidepressants, antipsychotics and antiepileptic drugs.

CNN

Brain changes warn of Parkinson’s disease

Changes in the brain that can be spotted years before physical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease occur might act as an early warning sign for the condition, researchers say.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

A harrowing image of a failed flight to safety has revealed the consequences of a president’s words

The Independent

Column (Julian Brave NoiseCat):

No, climate action can’t be separated from social justice

Guardian

Column (Ismail Khalidi):

The slumlords’ peace

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

In Durham, laundromats are becoming libraries

To give families access to books where they are, and help kids with grade-level reading, the Wash House laundromats, Libraries Without Borders and Book Harvest partnered to launch Wash & Learn across Durham.

News Observer

Woman on a 3-year trip documents kindness

To honor her mom’s legacy of looking for goodness, 32-year-old wedding photographer Mary Latham drove cross-country in search of simple acts of kindness. She has seven more states left on her project called “More Good.”

MSN

This van delivers human kindness

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Citymeals On Wheels delivers 60M meals

Shocked that thousands of frail elders who couldn’t leave their apartments would go four days without meals, New York food critic Gael Greene founded Citymeals on Wheels. The nonprofit just delivered its 60 millionth meal.

Forbes

Canada donates $3.25M to clear mines in Iraq

The United Nations Mine Action Service said that Canada has donated about $3.75 million to support its efforts to clear explosive hazards in ISIS held areas that continues to endanger lives and displace communities.

Xinhua Net

ENVIRONMENT

Europe braces for record-setting heat wave

A dangerous and potentially deadly heat wave is sending the mercury soaring as high as 113 degrees in parts of Europe this week. France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland and Belgium will see temperatures in the 90s and higher.

New York Post

Europe’s scorching heatwave forces Germany to impose autobahn speed limits

Fortune

‘Plasticrust’ forms on Portuguese island rocks

Researchers have discovered a strange never-before-seen type of pollution that they’ve dubbed “plasticrust,” which originates in the ocean and adheres directly onto rocks along the shoreline of Portuguese island of Madeira.

FOX News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

US pushes economic plan without Palestinians

The Trump administration is seeking support for an economic plan it says will be a foundation for Israeli-Palestinian peace but which Palestinians and many others dismiss as pointless without a political solution.

Al Jazeera

Illegal cannabis production in West Bank rises as economy tanks

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe outlaws use of foreign currency

In a bid to defend its fledgeling new currency against black market speculation, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube outlawed the use of the United States dollar and a host of other foreign currencies in local transactions.

Al Jazeera

Why Zimbabwe has banned foreign currencies

BBC

Photo of the Day

A man holds an injured child during the Gaza crisis in July 2014. UNICEF and the Gaza Health Ministry reported that from July 8 to August 2, 2014, around 315 Palestinian children died due to Israeli action. 30 percent of all civilian casualties were children. (Photo by Syed Aamina Trust) Photo used under CC BY

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