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Unrest in Kashmir in 2010. Violence has renewed since India‘s Hindu-nationalist government revoked Article 370 of India’s constitution, limiting the region’s decision-making powers and eliminating its right to its own constitution. (Photo by Kashmir Global) Photo used under CC BY

Indian troops fire tear gas as riots erupt in Kashmir

Indian security forces have fired tear gas and shot live rounds in the air to disperse mass protests in Indian-administered Kashmir‘s main city as thousands rallied against New Delhi’s stripping of the region’s autonomy.

Al Jazeera

West Africa struggles with rise in pollution

Every year around the world, almost 8 million people die prematurely as a result of air pollution. The air quality in Europe is well monitored, but there is an urgent need for concrete data on pollution in West Africa.

Deutsche Welle

UN: India lifts 271M people out of poverty in 10 years

India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multidimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas such as “assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition.”

The Hindu

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Life is getting better for world’s poorest – but children bear greatest burden

Guardian

Why ICE raids took communities by surprise

Federal immigration officials released 300 of the nearly 700 people arrested this week in Mississippi workplace sweeps believed to be the largest single-state action of the kind in U.S. history.

PBS NewsHour

Is Putin’s untouchable image crumbling?

During Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power, polls have often shown Russians blame their government rather than their president for their problems. Amid a new wave of domestic tension, that could be changing.

Deutsche Welle

Russians rush to buy iodine after blast causes radiation spike

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Asian women trafficked to Kenya’s dance bars

A rising number of women and girls are leaving South Asian nations such as Nepal, India and Pakistan to work in Bollywood-style dance bars in Kenya’s adult entertainment industry, many illegally, anti-trafficking activists and police say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Turkey turning its back on Syrians fleeing war?

On paper, not much has changed for the more than 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey. But in Istanbul, Syrians who registered for temporary protection outside of the city have to leave, and return to their province of registration.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Lebanon paper publishes ‘no news’ edition

Lebanon’s only English daily “refrained from publishing news articles in its print edition” to protest against the country’s deteriorating economic, political condition. Each page bore a phrase relating to a country’s problem.

Al Jazeera

Brazilians not likely to boycott deforestation

Despite increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest basin, Brazil’s government does not expect an international boycott of Brazilian products, the president’s spokesman says.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Atomik’ vodka produced from Chernobyl grain

Scientists have produced vodka from grain grown in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. They say that the alcohol is free of dangerous radioactivity and could be mass produced to help economic recovery in the blighted region.

Guardian

New bioprinting technique can rebuild hearts

A team of U.S. researchers has developed a new technique that makes use of a support gel to 3D print heart tissue containing collagen. The method can produce parts of the heart, from capillaries to the full organ.

physicsworld

GLOBAL HEALTH

Burundi malaria outbreak at epidemic levels

A serious outbreak of malaria in Burundi has reached epidemic proportions, killing almost as many people as the Ebola crisis in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Guardian

Burundi’s YouTube star dies of malaria aged six

BBC

Air pollution giving a 3rd of EU children asthma

Up to a third of new cases of childhood asthma in Europe could be caused by air pollution, a study has found. Thousands of children from ages one to 14 are believed to have been made ill each year by breathing in pollutants.

The Independent

Indian city Pune hits brake on car traffic to curb pollution

Deutsche Welle

Marijuana legalization reduces opioid deaths

A new study finds that marijuana access leads to reductions in opioid-related deaths. Legalization and access to recreational marijuana reduced annual opioid mortality in the range of 20 percent to 35 percent.

ScienceDaily

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GOOD NEWS

Ikea designing homes for people with dementia

Furniture giant Ikea and Boklok, a construction company is launching a new style of home for dementia patients that makes housing sustainable and affordable.

CNN

Grandson-grandma duo travel across country

A grandson started taking his 89-year-old grandma on road trips after she told him she’s never seen a mountain. They have visited 29 national parks, and haven’t stopped since.

Fox 5 NY

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Book chain baron donates $1M in scholarships

Leonard Riggio, the founder and chairman of Barnes and Noble book chain, recently donated $1 million toward scholarships for students at Kingsborough Community College.

Brooklyn Paper

Nonprofit will pay kidney donors’ lost wages

The National Kidney Registry announced that all kidney donors giving through swaps will be eligible for Donor Shield, a program through which donors can get reimbursed for lost wages, transportation, lodging expenses.

Vox

ENVIRONMENT

US authorizes ‘cyanide bombs’ to kill animals

The Trump administration has reauthorized government officials to use controversial poison devices, dubbed “cyanide bombs” by critics, to kill coyotes, foxes and other animals across the U.S.

Guardian

African Penguin: Iconic, beautiful and endangered

CNN

Frequent marine heatwaves kill coral instantly

Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves can lead to the almost instant death of corals, scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found.

BBC

Giant freshwater fishes in alarming decline

Nature

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

US sanctions may worsen Venezuela suffering

UN’s human rights chief has criticized the latest U.S. sanctions against Venezuela saying they would intensify the suffering of millions. The sanctions would hit the most vulnerable sections of society.

BBC

Amid swine fever, China food prices jump 9.1%

China’s July food prices jumped 9.1 percent from a year ago, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, as the country battles soaring pork prices amid the spread of African swine fever.

CNBC

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Mohammed, a malaria patient, recovers at a Burundian run clinic in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, in April, 2013. According to figures gathered by the WHO, almost 6 million cases have been recorded since the first week of January to the end of July in Burundi. (Photo by Tobin Jones) Photo used under CC BY

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