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The UN is “desperate” for funds in Yemen and will be forced to shutter 22 aid programs within the next two months if a cash shortage is not resolved. Earlier this year, at a UN conference, countries pledged $2.6 billion but so far less than half that amount has been received. (Photo by Carl Waldmeier) Photo used under CC BY

Yemen faces major aid cuts as donations fall short

The United Nations is having to cut 22 aid programs in Yemen. Only half of pledged donations for 2019 have been delivered so far.

Deutsche Welle

Could Yemen as a country fall apart?

Al Jazeera

Israel plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen, report says

Jerusalem Post

Saudi women exercising new rights

Women in Saudi Arabia over 21 can now get a passport and go abroad without permission. They can also register child birth, marriage or divorce, be issued official family documents and be a guardian to children who are minors.

Reuters

Amazon rainforest burning at record rate

The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, with Brazil having declared a state of emergency over the rising number of fires in the region.

ZME Science

Qatar withdraws support for China

Qatar withdrew from a letter signed by dozens of countries expressing support for China’s human-rights record despite growing international condemnation over its detention of as many as 2 million ethnic Muslim Uighurs.

Bloomberg

India’s minorities are targeted in lynchings

Since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won power in India in 2014, lynchings of the country’s minorities have surged. Most of the victims are Muslims, members of the country’s largest religious minority.

NPR

Kashmir women biggest victims during siege

Al Jazeera

3M civilians at risk in Idlib as fighting grows

Ten of thousands of people have fled to Syria’s border with Turkey in the last few days as a Syrian army advance pushed further into the opposition’s last major stronghold, residents.

PRI

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rohingya refugees say no to repatriations

Bangladesh and Myanmar were set to start repatriating Rohingya refugees this week, a move that has been widely resisted by many living in the sprawling camps on the border between the two countries.

CNN

‘Conditions here are inhumane’: Rohingya in Bangladeshi camps

Al Jazeera

Rohingya survivors: ‘Why do they want to destroy us?’ – in pictures

Guardian

In a first, Kenya census to count intersex people

Kenya will become the first African country to recognize its intersex population in a census that counts people born with a sexual anatomy that does not fit typical definitions for male or female bodies, according to a top official.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Former UN economist becomes Sudan’s PM

Sudan has appointed a new prime minister as the country embarks on a three-year transition to civilian rule. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said achieving peace and solving the economic crisis were priorities.

BBC

How Sudan’s people changed the country’s course

The National

S. African court bans display of ‘apartheid flag’

A South African court has partially banned flying the country’s apartheid-era national flag, saying such display amounted to “hate speech” and “harassment”.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Russia launches life-sized robot into space

Russia has sent a humanoid robot to the International Space Station as part of tests on a new rocket that is expected to replace the current vehicle.

USA TODAY

Parks make people ‘as happy as Christmas’

The first study of its kind shows that those who visited an urban park use happier language and express less negativity on Twitter than before the visit. This boost in mood, reports show, can last for up to four hours afterward.

ZME Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nigeria goes 3 years without a case of polio

Nigeria has gone three years without a case of polio, putting it on the brink of being declared free of the disease. In 2012 the country accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, the WHO has said.

BBC

Protecting vaccines from power outages

The Telegraph

New research links air pollution to depression

The World Health Organization has linked air pollution to deadly diseases like lung cancer and stroke, and new research suggests that polluted regions see more cases of neurological disorders like depression and bipolar disorder.

National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

Man hailed as legend for ‘extreme’ kindness

Jon Potter has been saying “yes” to random requests from strangers for four years now, gaining him fame in Pittsburgh for thousands of his kind acts, winning him awards, and making him a hero in local media.

MSN

Man makes ‘one-legged’ trek to S. America tip

MSN

Hasbro will cut plastic use in toy packaging

The toy maker announced that all its packaging for new products will be mostly plastic free by the end of 2022.

Associated Press

7-year-old and police officer have a dance-off

A police officer assigned to a local mall was approached by a young boy asking to take photos with his motorcycle. Unsure what the boy was going to do, officer PJ busted a move.

9News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit drug maker produces TB antibiotic

A new antibiotic developed by a nonprofit, TB Alliance, achieved a 90 percent success rate among patients with highly drug-resistant forms of TB. This, while for-profit companies have focused their efforts elsewhere.

PBS

News outlet forgoes party to donate funds

Entertainment business news website Variety has decided to forgo their annual Emmy Awards’ nominees party in order to donate the allocated funds to Planned Parenthood.

Washington Examiner

ENVIRONMENT

WHO: No proof microplastics in water harmful

Microplastics are increasingly found in drinking water, but there is no evidence so far that this poses a risk to humans, according to a new assessment by the World Health Organization.

Guardian

Coral breeding breakthrough could save reefs

Coral reefs around the world have been in decline due to disease and pollution, but scientists at the Florida Aquarium announced a breakthrough they believe could help turn the tide in the battle to save them.

FOX News

Microplastics discovered in the Sargasso Sea

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Big Swiss firms must study women’s pay gap

Major Swiss companies will be required to review pay gaps between male and female staff from next year under rules adopted by the government, part of a bid to close gender divide in one of the world’s richest countries.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Middle-class, poor kids ditching youth sports

The rising cost of playing sports, coupled with rising economic inequality, is increasingly leading poor and even middle-class families to hang up their cleats. Participation among wealthier children in sports is rising.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

A young child looks anxiously at the camera as his mum takes him to a clinic to be checked for diphtheria in the Kutupalong camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, January 2018. Two years have passed since more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees arrived in Bangladesh, after fleeing violence by the Myanmar military, which the UN said bears the “hallmarks of a genocide”. (Photo by Russell Watkins/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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