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A woman gazes upon disastrous flooding that resulted from the Almatti Dam project in Bagalkot, Karnataka, India, in 2007. (Photo by miramurphy) Photo used under CC BY

Dams give rise to deaths, destruction in rural India

Many dams have been built to supply water and electricity to millions of people. But they have also caused deaths and destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes, due to flooding after heavy rainfall.

Al Jazeera

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Parched India will see ‘water refugees’ in future, says environmentalist

Business Standard

N. Korea lays out denuclearization terms

North Korea has laid out its conditions for discussing denuclearization ahead of the next round of planned talks with the U.S., striking a positive tone for the historic peace process.

Newsweek

Japan sees N. Korea nuke program advancing

Reuters

Freezing of US aid causes suffering in Guatemala

Programs are shutting down due to a decision by US President Trump to freeze $450 million in U.S. foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

NPR

US detected Iran readying drones before strike

U.S. surveillance satellites detected Iran readying drones and missiles at launch sites in Iran before Saudi oil facilities were attacked, according to two Pentagon officials.

NPR

Taliban delegation visits Iran to ‘discuss latest developments’

Al Jazeera

Gates study finds gender inequality globally

A new report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation finds that gender inequality affects women and girls in every nation but particularly poorer ones.

The Hill

Indonesia arrests 185 as it battles blazes

Vast blazes are ripping across Indonesia’s rainforests and smoldering deep beneath the surface in peatlands. Authorities have arrested some 185 people suspected of causing the out-of-control fires.

South China Morning Sun

HUMAN RIGHTS

3M refugees could return to Syria’s “safe zone”

Turkey’s president has said that up to three million Syrian refugees could return to their country to live in a “safe zone” in the north. Turkey is hosting more than 3.6 million Syrians who have fled the civil war that began in 2011.

BBC

Textile workers uniting against harassment

Women in Bangladesh routinely face sexual assault and exploitation in factories, many of which supply western brands. A grassroots movement is helping victims to seek justice.

Guardian

In pictures: Bangladeshi garment workers

Al Jazeera

Day in a life: A Bangladesh garment worker

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Netanyahu’s career on line as Israel votes again

Israelis voted in an unprecedented repeat election that will decide whether the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power, despite a likely indictment on corruption charges.

FOX News

Analysis: Will Benjamin Netanyahu be re-elected?

YouTube

California votes to ban private, for-profit prisons

The California state legislature voted to ban for-profit private prisons, including some facilities used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which “inhumanely profiteers on the backs of incarcerated people.”

NBCNews.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Spider silk, wood material could replace plastic

A new study published in Science Advances proposes a tantalizing alternative to plastic - faux-plastics made out of spider silk and wood fibers. This paints an optimistic future for sustainable material.

Salon

Nearly all of Ecuador has its data leaked online

The detailed information of potentially every person in Ecuador has been leaked online, in a massive and unprecedented national data breach. More than 20 million people, including an 7 million minors, were exposed in the leak.

CNN

Five of the biggest data breaches ever

CNBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Therapists seeing many kids with ‘eco-anxiety’

As the climate crisis takes on more urgency, psychologists around the world are seeing an increase in the number of children suffering from “eco-anxiety,” defined as a “chronic fear of environmental doom."

EcoWatch

S.Korea confirms first outbreak of swine fever

South Korea has become the latest country affected by deadly African swine fever, after several pigs that died at a farm were found to have been infected with the virus, its agriculture ministry has said.

CNN

Air pollution found on fetal side of placentas

Air pollution particles have been found on the fetal side of placentas, indicating that unborn babies are directly exposed to the black carbon produced by motor traffic and fuel burning.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Kid’s letter launches new version of iconic toy

Six-year-old Vivian Lord was tired of not seeing women depicted in the classic green army men toys that she wanted to play with, so she wrote a letter. The female army figurines will now be available in 2020.

Today

South African choir brings down the house

The South African Ndlovu Youth Choir performed at the semifinals of “America’s Got Talent.” The group provides a creative outlet for youngsters from difficult backgrounds.

Billboard

Celebrity chef serves over 100K free meals

World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit founded by the celebrity chef, José Andrés. It has built a reputation for providing free meals to those affected by natural disasters.

WAMU

Woman makes free lunches for neighborhood children

WCVB

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Structural shifts cause anguish at nonprofits

White nonprofit leaders and rising leaders of color, many of them women, find themselves in relationships full of anguish and confusion. The source of these wounds is in structural shifts that are happening across the sector.

Nonprofit Quarterly

W. African leaders pledge $1B to fight jihadis

Leaders of West African nations have announced a plan to combat the growing problem of Islamist violence in the region. Jihadi groups have strengthened their presence across the Sahel region this year.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Amazon deforestation driven by criminals?

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a lucrative business largely driven by criminal networks that attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people who try to stop them, according to a new report.

Guardian

Indonesia fires affecting Borneo’s orangutans

Massive forest fires in Indonesia that have caused a toxic haze to spread as far as Singapore and peninsular Malaysia are seriously affecting endangered orangutans and their habitat, a rescue foundation has said.

Malay Mail

Indonesian environmentalists blast government over forest fires

New Strait Times

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Central America suffers massive power outage

Honduras has been the worst affected with Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala also partly without electricity. The blackout was caused by a failure in the connection network.

Deutsche Welle

Nigerian online-only bank startup raises $1.6M

Nigerian fintech startup Kuda, a digital-only retail bank raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding. As of 2014, Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and most populous country.

TechCrunch

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Children listen to their teacher at the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan, which has grown to house nearly 80,000 Syrian refugees since it opened in 2012. UNICEF has established nine school complexes at the settlement to ensure seats for the 28,000 school age children living at the camp. (Photo by UN/Mark Garten) Photo used under CC BY

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