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Workers at the Cambodian Textiles Worldwide factory in Phnom Penh in 2016. (Photo by U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh) Photo used under CC BY

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Cambodia raises wages of textile, shoe workers

Cambodia has raised next year’s legal minimum wage for workers in its crucial textiles and footwear industry to $190 per month, an increase of 4.4%, amid pressure from the European Union over its human rights and political record, officials said.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

US tries to rally UN states against abortion

A leaked letter from the Trump administration to United Nations member states ahead of this week’s UN General Assembly in New York suggests that the U.S. is trying to build an anti-abortion coalition.

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Daily Beast

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US abortion rate hits lowest point, but not because of restrictive laws

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USA TODAY

Thunberg to UN summit: ‘You’ve stolen my dreams’

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg lambasted world leaders at the opening of a United Nations conference." You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” Thunberg said.

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Al Jazeera

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Indonesia haze causes sky to turn blood red

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BBC

Brazil regime at odds with Catholic church

The Vatican’s Synod for the Amazon is tasked with stanching its loss of believers to Pentecostalism, but its green focus has triggered a political storm in Brazil, which controls about 60% of the Amazon region.

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Guardian

Wave of attacks casts cloud over Afghan poll

The threat of bloody attacks on campaign rallies and ballot centers has cast a dark shadow over the election due to be staged in Afghanistan next week.

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Asia Times Online

Hong Kong protests turning more violent

There were more scenes of violence and destruction across Hong Kong as protesters targeted subway stations and shopping malls in an apparent escalation.

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CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ethiopian communities face chronic drought

This year the rainy season once again failed to bring much needed relief to Ethiopia’s drought-striken region. Pastoral communities say they fear for the future of their livelihoods as experts blame climate change.

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Violence against women rising in Pakistan

Pakistan ranks as the sixth most dangerous country in the world for women, with cases of sexual crimes and domestic violence recording a rapid rise. Activists blame society’s patriarchal attitudes for the problem.

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Artist hangs 440 shoes off a building to show how many women were killed by their husbands

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Metro.co.uk

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Egyptians protest, demand Sisi’s resignation

About 200 demonstrators took to the streets in Egypt’s port city of Suez demanding the resignation of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. The protests are in response to corruption allegations against President Sisi’s government.

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BBC

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Who is Mohamed Ali, the man calling for el-Sisi’s removal?

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Al Jazeera

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Inside story: Will the protests against Egypt’s president spread?

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S.Korea’s young men fighting against feminism

As feminist issues come to the fore in deeply patriarchal South Korea, there’s a growing discontent among young men that they’re being left behind.

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CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New study reveals Venus was once habitable

Based on a study, researchers have concluded that Venus may have been been habitable 700 million years ago, and able to maintain liquid water for two or three billion years before its atmosphere changed radically.

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New Atlas

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‘Explorer Barbie’ inspires young girls interested in science

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NPR

Researchers build ‘improved’ MRI scanner

French researchers are developing what they say is the most powerful MRI scanner in the world which will use a supermagnet the weight of a blue whale and should allow earlier diagnosis of diseases such as Parkinson’s.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

Tanzania not sharing details on Ebola-like cases

The WHO has issued a statement raising questions about whether Tanzania is covering up possible cases of the Ebola virus, a cause for concern during a regional outbreak that has been declared a rare global health emergency.

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Yahoo! News

Bangladesh attempts to tackle period shaming

Girls in Bangladesh’s rural villages will get free sanitary pads to stop them skipping school during their periods as a result of social taboos around menstruation, a minister from the country has said.

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Channel NewsAsia

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UK couple ‘grows’ sustainable chairs on farm

On a two-acre field in England’s Midlands, Gavin and Alice Munro are taking sustainability to the next level: They harvest trees which they train to grow into chairs.

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Channel NewsAsia

Runner starts group for women of color

When Matilda Egere-Cooper started running, she didn’t see many women who looked like her at races and events, so she decided to do something about it.

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BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit helps veterans forge new future

Black Horse Forge is a Stafford County-based nonprofit focused on supporting veterans and first responders by helping them learn the blacksmithing trade.

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U.S. News & World Report

Hurricane Maria survivors lack access to aid

An obstacle impeding survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico from gaining access to much needed funding and resources is the lack of a robust, ongoing philanthropic presence on the U.S. territory.

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NBCNews.com

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Billionaire’s $34M gift to grads includes parents’ loans

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Millions demand climate action worldwide

Millions of people globally walked out of their schools and workplaces to demand urgent action on climate change. Over 150 countries are taking part in the global climate strikes.

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CBS News

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Young women race to defuse carbon bomb in the Arctic

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Reuters

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The photographer capturing mankind’s impact on planet Earth

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BBC

Hundreds attend funeral for ‘dead’ Pizol glacier

Hundreds of people gathered to remember the life and commemorate the death of the Pizol glacier in the Swiss Alps. Pizol, located in eastern Switzerland, has lost 80-90 percent of its volume since 2006.

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NPR

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Poverty pushes Cambodian women to sell hair

Third-world poverty pushes Cambodian women to sell their hair, feeding American demands for first-world vanity.

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NBCNews.com

Banks worth $47T adopt UN climate principles

Banks with more than $47 trillion in assets, or a third of the global industry, adopted new UN-backed “responsible banking” principles to fight climate change on Sunday that would shift their loan books away from fossil fuels.

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Reuters

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Children whose foreheads have been marked by a cross to denote that they are likely to survive, wait with their mother for food and medical attention at a camp for drought-victims in Bati, Ethiopia in October 2014. (Photo by UN Photo/John Isaac) Photo used under CC BY

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