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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

Indonesia fires affecting Borneo’s orangutans

Malay Mail

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gender, geography hamper global development

Despite steady development gains, a child’s birthplace is still the biggest predictor of its future health, and no matter which country you’re born in, life is harder if you’re a girl.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

3M women report rape as first sexual encounter

More than 3 million women experienced rape as their first sexual encounter, according to a new study, which surveyed women ages 18 to 44 in the United States.

NPR

Sex workers in Malawi struggle to access healthcare

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Indonesia raises minimum marriageable age

Indonesia’s parliament has raised the minimum age at which women can marry to 19, in a ruling which is expected to curb child marriage in the country.

CNN

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Chart shows the lowest age you can legally get married around the world

The Independent

Why the world must end child marriage — in photos

Refinery29

Spain to hold fourth election in four years

Spain is set for another election, its fourth in four years on November 10. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the announcement, having failed to secure enough support in parliament to form a government.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Russian lab housing smallpox virus explodes

An explosion has caused a fire at a Russian biological research facility that’s one of only two centers in the world known for housing samples of the smallpox virus.

CNN

Cure for common cold may have been found

Researchers at two California universities say they may be close to finding the elusive cure for the common cold. The secret, they say, lies in humans, not the virus itself.

WTHR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Race, income impacts cancer screening rates

Only about 1 in 3 U.S. adults say a dentist has ever examined them for oral cancer - and most of those who remember getting such exams are non-Hispanic whites, a new study suggests.

Reuters

India approves ban on e-cigarettes

The Hill

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

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GOOD NEWS

Man builds machine to bring water to Bahamas

Moses West designed an atmospheric water generation machine that makes water from the air. Now, after Hurricane Dorian, he’s trying to bring it to the Bahamas.

CNN

Dictionary adds non-binary definition for ‘they’

Merriam-Webster said its definition of “they” would include its usage as a singular pronoun for gender-nonbinary people, who don’t strongly identify as either male or female, and want to avoid the gendered “he” and “she.”

The Insider

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

CEO donates thousands of dollars on Twitter

Thirty one-year-old Bill Pulte inherited a fortune from his billionaire grandfather and has been using Twitter to share it with those in need.

7News

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

ENVIRONMENT

US has highest proportion of climate deniers

A majority of people across the world think climate change is happening and humans are at least partly responsible, according to a study. But 15 percent of Americans still hold views that contradict the scientific consensus.

Newsweek

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The good, the bad and the ugly: The nations leading and failing on climate action

DownToEarth

Greta Thunberg to US politicians: ‘Sorry, you’re not trying hard enough’

BBC

Scientists to spend a year trapped in Arctic ice

Hundreds have undergone intense preparation for an expedition designed to figure out what a warming Arctic means for us all.

National Geographic

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

25% millennials saddled with credit card debt

Millennials have racked up an average of $27,900 in personal debt, excluding mortgages, according to a U.S. study. The biggest source of debt isn’t student loans, but credit card bills.

CNBC

50K workers strike against General Motors

The strike by United Auto Workers has shut down 55 General Motors plants across the U.S. as workers fight for better wages and benefits and their share of profits.

YouTube

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A 14-year-old child bride from Mataram in the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara in June 2013. One in four girls in Indonesia is married before they turn 18, according to a 2016 report by Indonesia’s Statistics Agency and UNICEF. (Photo by UN Photo/Armin Hari) Photo used under CC BY

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