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Bentiu in South Sudan’s Unity State is the most overcrowded of six UN protected sites where civilians have sought to escape violence and deprivation in South Sudan. (Photo by European Commission DG ECHO) Photo used under CC BY

South Sudan civil war sparks refugee crisis

The UN says South Sudan’s four-year-old civil war has left half of the nation’s population — 6 million people — in need of humanitarian aid. The conflict began when South Sudan’s army split between factions loyal to President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar.

PBS NewsHour

South Sudan: Starvation and violence

Deutsche Welle

America reconsiders support for South Sudan regime

Economist

Shia Arabs and Kurds fight a new war in Iraq

With its rich reserves of oil and multitude of ethnicities and religions, the city of Kirkuk was always contested. Now that the Islamic State is being defeated, the old disputes over who controls the city have reignited.

Economist

Drug czar nominee withdraws amid scandal

Tom Marino, the Pennsylvania congressman who was President Trump’s nominee for drug czar, withdrew Tuesday amid a flap over his role in drafting a 2016 law that worsened the opioid crisis. Revelations about the law have sent shockwaves through Washington.

USA TODAY

Tom Marino withdraws after damaging opioid report

NPR

“60 Minutes” report reverberates from White House to Capitol Hill

CBS News

UN: Number of starving has increased

A report released last month revealed that global hunger levels have increased for the first time in over a decade. Some 815 million people were suffering from hunger in 2016 — 38 million more than in the previous year.

Deutsche Welle

Why world hunger isn’t so easy to solve

NPR

African rulers turn off internet to hinder dissent

Since the start of 2016, governments in 13 African nations have intentionally shut down the internet on 21 occasions, mainly during elections and protests, according to an online rights group database. That compares to seven shutdowns in the previous two years.

U.S. News & World Report

Net shutdowns raise free speech concerns in India

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Afghan schools close in setback for girls

Spreading violence in Afghanistan is forcing many schools to close, undermining fragile gains in education for young girls in a war-ravaged country where millions of girls have never been to school, said a Human Rights Watch report.

U.S. News & World Report

Chechen ‘gay purge’ victim speaks out

Six months after reports emerged that gay men were being detained illegally and tortured in the Russian republic of Chechnya, a young man has spoken publicly about his ordeal.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Spain high court jails Catalan separatist leaders

Spain has signalled a hardening line over Catalonia with the High Court jailing the leaders of two of the largest separatist organisations in a move seen as taking Madrid closer to imposing central rule over Catalonia.

Guardian

Detention of secessionist leaders sparks large protests

Guardian

Kenya’s deputy president may bend to demands

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto said there would be no problem if the election board agrees to meet a raft of demands made by the opposition ahead of a repeat presidential vote.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Toward efficient high-pressure desalination

One of the biggest operational challenges for desalination plants is the fouling of membranes by microbes. New research suggests a novel approach to reducing the rate of fouling, and thus improving desalination plant efficiency.

ScienceDaily

Gravitational-wave astronomy starts in earnest

Two weeks after this year’s Nobel physics prize was awarded “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” that detector has produced its most interesting finding.

Economist

Astronomers observed merging of neutron stars

Forbes

GLOBAL HEALTH

Childbirth deaths still high in Asian nations

An estimated 85,000 mothers died in 2015 from childbirth in the region, home to more than half of the world‘s population and some of its fastest growing economies, U.N. figures show, with the maternal mortality rate seen as a key way to measure improvement in a nation’s health.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Midwives treated ‘like civil servants’ battle Cambodia’s maternal deaths

Reuters

Studies skewed by focus on educated brains

Brain imaging studies have a diversity problem. That’s what researchers concluded after they re-analyzed data from a large study that used MRI to measure brain development in children between the ages of three and 18.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Students raise $13K to help substitute teacher

Minnesota high school students helped raise the money for eighty-year-old Walter Erickson, a retired teacher and currently a substitute, who is saving up to pay for his wife to get cataract surgery and some much-needed dental work.

CBS Minnesota

Woman bikes 70-pound dog to safety in CA

A California woman fled the scene of wildfires in her neighborhood using a bike with her 70-pound dog tucked in a duffel bag by her side.

TIME

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Philanthropist to commit $1.5B to conservation

Continuing a trend demonstrating the increasing power of the nonprofit sector in China, a leading Chinese female business leader, He Qiaonv, has pledged $1.5 billion toward wildlife conservation efforts.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Google to give $1B to nonprofits for job growth

Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the largest philanthropic pledge to date from the Internet giant.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Ethiopia now leads the Nile Basin Initiative

Ethiopia has assumed leadership of the Nile Basin Initiative, taking over from Uganda. Ethiopia will chair both the Nile Council of Ministers and the Nile Technical Advisory Committee of the NBI for the next one year.

The Independent

Special section:

Death of the Nile

BBC

Ozone recovery may be delayed by 30 years

Rising global emissions of some chlorine-containing chemicals could slow the progress made in healing the ozone layer. A study found the substances, widely used for paint stripping and in the manufacture of PVC, are increasing much faster than previously thought.

BBC

BUSINESS AND TRADE

China stalls currency internationalization

At the Communist Party’s 19th congress, much will be made of the triumphs achieved in nearly four decades of reform. Expect a glossing over of one part of that process where progress has largely stalled: the “internationalisation” of China’s currency, the yuan.

Economist

US pushes ‘fair trade’ in talks with Japan

The Trump administration is advocating for a more balanced trade relationship with Japan as high-level economic talks with the Asian nation advance this week in Washington, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

Bloomberg

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Cairo, Alexandria, and the Nile River at night. (Photo by NASA, International Space Station) Photo used under CC BY

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