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Slums in Mumbai, India, in the forefront of high rise buildings. Between 2017 and 2018, a new billionaire was created every two days, according to a new Oxfam report. However, the widening economic gap was hindering the fight against poverty. (Photo by Hugh Mitton) Photo used under CC BY

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26 moguls own as much as world’s poorest half

The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.

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Guardian

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Satellite images help map economic living conditions, global poverty

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earth.com

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A social justice movement inspired by MLK is waging a new war on poverty

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CNN

Rich, powerful elites cozy up in wintry Davos

Top policymakers and business leaders have flocked to Davos again for the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps. The meeting is overshadowed by trade conflicts and a resurgence of economic nationalism.

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Quenching the world’s thirst comes at environmental cost

Desalination makes fresh water available for millions of people, but it has environmental impacts: Lots of energy is needed, and marine wildlife suffers because of the salty and toxic slush dumped in the sea.

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Migrant workers in Japan face exploitation

Japan, facing a shortage of labor, is now allowing immigration. But advocates for the foreign workers warn that without an overhaul of the technical training program, many of the newcomers could be subjected to exploitation.

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NPR

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“The Worst Internship Ever”: Report on exploitation of migrant workers in Japan

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Rohingya fleeing India stuck in no-man’s land

Bangladesh has denied entry to 31 Rohingya Muslims trying to enter from India, leaving them stuck in no-man’s land on the border, Bangladesh authorities said as India cracks down on members of the community.

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Channel NewsAsia

Filipino Muslims vote on autonomous region

Nearly 3 million Filipinos from the country’s Muslim-majority southern region are set to decide on a new law that would place them under a substantially more autonomous regional government.

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Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

EU support for Libya adds to refugee abuse

The EU’s support for Libya’s anti-migrant policies is contributing to a cycle of “extreme abuse”, including arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, extortion and forced labor, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Guardian

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How the Muppets are helping refugee children

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CNN

Serbians protest Vucic, demand media rights

More than 10,000 people marched through Belgrade to protest the rule of President Aleksandar Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party, demanding media freedom as a precondition for free and fair elections.

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Reuters

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Could the street protests in Serbia threaten the Vucic government?

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TRT World

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

EU calls on Palestinians to hold new elections

The EU has called on Palestine to ensure elections are held, expressing concerns over the absence of any democratically elected bodies in the Palestinian territories, particularly in the West Bank.

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Hong Kong failing to tackle wildlife smuggling

Hong Kong must do more to crack down on illegal wildlife smuggling by ending legal loopholes and lenient sentences, a study by conservation groups has said, detailing the city’s role in the lucrative trade.

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Channel NewsAsia

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists want to rig malaria out of mosquitoes

Researchers at the nonprofit Target Malaria think that genetic modification through “gene drives” is the way to get rid of malaria. This process would reduce the number of female mosquitoes that transmit malaria.

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Business Insider

In a first, human blood vessels are grown in lab

Scientists have managed to grow perfect human blood vessels as organoids in a petri dish for the first time. The breakthrough engineering technology dramatically advances research of vascular diseases like diabetes.

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ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO releases list of 10 global health threats

From climate change to superbugs, WHO has laid out 10 big threats to our global health in 2019. And unless these threats get addressed, millions of lives will be in jeopardy.

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CNN

Problems plague mental health care in S. Sudan

While Sudanese try to recover from trauma caused by decades of conflict and displacement, only three psychiatrists practice in war-torn South Sudan, where many people believe in supernatural possession.

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Al Jazeera

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South Sudan: ‘The whole country is traumatized’

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IRIN News

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India to build psychiatric hospital in South Sudan

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Tackling the twin challenges of climate change and inequality

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Where are George Clooney and company now that Sudan needs them?

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The right’s bid to short-circuit inequality with cheap gizmos

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GOOD NEWS

Refugee makes free falafels for idled workers

The eatery named “The Nicest Place in America” just got nicer. Yassin Terou, the owner of Yassin’s Falafel House in Knoxville, Tennessee, is offering free meals to those affected by the U.S. government shutdown.

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ABC News

Artist takes aim at gay ‘conversion therapy’

A convoy of three trucks is making its way through the streets of Nanjing, China. They are covered in huge red banners with black lettering, protesting gay conversion therapy.

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South China Morning Post

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Public schools seldom integrate rich and poor

Advocates of taxpayer-supported public schools argued that public education would promote integration across social classes, which isn’t happening.

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Fast Company

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Chicago honors MLK with day of service

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CBSLocal

Shared equity model helps house the poor

Proponents of community land trusts say they offer the best chance of providing affordable housing in fast-growing cities, compared with other popular options such as deed restrictions, which expire after a set period.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Boost in oat milk production would cut erosion

Move over, almond and soy milk: An oat milk boom could help the American Midwest to solve dire agricultural issues. And now there’s new research out this month to help support the case for covering the region with oats.

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Mother Jones

Pollution in India could reshape monsoons

Local emissions over the India subcontinent make summer storms more erratic, and may have global consequences.

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The Atlantic

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Devastating fire reveals the stark power of inequality

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The Atlantic

BUSINESS AND TRADE

China’s 2018 growth slows to 28-year low

China’s economy cooled in the fourth quarter under pressure from faltering domestic demand and bruising U.S. tariffs, dragging 2018 growth to the lowest in nearly three decades and pressuring Beijing to roll out more stimulus to avert a sharper slowdown.

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Reuters

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Global debt levels surging, but keep your calm

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Spice Girls shirts made by wage slaves

Staff at a Bangladesh plant tell of fainting and abuse while sewing charity shirts designed by the Spice Girls. A typical worker at the plant makes just 35 pence (US 45 cents) an hour.

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Guardian

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Yemeni girls hang out in the open trunk of a car. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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