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A homeless man seeks assistance on a London roadside in October 2011. More than a decade after the global financial crisis that sparked a vicious worldwide recession, many cities, towns and villages across Britain have yet to recover from harsh austerity. (Photo by SLR Jester) Photo used under CC BY

Austerity – the backdrop to UK’s ‘Brexit election’

For many Britons, rampant poverty, not Brexit, is the main issue in this week’s general election. Anti-hunger nonprofit the Trussell Trust, which runs more than 1,200 food banks in the UK, handed out a record amount of emergency food packages this year.

The Globe Post

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General election 2019: Why this UK vote is a huge deal

BBC

Deadly violence is killing revolution in Darfur

Across the camps and war-wracked areas of North Darfur, displaced civilians say they have little hope in – or even knowledge of – the uprising which shook Sudan this year, and reverberated around the world.

The Independent

Network urges militia to stop attacking farmers

Dabanga Sudan

India passes law blocking Muslims; protests flare

India’s Parliament has approved a controversial citizenship bill that grants citizenship to minorities facing persecution from three neighboring countries — but excludes Muslims.

Reuters

Are the foundations of India’s secular democracy crumbling?

Al Jazeera

Congress interim president denounces ’victory of bigoted forces over India’s pluralism’

Times of India

Global experts quit HK cop brutality watchdog

International experts have ended their involvement with Hong Kong’s toothless police watchdog because they say it lacks independent powers to investigate complaints of police brutality.

Sydney Morning Herald

Syrian women using fake weddings to flee Idlib

In the extremist-held Syrian province of Idlib, displaced families are not considered religious enough. Young women are seeking sham marriages in Turkey as a means of escape.

Asia Times Online

Black New Orleanians black live on toxic dump

In the 1980s, black New Orleanians were encouraged to buy houses built by the city on top of a toxic landfill. Three decades later it is one of Louisiana’s worst cancer hot spots, and residents are still to be relocated.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cambodia teaches LGBTQ issues in schools

Children in Cambodia will receive lessons on LGBTQ issues from 2020 in a bid to wipe out bullying and discrimination in the socially conservative country, an official said.

Openly

Saudi Arabia ends gender-segregated entrances

Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, authorities have said, in a move upending a major hallmark of conservative restrictions that had been in place for decades.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Mexico’s president condemns hate crimes

Mexico’s president condemned hate crimes against LGBTQ after a row over a painting of revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata naked but for a pink sombrero, high heels and a ribbon led to an apparent attack on LGBTQ activists.

Openly

UK continues to fund Myanmar camps

The UK has broken ranks with the UN and will keep funding “closed” Rohingya camps inside Myanmar despite fears that doing so may entrench “apartheid-like” conditions in the country, the Guardian has learned.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old stones

Archaeologists discovered stone-carved objects scattered around an ancient hearth off the coast of Scotland. The stones date back 4k years and resemble human figures, with large bodies, distinct necks and heads.

LiveScience

Dating apps taking on the STD epidemic

Dating apps continue to ghost health officials and advocacy groups who seek their help to fight the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases the platforms have helped bring about. Some sites are starting to swipe right.

Politico

Scientists’ brains shrank after stay in Antarctica

Socially isolated and faced with a persistently white polar landscape, a long-term crew of an Antarctic research station saw a portion of their brains shrink during their stay.

Science News

Best science photos of the year, as decreed by the Royal Society

CNN

Climate change traces seen in extreme weather

Examinations of over 16 extreme weather events that occurred in 2018 found that all but one were made more likely due to human-caused climate change.

Science News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Up to $15B a year needed to control TB

The world needs to apply the same urgency to tuberculosis as it did to Ebola if it is to wipe out the deadly lung disease, a leading TB expert has said.

The Telegraph

Ebola survivors face mental health issues

The Ebola outbreak has cost more than 2,200 lives. Treatment advances have contributed to a higher than ever proportion of survivors but concern that the stigma of the disease has not been addressed as part of the response grows.

The New Humanitarian

Certain cancers linked to frozen embryos

When frozen embryos are used during in vitro fertilization (IVF), the resulting children have a slightly higher risk than other kids for certain types of cancer.

Reuters

Outdated, dangerous childbirth practices persist in Europe

Associated Press

Patients who plan their death live longer

The study of terminally ill patients found that those who discussed their preferences for end-of-life care with doctors actually lived for longer than other patients.

The Telegraph

Malaysia treats 1st polio case in 27 years

Malaysia began a vaccination campaign in a rural town on Borneo island after a 3-month-old boy was confirmed to have polio in the country’s first case of the highly infectious virus in 27 years.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

World’s 100 most powerful women

In 2019, women around the globe took action, claiming leadership positions in government, business, philanthropy and media. These trailblazers are not to be messed with.

Forbes

Greta Thunberg named Time’s person of year

Time

1st female captain honored for pioneering role

More than 33 years ago, Beverley Bass soared into history as the first woman captain of a commercial plane for American Airlines, which was the biggest airline in the world.

CBS News

Deli owner collects and replies to hundreds of “letters to Santa”

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

SC Boeing employees help build kids bikes

South Carolina Boeing employees stepped away from their regular work routine and formed an assembly line to build hundreds of bikes for kids. They will be donated to different organizations and charities to be distributed.

ABC News 4

Bullied fan’s T-shirt design raises $950K

Sales of a University of Tennessee T-shirt designed by a bullied fourth-grade boy in Florida have raised over $950k for an anti-bullying organization.

WMUR 9

ENVIRONMENT

Pollution puts women at higher risk

Women, especially in lower income countries like India, bear the brunt of air pollution due to the dual exposure to indoor as well as outdoor pollutants.

Times of India

Toxic fumes from recycled laptops in Thailand

Last year, Thailand banned the import of foreign e-waste. Yet new factories are opening across the country, and tons of e-waste are being processed, environmental monitors and industry experts said.

The Independent

Protesters urge action on climate change

An estimated 20k protesters marched in Sydney, Australia from to demand stronger climate action as bushfires continue to rage across the state.

Sydney Morning Herald

ECONOMIC DEVLOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Coffee crisis brewing in Brazil

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation uncovered extensive slave labor running largely unchecked in Brazil’s billion-dollar coffee industry despite years of efforts to clean up the sector which could put sales at risk.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Former refugee kid now makes video games

Video game developer, Lual Mayen, remembers the first time he saw a computer. He was just a kid and his family was registering for benefits at a refugee camp in Uganda, where they’d settled after fleeing civil war in South Sudan.

NPR

Half-billion in Asia-Pacific still going hungry

Nearly a half-billion people in the Asia-Pacific are still malnourished and eliminating hunger by 2030 requires that millions escape food insecurity each month.

Associated Press

Indian women exploring freedom on wheels

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Mothers with babies and children up to age 5 line up for the oral polio vaccine in Bangui, Central African Republic, in May 2008. Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and Angola have experienced nine new cases of polio caused by the live virus in oral polio vaccines that has mutated into an infectious form, according to statistics released in November by the World Health Organization. That brings the global total of such infections to 157 for the year, and it means that more children are paralyzed as a result of such vaccine-derived infections than illnesses caused by the wild virus, which has affected 107 people this year. (Photo by hdptcar) Photo used under CC BY

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