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A mother with her children, who are being treated for malnutriton at Juba Pediatric Hospital. The UK aid-supported hospital in Juba, South Suday, treats malnourished children affected by the threat of famine. (Photo by Robert Oxley/UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

Desperate S. Sudanese trapped by war, famine

The 3½ years of civil war in South Sudan have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, especially in oil-rich Unity state. Emergency food drops are fending off impending famine.

CBC News

Special section:

Resources to host an event for fighting famine

Oxfam America

UNESCO raps Israel in Jerusalem resolution

UNESCO‘s executive board has passed a resolution that criticises Israel’s actions in occupied Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, despite an extended offensive effort by Tel Aviv targetting the UN’s cultural agency.

Al Jazeera

Disgruntled Trump lauds prospect of shutdown

Chalk up one more first for the Donald Trump administration: a president saying the country needs a government shutdown. In a pair of tweets, Trump raged against a recent deal to fund the government through September and said the government needed a good shutdown when this deal runs out.

The Atlantic

Congress‘ budget deal doesn’t fund Trump’s wall or stiff sanctuary cities

Politico

ISIS kills many in attack on Syrian camp

More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria’s north-eastern border with Iraq. They targeted a makeshift camp for displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees.

BBC

FBI translator went rogue, married an ISIS terrorist

CNN

Region is ‘close to nuclear war,’ N. Korea warns

North Korea‘s state-controlled media has warned that America’s “military provocations” risked triggering nuclear conflict — with one newspaper claiming Kim Jong Un’s regime was “waiting for the moment it will reduce the whole of the U.S. mainland to ruins.”

NBCNews.com

China envoy warns of nuclear apocalypse

Sydney Morning Herald

HUMAN RIGHTS

Denmark gags US, Muslim ‘hate preachers’

Denmark has imposed a two-year ban on six foreign religious “hate preachers.” The list includes five Islamic preachers and U.S. pastor Terry Jones and is aimed at preventing hate speech and protecting public order. Defiance of the ban could lead to a three-year jail term.

Deutsche Welle

Uber suspends preacher Jones for Muslim slurs, toting gun

Latest.com

Merkel presses Putin on Chechin persecution

German Chancellor Merkel has publicly raised concerns over the reported persecution of gay men in Chechnya with Vladimir Putin, following wide-ranging talks. Merkel raised the alleged capture and torture of more than 100 people at a joint press conference with Putin.

The Independent

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Le Pen accused of plagiarizing beaten rival

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been accused of plagiarising defeated rival François Fillon in a speech. Several sections of her speech in Villepinte appear to repeat almost word-for-word comments Fillon made in an address on April 15.

BBC

Farmers attack tribe in Brazil land dispute

Brazilian farmers in Maranhão state have attacked an indigenous settlement, severing the hands and feet of some of their victims in what appears to be a brutal escalation of a territorial conflict.

Guardian

President says reforms will continue despite protests

Rio Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AI excels in predicting SCOTUS decisions

Is taking cases all the way to the highest court in the land a good idea? Artificial intelligence may soon have the answer. A new study shows that computers can do a better job than legal scholars at predicting Supreme Court decisions, even with less information.

Science

Apple can’t ignore slick new MS laptop

Microsoft has already cracked the professional and creative markets with inventive tablets and a desktop that turns into a virtual drafting table. Now it’s chasing another category many believe is Apple’s to lose: the $1,000 laptop for everyone.

Bloomberg

Gender bias detected in open source community

Gender bias affects contributions to the open source community, according to a paper published in the open access journal PeerJ Computer Science.

TechNewsWorld

GLOBAL HEALTH

The vital importance of wasting time

There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But the truth is, “wasted” time is highly fulfilling and necessary.

Quartz

Aspirin use can lower risk of breast cancer

The use of low-dose aspirin reduces the risk of breast cancer in women, a new study concludes. Researchers saw an overall 16 percent lower risk of breast cancer in women who reported using low-dose aspirin at least three times per week.

ScienceDaily

Alternate-day fasting doesn’t boost weigh loss

A new study examines the effectiveness of fasting diets, in which one eats very little one day and then splurges the next. A study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine suggests fasting diets are hard to stick with and aren’t more effective than regular dieting.

The Verge

Yo-yo dieting poses risks for heart patients

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Kimmel shares son’s life-saving heart surgery

Entertainer Jimmy Kimmel opened up about his newborn son‘s health complications in an emotional monologue on his late-night TV show. The comedian’s son was born with a heart disease that required surgery three days after he was born.

ABC News

Surfer found alive after 32 hours at sea

A surfer survived 32 hours in the water after being swept out to sea. Matthew Bryce was conscious but suffering from hypothermia when found by rescuers 13 miles offshore. He was recovering Tuesday at a hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Tom Brady doesn’t give to his charity

In the decade since he launched the Change the World Foundation, football star Tom Brady has contributed nothing to his own foundation. Like the Donald J. Trump Foundation, it is controlled by, and identified as the charity of, one person while being funded by others.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Fewer charities saw fundraising boost in 2016

Three out of five U.S. nonprofit organizations saw an increase in fundraising revenue in 2016, while two-thirds expect to see additional growth in 2017. While seven in 10 U.S. respondents met their fundraising goals in 2016, only six out of 10reported year-over-year increases in revenue.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Sea-level rise will drive millions inland

A new study projects that as many as 13 million Americans could become climate refugees by the end of this century, an influx of people that could stress inland cities.

Clean Technica

Climate change and the migrant crisis

National Geographic

Artificial photosynthesis cleans air

A chemistry professor has just found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all at the same time.

ScienceDaily

BUSINESS

FB juggles profit, freedom in Southeast Asia

These are profitable yet testing times for Facebook in Southeast Asia, the U.S.-based social media giant’s fastest growing business advertising market worldwide.

Asia Times Online

US lawmakers eye airline legislation

U.S. lawmakers threatened United Airlines and other U.S. carriers with legislation aimed at improving customer service after a passenger was hauled down the aisle of an overbooked flight last month.

Reuters

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Dancers perform at last month’s Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival, the largest Indian classical music festival outside of India. The 12-day festival draws more than 8,000 attendees. (Photo by KL) Photo used under CC BY

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