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Two days after last November’s election, President Obama met with President-elect Donald Trump. Obama has criticized his successor’s decision to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement but voiced confidence that U.S. states and businesses will work harder to protect the planet. (Photo by Pete Souza/White House) Photo used under CC BY

Rest of world recommits to Paris climate deal

China, the EU and India, which along with the U.S. make up the four biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, have restated their commitment to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

BBC

EU to bypass Trump after Paris pullout

The Guardian

‘Make our planet great again’: Macron’s response to Trump is praised

The Guardian

US states and businesses will still meet Paris targets

The Guardian

Taliban warns against retaliation over attack

The Taliban warned the Afghan government against harming their prisoners after reports that President Ashraf Ghani would order the execution of militants on death row in revenge for the devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul.

Reuters

U.N. broadens sanctions on N. Korea

The U.N. Security Council expanded its sanctions against North Korea on Friday, penalizing the country for its repeated missile tests this year. The resolution, which was unanimously approved by the 15-country council, adds 14 people and four entities to a blacklist that brings with it a travel ban and asset freeze.

NPR

Venezuela judge slain; democracy in doubt

Gunmen killed a judge involved in the sentencing of Venezuela’s best-known jailed political leader Leopoldo Lopez in the latest fatality of anti-government unrest that has killed at least 61 people. The chief state prosecutor says President Nicolas Maduro is threatening to “eliminate” democracy.

Reuters

On the frontline of Venezuela’s punishing protests

Guardian

Fired FBI chief to testify as probes heat up

Fired FBI Director James Comey will testify next week before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his dismissal by Donald Trump as the investigations into whether the president or his associates had improper contact with Russia are shifting toward a dramatic, public phase.

Bloomberg

White House defers probe questions to Trump’s lawyer

CNN

Putin: Yes, patriotic Russians may hack

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Indonesia cracking down on LGBT community

In less than 18 months, being gay in Indonesia has gone from widely tolerated to just plain dangerous. An unprecedented wave of police raids, vigilante attacks, and calls for the criminalization of homosexual sex have left many in the country’s LGBT community fearing for their safety.

CNN

Rights groups urge probe into DRC bloodshed

International and local rights groups called on the UN to open an urgent inquiry into the months-long violence that has swept central Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving over a million people homeless.

News24

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Ireland set to have first gay PM

Leo Varadkar has been announced as the leader of the biggest party in the Republic of Ireland‘s ruling coalition, Fine Gael. Varadkar beat his rival, Housing Minister Simon Coveney, with 60 percent of the votes. He will become Ireland’s first gay taoiseach (prime minister).

BBC

Brazil swears in new justice head amid scandal

The new justice minister in Brazil, Torquato Jardim, said during a press conference that he would not hinder the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigations and that the operation is a “state program.” Jardim was sworn in as the new minister by Brazil’s President Michel Temer, replacing Osmar Serraglio.

Rio Times

Brazil judge orders president to respond to police questions

Yahoo! News

Racial segregation of U.S. cities not accidental

A narrative of racially discriminatory landlords and bankers has long served as an explanation for the isolation of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods in large cities. But rationalizing residential segregation in the U.S. ignores the long history of federal, state and local policies that generated the residential segregation found across the country today.

Smithsonian Magazine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Artificial intelligence predicts patient lifespans

A computer‘s ability to predict a patient’s lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research.

ScienceDaily

Gene therapy could ‘turn off’ severe allergies

A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by recent immunology research.

ScienceDaily

Controversial trial to bring the dead back to life

The idea of the trial, run by Philadelphia-based Bioquark, is to inject stem cells into the spinal cords of people who have been declared clinically brain-dead. The subjects will also receive an injected protein blend, electrical nerve stimulation, and laser therapy directed at the brain.

Scientific American

GLOBAL HEALTH

The Paris Climate Deal’s health consequences

President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris climate agreement, according to multiple media reports. If he does, the move could have significant implications for global health, according to experts.

Yahoo! News

Botched vaccine kills 15 children in S. Sudan

In a tragic turn in South Sudan, an effort to protect 15 children ended up killing them. The children, all under age 5, died of severe sepsis and toxicity due to a botched vaccination campaign, according to a joint statement issued by UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

NPR

Minnesota measles outbreak rages

Ars Technica

5,000 new cholera cases in Yemen each day

A cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in war-ravaged Yemen, with an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 new cases every day, the U.N. children’s agency said.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Trump can’t stop Comey with executive privilege

CNN

Column (Walter Shapiro):

Jared Kushner’s charmed life is about to come to a screeching halt

The Guardian

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Active democracy fills leadership vacuum in wake of Paris withdrawal

Nonprofit Quarterly

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GOOD NEWS

‘Super Soaker’ inventor helps young engineers

Lonnie Johnson’s toy water gun has made more than $1 billion in sales. His nonprofit, Johnson STEM Activity Center, is giving back by funding high school robotics teams.

NBCNews.com

Students learn through lyrics with Flocabulary

Every teacher tussles with what‘s the best way to reach a kid – to have them digest and remember what they’re learning. Even parents struggle with that. One company had a wild idea -- teach kids through rapping.

CBS News

Free Focabulary sample on French Revolution

Flocabulary.com

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Bloomberg commits $15M to climate change

In response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $15 million commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretariat.

Philanthropy News Digest

NAACP plans listening tour, new leader

Leaders at the NAACP are preparing to embark on a listening tour to inform the future, more locally focused direction of the organization. Cornell William Brooks, president of the organization for the past three years, will not be joining them.

NonProfit Times

Egyptian law restricts foreign-funded NGOs

Egypt joined a chorus of countries tightening restrictions on nonprofits operating in their countries with foreign funding support when President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a law this week that would punish offenders with up to five years of imprisonment.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

G20 agrees on plan to reduce plastic in oceans

G20 states have developed an action plan to battle plastic and waste entering the world’s oceans. By some estimates, if nothing is done there will be more plastic by weight than fish in the oceans by 2050.

Deutsche Welle

Fishermen try new nets for healthier oceans

It took years for the U.N. Development Program to convince the fishing communities along India’s tropical western coast that the diamond-mesh nets they were using were trapping baby fish, while a square-shaped mesh could allow small fish to escape to maintain a breeding population. But two years after the new nets were fully adopted, fishermen insist they’re making a difference.

Associated Press

UNESCO’s ‘serious concern’ over Great Barrier

A United Nations agency said it had “serious concern” about coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier and urged the government to work faster to improve water quality in the region.

Associated Press

BUSINESS

US: Unemployment down, trade deficit up

The jobless rate in the US has dropped to a 16-year low despite a slowdown in job creation. The government also reported a significant rise in the country’s trade deficit, which the president had vowed to reduce.

Deutsche Welle

Farmers decry Trump plans to cut subsidies

The proposed cuts come even as farmers are facing their fourth straight year of falling income, and could particularly affect farm states such as Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska that helped Trump win the November election.

Associated Press

Falih says more oil output cuts possible

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said further oil output cuts could be needed in the future but that OPEC and other leading producers would assess the market situation in July, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Saturday.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress, a symbol of protest against homophobia, was displayed the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May. The dress, with a diameter of 16 meters, is made of flags of countries where homosexual acts are still punishable. It was exhibited at the ministry in honor of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. (Photo by Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Photo used under CC BY

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