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Fighting food waste in Africa through low-tech innovations

Food waste in Africa is a serious issue. Two low-tech innovations for storing fruit and vegetables could help save some of the food that goes to waste in a continent where millions are hungry.

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Guardian

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Africa needs a new approach in its battle against hunger

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Pacific Standard

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Africa hunger initiatives bearing some fruit

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U.S. News & World Report

Still no peace for Bosnia war rape victims

Two decades have passed since the war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but rape victims still lives in fear. In addition to living with no rights, victims of torture face enormous court fees due to lost civil proceedings.

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Al Jazeera

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Slobodan Praljak suicide ‘could not have been prevented’

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BBC

Nigerians tell of being used as slaves in Libya

The EU is working with Libyan coastguards to reduce the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Many of those intercepted end up in detention centers in Libya, where some migrants say they are used as slaves

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BBC

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Nigerian slaves beaten, tied up with barbed wire and forced to drink from toilet in Libya

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Newsweek

Nothing will stop migration

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CBC News

Trans women in Pakistan demand equal rights

Gays and lesbians live secret lives in Pakistan. Homosexuality is illegal. But to be a transgender woman there is a different experience. They’re mobilizing a movement for equal rights and scoring victories.

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NPR

More than a thousand days of war in Yemen

A thousand days of airstrikes, civil war, suicide attacks, cholera outbreaks, and near-famine conditions have taken enormous tolls on Yemenis. The lack of security and supplies affects every individual and institution.

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The Atlantic

China’s Uighur minority face rights’ violations

Tens of thousands of Uighurs are believed to have been spirited without trial into secretive detention camps for alleged political crimes that range from having extremist thoughts to merely traveling or studying abroad.

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The Independent

HUMAN RIGHTS

How laws changed to protect women in 2017

Recent revelations of sexual harassment and allegations of assault by men in all different sectors, from movie producers to senators, have transformed global outrage into action.

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Teen Vogue

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The ‘invisible problem’ of family violence

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Channel NewsAsia

The year the US refugee program unraveled

With Trump’s travel ban, plus a scaled back refugee program, 2017 was an assault on immigration by the Trump administration, says a refugee advocate with Human Rights First, a nongovernmental organization in Washington.

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NPR

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Refugees in Greece reflect on another year of waiting

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Israel votes for push to annex W. Bank

The central committee of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party voted for a resolution urging Likud parliamentarians to push to annex the occupied West Bank.

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News24

Kim Jong Un offers rare olive branch to S. Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held out a rare olive branch to the country’s southern neighbor, offering talks over sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month.

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CNN

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Winter Olympics 2018: ‘A tension reducer’ for North and South Korea

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The biggest technology failures of 2017

Past year, social media threatened the planet, homemade CRISPR injections went viral, and a security robot drowned itself. Meet the technologies that we wish we hadn’t.

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Technology Review

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Changing technology continued to challenge brands

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Media Post

Ten things science did not say in 2017

Science denialism, clickbait headlines, and absurd pseudoscience: Favorite science debunkings from 2017.

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Snopes

GLOBAL HEALTH

Touring for work linked to anxiety, alcohol abuse

Among those who consume alcohol, extensive business travel was associated with symptoms of alcohol dependence.

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Mid-Day

Will 2018 see the end of polio?

Countries such as South Sudan, which has been considered polio-free since 2009, are still considered at risk for an outbreak due to factors such as “insecurity and population movement,” among others.

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GOOD NEWS

The last known dancing bears of Nepal rescued

Jane Goodall Institute of Nepal, with help from World Animal Protection and local police, confiscated the two sloth bears, named Rangila and Sridevi, from their handlers in the town of Iharbari.

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Huffington Post

2017 was safest year ever for air travel

Zero deaths were reported for passenger jet travel in 2017, making it the safest year on record for commercial aviation, according to the Dutch aviation group To70 and the Aviation Safety Network.

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The Hill

2017 IN REVIEW

The 99 best things that happened in 2017

In 2017, it felt like the global media picked up all of the problems, and none of the solutions. To fix that, here are 99 of the best stories from this year that you probably missed.

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Quartz

Coal mining deaths skyrocketed in 2017

Workplace deaths in the coal mining industry increased last year to their highest point in three years. Fifteen miners died on the job in 2017, Mine Safety and Health Administration data show, compared with eight in 2016.

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The Hill

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

How these Philanthropists are reshaping giving

With Silicon Valley giants tackling huge problems and many other donors giving to big universities, there is an emerging question about who will fund basic cause groups, many of whom do community-level work.

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Fast Company

Wedding money makes a difference in Africa

Couple Meylia and Neal only had a brief ceremony in Africa, instead, they spent their time visiting orphanages and local schools, where they and their guests volunteered and made donations.

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ENVIRONMENT

Germany’s Green Belt: Death zone to lifeline

In the nearly three decades since German reunification, the area has remained relatively undisturbed and become an ecological treasure trove of biodiversity. The uninhabited land has been transformed from “a death zone into a lifeline."

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NBCNews.com

The Caribbean is stressed out

The largest, longest program to monitor the health of the Caribbean coastal ecosystems, CARICOMP revealed that water quality decreased at 42 percent of the monitoring stations across the basin.

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ScienceDaily

BUSINESS AND TRADE

2017 was the year Brexit began to bite

The price of consumer goods spiked in 2017, business confidence slumped, growth slowed dramatically and the property market stalled. One more blow: Britain dropped out of the world’s top five economies.

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CNNMoney

Three timeless investment lessons of 2017

Humility is always a virtue in investing, but especially so today. That’s because there have been an unusually large number of spectacularly wrong forecasts over the past year, and there’s no reason to expect 2018 to be any different.

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MarketWatch

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Happy children in a slum in Manila, Philippines. According to a recent survey of Gallup International Association, Philippines was the third-happiest country in the world in 2017. According to the survey, 86 percent of Filipinos reported they were happy. (Photo by John Christian Fjellestad) Photo used under CC BY

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