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Plastic bottles on the beach. The governments of 187 countries agreed to add plastic to the United Nations-supported Basel Convention, which regulates the transfer of certain materials between borders. The U.S. did not participate in the talks regarding plastic because it is one of just two countries that has not ratified the treaty. (Photo by Bo Eide) Photo used under CC BY

World signs plastic waste accord without the US

Nearly every country in the world agreed to a new provision in a treaty that would aim to limiting plastic waste pollution, but the U.S. was not among them, as it has not ratified a treaty to which the provision was added.

The Hill

Shipping plastic waste to poor countries just got harder

National Geographic

In Brazil, women are being illegally detained

Brazilian mothers and pregnant women accused of non-violent crimes are being illegally detained and held in pretrial detention in spite of a new law that explicitly bans this.

The Independent

Immigrants in detention choosing voluntary departure

PBS

Climate change driving many to flee Guatemala

Over the last two years, farmers have seen near-complete losses during harvests as the effects of climate change take hold in the region, with 2018 being among the worst years in recent memory.

Al Jazeera

ISIS remnants wage hidden war of killings

A year and a half after the Islamic State group was declared defeated in Iraq, the militants still evoke fear in the lands of their former so-called caliphate across northern Iraq.

AP News

Indigenous ‘guardians of nature’, under siege

Logging, agribusiness and cattle ranching in the tropics, climate change warming the poles twice as fast as the global average, an unrelenting economic juggernaut fueled by coal, oil and gas is ravaging the natural world, a UN report has found.

Phys.org

Indigenous Australians challenge government over climate at UN

Deutsche Welle

Defiant Cuban LGBT activists hold parade

Cuban gay rights activists held an unauthorized independent pride parade in Havana despite the communist government warning against it and calling it subversive, an unprecedented show of civil society in the one-party state.

Japan Times

HUMAN RIGHTS

Lebanon’s migrant workers protest labor law

A quarter-million migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are women from Ethiopia, Philippines, and Bangladesh. They are now demanding an end to the country’s kafala (sponsorship) system, which binds them to their employers.

Asia Times Online

Sri Lanka blocks social media to curb ‘hate’

Sri Lanka has banned social media sites like Facebook, Whatsapp and Viber again following a reported flare-up in religious tensions, three weeks after a series of suicide bombings rocked the country.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Houthis quit ports, Yemen awaits peace steps

Yemen’s government wants the UN to give time-frames for next steps of a peace deal after Houthi forces began withdrawing from key ports in the most significant effort to end the four-year war and relieve hunger.

Reuters

Yemen crisis: Why is there a war?

BBC

Yemenis’ in-between moments amid civil war

Associated Press

Inequality threatens Lithuanian cabinet in polls

Frustration over widening inequality may topple Lithuania’s government as the euro-area nation votes in the first round of presidential polls.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

CO2 hits landmark levels in human history

According to data from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is over 415 parts per million, far higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years, since before evolution of homo sapiens.

CNN

Brain implants could soon treat drug addicts

Deep brain stimulation has long been used for disorders like Parkinson’s. Now, the first clinical trial of DBS for methamphetamine addiction is being conducted at Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital, along with parallel trials for opioid addiction.

New York Post

Study suggests moon is tectonically active

In a study, researchers may have finally pinpointed the epicenters of mysterious moonquakes recorded by Apollo-era seismometers, and the tremors seem to originate from cliff-like features.

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

Liberia launches Hepatitis B vaccinations

The government of Liberia through the National Public Health Institute has launched a Hepatitis B vaccine project to protect health workers including medical and paramedical students against contracting the virus.

Front Page Africa

Broccoli could help fight schizophrenia

Broccoli, for years hailed as a cancer-fighter and a great source of vitamin C, calcium and B vitamins, is now being seen as a safer way to manage schizophrenia according Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers.

FOX News

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GOOD NEWS

Pope’s aide promises to foot bill for homeless

Pope Francis’ aide said he would start paying the electricity bills of a squatted state-owned building in Rome after coming under fire from Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini.

Guardian

Elephant remembers old trainer in reunion

After 35 years, Kristy the Asian elephant still has fond memories of her former zookeeper, Peter Adamson. He was Kristy’s trainer in the early ’70s and ’80s, when she lived at a zoo in Scotland that is now closed.

MSN

Baby elephant is rescued from a lake in India

YouTube

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Italy to fine NGO boats per rescued migrant

Italy’s government is planning to issue a decree that would mean NGO rescue boats would be fined up to $6177 for each migrant they disembark on to Italian soil.

Guardian

Herb Kohl donates $10M to teaching, research

Former U.S. senator Herb Kohl made a $10 million donation to the La Follette School of Public Affairs. The largest donation in the school’s history, this will go toward research efforts, public outreach and teaching.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Food waste bigger cause of climate change

Food waste is a bigger cause of climate change than plastics, according to Zero Waste Scotland. The government-funded body has urged people to cut down the amount of unwanted food they put in the bin.

BBC

‘Cursed’ river Chambal runs clean in India

While the Ganges river in India is considered sacred but is catastrophically polluted, the Chambal river’s “cursed” but pristine waters have proved a blessing for the locals.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Cuba begins rationing staples in face of crisis

Cuba announced that it is launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis.

CBS News

Pakistan agrees to another payout from IMF

Pakistan has secured a $6 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund as it battles to stave off an economic crisis. This comes after months of negotiations and marks the latest in a string of bailouts from IMF.

BBC

Pakistan stocks drop as IMF’s $6B bailout draws questions

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

Over 1.4 million people have fled their homes in Yemen and are now struggling to find food and water. Oxfam teams in Yemen are helping by providing tanks of clean drinking water to internally displaced people and through direct cash payments which allow families to buy food and basic supplies. (Photo by Photo by Hind Aleryani / Oxfam) Photo used under CC BY

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