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A Rohingya woman in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. The world’s population of forcibly displaced people surged by 2 million in 2018 to reach a new record, UN figures show. (Photo by UN Women/Allison Joyce) Photo used under CC BY

Forced displacement tops 70M globally in ’18

The UN high commissioner for refugees’ yearly Global Trends report found that 71 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2018 - the highest number in the organization’s almost 70-year history.

Al Jazeera

Migrant families fleeing violence caught up in politics

CNN

Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said.

Yahoo! News

Deforestation making neighboring forests hotter

Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found.

Pacific Standard

Systemic failures in UN’s Rohingya response

The United Nations experienced “systemic failures” in its handling of the situation in Myanmar leading up to the 2017 mass exodus of Rohingya, a UN report said.

Frontier Myanmar

Houthis accused of diverting aid from hungry

The head of the United Nations food agency has accused Yemen’s Houthi rebels of diverting food from the country’s hungriest people and threatened to suspend food aid.

Guardian

Database says 91,600 killed in Yemen fighting since 2015

AP News

Richer countries show lower trust in vaccines

According to a survey on public attitudes, the French have the lowest levels of trust in vaccines, with 33 percent saying immunization is unsafe. The skepticism for vaccines is generally high in other developed countries.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pompeo keeps Saudis off US child soldiers list

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a U.S. list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing experts’ findings that a Saudi-UAE coalition has been using underage fighters in Yemen’s war.

Al Jazeera

UN: Evidence links Saudi prince to Khashoggi killing

Al Jazeera

Nigeria: ‘Children used’ as suicide bombers in Borno attack

BBC

Refugee girls in Beirut face rampant sex abuse

A report by Plan International reveals that female refugees in Beirut aged 10 to 19 face rampant sexual violence and rising child marriage, which parents are supporting in a bid to protect their daughters.

Devex

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Syrian refugees in Lebanon tear down shelters

The Lebanese army threatened to destroy more than 5,000 Syrian-built refugee shelters that were in violation of government regulations, so refugees, facing growing hostility, cut down the walls to meet the regulations.

The Independent

Shortages, hyperinflation ravaging Venezuela

Venezuela’s ongoing economic crisis has led to widespread shortages of basic goods and massive hyperinflation. While some critics blame government corruption, the government blames U.S. sanctions.

NBCNews.com

Venezuela’s dead are not spared as theft increases in cemeteries

NBCNews.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facial recognition helps fight sex trafficking

To fight sex trafficking, U.S. law enforcement is starting to use Spotlight, a tool created by the nonprofit Thorn, which employs text and image-processing algorithms to match faces in online sex ads with other evidence.

Wired

First lung map gives new insights into asthma

In a first, researchers have mapped building blocks of the human lungs and airways, in both asthma patients and normal people. They also discovered an entirely new cell state that produces mucus in asthma patients.

Medical Xpress

New vaccine turns on immune system to kill cancer cells

YouTube

GLOBAL HEALTH

Australian state legalizes voluntary euthanasia

The Australian state of Victoria has enacted euthanasia laws to allow terminally-ill patients to end their lives with lethal medication. The first death could take place within weeks.

Deutsche Welle

Ugandan medics tackling Ebola lack supplies

Medical workers leading Uganda’s effort against Ebola lament what they call limited support, and are wondering where the millions of dollars spent on preparing for Ebola have gone if a hospital on the front line lacks basic supplies.

Associated Press

Kenya, Tanzania on high alert as illegal border crossings bring Ebola to Uganda

Breitbart

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Abdullah Al-Arian):

Mohamed Morsi: An Egyptian tragedy

Al Jazeera

Column (Jonathan Marcus):

Khashoggi, MH17, the West and the problem of impunity

BBC

Column (Moustafa Bayoumi):

Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Ten-year-old conquers Yosemite’s El Capitan

A 10-year-old Colorado girl, Selah Schneiter has made rock climbing history by becoming the youngest person to ever scale the nearly 3,000-foot Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan.

Yahoo! News

Ethiopia: Woman has baby then takes exams

Almaz Derese, 21, who is from western Ethiopia, went into labor shortly before the first of her secondary school exams was to start. She gave birth, then completed her exam 30 minutes after in her hospital bed.

BBC

Mozambique park wipes out elephant poaching

One of Africa’s largest protected wilderness areas, Mozambique’s Niassa Reserve has marked an entire year without finding a single elephant killed by poachers.

ABC News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Oxford accepts $188M gift to research AI ethics

Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire founder of investment firm Blackstone, has given the University of Oxford its largest single donation in hundreds of years to help fund research into the ethics of artificial intelligence.

CNN

Chelsea owner gives 5M to fight anti-semitism

CNN

Italy’s adopts decree to fine NGO rescue boats

Italy has introduced a new security decree that would mean NGO rescue boats that bring migrants to Italy without permission could face fines of up to $55,000. The U.N. says this penalizes rescues at sea.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Melting Arctic releasing disease, nuclear waste

As rising temperatures cause the Arctic ice to melt, it is freeing frozen toxins, nuclear waste, and enough sequestered carbon to double the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, according to BBC news.

Futurism

Polar bear found hundreds of miles from home in Russian industrial city

YouTube

Vermont adopts strictest plastics ban in the US

In the U.S., Vermont has joined the growing list of states swearing off single-use plastics by adopting the nation’s broadest restrictions yet on shopping bags, straws, drink stirrers, and foam food packaging.

National Geographic

There’s so much plastic in the environment that bees are making nests out of it

Mother Jones

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Nearly 1 in 5 children in the US live in poverty

Although their collective wellbeing has improved, almost one in five children in the United States—some 13.3 million children—are living in poverty, according to a recently released report.

Al Jazeera

Millions to lose benefits under Trump’s proposal to change how poverty is defined, new study shows

ThinkProgress

Federal wage sets new record for not rising

The federal minimum wage will set a new record: Since Franklin Roosevelt introduced a baseline pay after the Great Depression, it will have been nine years, 10 months and 23 days since Congress last increased it.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

A child holds up bullets in a rebel camp in north-eastern Central African Republic in June, 2007. According to a recent report by Save the Children, one in every six children are now living in a global conflict zone. (Photo by Pierre Holtz/UNICEF CAR) Photo used under CC BY

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