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Child at a food distribution center in Kenya. Child poverty is the world’s biggest challenge. Children remain both a cause of poverty and its consequence. Families with modest incomes risk falling into poverty as their families grow. (Photo by Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)) Photo used under CC BY

Children make up more than half of world’s poor

More than half of the world’s poorest people are children, even though they (children) represent only 30 percent of the world’s total population and the results only consider children living in established households.

Brookings

US plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

A recent Guardian investigation reveals that cities around the U.S. are no longer recycling many types of plastic dropped into recycling bins. Instead, they are being landfilled, burned or stockpiled.

Guardian

Recycling robots are the ‘future of the industry’

Wink News

US migrant kids being denied hygiene products

The Trump administration went to court to argue that migrant children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border do not require basic hygiene products in order to be in held in “safe and sanitary” conditions.

Newsweek

1st-generation Mexican American attempts to save migrant lives in the Arizona desert

NPR

Italian mafia enriching at migrants’ cost

Humanitarian permits for migrants in Italy are set to expire soon leaving them vulnerable to exploitation at the hands of agromafia.

PRI

China rescues over 1K trafficked women

Hundreds of women who were being sold as brides have been rescued in one of the largest anti-trafficking operation to date in China.

Deutsche Welle

Saudi Arabia, Cuba added to traffickers list

The U.S. has added Saudi Arabia and Cuba to its list of worst offenders on human trafficking, a designation that could make them “subject to certain restrictions on assistance.”

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigeria, Niger improving anti-trafficking efforts

Niger and Nigeria have improved their efforts to fight human trafficking, but still do not meet the minimum standards required, the U.S. government said in its closely watched annual assessment of how countries are performing.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Yemen war’s death toll approaching 100K mark

As the court of appeal prepares to rule on the legitimacy of the UK government’s continued supply of weapons to the Yemen war, new figures show the conflict’s total death toll is fast approaching the 100,000 mark.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump calls off approved military strike on Iran

United States President Trump approved military strikes on Iran, but then abruptly pulled back. This, after Iran shot down a U.S. Navy drone with a missile.

YouTube

Timeline: How tension escalated between US, Iran

USA TODAY

Georgians protest, call for snap elections

A Russian legislator addressing a fiercely pro-Western Georgia’s parliament prompted outrage in the ex-Soviet nation with protesters demanding snap elections and the resignation of the country’s interior minister.

Al Jazeera

Georgia’s first LGBTQ pride march called off amid political turmoil

Thomson Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Phone use changing our bodies, research says

A bizarre finding by researchers that sounds like something out of a science fiction plot — people growing horn-like structures on their skulls due to smartphone use — may in fact have a simple explanation: bone spurs.

Today.com

Astronomers find planets that could support life

Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star. They’re almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, are billions of years old, and could support things like water flow and habitable temperatures.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

African countries ‘pay 30 times more’ for drugs

African countries with small to medium-sized economies like Zambia, Senegal and Tunisia pay 30 times more for everyday drugs like paracetamol than in the UK and U.S., a leading health expert has said.

BBC

WHO launches tool for safer antibiotic use

DownToEarth

Long working hours ‘linked to stroke risk’

Working long hours or more than 10 hours on at least 50 days a year, is linked to an increased risk of stroke, researchers say. People who did long hours for more than a decade were at the greatest risk of stroke.

BBC

Researchers discover why arteries harden

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Captive showbiz whales set to retire in Iceland

Two beluga whales captured at around two years old and that performed for years as an attraction in a Shanghai aquarium are retiring at a whale sanctuary in Klettsvik Bay, on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

BBC

Russia to release whales trapped in ‘jail’ after international outcry

The Independent

Canada passes law banning holding dolphins and whales in captivity

The Independent

Recycled bikes get Myanmar kids to school

Myanmar children received recycled bikes from Mike Than Tun Win’s “Lesswalk.” The Mandalay entrepreneur donated them to give children easier access to education in a nation where more than half live in poverty.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Couple donated millions to anti-vax movement

Wealthy New York City residents, hedge-fund manager Bernard Selz and his wife Lisa have donated millions to leading anti-vaccination organizations, according to a report by The Washington Post.

Business Insider

S. Korea donates 50K tons of rice to N. Korea

South Korea has said it will make its largest food donation to the North since 2008, as an estimated 40 percent of North Koreans are undernourished. Much of the aid is aimed at helping vulnerable children and mothers.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Endangered vultures poisoned in Botswana

More than 500 critically endangered vultures have died of poisoning in Botswana, according to local officials. Conservationists have called the incident one of the largest documented killings of the threatened species.

BBC

Teachers want climate crisis training, poll says

A growing number of teachers want their pupils to learn more about the climate crisis and are calling for environmental training so they can prepare children for a rapidly changing world, according to a poll.

Guardian

Himalayan glaciers melting at alarming rate

A study of the Himalayan region reveals that its glaciers lost the equivalent of more than a vertical foot and half of ice each year from 2000 to 2016, doubling the amount of loss from 1975 to 2000.

National Geographic

Starving polar bear spotted in city, far from normal habitat

New York Post

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Millionaires still hold half of all global wealth

Millionaires’ wealth reached approximately US$103 trillion in 2018, accounting for half of global personal financial assets, according to a recently released report.

Barrons

Anti-poverty advocates urge ‘moral’ budget

The Hill

8M people in working UK households are poor

The proportion of people in working households living in relative poverty has jumped by 40 percent since 1994, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Yahoo Finance

Photo of the Day

A photograph of Shamu, “the killer whale” at SeaWorld, San Diego. There are currently 59 orcas in captivity at sea parks and aquariums throughout the world. A third of the world’s captive orcas are in the United States, and all but one of those live at SeaWorld’s three parks in Orlando, San Diego, and San Antonio, according to the National Geographic. (Photo by Jason) Photo used under CC BY

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