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A woman in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India. Thousands of people arrive every day from villages and small towns to cities, looking for better opportunities. Many end up in slums and other informal settlements. Others settle under bridges, flyovers, on pavements and road dividers. (Photo by Meena Kadri) Photo used under CC BY

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India’s homeless women suffer as cities expand

Homeless women in India face abuse and violence on the street, but have few claims over property and limited access to shelters. Many have left abusive marriages, suffered sexual violence, or have been abandoned by families for mental illness or after the death of a husband.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Child marriage persists in Guatemala

A year after Guatemala banned child marriage, girls are getting married in rural indigenous communities that are unaware of the ban and see the practice as acceptable.

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Early-marriage figures for Iraq are startling. Child advocates worry it could rise even more.

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PRI

Philippines’ war on drugs leaves communities reeling

More than 4,000 people have been shot in anti-drugs raids in Philippines, and thousands of others are believed to have been murdered by state-sponsored vigilantes.

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Guardian

Before airstrike, schoolkids were enjoying trip

For a group of boys in Yemen, it was a day for a much-anticipated field trip. A video shot by one boy shows the classmates clearly excited for the day ahead. Within hours, the boy who took the video, along with most of his classmates, would be dead — killed after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit their school bus.

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CNN

The rising anti-refugee sentiment in S. Korea

The arrival of 550-plus Yemeni asylum seekers on South Korea’s Jeju island has sparked protests in Seoul and online.

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Al Jazeera

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Yemen’s parents search through the dead for their children after strike

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CNN

UK refusing asylum to former child slaves

Britain is refusing asylum to more former child slaves from nations such as Vietnam, Eritrea and Afghanistan, having denied refugee status to more than 275 non-European victims since 2012 despite fears many will fall back into the hands of traffickers.

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Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Released Ethiopian prisoners ponder justice

Ethiopia released thousands of prisoners, reversing decades of abuse. No one knows how many were tortured. Their stories raise a question for the government: How will it address the injustices committed?

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Reuters

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US relies on cheap prison labor to fight wildfires

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Myanmar blogger fights bias with beauty

Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar keep a low profile for fear of intimidation, but Win Lae Phyu Sin, one of the community’s rare bloggers on beauty care, has gone the other way.

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Gulf News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Kosovo president wants to ‘fix’ Serbian border

A redrawing of the border to bring parts of Serbia with a majority Albanian population into Kosovo could end persistent tensions between Belgrade and Pristina and allow both nations to move towards EU membership.

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Reuters

Mali adversaries trade claims of victory, fraud

With results coming soon, the two sides have been swapping claims and accusations since the elections. The ballot pitted Keita against opposition leader Cisse, who says that the vote was fraudulent and that he was victor.

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Channel NewsAsia

China’s surveillance state spreads quietly

Police stations in almost every province have sought to buy the data-extraction devices for smartphones since the beginning of 2016, coinciding with a sharp rise in spending on internal security and a crackdown on dissent.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Woman receives historic face transplant

The journey of how a young woman receiving a face transplant reveals something profound about our humanity. Stubblefield lost her face when she was 18. When she was 21, doctors gave her a new one.

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National Geographic

Tool used to trace supply chains back to forests

Trase is an innovative internet tool which tracks commodities supply chains in detail from source to market, and can also connect those chains to environmental harm, including deforestation.

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Mongabay

GLOBAL HEALTH

India plans world’s biggest health care program

In his annual Independence Day speech, Modi is expected to unveil the biggest government health-care program in the world. The plan is to roll it out by the end of the year.

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NPR

Radio helps people identify malaria symptoms

The results show that in the first year of the trial the number of consultations at local health clinics for symptoms of malaria went up by 56 percent compared with areas where the messages weren’t broadcast.

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Mehdi Hasan):

One million Muslim Uighurs have been detained by China, the UN says. Where’s the global outrage?

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Column (Robert Schwartz):

What is happening in Romania is not democracy

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Globalization takes on Chinese characteristics

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Asia Times Online

Column (Ahmed H Adam):

What next for Sudan after Bashir’s nomination for a third term?

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Al Jazeera

Column (Sophie Gilbert):

‘Little Women’ is a misunderstood classic

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The Atlantic

Column (Nigel Wharburton):

Does luck even exist?

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Aeon

Column (Femke Broekuis):

We need to limit tourist numbers to save cheetahs from becoming an endangered species

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Quartz

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GOOD NEWS

Scientist wants to give heart test away for free

A Harvard scientist developed a genetic test that helps identify people who are at high risk of having a heart attack. For the people at the highest risk, this information is important.

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Forbes

Teachers help man with new kidney and more

When one father desperately needed a new kidney, two teachers from his daughter‘s school offered to donate their own — sparking a donor chain that saved not only his life, but seven others’ lives, too.

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Today.com

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Women donate more organs than men

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BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Spam filters cost nonprofits thousands

A nonprofit with a 100,000-person email list that sends two fundraising requests per month could lose out on as much as US$30,000 per year due to spam filters.

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NonProfit Times

Group looks to invest in women of color

The Ms. Foundation team plans to be unapologetic about its focus on women and girls of color, which it considers ‘part of an interconnected approach to building political power for all.’

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Inside Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Harm to Amazon linked to tax havens

Scientists called for greater transparency over the use of tax havens by companies involved in activities that have harmed the world’s oceans and the Amazon rainforest.

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Reuters

Palm oil industry poses threat to Africa’s apes

Endangered monkeys and apes could face new risks if Africa becomes a big player in the palm oil industry. Researchers say consumers can help by choosing sustainably grown palm oil.

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BBC

ECONOMY

Turkish plunge presents global market threat

Turkey is the latest economy to plunge into chaos. The turmoil follows a similar crash in Argentina that led to a rescue by the International Monetary Fund.

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CNNMoney

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Russian ruble’s fate closely tied to Turkish lira

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Moscow Times

China prints tons of foreign currencies

The rising superpower is printing foreign currency on a wide scale as part of its ambitious bid to expand its global influence.

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NEWS.com.au

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A Tanzanian boy transports fodder to feed his family’s cattle. (Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim) Photo used under CC BY

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