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Thai king’s funeral held as mourners line streets

Buddhist funeral ceremonies have been held at Bangkok’s grand palace for Thailand’s revered king Bhumibol Adulyadej, as the country began an extended period of mourning for the monarch, who ruled for 70 years.

Guardian

Groomed for throne since birth, Thai prince awaits crown

Bloomberg

Namibians claim reparations from Germany

Indigenous Namibians are demanding the German government pay reparations for crimes committed during the colonial era. German troops targeted and killed around 100,000 people from Herero and Nama in 1905.

Deutsche Welle

Civilian exodus could follow attack on Mosul

For more than two years, the Islamic State has held Mosul, in northern Iraq, in a stranglehold. People who have fled say the militants terrorize people, conduct public executions, recruit children as fighters, and forbid communication with the outside world.

NPR

US-led coalition ramps up airstrikes on ISIS-held Mosul

FOX News

Obama lifts restrictions on Cuban rum, cigars

Attention U.S. travelers going abroad: You now can bring home all the Cuban rum and cigars you want. The Obama administration announced a new round of executive actions designed to increase trade and travel with the communist island.

USA TODAY

Families of 21 Chibok girls wait to be reunited

Relatives of one of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Islamist militant group Boko Haram after two-and-a-half years in captivity in north-east Nigeria said they could not wait to be reunited. Around 220 girls were taken.

Sydney Morning Herald

Nigeria denies Boko Haram prisoner swap

Al Jazeera

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Samsung investigating replacement phone fires

Samsung Electronics said it’s investigating a Galaxy Note 7 that is reported to have caught fire in Kentucky, a third incident in less than a week involving its replacement phones.

USA TODAY

Ban to visit Haiti as humanitarian appeal falters

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit hurricane-scarred Haiti on Saturday, as it was revealed that only 5% of $120m (£98m) asked for in an appeal had so far been raised. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric appealed to donors to give more.

BBC

Humanitarian ‘industry’ part of the problem in Haiti, critics say

CBC News

EU rights group urges Turkey to honor law

Turkey must adhere to legal and human rights principles in the prosecution of people accused of involvement in a failed coup, if it wants to buttress its reputation as a nation that has reconciled democracy with Islam, the chief of Europe’s top human rights body said.

ABC News

Yazidi survivor Murad wins human rights award

A Yazidi woman who was tortured and raped by Islamic State group militants has won a human rights award. Iraqi activist Nadia Murad was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe.

BBC

Chess master wins rights case against Russia

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia illegally detained international chess star and opposition leader Garry Kasparov in May 2007, when Kasparov was trying to attend a march against the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Wild chimp mothers teach young to use tools

The first documented evidence of wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools has been captured by video cameras set to record chimpanzee tool-using activity at termite mounds in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, according to new research from anthropologists.

ScienceDaily

Mars-bound astronauts face dementia risk

Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That’s the question concerning scientists probing a phenomenon called “space brain.” Scientists have found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles causes significant long-term brain damage in test rodents.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Where is the best place in the world to be a girl?

A new ranking of 144 countries based on an analysis of issues that affect girls and young women has put Sweden at the top of the list and Niger at the bottom.

Telegraph.co.uk

Child marriage and FGM are threat to girls’ rights

The Star

Calcium pills linked to artery buildup

People who take calcium supplements may be at increased risk for developing buildups of plaque in their arteries, which is a sign of heart disease, a new study found.

LiveScience

How back pain took over the world

The things that make us low-level miserable are now more likely to be simple aches and pains, rather than frightening, communicable diseases like diarrhea. That’s encouraging, but it’s still a little sad. People all over the world increasingly live long, great lives, only to spend their golden years slathered in IcyHot. Why?

The Atlantic

Progress on neglected tropical diseases

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

How to improve police-public relations

Simmering tensions between police and communities came to a head with tragic consequence in the US this year. Around the world, the dynamic between people and those appointed to keep the peace is often uneasy. Five experts suggest ways forward for better relations between police and the public.

Positive News

For families, Mall of America takes a holiday

The biggest mall in the US has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to opening on Thanksgiving Day. It had been among the growing list of retailers that open their doors on Thanksgiving night to stretch Black Friday amid a fierce battle for consumers’ holiday spending.

Sunnyskyz.com

NGOs AND NPOs

UN-spawned network embraces independence

In January 2015, Integrated Regional Information Networks declared itself independent of the United Nations. Earlier this year, it reconstituted itself as a Swiss nonprofit headquartered in Geneva.

Columbia Journalism Review

Bangladesh wants to silence civil society

A new measure passed by Bangladesh’s parliament makes it a criminal offense to make “malicious” comments on any constitutional bodies in the country. Many say the controversial move is a blow to freedom of expression.

Deutsche Welle

Nonprofits use virtual reality to educate

Alzheimer’s Research UK’s primary mission is to raise money for research into dementia and other memory-related illness, but it also seeks to raise awareness and empathy for a disease the nonprofit feels is poorly understood.

Washington Post

PHILANTHROPY

Authors propose $1B bet against incarceration

Approximately 12 million Americans cycle through jails every year, with 2 million incarcerated at any given time. The figure represents one-quarter of the world’s population of incarcerated individuals.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Hurricane Matthew was deceptively powerful

As Hurricane Matthew barreled toward the Southeast, millions of Americans fixated on a single measure of its destructive power: wind speed. But it was rain, not wind, that dealt the most damage as Matthew rumbled ashore.

Major storms such as Hurricane Matthew, which has slammed into Haiti and now the U.S., will grow in menace as the world warms and sea levels rise, scientists have warned.

Newsweek

How Waffle House uses Twitter to aid recovery efforts

Smithsonian Magazine

Hurricane Matthew swamps Carolinas, triggering flash flooding

The Weather Channel

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A participant in a street procession at the Phuket Vegetarian Festival held this month in Thailand. (Photo by Andaman4fun) Photo used under CC BY

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