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The Norwegian Refugee Council, with support from the European Commission DG, has started vocational training centers in Uganda where young refugees can learn trades. (Photo by European Commission DG) Photo used under CC BY

Uganda takes innovative approach for refugees

The third largest refugee-hosting nation in Africa is unusually welcoming. Refugees in Uganda get a plot of land and are allowed to work, start a business and settle where they want.

Devex.com

Court declines to rehear immigrant case

The Supreme Court has declined an Obama administration request to break its recent tie over plans to protect millions of immigrants. The justices rejected the appeal with no comment.

Yahoo! News

Colombia, FARC try to save peace deal voters rejected

Colombian leaders scrambled Monday to rework a peace deal between the government and FARC rebels, despite the voters’ rejection of the agreement in a referendum.

CNN

Opposition urges serenity, new negotiations

Colombia Reports

Caribbean feels Hurricane Matthew’s lash

The National Hurricane Center is warning that Hurricane Matthew will “bring life-threatening rain, wind and storm surge” to parts of Haiti. People on multiple Caribbean islands are preparing for the Category 4 storm.

NPR

Haiti braces for ‘devastating blow’

The Weather Channel

Low turnout invalidates Hungary refugee vote

The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has failed to convince a majority of his population to vote in a referendum on closing the door to refugees, rendering the result invalid and undermining his campaign for a cultural counter-revolution within the EU.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN aims to protect LGBT people from violence

The UN Human Rights Council has appointed its first independent investigator to help protect homosexual and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination.

The Independent

Britain to let troops to opt out of rights law

Britain announced plans to allow its soldiers to opt out of European human rights law, in a move Prime Minister Theresa May said would end “the industry of vexatious claims” against troops.

Inquirer.net

British politics clash with human rights in Africa

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Syria: Airstrikes resume as UN leaders meet

As the US and Russia -- brokers of Syria’s disintegrating ceasefire -- clash at the United Nations General Assembly this week, war-ravaged civilians continued to pay the price.

CNN

US-Philippines military alliance ‘ironclad’

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said America‘s alliance with the Philippines remains “ironclad” even though the Asian ally’s leader has vowed to end joint military exercises.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ig Nobel honorees include goat man

In what may appear to be the silliest awards program in the world, the 26th annual Ig Nobel prizes were awarded to people who went to unimaginable (and hilarious) lengths to study animal behavior, sexual health, and visual perception.

Christian Science Monitor

Stephen Hawking: Be wary of aliens’ calls

Physicist Stephen Hawking is more convinced than ever that humans are not the only intelligent life form in the universe, and cautions to be wary of signaling back to any found civilizations.

USA TODAY

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

An ugly day for global banks

Even before the opening bell in New York,it looked like a grim day for some giants of global banking. But few expected the barrage of bad news that soon hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bloomberg

India backs off major retaliation for now

For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday’s attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.

Reuters

UN aviation agency snubs Taiwan

A U.N. aviation agency has snubbed Taiwan by not inviting it to its assembly in Canada, the latest sign of pressure China is bringing to bear on the new independence-leaning government of an island it views as a renegade province.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Who will be next to lead the WHO?

The World Health Organization is preparing to select a new director general. It needs someone dynamic and politically astute to drive strategic reforms, say global health experts.

Reuters

Why Zika mosquitoes prefer to bite people

Many of the approximately 3,500 mosquito species prefer to feed on the blood of cows, pigs or dog. But it‘s the small number that don’t that kill hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Business Insider

How Sri Lanka eradicated malaria

CNN

Opioid epidemic escalates

Des Moines Register

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Overturning Obama, Congress puts the U.S. in danger

Bloomberg

Column (Michael Shank):

Pardon Snowden, an American patriot

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Kelli Mosteller):

For Native Americans, land is more than just the ground beneath their feet

The Atlantic

Column (Meredith Tax):

Turkey is supporting the Syrian jihadis Washington says it wants to fight

The Nation

Column (Charles Murray):

America’s unprecedented upper class

Weekly Standard

Column (Peter Berkowitz):

How the Iran deal aids Hezbollah, imperils Israel

RealClearPolitics

Column (Jamelle Louie):

Nah, Trump’s still a birther; it’s the core of his political identity

Slate

Column (Marcus Heinrich):

When world’s dominant culture exalts war, no wonder there’s so much of it

Globalist

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GOOD NEWS

Lung transplant recipient meets donor’s mom

Lyndsey McLaughlin and Diana Rodriguez, two New York women from different worlds, never imagined their paths would cross, let alone that a life-changing event would connect them for the rest of their lives.

ABC News

Runner slammed for hijab responds with grace

Two weeks ago, 32-year-old Rahaf Khatib made history as the first hijabi — a woman who wears an Islamic head covering — to appear on the cover of a fitness magazine. The initial response to the piece was “95 percent amazing.” Then the hate started.

NBCNews.com

NGOs

Nonprofit news outlets excel on diversity

Nonprofit news outlets are about as racially diverse as newspapers, according to the American Society of News Editors’ 2016 survey of newsroom staffing. Online organizations employed more minority staff than daily newspapers, according to the findings.

Current

Kenyan law to make life easier for NGOs

Better late than never. Kenya looks set to implement legislation that should make life easier for nongovernmental organizations, more than three years after the bill became law.

Human Rights Watch

ENVIRONMENT

World getting serious about tiger farms

Tiger farms supply the black market with skins, bones, and other parts. Now, at an international wildlife trade conference, China and other Asian countries face pressure to shut them down.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

Shot in Ribersborg, Sweden, on Oct. 1, 2016. (Photo by Maria Eklind) Photo used under CC BY

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