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ISIS jihadists killed 130 people in November 2016, including 89 at the Bataclan. The club shuttered for a year. (Photo by Takver) Photo used under CC BY

A year after Paris attacks, Sting reopens Bataclan

The Bataclan concert hall in Paris has reopened with a performance by Sting, a year after Islamist militants killed 89 people at the venue. The British singer urged the audience, including survivors, to honor the dead and celebrate life.

BBC

Paris marks first anniversary of terror attacks with somber moment of silence

USA TODAY

Obama: When cynical, look to veterans for hope

President Barack Obama delivered his final Veterans Day address while in office, thanking all 18.8 million veterans in the U.S. for their service. In the wake of the remarkable 2016 presidential election, Obama called for unity and understanding.

Time

Veterans hope President-elect Trump will continue to focus on their issues

NPR

Colombia, FARC rebels reach new peace deal

For the second time in just six weeks, it appears that Latin America’s longest-running war may finally end in peace. The Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, announced an agreement that would end their 52-year guerrilla war.

NPR

Trump may keep some Obamacare provisions

President-elect Donald Trump reversed himself on eliminating the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health law, saying he would keep two popular features and pledged no gap in coverage as it’s replaced.

Bloomberg

ISIS kills 40 civilians, hangs bodies as warning

At least 40 civilians have been shot and killed and their bodies displayed from electricity poles in the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul. The jihadists are using torture and execution to warn the population not to commit treason against ISIS’ so-called caliphate, the office of the UN’s Human Rights Commissioner reports.

The Independent

Afghan airbase attack kills 4 Americans

CNN

ISIS bomber kills 52 at Sufi shrine in Pakistan

A suicide bomb attack killed at least 52 people and injured more than 100 others during a religious ceremony in the mountains of Pakistan. ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing at a Sufi shrine.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights squad looks for abuse in online images

The Internet is awash with potential evidence of human rights abuses in some of the world’s most pressing conflicts. But it can be tough to sift the real evidence from the fakes. This is the challenge facing the Digital Verification Corps.

New Scientist

Myanmar apparently destroys villages

Satellite images show that several Rohingya village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have been burned to the ground in recent weeks, Human Rights Watch reports. The group urged authorities to invite United Nations investigators to look into the destruction of 430 buildings.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Anti-Trump protesters march for 3rd night

Thousands protesting Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election took to the streets for a third night of demonstrations and vigils in several US cities.

CNN

French name plotter of Paris, Brussels attacks

French investigators have identified a Syria-based extremist of dual Belgian and Moroccan nationality who is thought to have plotted the attacks in Paris and Brussels, sources close to the case told Agence France-Presse.

Times of India

Court OKs hero’s burial for dictator Marcos

The Philippines’ Supreme Court ruled that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos can be buried at a heroes’ cemetery, a decision that opponents said rolled back the democratic triumph of the “people power” revolt that ousted the strongman three decades ago.

ABC News

Anti-immigrant populists congratulate Trump

Anti-immigration populist politicians around the world rushed to congratulate Donald Trump after the Republican rode a wave of anti-establishment sentiment to the White House.

NBCNews.com

White House still pushes Obamacare signups

The White House is urging people to sign up for coverage through ObamaCare, hours after the Republican electoral sweep that likely dooms the healthcare law’s future. Spokesman Josh Earnest said the Obama administration remains committed to its enrollment drive.

The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sex with Neanderthals helped humans adapt

When humans first wandered out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago, they soon struggled with strange and hostile surroundings, armed with little more than stone tools. Now a study suggests they got help from an unlikely source: trysts with the neighbors.

USA TODAY

NASA to launch swarms of tiny satellites

These cutting-edge devices will orbit the Earth, taking atmospheric measurements, monitoring storms, and studying factors associated with climate change. They will also serve as tiny stepping stones toward NASA’s new focus on small satellites, or “smallsats,” as an alternative to bulkier traditional satellites.

Christian Science Monitor

Why humans shed their Neanderthal DNA

In humanity’s distant past, perhaps as early as 100,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans who had migrated out of Africa encountered a close human relative: the Neanderthal. Parts of the modern human genome are lacking in Neanderthal ancestry.

Christian Science Monitor

Researchers test implants, motor function

Neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch and her colleagues are testing an implant that might circumvent injured nerves in paralyzed monkeys by stimulating neural responses in order to enable them to regain motor function.

NPR

Primates regain control of paralyzed limbs

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

The lingering shadow of Ebola outbreak

The Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, which killed more than 3,580 people in 18 months, left behind a legacy of psychological suffering which is little discussed and under-supported. The nation has only 21 mental health nurses and one elderly psychiatrist for a population of more than 6 million.

Al Jazeera

What will now become of Obamacare?

NBCNews.com

AIDS To Zika: Trump health, humanitarian aid

No one knows what the Trump administration has planned for U.S. foreign aid programs and other global initiatives that fight poverty and disease. But the president-elect has commented on a number of global issues. Here’s what he has said in speeches and interviews.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Charles Eisenstein):

How the US election result could trigger a society of empathy

Positive News

Column (Asra Q. Nomani):

I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump

Sydney Morning Herald

Column (Claire Messud):

Mourn the election, then stand up and protect American values

Guardian

Editorial:

4 things nonprofits must do after a Trump victory

Nonprofit Quarterly

Column (Henry Berman):

As Trump Era begins, let’s defend philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Column (L.V. Anderson):

White women sold out the sisterhood and the world by voting for Trump

Slate

Editorial:

Trump’s win plunges USA into uncertainty

USA TODAY

Column (Peter Morici):

The wheels are coming off Obamacare

The Globalist

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GOOD NEWS

6 women who made history in the US election

Awaiting the results of this week’s US presidential election, some were hoping to see the nation’s first female president. That didn’t happen, but here are stories of the women behind some of this election’s notable firsts.

Positive News

‘Positive education’ enhances performance

With both youth depression and youth unemployment on the rise, calls are growing for a different kind of learning. Could ‘positive education’ enhance not just wellbeing, but academic performance too?

Positive News

Three apps help refugees build community

Arriving in a new country can be overwhelming. One app gives refugees access to information on government policies, jobs and schools. Another aims to help newcomers communicate via pictograms and drawings in situations where words fail.

Positive News

Fake retail apps target iPhone users

Fortune

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

US’ Brexit: What Trump means for world trade

World trade was already stalling before Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Now, one of the main engines of global economic growth could go into reverse. Trump has promised to rip up major trade deals and slap huge tariffs on goods from China and Mexico.

CNNMoney

Trump win shocks development world

The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president is sure to send shockwaves throughout the global development community as worries rise about his aid policy and stated position on climate change.

Devex

How to ensure development aid is effective

The international landscape is changing. There are a growing number of conflicts becoming increasingly deadly and protracted. There are more displaced people than at the end of the Second World War, and more people than ever are in need of urgent disaster relief.

EU Observer

BUSINESS

World markets plunge, then steady, on election

The mild reaction from European stocks was nowhere near as bad as futures markets had indicated. The U.S. dollar, Mexican peso and world stocks began to steady in the European morning, having been hammered overnight as Donald Trump swept to victory.

Fortune

GM laying off 2,000 as compact car sales dip

General Motors Co. said it will lay off 2,000 workers at two plants in Ohio and Michigan as U.S. sales of its Chevrolet Camaro sports car and Chevy Cruze compact have slumped this year. The automaker said it’s eliminating the third shift at a factory in Lansing, Michigan, that makes the Camaro and another in Lordstown, Ohio, where GM builds the Cruze.

Bloomberg

Zimbabweans are sleeping outside of banks

Dozens of people settle down for the night on the streets of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare due to banks limiting withdrawals, forcing citizens to wait in lines with no guarantees.

BBC

NGOs AND NPOs

Bangladesh NGO law raises concerns

A new Bangladesh law regulating the work of foreign-funded non-governmental organizations is intended to “intimidate” groups critical of the government, the head of a prominent anti-corruption watchdog has told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

Australians warned about working with NGOs

There are fears that Australians working in war-ravaged countries are being targeted by criminal gangs, with one expert warning people to think very carefully about the safety risks of volunteering for humanitarian work.

Australian Broadcasting Company

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Philanthropy 400: A new No. 1

For 26 years, The Chronicle has ranked America’s nonprofits based on the contributions they raise from individuals, foundations, and corporations. This year, for only the second time, United Way Worldwide has been pushed from the top rung — a changing of the guard that may signal a new era in philanthropy.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

5 things donors of tomorrow want today

Millennials, the generation born between approximately 1982 and 2004, are a bigger generation than the baby boomers and could be key to diversifying your donor base and preparing for the coming generation of donors.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change is shrinking stratosphere

Those warning of climate change impacts have been likened to Chicken Littles, scuttling around, warning the sky is falling. That worry, it turns out, is based on fact too. Cooling in the stratosphere is causing it to shrink, lowering that layer by “a number of kilometers.”

Sydney Morning Herald

Japan clears more nuclear reactors for restart

Japan’s nuclear regulator cleared another pair of reactors on the southernmost island of Kyushu for restart despite a growing chorus of opponents who object to any resumption of nuclear operations.

Japan Times

Climate change: forgotten issue of the election

NPR

Biodiversity needs citizen scientists

Could birdwatching or monitoring tree blossoms in your community make a difference in global environmental research? A new study says yes: Citizen scientists have a vital role to play.

Environmental News Network

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Uploaded Nov. 9, 2016. (Photo by Kevin Gill) Photo used under CC BY

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