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Most Cubans have lived in poverty for generations. The nation‘s coming leaders face enormous challenges. Photo shot Dec. 19, 2005, in Havana’s Plaza Vieja (Old Square). (Photo by Laura Bittner) Photo used under CC BY

What’s next for Cuba after death of Fidel Castro?

A page in Cuba’s history has turned with the death of its revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. So what happens now on the communist island? Fidel Castro’s successor, Raul Castro, faces the challenge of driving forward economic and political change.

Public Radio International

Obit: Castro condemned as dictator, mourned as hero

BBC

Crowds flood streets of Miami’s Little Havana to cheer Castro’s death

CNN

190,000 ducks culled to halt flu spread in Europe

About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across northern European countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Finland.

BBC

Trump says illegal voting denied him popular vote

US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on Nov. 8 “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” The Republican, who won the all-important electoral college count, offered no evidence to back his claim.

BBC

Clinton to join recount that Trump calls ‘scam’

CNN

Residents of besieged Aleppo face starvation

The inhabitants of besieged eastern Aleppo have fewer than 10 days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies, according to the head of the Syria Civil Defense, or White Helmets.

Al Jazeera

Syrian army captures part of rebel-held east Aleppo

Al Jazeera

Cops don’t plan to disperse pipeline protesters

U.S. authorities said they had no plans to forcibly remove activists protesting plans to run an oil pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, despite telling them to leave by early December.

Reuters

Trudeau asked to help stop violence in DRC

A group of Toronto residents concerned about deteriorating conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the coming days to do more to stop violence in the central African country.

CBC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN Rights Office prepares to battle Trump

U.N. human rights officials are reported to be gearing up for a four- or even eight-year battle with the new administration over Trump’s “ghastly campaign pledges.”

NBCNews.com

Germany plans to ‘massively’ limit privacy rights

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere is planning a major limitation of privacy rights in Germany, say data protection groups. Germans will no longer have the right to know what data about them is being collected.

Deutsche Welle

Germany’s Merkel announces bid for fourth term

Deutsche Welle

EU, Turkey at odds over over refugee pact

The head of the European Commission has said that the EU-Turkey refugee deal must be respected.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

UK urged to shelter Yazidis threatened by ISIS

Britain’s home secretary is being urged by MPs to allow refugees from the Yazidi community, a minority Iraqi group persecuted by ISIS, to enter the UK under the same rules that allow entrance to vulnerable Syrian refugees.

Guardian

Trump tax plan hurts single-parent households

Trump‘s proposals would modestly cut income taxes for most middle-class Americans. But for nearly 8 million families — including a majority of single-parent households — the opposite would occur: They’d pay more.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Depression affects stomach, anxiety the skin

Mental disorders and physical diseases frequently go hand in hand. For the first time, psychologists have identified temporal patterns in young people: arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are more common after depression, while anxiety disorders tend to be followed by skin diseases.

ScienceDaily

Hawking: Humanity needs new home

Celebrated theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has warned that humanity will not survive another 1,000 years on Earth unless the human race finds another planet to live on. Hawking painted a grave picture of the future.

The Independent

Scientists discover potentially habitable planet

Daily Caller

FB grapples with hate speech, fake news

Facebook employees say there is a lot of internal turmoil about how the platform does and doesn’t censor content that users find offensive. Outside Facebook, the public is regularly confounded by the company’s decisions on controversial posts and fake news.

NPR

Facebook incorrectly displays memorial pages for living users

CNBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

AIDS activists expect little from Trump

During the US election campaign, there was little or no talk on global health or HIV. That concerns Mitchell Warren, the head of advocates AVAC.

Deutsche Welle

Low social status linked to health damage

A study at Duke University suggests that being at the bottom of the social heap directly alters the body in ways that can damage health.

BBC

BUSINESS

Many companies mull resolutions on climate

Activist shareholders plan a record number of resolutions focused on climate change at U.S. company annual meetings in 2017, even as President-elect Donald Trump looks set to loosen environmental regulations.

Reuters

United cuts overhead bin use for low-fare fliers

United Continental has announced a new wrinkle in its service that is brilliant from a business perspective and contemptuous of consumers. It is implementing a new kind of cheap fare that will include no advance seat selection and almost no room for carry-ons.

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

A charity that gives food – and frees hostages

Africa’s largest humanitarian aid organization, a Muslim-funded South African charity called Gift of the Givers Foundation, has become one of the world’s most unusual charities.

Christian Science Monitor

Learning deep compassion from whales

In the latest installment of the Through My Lens series, photographer Karim Iliya describes his experience of being caught between two giants of the deep.

Positive News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

China: World’s new champion of free trade?

As the United States, the world‘s biggest economy and the champion of free trade for the past century, is about to back away from closer global economic integration, analysts question whether China has what it takes to be the world’s new champion of free trade.

Al Jazeera

World trade hangs in the balance after US vote

Donald Trump’s determination to stamp his mark on U.S. trade policy “would be horribly destructive,” according to an exhaustive assessment of his pre-election tweets, speeches and declarations in interviews.

Guardian

NGOs AND NPOs

India law halves foreign-funded NGOs

At least 25 Indian NGOs have lost licenses to receive international funding because of their “anti-national” activities, while a further 11,319 have lost licenses for failing to renew them, shrinking India’s pool of foreign-funded organizations to a little more than half the number it was two years ago.

Guardian

Australian aid worker kidnapped in Kabul

An Australian woman working for a non-governmental organization in Afghanistan was abducted in Kabul, according to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters. The woman, who has not been identified, was kidnapped at gunpoint in the nation’s capital.

USA TODAY

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Uganda closing schools funded by charities

Uganda’s High Court has described the Bridge International Academies, funded by the likes of Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, as unsanitary and unqualified, and has ordered it to close its doors in December.

CNN

Prosperity Together invests $29M in women

Prosperity Together has announced that its coalition partners committed more than $29 million in 2016 to strengthen the economic security of women.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Safety of S. African nuke plant plan questioned

A new study has raised safety concerns over the site of a proposed new nuclear power plant in South Africa. The study adds to controversy over transparency, economics, and environmental issues.

Deutsche Welle

Ice melt could trigger global catastrophe

Arctic scientists have warned that the increasingly rapid melting of the ice cap risks triggering 19 “tipping points” in the region that could have catastrophic consequences around the globe.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Members of the Cuban community living in exile in the U.S. demonstrated in front of the White House during the Cuban rafter crisis of 1994, which culminated in the “Wet feet, dry feet” policy between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Cuban President Fidel Castro. The retired dictator’s death has sparked mourning, relief and jubilation. (Photo by Elvert Barnes) Photo used under CC BY

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