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The great Ganges River is dying. While revered in India, the Ganges is the sewer that carries off the waste of 450 million people. (Photo by Lev Yakupov) Photo used under CC BY

India’s dying mother

The Ganges is one of the greatest rivers on Earth, but it is dying. From the icy Himalayan peaks, where it begins, right down to the Bay of Bengal, it is being slowly poisoned. The Ganges is revered in India but it is also the sewer that carries away the waste from the 450 million people who live in its catchment area.

BBC

Rousseff says she will prevail in trial

A day after being suspended from Brazil’s highest office, Dilma Rousseff expressed confidence that she would prevail in her approaching impeachment trial in the Senate.

Wall Street Journal

‘Democracy is our oxygen’: Brazilians speak out about Dilma Rousseff

Guardian

San Francisco hotels build rooftop beehives

At the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, there are more than 370 rooms inside and hundreds of thousands of bees buzzing above in rooftop hives outside.

The Herald Business Journal

Obama pushes for transgender bathrooms

The Obama administration is telling all U.S. public school districts to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms “consistent with their gender identity” in a letter from the Department of Education.

USA TODAY

US transgender guidance incites backlash

CNN

US concern grows over Venezuela crisis

The United States is increasingly concerned about the potential for an economic and political meltdown in Venezuela, spurred by fears of a debt default, growing street protests and deterioration of its oil sector.

CNBC

ISIS declares state of emergency in Raqqa

U.S. military officials are closely watching social media and news reports that say ISIS believes it may soon come under siege in Raqqa, Syria, its self-declared capital.

CNN

Senior Australian ISIS recruiter killed

Guardian

Zimmerman gun auction reaches $65M

Bidding in an online auction for the gun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin was up to $65 million as Internet trolls appeared to drive the offers to astronomic levels.

USA Today

RIGHTS

ISIS claims cafe bombing in Iraq; 13 dead

A group of gunmen, including two suicide bombers, stormed a coffee shop in a town north of Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 15, Iraqi officials said.

MSN News

Real Madrid to mourn victims of Iraqi cafe attack

One News Page

Boko Haram focus of U.N. Security Council

U.N. Security Council cited worry over Boko Haram’s ties to ISIS as regional leaders gathered in Nigeria to devise ways to battle the Islamist extremist movement.

CNN

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Trump’s rise prompts naturalization

Trump’s rise as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, coupled with his harsh rhetoric against Mexicans, the undocumented and Muslim refugees, has emboldened many immigrants to naturalize for the right to vote.

USA TODAY

Did Trump pose as someone else in interview?

In a 1991 phone interview, a spokesperson who identified himself as “John Miller” spoke with a reporter to defend Donald Trump, but journalists and even then-girlfriend Marla Maples accused “Miller” of being Trump himself.

CBS News

Secret Service to investigate Trump’s former butler for saying Obama should be killed

The Hill

Brazil’s new government plans for big reforms

Brazil‘s center-right interim government said on Friday it has the support in Congress to push through reforms to return the economy to growth and secure a permanent mandate once President Dilma Rousseff’s trial is up.

Reuters

Brazil: A Nation In Crisis?

MSN news

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

SWIFT says second bank hit by malware

In the February hack, attackers made $951 million in bogus transactions from the Federal Reserve Bank of NY to a bank in the Philippines.

News Worms

China’s economic activity data disappoints

China‘s investment, factory output and retail sales all grew more slowly than expected in April, adding to doubts about whether the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FL’s Aucilla River goldmine for artifacts

More than 14,500 years ago, a spring-fed pond served as an important water source for mastodons and the early Americans who hunted them. The site is now submerged beneath Florida’s Aucilla River.

National Geographic

Human genome fabrication raises issues

Scientists are now contemplating the fabrication of a human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes.

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

Promising results found in virus research

A team including researchers from Singapore, Japan, and IBM have reported promising early tests of a new strategy for combating a broad spectrum of viruses, which they say may help overcome some shortcomings of vaccines.

Fortune

Stolen WWI cannon returned to vet hall

A Northern California man has returned a stolen World War One-era cannon that he had bought for $1,200 without knowing it had been taken from a local veteran’s hall.

Reuters

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Economic priority led to Minamata disease

Speakers noted that an overemphasis on economic growth was behind the mercury-poisoning illness as well as the nuclear disaster in Fukushima at a recent conference marking the 60th anniversary of the illness’ recognition.

Japan Today

Official accused of extorting bribes

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has again summoned Anand Joshi, a “missing” undersecretary in the home ministry, for questioning. He is accused of corruption — demanding and accepting bribes from NGOs.

Hindustan Times

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Muslims and Jews paired to aid West Bank

A $100,000 solar panel project in Auja, West Bank, is the first substantial effort to be financed by a group involving both Jews and Muslims in the United States, and to have both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslims on its technical team.

New York Times

Global crises overwhelming aid system

The world’s top official managing migration flows has warned that the global aid system is crumbling under an overwhelming number of crises, from wars across the Middle East and Asia to natural disasters and earthquakes.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

UN elects new Environment Agency head

The U.N. General Assembly has elected Norway’s former environment minister Erik Solheim to head the U.N. environment agency.

ABC News

Great Barrier Reef bleaching rampant

The massive bleaching hitting the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and reefs worldwide concerns researchers that the effects are irreversible.

NPR

Thailand to shut largest gold mine

Thailand will shutter its largest gold mine by the end of the year after the government said concern the project was damaging the environment and sickening workers outweighed its economic benefit.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

The Tsukiji Market in Tokyo is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world. Photo shot May 13, 2016. (Photo by Mark Gunn) Photo used under CC BY

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