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Neelab, the adult at left, is an Afghan who fled to neighboring Pakistan at age 8. The mother of two is now heading back. (Photo by Pierre Prakash/UNHCR) Photo used under CC BY

UNICEF slams treatment of refugee children

Germany does not extend the same rights to refugee children as it does to native-born children, UNICEF has said. This was worrying for a group in need of special care, the children’s organization has warned.

Deutsche Welle

This is the life of a Syrian refugee in Germany

World Economic Forum

UN urges Myanmar to end rights abuses

Issuing a new report on the situation of minorities in Myanmar, the UN has urged the government to take concrete steps to end the “systemic discrimination” and ongoing human rights violations against minorities.

UN News Center

Myanmar bans officials from saying ‘Rohingya’

Al Jazeera

Aid can transform nations or empower dictators

Foreign aid can prevent; treat diseases and put nations on the path to prosperity. Unfortunately, aid can also burden weak bureaucracies, distort markets, prop up dictators and help prolong civil wars.

Economist

Ex-Congo VP draws 18 years for rape, murder

The ICC sentenced Congolese former vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba to 18 years in prison for murders, rapes and acts of pillaging committed by his troops in 2002 and 2003.

MSN News

Congressman fails to block Tubman currency

An Iowa congressman who said putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is “racist” has failed in his attempt to stop the first black person on the front of U.S. currency.

NY Daily News

Tubman on the $20 bill is ‘pure political correctness’

CNN

There’s great news on inequality and poverty

During the past two decades, the global economy has been great for the world’s poor. Across most of the developing world, the have-nots have a lot more than before.

Bloomberg

HUMAN RIGHTS

Egypt sentences Al-Jazeera workers to death

An Egyptian court sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Associated Press

Church leaders asked to move

The owner of the building in which Verity Baptist Church and its Pastor Roger Jimenez preside have asked church officials to consider moving due to the negative comments made towards the Orlando massacre.

WMAZ

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Famous bear cub killed

The first official day of summer dawned with tragedy in Grand Teton National Park Monday as news of the death of the lone cub of world-famous Grizzly 399 spread.

National Geographic

Jaguar used in Olympic torch event killed

A jaguar trotted out for the Olympic torch‘s passage through Brazil’s Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said Tuesday.

MSN News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump would lead US back into recession

Clinton said “Trump would throw us back into recession,”adding that a former adviser to John McCain predicted the US would lose 3.5 million jobs, incomes would stagnate and the national debt would explode under Trump.

MSN News

Trump goes on attack against Clinton

His campaign in turmoil, Donald Trump sought to get back on track Wednesday with a familiar tactic: attacking Hillary Clinton

MSN News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Fukushima: “It was a cover-up”

The utility that ran the Fukushima nuclear plant acknowledged Tuesday its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactors was tantamount to a cover-up and apologized for it.

MSN News

World Bank changing country classifications

The World Bank is switching to more precise, though unvarnished, descriptions of countries’ economies, removing the terms “developed” and “developing” as classifications.

Economic Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

For cleanest hands, squirt and count to 30

Study provides guidance for most effective use of hand sanitizer

Science News

Video: turning carbon emissions into stone

Scientific American

Creature spied on Google Earth

Cryptozoologists are excited about a weird shape seen on Google Earth in the ocean near Antarctica. It looks like a brown mass surrounded by swirling green-hued waters.

CNET News

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GOOD NEWS

3-D printed prosthesis lets girl play music

Born without her right hand, Cassie Stewart was unable to play certain instruments like her peers. Now she doesn’t have to worry, thanks to an invention by a high school student.

NBCNews.com

Organization aims to bring in more POC

Philanthropy Northwest has launched the Momentum Fellowship. The program aims to prepare professionals from underrepresented communities for careers in the philanthropic sector.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic concert staged to promote sanctuary

The Arctic Ocean may not be a typical venue for a piano performance, but it’s a prime setting to make a point about climate change. A composer performs an original piece while stranded on an “artificial iceberg”.

Grist

Hear and see Greenpeace production

YouTube

The San Andreas Fault is moving

New observations confirm that the San Andreas Fault System, the massive tectonic boundary underneath California, is showing definite signs of movement, according to a post at the University of Hawaii’s website.

Huffington Post

San Andreas fault

Frequency

Stonehenge solstice draws thousands

Tens of thousands of people were expected to descend on Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument in England built in accordance with the sunset of the winter solstice and the opposing sunrise of the summer solstice, for the annual summer solstice celebrations.

BBC

Global art/science project celebrates solstice

Solstice2016.com

Photo of the Day

Sound artist Charlie Morrow has organized artists and scientists from around the Earth to celebrate the solstice. The event will feature Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument in England built in accordance with the sunset of the winter solstice and the opposing sunrise of the summer solstice. (Photo by Dale Haussner) Photo used under CC BY

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