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World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated every year from Aug. 1 to 7, encourages breastfeeding to improve the health of babies around the world. (Photo by Hamish Darby) Photo used under CC BY

Breastfeeding Week backs health advantage

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from Aug. 1-7 to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates an international commitment to promote breastfeeding.

World Health Organization

Babies’ twitching in sleep may aid development

Iowa Now

Syrians describe sex slavery in Lebanon

Syrian women lured into sex slavery have described how they were tortured and abused in Lebanon’s largest sex trafficking ring. Women were tortured on a table set up like a crucifix and shocked with an electric prod.

The Independent

Yazidis aim to bring ISIS sex slavers to justice

BBC

US lags in converting wealth to well-being

Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Albania, Germany and Ethiopia do better than average when it comes to turning their national wealth into a better life for their citizens. The US is among countries that do worse than average.

NPR

$400M flown to Iran as U.S. prisoners freed

The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran in January to settle a decades-old legal dispute just as the Iranians were releasing four Americans detained by Tehran.

USA TODAY

ISIS names new Boko Haram boss in Nigeria

Book Haram, the group most famous for kidnapping more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in 2014, has a new leader — though it’s unclear what happened to its old one. ISIS calls Abu Musab al-Barnawi its governor for West Africa.

The Atlantic

Aleppo fighting rages as Russian jets strike

Intense fighting has continued around the Syrian city of Aleppo, where a rebel offensive is trying to break a government siege of rebel-held areas.

BBC

Syrians fleeing fighting pour into Kurdish city

ARA News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Roma Holocaust victims honored at Auschwitz

A ceremony commemorating the mass killing of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz-Birkenau was held at the former Nazi German death camp to mark Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.

Radio Poland

A ceremony honoring Roma Holocaust victims

Human Rights Europe

Canada details missing indigenous women

Canada has announced details about a long-awaited inquiry into the deaths and disappearances of more than 1,000 indigenous Canadian women.

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Turkey is warned against coercion on visas

Germany’s vice chancellor has warned Turkey that if it wants visa-free travel with EU countries it should adhere to European standards of law and not blackmail.

Newsweek

If Donald Trump dropped out of the race

Even by Donald Trump’s standards, the GOP nominee’s campaign has hit a new low, leading some to speculate what would happen if he doesn’t make it until election day.

NY Daily News

Norwegian prison touts respect, empowerment

Bastoy is an open prison, now part of the norm throughout Scandinavia, where prisoners can sometimes keep their jobs on the outside while serving time, commuting daily. Thirty percent of Norway’s prisons are open, and Bastoy is the system’s crown jewel.

Huffington Post

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Time Warner takes stake in Hulu

Time Warner Inc, the owner of CNN and the Cartoon Network channels, raised its profit forecast for the year and disclosed a 10 percent stake in streaming TV service Hulu.

MSN News

UK to use £11bn of foreign for trade deals

Britain will “leverage” its £11 billion foreign aid budget to build a series of new trade deals as it leaves the European Union.

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China‘s elevated ’straddling bus’ hits the road

It may look like something from the future, but China’s long-awaited “straddling bus” ran its inaugural test in Hebei province this week. The Transit Elevated Bus straddles the cars below, allowing them to pass through.

BBC

Apple may launch iPad mini 5 in September

Apple is expected to announce the much-talked-about iPhone 7 in September. Now, it’s rumored that the tech giant will also introduce the iPad mini 5. The new iPad is expected to be thinner and come with a more-efficient A9 processor.

Design&Trend

GLOBAL HEALTH

Generics fine for arthritis, IBS, psoriasis

Generic biologic drugs are just as safe and effective as their brand-name counterparts at treating rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis, a study suggests.

NewsMax

Human trials begin for Zika vaccines

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has injected two human volunteers with an experimental DNA-based Zika vaccine.

CNN

Miami: Zika’s arrival adds new anxieties

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Conner Narciso):

It’s an easy choice: everyone in the US military should vote for Clinton

Guardian

Column (Flavia Bustreo):

Early childhood development begins with a mother’s breast

World Health Organization

Column (Irene Pritzker):

Education in the developing world: Giving low-fee private schools a seat at the table

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Former gang rivals providing gourmet meals

Tired of life on the streets, friends in Los Angeles are putting aside gang colors to provide home-cooked, gourmet meals to members of their community. Their popularity has grown enormously thanks to social media.

NBCNews.com

Ice bucket challenge led to gene discovery

Project MinE has identified a gene that is responsible for ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in part because of the contributions made by the millions of people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge.

CNN

NGOs

45 NGOs call for end to tiger farming, trade

On Global Tiger Day this year, midway through the Global Tiger Recovery Program, 45 NGOs released a joint statement raising the alarm of increasing tiger poaching and call for ending all tiger farming and tiger trade.

National Geographic

Special section:

Protecting tiger habitat

Tigers in Crisis

Israel charges NGO with aiding Hamas

Israel charged the Gaza director of a major U.S.-based Christian NGO with having diverted millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas and its armed wing.

Daily Mail

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Is global aid reaching Syrians in need?

Charities trying to deliver aid across Syria to help victims of the worsening conflict, have admitted it is hard, if not impossible, to know where supplies end up and fear future funding could be at risk.

Reuters

Australia: Group donates uneaten airline food

OzHarvest, a food rescue group out of Australia is picking up leftover and perfectly edible grub from Brisbane airport and distributing it to charities in the area.

Huffington Post

ENVIRONMENT

US agencies told to project climate change

The White House Council on Environmental Quality recommends that agencies both calculate direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a project and assess how climate change might affect a project.

Scientific American

Rio pollution affects residents, athletes

According to the city authorities, nearly 70% of the residents living in the Guanabara Bay still lack basic sewage treatment and the large number of people living in favelas makes it difficult to bring in sewer lines.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

The Draken Harald Hårfagre, a replica Viking longboat that sailed (with an all volunteer crew) from Norway to North America to participate in summer festivals, was photographed in Chicago on Aug. 1. For information on the expedition: http://www.drakenexpeditionamerica.com (Photo by Tomošius) Photo used under CC BY

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