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Buddhist monks participate in evening prayers in Mandalay, Myanmar. Many Buddhists object to the government’s plan to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled the country for their safety. (Photo by Reflected Serendipity) Photo used under CC BY

Myanmar Buddhists don’t want Rohingya back

Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested to urge Myanmar’s government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh since late August to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Associated Press

How Myanmar’s Buddhists feel about the Rohingya

CNN

Baha’is seek to ‘unify humanity’ on anniversary

The world’s 5 million to 6 million Baha’is are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the faith’s prophet founder. The monotheistic religion has come a long way since Baha’u’llah, a native of Persia, was imprisoned for heresy.

Jerusalem Post

Does Iran require Baha’i students to renounce faith?

The New Arab

Catalonia may declare itself independent

The Catalan parliament will meet over the coming days to agree its response to the Spanish government’s unprecedented decision to impose direct rule as speculation mounts that the regional president will press ahead with a unilateral declaration of independence.

Guardian

Catalonia’s ’silent majority’ frustrated over lack of anti-independence campaign

Sky News

Japan trusts Abe to address N. Korea threat

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition has won a resounding victory in the general election, according to exit polls. On hearing of his victory, he said he would “firmly deal with” threats from North Korea.

BBC

Tillerson urges Europe to back Iran sanctions

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on European governments to join a U.S.-led sanctions regime against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, saying that countries doing business with the Islamic Republic’s force do so at their own risk.

Bloomberg

Freed Putin critic resumes presidential bid

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny held a political rally hours after being released from jail and pledged to continue his presidential campaign despite the authorities saying he is ineligible to stand.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

China dissidents must ‘vacation’ amid congress

Hu Jia, a well-known Chinese dissident who lives in Beijing, is one dozens of activists and dissidents detained, placed under tighter monitoring or “vacationed” by authorities, during the weeklong congress of the ruling Communist Party in Beijing.

Reuters

Plot against Chinese president reportedly foiled

Asia Times Online

UN panel damns Australia’s rights record

Australia has been excoriated before the UN human rights committee for its “chronic non-compliance” with the committee’s recommendations, drawing particular condemnation over the mandatory detention of children and the same-sex marriage survey.

Guardian

Australia elected to UN Human Rights Council amid concerns of refugee rights abuses

Australian Broadcasting Company

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

N. Korea’s nuke test mountain near collapse

North Korea’s nuclear tests are not only raising fears around the world, they are causing the peak under which the bombs are being detonated to suffer “tired mountain syndrome.”

FOX News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Toward efficient high-pressure desalination

One of the biggest operational challenges for desalination plants is the fouling of membranes by microbes. New research suggests a novel approach to reducing the rate of fouling, and thus improving desalination plant efficiency.

ScienceDaily

Gravitational-wave astronomy starts in earnest

Two weeks after this year’s Nobel physics prize was awarded “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” that detector has produced its most interesting finding.

Economist

Astronomers observed merging of neutron stars

Forbes

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO cancels Mugabe appointment after outcry

The World Health Organization has removed the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, as a goodwill ambassador following outrage among donors and rights groups at his appointment.

Guardian

WHO cancer agency edited weedkiller report

When the International Agency for Research on Cancer assessed the best-selling weedkiller glyphosate, significant changes were made between a draft of its report and the published version. The agency won’t say who made the changes or why.

Reuters

Childbirth deaths still high in Asian nations

An estimated 85,000 mothers died in 2015 from childbirth in the region, home to more than half of the world‘s population and some of its fastest growing economies, U.N. figures show, with the maternal mortality rate seen as a key way to measure improvement in a nation’s health.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Midwives treated ‘like civil servants’ battle Cambodia’s maternal deaths

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Peter Grier):

Could smaller, local measures offer a way forward on gun control?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Graeme Wood):

The bloody end of ISIS’ utopian dream

The Atlantic

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Proposed deal proves Hamas rule was a disaster for Palestinians

CNN

Column (Laurent Belsie):

NFL owners to meet, with racial divide on the agenda

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Trump might actually wreck NAFTA, believe him

Bloomberg

Column (Daniel Speckhard):

Puerto Rico shows how much of the world fares when disaster strikes

The Hill

Editorial:

Stop Big Pharma from ‘getting away with murder’

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Girl gets new prosthetics after fire takes hers

After a little girl lost her prosthetic limbs to the fires in her Santa Rosa neighborhood last week, the Hanger Clinic stepped in to fit her with new prosthetics for free.

NBCNews.com

Man buys 58 meals in honor of Vegas victims

A man stepped up to the counter at Maple’s Bakery in Yarmouth, Maine, and requested to pay for himself and the 58 customers to follow. He told the staff he wanted to honor the victims of the Las Vegas shooting rampage.

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Philanthropist to commit $1.5B to conservation

Continuing a trend demonstrating the increasing power of the nonprofit sector in China, a leading Chinese female business leader, He Qiaonv, has pledged $1.5 billion toward wildlife conservation efforts.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Google to give $1B to nonprofits for job growth

Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the largest philanthropic pledge to date from the Internet giant.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

A brief history of the Earth’s CO2

Climate change is one of the biggest problems faced by humankind, and carbon dioxide is its primary driver. A professor explains why this gas has played a crucial role in shaping the Earth’s climate.

BBC

Ethiopia now leads the Nile Basin Initiative

Ethiopia has assumed leadership of the Nile Basin Initiative, taking over from Uganda. Ethiopia will chair both the Nile Council of Ministers and the Nile Technical Advisory Committee of the NBI for the next one year.

The Independent

Special section:

Death of the Nile

BBC

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Central banks in limbo amid transitions, polls

Central banks in the U.S., Europe and Japan are unlikely to make any major policy shifts for the rest of the year. In Japan, Shinzo Abe’s resounding win in a snap election will see his ultra-easy monetary policy continue for the foreseeable future.

Asia Times Online

Infrastructure explains China’s corporate debt

Corporate debt levels in China look huge by international comparison. But a detailed look at the country’s corporate debt shows that infrastructure spending rather than speculation explains most of the debt growth of the past 10 years.

Asia Times Online

China stalls currency internationalization

At the Communist Party’s 19th congress, much will be made of the triumphs achieved in nearly four decades of reform. Expect a glossing over of one part of that process where progress has largely stalled: the “internationalisation” of China’s currency, the yuan.

Economist

Photo of the Day

The Fremont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas. The FSE occupies the westernmost five blocks of Fremont Street, including the area known for years as “Glitter Gulch,” and portions of adjacent streets. The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy, 90 feet high at the peak and four blocks long. (Photo by Bernard Spragg) Photo used under CC BY

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