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A Congolese woman carries a basin full of coals on her head. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most people use charcoal and wood for cooking. (Photo by MONUSCO Photos) Photo used under CC BY

Charcoal use in DRC drives forest loss, conflict

More than 2.5 billion people worldwide depend on biomass (which includes charcoal, fuelwood and animal dung) for cooking every day. In the DRC, an estimated 90 percent of people rely on fuelwood and charcoal, while only 9 percent of people in the country have electricity.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

African migrants marooned in Algeria

There are around 100,000 African migrants in Algeria, according to estimates, most from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Algerian authorities have been rounding up and deporting hundreds of migrants, according to human rights groups.

Guardian

EU hastens deportation of those denied asylum

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

A year after Thai king’s death, junta in command

Thailand’s military government has emerged from the year of official mourning for King Bhumibol Adulyadej with a firm grip on power and in no apparent rush to hold elections.

Associated Press

Australia closes camp; refugees refuse to leave

Refugees held by Australia in Papua New Guinea have barricaded themselves inside a detention center and launched legal action to fight its closure. Detainees fear for their safety after crowds reportedly gathered chanting “don’t come out.”

BBC

Papua New Guinea: Australia solely responsible for Manus refugees

BBC

Australia’s asylum boat turnbacks are illegal and risk lives, says UN special reporter

Guardian

Catalan separatists seek refuge in Belgium

Catalonia’s leaders are reportedly seeking safety in Brussels as they face criminal charges for spearheading the region’s independence movement, throwing up a potentially awkward situation between Belgium, the EU and Spain.

CNBC

Catalan leader ‘not seeking asylum in Belgium’

CNN

Uncertainty continues as Catalan leaders face sedition charges

TIME

Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere in 2016 was 50 percent higher than the average of the past 10 years. Researchers say a combination of human activities and the El Niño weather phenomenon drove it to a level not seen in 800,000 years.

BBC

World Meteorological Organization: CO2 levels surged to record high in 2016

CBS News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Myanmar points fingers for repatriation delay

Myanmar insisted it was ready to set up a repatriation process for Rohingya Muslims even as more risked their lives fleeing the country, but it voiced fears Bangladesh was delaying an accord to first get international aid money.

Reuters

The US is on the verge of calling out Myanmar for ethnic cleansing

Vox

Myanmar detained journalists for flying drone

TIME

Refugees in Greece start hunger strike

A group of mainly Syrian women and children who have been stranded in Greece pitched tents opposite parliament in Athens in a protest against delays in reuniting with relatives in Germany.

Reuters

Official: Trump, Duterte enjoy ‘warm rapport’

The White House has been condemned by human rights watchdogs after stating that Donald Trump enjoys “a warm rapport” with Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president whose war on drugs has led to thousands of extrajudicial killings.

Guardian

Philippines’ Duterte says he will deal with Trump in ‘most righteous way’

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Liberia court halts presidential runoff

Liberia’s supreme court has ordered a halt to preparations for next week’s runoff election amid allegations of fraud in the first round.

Guardian

Liberian president denies interfering in vote for successor

Bloomberg

Hamas cedes control of Gaza border crossings

The Islamic militant group Hamas handed over control of Gaza’s border crossings with Israel and Egypt to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority, taking the first tangible step toward implementing a reconciliation deal with the rival Fatah movement.

Associated Press

US to pay $60M for new counterterrorism force

The United States pledged $60 million towards a new counterterrorism force in West Africa, almost a month after four American soldiers were killed in an Islamist militant attack in Niger.

Newsweek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Can Japan burn flammable ice for energy?

Worldwide there are up to 2,800 trillion cubic meters of methane-bearing gas hydrates, according to the United States Energy Information Administration. Gas hydrates are thought to contain more energy than all the world’s other fossil fuels combined.

CNN

Brain patterns may predict suicide risk

People who are thinking about suicide appear to have distinctive brain activity that can now be measured by a computer. The words like “death” and “trouble” produce a distinctive “neural signature,” scientists report in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Doctors: Global warming takes health toll

Global warming is hurting people’s health a bit more than previously thought, but there’s hope that the Earth — and populations — can heal if the planet kicks its coal habit, a group of doctors and other experts said.

Associated Press

Lack of power in PR strains health care system

Forty days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, most of the U.S. territory remains without power. The Puerto Rican government has prioritized getting power back to hospitals, but many smaller clinics and doctor’s offices still don’t have electricity.

NPR

Pesticides in produce linked to IVF failures

A new report has found a potentially harmful link between eating fruits and vegetables high in pesticides and having lower reproductive rates.

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Winnie Byanyima):

The makings of a more human economy

Al Jazeera

Column (Maysam Behravesh):

The unlikely – and ironic – effects of Islamic State’s fall in Iraq

Reuters

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Why globalization is seen as a failure in the West

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Opera singer, lung donor’s daughter perform

An opera singer who underwent a double-lung transplant had the performance of a lifetime as she shared the stage with her donor’s daughter. Best-selling classical artist Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick’s career was almost thwarted by a potentially fatal disease.

ABC News

Police give away Halloween costumes

The Santa Rosa Police Department held a costume giveaway for more than 1,000 kids who saw their homes damaged or destroyed by the California wildfires. Thousands of donations of costumes and Halloween treats poured into the community.

ABC News

Couple gets engaged in costume as Belle and the Beast

Yahoo! News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

For Bezos, philanthropy is ‘saved for later’

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos may have surpassed Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates to be the richest person in the world, but there’s one title he isn’t likely to claim: world’s most generous.

Bloomberg

Nonprofits steer donors to give cash, not items

In the aftermath of hurricanes, most organizations prefer donors send cash instead of things to support disaster relief efforts, money being more flexible with low overheads over goods.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

UN: Emissions gap remains ‘alarmingly high’

In its annual review, the UN says the gap between carbon cutting plans and the reductions required to keep temperature rises below 2 degrees Celsius is “alarmingly high”. Pledges made so far cover only one-third of the cuts needed by 2030 to keep below that goal.

BBC

Climate change may displace 1 billion people

A new study from The Lancet says that more than a billion people could be forced to flee their homes because of global warming. Extreme changes in rainfall and temperature are destroying their ability to farm.

The Independent

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Tesla sued for Model 3 delays

Tesla said on Oct. 2 that it could only build 260 of its Model 3 cars during the third quarter, rather than the 1,500 it had forecast to investors earlier in the year. The company claimed that “a handful” of assembly lines had taken “longer to activate than expected.”

CNNMoney

Growth of e-commerce could mean more jobs

The surge in e-commerce has required the rapid build-out of a vast network of warehouses and delivery systems that include both robots and human workers. The robots didn’t take jobs from people, because many of the jobs didn’t exist before.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

The opening ceremony of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi, Russia. The World Festival of Youth and Students has been held since 1947 as a show of solidarity between socialist and capitalist countries and a mutual rejection of war and imperialism. (Photo by Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation) Photo used under CC BY

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