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Deforestation is starving São Paulo of water

São Paulo could face more devastating water shortages if farmers continue to clear the Amazon forest, warns the utility chief who recently steered the biggest city in the Americas from the edge of drought catastrophe.

Guardian

Muslim population in Europe projected to rise

A prominent U.S. think tank has projected that Muslims’ share of the population in Europe will rise. Excluding migration, the researchers expect Muslims to make up 7.4 percent of Europe’s population by mid-century.

Deutsche Welle

Special section:

5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe

Pew Research Center

Journalists living in fear as states crack down

The problem is no longer limited to totalitarian regimes that have dismantled free media. Independent journalists are under siege in a growing cohort of supposedly freer countries such as Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, Kenya, Poland, Hungary and Cambodia.

Guardian

Bosnian war criminal swallows poison in court

A former Bosnian Croat general has died after apparently swallowing poison as a judge at the Hague upheld his 20-year sentence for war crimes. Footage showed Slobodan Praljak tilt his head back and drink from a small glass bottle as the judge read out the verdict.

CNN

Prosecutors investigate Bosnian war criminal’s courtroom suicide

USA TODAY

Canada apologises for historical LGBT ‘purge’

Canada has apologised to members of the LGBT community for a historical government policy that systematically “purged” thousands of people from the public service, police and military on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Al Jazeera

Trudeau promises $100m for LGBT soldiers and apologises for ‘gay purge’

International Business Times UK

HUMAN RIGHTS

DREAMers plan future amid DACA uncertainty

As politicians in Washington try and figure out what to do with the DACA program — Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals — across the country, DACA recipients are working on their own plans to try to stay in the U.S.

NPR

Egypt jails 16 in continued LGBT crackdown

Sixteen men arrested last month during a crackdown on homosexuality by Egyptian authorities have been sentenced to three years. A Cairo court found them guilty of “inciting debauchery” and “abnormal sexual relations.”

BBC

Police accounts, videos differ on Manila killings

The footage casts new doubts on the official accounts of police killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s 17-month war on drugs. In June, Reuters revealed that police have shot hundreds of people during anti-drug operations, then taken them to hospitals where they are declared dead on arrival.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Net migration to UK falls after Brexit vote

Net migration is estimated to have fallen by nearly a third to 230,000 in the year to June, new figures show. It is the first time that a full year of data has been available since the UK voted to leave the EU last June.

BBC

German city gets green light to ban refugees

City officials say thousands of Syrian refugees who have moved to Salzgitter are making things worse, overwhelming government-provided services and schools. So last month, the Lower Saxony state government voted to ban refugees from moving to Salzgitter.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Expanding DNA’s alphabet produces proteins

Scientists are expanding the genetic code of life, using man-made DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria — and new research shows those altered microbes actually worked to produce proteins unlike those found in nature.

ABC News

Potential life support for Great Barrier Reef

A group of “source” reefs have been identified that could form the basis of a life support system for the Great Barrier Reef, helping repair damage by bleaching, starfish and other disturbances.

Guardian

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef receives fertility treatment

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

West Africa’s growing population is a concern

If West Africa’s population continues to grow at its current pace, it will drive fiercer competition for resources. But puritanical Wahhabist imams and some traditional religious leaders across the region preach against the use of contraception.

Reuters

HIV, spread by sex, rising among Iranian youth

Iran has seen a surge in the number of HIV infections spread by sex among its youth. That has led to growing uncomfortable questions in the Islamic Republic, where sex outside of marriage is prohibited and those who practice it can face arrest and severe punishment.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Holocaust survivor gives $1M to relief projects

An 83-year-old French Holocaust survivor, Bernard Darty, donated $1 million to hurricane relief projects as a thank you to the GIs who rescued him 73 years after they stormed the beaches of Normandy.

Daily Mail

11-year-old wins $25,000 science prize

Gitanjali Rao, a seventh grader from Colorado, has been awarded the title of “America’s top young scientist” for designing a compact device to detect lead in drinking water, which she believes can be faster and cheaper than other current methods.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Facebook dumps fees, adds $50M for charities

Facebook will eliminate all transaction fees for donations made through its platform and will establish a $50 million annual matching fund for charities. Those changes were announced during the second annual Social Good Forum in Lower Manhattan.

NonProfit Times

Facebook is dropping its fundraising fees for nonprofits, but not for personal causes

Quartz

Nonprofits may have helped end ’90s crime

In more than 20 years across 264 cities, nonprofit organizations focused on things like reducing crime, mitigating violence and building community per 100,000 have been proven to reduce murder rates, violent crime, and property crime.

MinnPost

ENVIRONMENT

Climate scientists watch words for funding

National Science Foundation grants with the term “climate change” in the public summary are down 40 percent this year. Some scientists say they are avoiding the term, hoping to protect funding for their research.

NPR

Glitter may be bad for the environment

Most glitters are in essence teeny tiny bits of shiny plastic, called microplastics. They are a well-known environmental hazard for the world’s oceans.

CNN

BUSINESS AND TRADE

OPEC may extend oil production cuts

The cartel and other major producers including Russia are meeting in Vienna to consider extending production cuts that are set to expire in March 2018. Saudi Arabia, the group’s de-facto leader, wants to prolong the supply cuts.

CNNMoney

Oil mixed as OPEC extends cuts

Reuters

Bitcoin too small to threaten world economy

Bitcoin is too small to pose a risk to the global economy, according to a senior Bank of England executive, as the cryptocurrency passed the $10,000 barrier for the first time.

Guardian

US home prices leap at highest pace in 3 years

U.S. home prices rose at the fastest pace in more than three years in September, lifted by a record-low supply of houses for sale. Home buyers are desperately bidding up prices because so few properties are available.

San Jose Mercury News

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A stone-laying ceremony takes place for a new convention center being erected at Belur Math, West Bengal, India. Belur Math is at the heart of the Ramakrishna movement. (Photo by Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Belur Math) Photo used under CC BY

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