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The holy city of Jerusalem has been at the center of Mideast peacemaking efforts for decades. President Trump’s approach to it threatens to smash a long-standing international consensus in a disruptive and dangerous way. (Photo by Neta Bartal) Photo used under CC BY

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US recognizes Jerusalem as capital amid global fury

President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy and recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imperilling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting Washington’s friends and foes alike.

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Why is moving the US embassy to Jerusalem so contentious?

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Guardian

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Why Jerusalem is important to three major religions, and other questions answered

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USA TODAY

N Korea says US drills make war imminent

Large military drills being carried out by the United States and South Korea and U.S. threats of a preemptive war against Pyongyang have made the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula “an established fact”, North Korea’s foreign ministry said.

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Singapore Airlines changed U.S. route because of North Korean missiles

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DR Congo faces dire displacement crisis

Conflict has forced 1.7 million people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, causing “a mega-crisis”, aid agencies say. This means that for the second consecutive year, DR Congo is worst-affected by conflict displacement in the world.

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Scale of people fleeing Congo is ‘off the charts,’ group says

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Bloomberg

Taiwan passes law to review Chinese legacy

The “transitional justice” bill was passed by Taiwan’s legislature after lawmakers voted in favor of removing all symbols of the country’s authoritarian past. It is expected that President Tsai Ing-wen will ratify it within weeks.

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Conyers resigns amid harassment allegations

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, informing them of his decision to step down from Congress, amid allegations of sexual misconduct leveled by multiple women.

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John Conyers retires from Congress, endorses son, amid harassment scandal

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Pentagon: 2,000 US military troops in Syria

The Defense Department acknowledged that the U.S. has roughly 2,000 troops on the ground in Syria, four times more than what officials had claimed just a month ago. The military had as recently as November said the official troop count in Syria was 503.

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The Hill

HUMAN RIGHTS

China’s laborers being forced out of cities

Beijing’s eviction of migrants which started last month, and reports of heavy-handed tactics by authorities have sparked one of the biggest political controversies of the year in China. The wave of evictions are also happening in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

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AU to help evacuate migrants from Libya

The African Union and member states will repatriate more than 15,000 migrants stranded in Libya by the end of the year amid outrage over recent footage that showed migrants being auctioned off as slaves, the AU’s deputy chairman said.

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FOX News

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Rescued from Libya, jobless Senegalese migrants likely to return

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Reuters

Austria’s top court OKs same-sex marriage

Same-sex couples will be allowed to marry in Austria from 2019, according to a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court. The ruling will will keep civil partnerships as an option and will open them up to straight couples.

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Austrian court rules same-sex couples can marry from 2019

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DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Vladimir Putin is running for re-election in 2018

Vladimir Putin said that he will seek a new six-year presidential term at elections in March. If he wins, Putin will have spent 24 years as Russian leader by the end of his term in 2024, including four years when he was prime minister but still called the shots.

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Russia’s Olympic ban strengthens Putin’s reelection hand

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CNBC

Cuba attack victims have brain abnormalities

U.S. embassy workers in Havana who were subject to mysterious, loud noises and vibrations in an invisible attack last year were found to have developed brain abnormalities, doctors have discovered.

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U.S. News & World Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nuclear fusion project hits halfway point

A vast international experiment designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of energy is halfway toward completion, the organization behind the project said. The reactor in France has been dogged by delays and a surge in costs to about $23.7 billion.

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Farthest monster black hole found

Astronomers have discovered the most distant “supermassive” black hole known to science. The matter-munching sinkhole is a whopping 13 billion light-years away, so far that we see it as it was a mere 690 million years after the Big Bang.

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BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

UNICEF: Babies’ brains damaged by pollution

17 million babies under the age of one are breathing toxic air, putting their brain development at risk, UNICEF, the UN children’s agency has warned. Babies in South Asia are the most affected.

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BBC

Vaccine safety concerns shut down campaigns

The world’s only vaccine against dengue has hit a roadblock, and this complication is causing some countries to restrict use of the vaccine. The Philippines has suspended a mass immunization campaign and Brazil has tightened restrictions on the shot.

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Dengue vaccine found to worsen disease symptoms

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GOOD NEWS

Man pays it forward, adopts foster kids

Barry Farmer has adopted three sons as a single dad over the past six years and their interracial family have become a beacon of hope for those in the foster care system. He himself was raised in the kinship care system.

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NewsMax

Boy collects toys for children in need

A 9-year-old boy from Washington County has spent nearly half of his life helping others at Christmastime. Colby Jeffrey has collected more than 2,500 toys for children in need in the last three years.

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Pittsburgh’s Action News 4

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Making the most of your charitable donations

Altogether, charitable giving has increased year over year almost every year since 1976, Charity Navigator said. Last year, it reached a record $390 billion, and this year is on track to surpass even that.

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CNBC

#GivingTuesday raises estimated $274M

An estimated $274 million was raised online in the United States during the sixth annual Giving Tuesday event. The total represents a 50 percent increase over last year’s total.

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Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Environment chief warns of plastics in oceans

UN Environment Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Erik Solheim has said that he is hoping that the Nairobi summit will be a turning point, and referred to the dumping of plastics into oceans as an “ocean Armageddon.”

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Wild crops listed as threatened

Wild relatives of modern crops deemed crucial for food security are being pushed to the brink of extinction. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, intensive farming, deforestation and urban sprawl are the main factors causing this.

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BBC

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Ireland, N Ireland border plagues Brexit talks

Just days before a crucial deadline in Brexit negotiations, British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing what some analysts say is an unsolvable problem that endangers her government and grip on power.

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UK has 48 hours to agree potential deal or Brexit talks cannot progress

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Guardian

Government shutdown would hurt economy

Economist Beth Ann Bovino has cautioned that failure to extend funding for U.S. government agencies by December 8 could have a significant impact on consumer spending in the coming weeks.

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Shot in Ireland in August 2017. (Photo by Ken Walton) Photo used under CC BY

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