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Changes in Cuba policy hurt Trump competitors

The proposed changes in U.S.-Cuba relations that President Donald Trump has unveiled could adversely impact hotel brands that directly compete with Trump’s business empire, making it harder for them expand their foothold in Cuba.

CNN

Trump rolls back Obama changes to Cuba relations

CBS News

Trump being investigated over Comey firing

President Trump said in tweets that he is “being investigated” for firing FBI Director James Comey “by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director.” The tweet was one of several sent by Trump. He concluded the investigation tweet with the comment: “Witch Hunt.”

The Hill

Pence hires lawyer with relevant experience; Mueller builds team

MSNBC

20% of kids in developed countries living in poverty

A report by the UN children’s agency UNICEF has revealed the high level of child poverty in the first world. Germany was ranked among the best-scoring countries, while child poverty in the U.S. was above the global average.

Deutsche Welle

Putin, in pre-election year, pledges to erase spiraling poverty

Reuters

New Cold War raging in the Indian Ocean

Great power competition between the U.S., India, Japan and Australia on one side, and China on the other, is raising the strategic stakes in the maritime area.

Asia Times Online

Has Russian strike killed ISIS leader Baghdadi?

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been killed in a Russian air strike in Raqqa, Syria, which took place following intelligence reports that the ISIS chief was meeting with commanders.

The Independent

ISIS’ terror will live on, with or without Baghdadi

CNN

6 convicted in 1993 Mumbai bombings

Twenty-four years after 12 bomb blasts in Mumbai killed 257 people and injured 713, a special terrorism court has convicted six terrorists of carrying out the atrocity.

Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gulf nations address human rights issue

The Permanent Missions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations in Geneva, have issued a joint statement on the comment by the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the sovereign measures taken against Qatar.

MSN

UN: Prevent policy is ‘inherently flawed’

The report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the UK, first published in May, was highly critical of Prevent, UK counter-terror legislation, the impact of lobbying laws on charities, and trade union laws.

BBC

France’s Macron says new anti-terrorism law to respect public freedoms

Investing.com

UN experts decry deteriorating rights in Bahrain

U.N. human rights experts are denouncing a “sharp deterioration” in the rights situation in Bahrain, including an intensifying crackdown on opposition parties and a Shiite religious leader.

ABC News

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Trump rolls back changes in US-Cuba relations

Pressing “pause” on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility with a blistering denunciation of the island’s communist government. He clamped down on some commerce and travel but left intact many new avenues President Barack Obama had opened.

Associated Press

Trump set to limit U.S. travel and business in Cuba

Reuters

Thousands protest for more refugees in Madrid

For the second time in a matter of months, thousands of Spaniards have demanded their government do its part for refugees. Spain has resettled fewer than ten percent of the refugees it promised to take in by September.

Deutsche Welle

Civil Rights Commission probes administration

The US Commission on Civil Rights announced that it will investigate the Trump administration’s enforcement of civil rights, saying it has concerns about the impact of proposed budget and staff cuts across the federal government.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Early stress confers lifelong vulnerability

Early life stress encodes lifelong susceptibility to stress through long-lasting transcriptional programming in a brain reward region implicated in mood and depression, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in the journal Science.

ScienceDaily

3D printing can mend a broken heart

Each year, more than 700,000 people suffer myocardial infarction, aka a heart attack. Thanks to medical advances, there are myriad ways for a doctor to get the blood properly pumping and save a person’s life. A cardiologist might give a patient medication to clear or loosen blockages. Or a doctor might insert a catheter to remove the clot, or place stents in the artery so it stays open.

Newsweek

Aircrafts could fly 4,000 MPH by 2030

American and Chinese defense giants are moving quickly to reach the edge of space, aiming to launch hypersonic aircraft that can cross continents in under an hour. What exactly does hypersonic mean? Speeds of over Mach 5, or more than 3,835 miles per hour.

Popular Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Cholera ravages Yemen

Over the past six weeks, more than 124,000 suspected cholera cases have been reported. To put this in perspective, there were only 172,000 cases reported globally to the World Health Organization for all of 2015. To be fair, many cholera cases go unreported each year, but by any standard the current outbreak in Yemen is huge.

NPR

Risk of polio spread spikes in DRC

wo separate outbreaks of polio have been reported in remote parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a setback for large-scale efforts to eradicate the highly infectious and potentially fatal disease.

CNN

Bird Flu Virus human transmission likely

The H7N9 bird flu virus has influenza scientists on edge, due to an unexpected surge of human infections — hundreds of cases — caused by the virus this spring.

Scientific American

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GOOD NEWS

Teen twins have helped the needy for 10 years

When 15-year-old twins Jake and Max Klein have a birthday, everybody wins! The New Jersey brothers started a non-profit called “Kids That Do Good” to support local and national causes regardless of a volunteer’s age.

MSN

Bionic eye helps man see

A bionic eye implant has helped Anthony Andreotolla gain back some vision. It’s not eyesight in the way most people see, but the technology is making a difference in his daily life.

MSN

Krispy Kreme is giving teachers free coffee

Through June and July, teachers who show proper ID can get a free coffee with the purchase of a regularly priced item at participating shops, the company announced on social media.

Today

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Athlete runs to raise funds for charities

He plans to run up to 50 kilometres a day, six days a week, assisted by a team of volunteers with support vehicles and a motorhome, while raising money for autism and mental health charities.

ABC News

Massachusetts Eye and Ear receives $20M

Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, has announced a gift of more than $20 million from an anonymous donor in support of research on hearing and hearing loss.

Philanthropy News Digest

Bezos helps the neediest with his philanthropy

Jeff Bezos, one of the world’s wealthiest business leaders, hasn’t given big sums to charities yet, but he signaled today that he is ready to do so — and made clear that he is more interested in giving money to charities that directly help people in desperation than in building institutions that will last for generations.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Yellowstone prevents mussels’ spread

Yellowstone National Park officials are installing barriers in front of boat launches in an attempt to prevent invasive mussels recently discovered in Montana from spreading to the park and into the Columbia River Basin.

Associated Press

Pope wants Merkel to save Paris climate deal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Pope Francis encouraged her to work to preserve the historic Paris climate accord despite the U.S. withdrawal from it and shared her goal to “bring down walls” between countries, not build them.

Associated Press

European demand on Africa’s superfood

After quinoa, coconut water and kale, the new superfood craze is baobab, packed with vitamin C, calcium and antioxidants. But as the West falls for Africa’s “tree of life,” is it being overexploited?

Deutsche Welle

BUSINESS

Scores of farm workers march at Ben & Jerry’s

Scores of dairy farm workers and activists marched Saturday to a Ben & Jerry’s factory to push for better pay and living conditions on farms that provide milk for the ice cream maker that takes pride in its social activism.

Associated Press

Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

Amazon.com Inc said it would buy Whole Foods Market Inc for $13.7 billion, in an embrace of brick-and-mortar stores that could turn the high-end grocer into a mass-market merchant and upend the already struggling U.S. retail industry.

Reuters

Buying Whole Foods could complete an Amazon ecosystem a decade in the making

Popular Science

Texas companies have worker shortages

Though construction is in high demand in Texas’ booming capital city, Oscar Martinez’s drywall company is suddenly struggling.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

This rally and march at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul was one of dozens held across the U.S. last weekend. Supporters of LGBT rights celebrated their gains but voice anger over threats to those advances. (Photo by Fibonacci Blue) Photo used under CC BY

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