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Police in Hamburg, Germany, attempt to violently quell protesters at the “Welcome To Hell Protest” at the G20 summit. Shot Friday, July 7, 2017. (Photo by Thorsten Schröder) Photo used under CC BY

Anti-G20 protesters clash with police in Hamburg

In the culmination of a day of violent clashes between police and protesters, the heads of the world’s 20 leading economies listening to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” while police used water cannon, teargas and speed boats to keep at bay an angry crowd of thousands.

Guardian

G20: A summit full of contradictions

Deutsche Welle

Trump and Putin debate US election hack

BBC

G20 protesters set street fires, loot stores

CNN

Aid workers evacuated in South Sudan

South Sudan’s rebels said a government offensive was pushing toward their main stronghold in the northeast. The United Nations announced at least 25 aid workers had been evacuated amid escalating clashes.

Reuters

Putin, Trump plan to halt election cybermeddling

U.S. President Donald Trump opened his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin with repeated questions about Russia‘s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The two agreed to work toward an agreement not to meddle in each other’s elections.

USA TODAY

Trump emerges from Putin meeting with cease-fire and little else

Bloomberg

Gaza Strip’s fight to defeat resistance

The Gaza Strip, a tiny coastal strip that has been under Israeli-Egyptian siege for over 10 years, outweighs its size many times over in the ongoing political gamble involving the region’s most powerful players.

Al Jazeera

Church calls Venezuela’s Maduro dictatorial

Venezuela’s Catholic Church has criticized President Nicolás Maduro’s decision to have the constitution rewritten, saying the reforms would turn the country into a “dictatorship.”

BBC

Physicists discover ‘charming’ heavy particle

The world’s largest atom smasher has revealed a new kind of particle, and so far, it leads a charmed existence. The discovery of the particle, which is made up of two so-called charm quarks, validates the predictions of the reigning model of particle physics.

LiveScience

HUMAN RIGHTS

2,700 migrants removed from ‘illegal camps’

More than 2,700 migrants and refugees were removed from illegal roadside camps in northern Paris. Hundreds of displaced people had established makeshift sleeping arrangements below bridges, and on nearby pavements.

CNN

Humanitarian crisis looms in Iraq

The Islamic State faces defeat. But a humanitarian crisis looms for survivors, many of them children, who are suffering from dehydration and malnutrition in northern Iraq.

USA TODAY

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Qatar-Gulf crisis: All the latest updates

The latest news after some of the Gulf states and Egypt cut ties with Qatar and imposed a land, sea and air blockade.

Al Jazeera

Group vows new measures against Qatar

Al Jazeera

Appeals court dismisses travel ban challenge

A federal appeals court has dismissed Hawaii’s attempt to challenge the rules created by the Trump administration for its travel ban on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries.

USA TODAY

How much does China influence N. Korea?

President Trump says Beijing isn’t doing enough, but it’s difficult to measure the country’s influence. China has more influence on the North Korean leadership than any other nation, but is it enough to persuade Kim Jong Un to stop testing missiles and nuclear devices?

The Atlantic

As threat rises, China and US grow apart

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What are best responses to N. Korea testing?

Scientific American spoke with Wright about the significance of North Korea’s first ICBM launch, the state of U.S. missile defense and the best option for easing decades of dangerous tension centered around the volatile Korean Peninsula.

Scientific American

Windows double as solar panels

A tech startup on a mission to make modern commercial and housing estates energy neutral has outfitted the headquarters of a Dutch bank with the world’s first commercial, fully transparent solar-power-generating windows.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Extreme gardening to help tackle malaria

Gardening could be a powerful weapon against malaria, culling mosquito populations by cutting off their food supply, say researchers.

BBC

10 million Yemeni children need urgent help

Most children in Yemen lack medical care, adequate nutrition, fresh water, sanitation and education, UN body says.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Conditions behind outbreaks in Yemen

The Independent

Mosul population ‘traumatized’ by conflict

The population of Mosul has endured huge suffering in the war to retake the northern Iraqi city from ISIS and trauma cases among civilians are sharply rising in the last stages of battle, said Doctors Without Borders.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Malala celebrates graduation with first tweet

Malala Yousafzai, a women’s rights advocate recognized worldwide for speaking out against inequality, has picked up a new way of spreading her message. The 19-year-old sent out her first tweet.

CNN

Sikh community saves fireworks display

When the mayor of Visalia, in California’s agricultural Central Valley, mentioned to a local Sikh businessman that the city of 120,000 might have to forgo a July Fourth fireworks display because of financial concerns, the religious community jumped.

NBCNews.com

Cop adopts child he rescued from abuse

Two years ago, Officer Jody Thompson was pulling into the parking lot at the Poteau Police Department in Oklahoma to drop off his partner when he overheard a dispatch about a case of physical child abuse.

MSN News

Rescued pit bull elected town mayor

As Brynneth Pawltro, the latest mayor of the small Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash, settles into office, town residents are praising her as outgoing and having a great smile. She also happens to be a dog.

Huffington Post

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Kellogg Foundation to give $24 million

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation initiative to fight racism recently announced $24 million in grants to 14 organizations in communities throughout the U.S.

Star Tribune

$30 million awarded to immigrant students

TheDream.US has announced scholarships totaling $30 million to more than 1,200 undocumented immigrant college students across the country.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Does the Ganges have right to a cleanup?

The Ganges is India’s most worshipped body of water. It’s also the most polluted. The headwaters lie in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand where an unusual bid to clean up the river is underway. The state’s high court has declared the Ganges to be a “living entity.”

NPR

Ganges: Endangered Source

National Geographic

Natural disasters may widen income gap

Natural disasters in the United States may cause an increase in poverty and a widening economic gap between rich and poor, according to a new study published in Scientific American.

NPR

Seven climate change hotspots

Guardian

France to restrict use of palm oil in biofuels

France will take steps to restrict the use of palm oil in producing biofuels in order to reduce deforestation in the countries of origin, said French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Qatari CEOs are confident despite dispute

Geopolitical uncertainties in the region have been bad for business, but the CEO of the Qatar Financial Centre told CNBC the the country has previously weathered worse economic conditions.

CNBC

S. Africa’s central bank is under fire

The anti-graft ombudsman told parliament on to start the process of changing the constitution to force the Reserve Bank to focus on the “socioeconomic well-being of the citizens” rather than on inflation.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for more than two hours Friday during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Bundesregierung/Kugler) Photo used under CC BY

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