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North Korea‘s testing of missiles and US President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash “fire and fury” on the nation have stirred anxiety on the streets of Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Mario Sánchez Prada) Photo used under CC BY

N. Korea preparing to fire missiles near Guam

North Korea said it would finalize plans for missile launches near Guam by the middle of this month and then wait for a green light from leader Kim Jong Un before carrying them out.

NPR

Lawmakers slam Trump’s threat to N. Korea

CNN

Interview:

How will N. Korea react to mixed signals from US?

PBS NewsHour

Canada builds camp for refugees from US

The Canadian military is building a camp to house the growing number of refugees crossing the US border. The camp would house up to 500 asylum seekers in Quebec, near Plattsburgh, New York. More than 3,300 people have crossed into Quebec this year.

BBC

Transgender troops sue Trump over service ban

Five transgender members of the U.S. military including Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans sued President Donald Trump on Wednesday, challenging his ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces.

Reuters

Parents sue private school over gender-based mandates

San Jose Mercury News

Venezuela opposition joins regional elections

Venezuelan opposition parties plan to participate in regional governor elections even as President Nicolas Maduro and his allies continue a campaign of political persecution against them.

Bloomberg

White House, State tussle over pressuring Venezuela

McClatchy Newspapers

Rape survivor, 10, denied abortion in India

A 10-year-old girl residing in the Indian city of Chandigarh has been denied an abortion after allegedly being raped repeatedly by a relative, the BBC news agency reported. The girl’s story has taken the country by storm after the high court rejected the abortion request.

Al Arabiya

Countries around world move to repeal ‘marry your rapist’ laws

NPR

Male rape survivor in DR-Congo speaks out

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Duterte dismisses human rights concerns

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dismissed concerns about his country’s human rights record hours after meeting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. “Human rights, son of a b----. Policemen and soldiers have died on me,” he told reporters at a press conference.

ABC News

Underage maids from Myanmar seek help

About 240,000 foreign maids work in Singaporean homes, but those from Myanmar are among the most vulnerable.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Kenya set for its first social media election

Social media and the spread of alarmist fake news might be what will make the difference in this maturing democracy.

Al Jazeera

Kenya’s president urges peace

BBC

Counting begins after voting ends in tightly contested elections

Al Jazeera

Report: N. Korean nukes can fit on missiles

North Korea reportedly has produced a compact nuclear warhead that can be placed inside one of its advanced missiles – which are already believed to be capable of reaching half of the United States. The jarring assessment was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

FOX News

Trump retweets story containing classified info

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Breakthrough device heals organs with a touch

Researchers have developed a device that can switch cell function to rescue failing body functions with a single touch. The technology, known as tissue nanotransfection, injects genetic code into skin cells, turning those skin cells into other types of needed cells.

ScienceDaily

Coddled puppies make poor guide dogs

An overprotective mother doesn’t make a successful guide dog. That’s the conclusion of the first study to analyze how mother-puppy interaction influences guide dog training program success.

Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Soaring suicide rates in Middle East

Violent acts including suicide, homicide and sexual assaults are increasing faster in the eastern Mediterranean region than in any other in the world, adding to the suffering of populations experiencing conflict and war.

Guardian

Africa makes progress against malaria

Every advance against malaria leads to less suffering for children and their parents and progress for their countries. Gains against malaria in Africa have already contributed to a rise in life expectancy, and the decline in mortality has saved billions of dollars.

allAfrica.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Behrouz Boochani):

This point scoring and deal making with refugees’ lives is absurd

Sydney Morning Herald

Column (Satyajit Das):

We need to adopt real solutions to our environmental predicament

The Independent

Column (Kurt Andersen):

The post-truth moment: How America lost its mind

The Atlantic

Column (William McGurn):

Speak for Venezuela, Pope Francis

RealClearPolitics

Column (April Glaser):

Google was right to fire author of sexist memo

Slate

Column (Peter Roff):

Democrats are in deep trouble

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Bob Dreyfuss):

Why Trump should be afraid with Robert Mueller on the case

Rolling Stone

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GOOD NEWS

Special needs campers learn independence

Atzmayim, a vocational program at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, helps campers with special needs enter the workforce. All Atzmayim participants are high school graduates. They all work five days a week in the nearby town of Eagle River.

Forward

Nonprofit rose grower empowers autistic workers

NBCNews.com

Hospice nurse, patient’s son cross paths again

When Tunde Hector was down on her luck and had no money for gas to fill her car, a kind stranger helped her out. He later turned out to be the son of the dying woman in her care.

NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Power and philanthropy in a new Gilded Age

As we celebrate the dynamos of a new gilded aged, we’re witnessing a second philanthropic boom. And that river of “private wealth for public good” brings with it the ideas and voices of those who have decided to put their vast fortunes to use.

Philanthropy News Digest

How to fix poverty: Why not give money?

Last fall, GiveDirectly announced that it will give every adult in this impoverished village in Kenya an extra $22 each month for the next 12 years — with no strings attached.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Estonia cuts carbon emissions with bogs

In Estonia, dried-out peat bogs are big carbon emitters. Old peat bogs are leaking greenhouse gases - nearly 8 million metric tons per year of carbon dioxide.

National Geographic

Erratic weather threatens rice farmers

Erratic rains and powerful storms are threatening rice production in parts Madagascar and putting the livelihoods of subsistence farmers like Marolahy at risk.

NPR

BUSINESS

Aging of US workforce hurts productivity

The American workforce has aged, and the rate of U.S. productivity growth has slowed. It’s natural to wonder if there’s a link between the two phenomena. An economist dove into the data and concluded that yes, alas, there is.

Bloomberg

Google CEO denounces anti-diversity memo

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the male engineer who wrote a memo claiming that biological differences prevent gender equality in the tech industry violated the company’s Code of Conduct and furthered “harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.”

Fortune

Photo of the Day

Community leaders, parents, students and other opposed to Trump administration policies on transexuals protest in front of the White House. (Photo by Ted Eytan) Photo used under CC BY

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