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Hurricane-hit Puerto Rico at last getting assistance

The opening of the island’s main port in the capital allowed 11 ships to bring in 1.6 million gallons of water, 23,000 cots, dozens of generators and food. Dozens more shipments are expected in upcoming days.

ABC News

Earthquake survivors describe the moment it hit

CNN

Rohingya in Bangladesh need massive aid

Bangladesh needs “massive international assistance” to feed and shelter the 436,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar in recent weeks, the head of the UN refugee agency said.

Al Jazeera

High turnout in Kurd poll on independence

Large numbers of people have taken part in a landmark vote on independence for Iraq’s Kurdistan region, amid growing opposition both at home and abroad. Votes are still being counted, with a big “yes” victory expected. Kurds say it will give them a mandate to negotiate secession, but Iraq’s PM denounced it as “unconstitutional.”

BBC

Iraqi Kurds count referendum votes

Al Jazeera

Iraqi forces ‘attack last ISIS bastion on border’

Iraqi forces are reported to have launched an operation to recapture the last stronghold of ISIS in the country’s western desert. A military source told the BBC that soldiers, Anbar provincial police and Sunni Arab tribal fighters have begun moving on the town of Ana.

BBC

Violent crime rising throughout US, FBI says

The violent crime rate is on the rise throughout the United States, with statistics show 2016 had the largest single-year increase in 25 years, according to newly released FBI data.

FOX News

Police chiefs say criminal justice plans of Trump, Sessions are wrong

Newsweek

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN accuses Russia of violating rights in Crimea

Russia is committing “grave human rights violations” in Crimea, according to a report by the United Nations. The UN human rights agency says it has documented arbitrary arrests, torture and at least one extrajudicial execution in the region.

BBC

Swiss war crimes inquiry into Assad’s uncle stalls

Reuters

What’s up with Myanmar’s human-rights icon?

The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya reveals what the world didn’t understand about Aung San Suu Kyi.

The New Yorker

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

SPD vows to defend German democracy

Germany’s Social Democrats have a duty to go into opposition and defend the country’s democratic values after its support fell to a post-war low and the far-right AfD party surged in an election, leader Martin Schulz said.

Reuters

Mexico tallying economic cost of big quake

Mexican government officials are still tallying up the economic losses of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that caused widespread damage in the capital. Moody’s Investors Service said in a report Monday that the Sept. 19 earthquake that has killed at least 326 people in the capital and nearby states “has the potential to be one of Mexico’s costliest natural catastrophes.”

Associated Press

Britons in EU tell May: ‘Don’t throw us under Brexit bus’

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans still evolving, genetic study shows

In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers have found that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in both populations.

ScienceDaily

Nerve stimulation bestirs man in vegetative state

Fifteen years ago, a 20-year-old man suffered traumatic brain injury in a car collision and fell into a persistent state of unconsciousness known as a vegetative state. A new study suggests that an experimental form of low-intensity nerve stimulation in the brain succeeded in stirring the man into a what physicians describe as a “minimally conscious” state.

Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

CVS will limit opioid prescriptions to 7 days

In a new effort to tackle the deadly opioid addiction crisis in the United States, pharmacy giant CVS announced Friday that it will limit opioid prescriptions to seven days for certain conditions. This restriction will apply to patients who are new to pain therapy.

CNN

Alarm as ‘super malaria’ spreads in SE Asia

The rapid spread of “super malaria” in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning. This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Teacher hailed as hero for taking down gunman

A teacher took down a gunman inside an Illinois high school after he opened fire in the school‘s cafeteria on Wednesday. Police say Angela McQueen’s quick response saved lives. A 16-year-old student was shot and later released from the hospital, and the suspect, a student, is in custody.

CBS News

Girl Scout honored for saving mom from wreck

Last April Melina Lakey was riding home from a movie with her parents when their SUV clipped a drainage ditch and rolled over six times, landing on its roof. The 9-year-old was pulled to safety by her dad, who was driving. When Melina saw that her mom was stuck in the passenger seat, she ran back to help.

ABC News

Off-duty firefighters save boy from burning car

ABC News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

5 common mistakes in awareness campaigns

With the busiest fundraising season fast approaching, nonprofit leaders everywhere should be spending much of their time thinking about their end-of-year fundraising campaigns. But most of the year, nonprofit leaders focus on the awareness campaign.

Philanthropy News Digest

Volunteers build tiny homes for homeless

Staff and students at Drake University and the University of Northern Iowa have built several so-called “tiny houses” that will eventually help homeless people in Des Moines.

Radio Iowa

ENVIRONMENT

Land defenders from 29 nations urge UN action

Land rights defenders from 29 countries have written to the UN asking it to act against violent corporate and state-sponsored groups which they say are threatening their lives and trashing the environment.

Guardian

What will save our cities from rising seas?

For residents of many coastal cities, the future is already here in the form of rising sea levels and frequent, destructive floods.

NBCNews.com

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Low-rung Target store workers getting a raise

Just in time for holiday hiring, Target is giving its lowest-paid employees a raise. They will be paid at least $11 an hour, starting next month, up from the current $10, and will see it rise to $15 by the end of 2020.

USA TODAY

Nestlé makes billions bottling dirt-cheap water

Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has come to dominate the controversial bottled-water industry, spring by spring, often going into economically depressed municipalities with the promise of jobs and new infrastructure in exchange for tax breaks and access to a resource that’s scarce for millions.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

An anti-war protester clowns about at Britain’s largest arms fair, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), at Excel in East London. (Photo by Alisdare Hickson) Photo used under CC BY

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