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A mother and child in Venezuela. Desperate for jobs to send money back home to feed their hungry families, migrants make easy prey and are vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers. (Photo by ZiLiv) Photo used under CC BY

Fleeing Venezuelans at risk of exploitation, trafficking

Migrant women and children fleeing Venezuela’s economic collapse are at heightened risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking on their journeys seeking refuge across South America, aid agencies have said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Exodus: A Venezuelan family recounts their desperate journey

AFP

Africa to suffer blackouts as climate changes

African nations could face devastating blackouts as rising temperatures dry up their hydropower dams. Southern and eastern parts of the continent set to more than double their hydropower capacity in coming decade.

The Independent

US aid cuts devastate vulnerable Palestinians

Sweeping new U.S. cuts in humanitarian aid to Palestinians are already hitting hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people. Some believe the Trump administration is using the issue to “blackmail” Palestinians into accepting a peace deal that critics say will favor Israel.

Guardian

Syria’s refugees fear for their future after war

Refugees from the seven-year Syrian war say they are hugely sceptical about claims that it is safe to return home. International donors, aid workers and diplomats are also wary of the insistence that postwar Syria is safe.

Guardian

Children ‘attempting suicide’ at Greek refugee camp

BBC

Africa’s forests at risk if indigenous excluded

Initiatives to restore African forests, decimated by loggers and land-hungry farmers, must include indigenous people if they are to succeed, according to experts.

Malaymail

Migration raises incidence of FGM in Germany

Women’s rights organization Terre des Femmes estimates that 65,000 women affected by female genital mutilation are living in Germany.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Uighurs claim they’re forced to renounce Islam

Former inmates, mostly Uighurs, have told reporters that over the course of an indoctrination process lasting several months, they were forced to renounce Islam and recite Communist Party propaganda songs each day.

The Atlantic

Who are the Uighurs?

Huffington Post

German police connected with alt-right groups

Authorities confirmed reports of a leak after a warrant – containing the name of the main suspect in the murder of a German man, triggering violent anti-foreigner protests – was tweeted by Lutz Bachmann, a fascist.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Russia, Sudan foster deal with CAR militia

Russia and Sudan have hosted talks in Khartoum among the Central African Republic’s rival militias while documents showed the groups had signed a preliminary agreement.

Daily Star

Brazil increases military presence along border

Brazilian President Temer signed a decree to send troops to the country’s northern state of Roraima, where Venezuelans fleeing food shortages have streamed across the border.

NPR

Brazil may limit entrance of Venezuelans via northern border

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Computer programs can be used to end slums

By designing an algorithm to model these access networks, the researchers were able to determine where new roads were needed to maximize access and minimize disruption to existing residents.

Science Magazine

Unpredictable code has deadly consequences

The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates “a universe no one fully understands.”

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Antimalarial drug vastly cuts death rate in trial

A suppository form of the common antimalarial artesunate has dramatically cut child deaths from severe malaria in a trial in rural Zambia.

Sci Dev

Medics brave Mexican violence to offer care

In Guerrero, Mexico, health care was severely limited until Médecins Sans Frontiers physicians stepped in to offer treatment – as long as weapons are left outside.

Guardian

New pain drug lowers risk of addiction

Scientists have intensified their efforts to develop safer and less addictive pain medications. Multiple research groups are claiming progress in devising opioids that offer pain relief with far less risk of addiction.

Science Magazine

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GOOD NEWS

Young people turn grief into positive change

The teenagers who survived the Parkland shooting have used their grief to galvanize a new movement. In towns across the U.S., more than a million people took part in rallies calling for an end to gun violence.

Positive News

Bolivia’s cholitas merge wrestling and activism

Most cholitas are Aymara, an indigenous nation residing in the plains of South America. The group faced oppression and exploitation since Spanish colonization. They also fight outside the ring to protect their community.

National Geographic

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

White House drops plan to cut foreign aid

The White House is dropping its proposal to cut $3 billion in foreign aid following a bipartisan rejection of the plan.

The Hill

Pledged donations on rise from global elite

With America’s economy booming, the value of pledged donations is only increasing. The Giving Pledge — a commitment by signatories to give away at least half their wealth — has garnered some of the world’s wealthiest.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Thousands in Myanmar flee after dam breaks

Floodwaters are washing over residential areas in Myanmar’s Bago region, driving thousands of people from their homes after a dam failed. More than 50,000 people have fled.

NPR

Cate Blanchett urges more support for Rohingya Muslims

BBC

Heat has reached deep into the Arctic

Arctic sea ice isn’t just threatened by the melting of ice around its edges: Warmer water that originated hundreds of miles away has penetrated deep into the interior of the Arctic.

ScienceDaily

Malaysia probes deaths of pygmy elephants

Malaysia is investigating a surge in deaths of pygmy elephants, an endangered species found in Borneo rainforests.

Reuters

ECONOMY

S. Sudan banking on revival of oil industry

South Sudan resumed pumping 20,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Toma South oilfield, where production had been suspended due to civil war.

Al Jazeera

Vietnam’s financial dreams stagnate

Central plans to transform Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Thiem marshland into the Wall Street of Southeast Asia have failed to materialize.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

A girl washes clothes at a water pump in Kutupalong, a refugee megacamp in Bangladesh. Kutupalong is home to tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled fierce persecution at the hands of Myanmar forces. (Photo by European Union 2018) Photo used under CC BY

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