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U.S. Marines distribute food to the residents of Murphy Town after Hurricane Dorian struck in September. (Photo by Sjoerd Hilckmann) Photo used under CC BY

A month after Dorian, Bahamas face challenges

Just over a month after Hurricane Dorian slammed into the northern Bahamas, parts of the island nation are still in ruins, thousands of people remain displaced and rebuilding has only just begun.

NPR

Debts trap workers at Pakistan’s brick kilns

More than four million people, including children, work in almost 20,000 brick kilns across Pakistan to pay off family loans taken from business owners.

Al Jazeera

Displaced Kurdish families stuck at Syria-Iraq border

Kurdish day laborer Suleiman Mohamed and his family are among at least 160,000 Syrian Kurds that the UN says fled their homes following the start of a Turkish assault on northeastern Syria.

Reuters

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‘We’ve been neutral for years’: Dilemma of Syrian Kurds in Turkey

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong locked in spiral of violence, chaos

Since the summer of discontent, Hong Kong has been battered by months of often massive and violent protests over concerns Beijing is tightening its grip on the city.

Asia Times Online

West is paying the price for supporting Hong Kong riots, Chinese state media says

CNN

Turkey pressured to tackle murders of women

Last year men murdered 440 women in Turkey, more than doubling from 2012 when Ankara passed a law to prevent violence against women.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Women, children refugees refused evacuation

Asylum seekers awaiting evacuation from war-torn Libya say the UN has turned down scores of refugee relocation requests, including from women and children previously held in Libyan government-run detention centers.

Al Jazeera

Support for stricter gun laws continues to grow

The percentage of Americans who favor stricter gun laws is on the rise, though significant partisan divisions persist. Research found that 60 percent of Americans say gun laws should be tougher, up from 57 percent last year.

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trudeau wins Canadian polls but loses majority

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has retained power in a narrow Canadian election win but he’ll now be prime minister of a minority government. Trudeau faced criticism for his inability to follow through on his pledges.

BBC

Netanyahu loses grip on Israeli politics after decade

YouTube

Chilean president vows new social contract

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said he would meet opposition leaders to forge a “new social contract” to alleviate inequality as thousands of Chileans defied a military curfew in protest marches around the capital.

Reuters

Chile extends state of emergency as unrest death toll hits seven

AFP

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ozone hole shrinks to lowest size since 1982

Scientists at NASA have said that the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer has shrunk to the smallest size on record since it was first detected in the 1980s.

The Hill

NASA could soon grow crops on Moon, Mars

With martian and moon soil being surprisingly fertile, new research suggests it may someday be possible to harvest crops grown at off-world colonies. The experiment is a tentative good sign for the future of off-world settlements.

Futurism

GLOBAL HEALTH

Health emergency from dirty cooking neglected

Governments, development banks and businesses are providing less than 1 percent of the money needed annually to wean 3 billion people off dirty, health-harming cooking by an international deadline of 2030.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

95% of tested baby food in US is toxic

According to a new investigation, toxic heavy metals damaging to your baby’s brain development are likely in the baby food you are feeding your infant.

NBCNews.com

A quarter of US health care spending is waste, report says

MSN

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GOOD NEWS

Vegas will take food donation for parking fines

If you get a parking ticket in Las Vegas over the next month, you will be able to pay off the fine with a food donation, the city council announced. These donations are to help those in need during the holiday season.

CNN

Macy’s will phase out, ban sale of fur by 2021

Macy’s will completely phase out the sale of animal fur from its stores by early 2021, making it the biggest U.S. retailer to ban the controversial product.

Forbes

Refugee community kitchen serves 2.3M meals

The Refugee Community Kitchen has served 2.3 million meals to refugees in France and the UK’s homeless. The charity has nearly 20,000 volunteers in France and the UK.

Guardian

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Sudanese government opens access for aid

Sudan has agreed to open humanitarian access to its war-torn areas for the first time in eight years as part of a new roadmap enabling suspended peace talks to resume.

Reuters

Sheryl Sandberg donates $2.5M to fight hate

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg pledged to donate $2.5 million to the Anti-Defamation League, to support anti-hate and anti-bias education programs, research and advocacy.

CNET News

Facebook donates $25M to build teacher housing

Mercury News

ENVIRONMENT

Organic farming is worse for climate change

Converting the world’s agriculture to organic would actually produce far more carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study.

ABC.net.au

Can central banks fight climate change?

Deutsche Welle

Mexicans fight for waterway taken by the US

The Colorado River serves over 35 million Americans before reaching Mexico – but it is dammed at the border, leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Cambodian PM and inner circle live in luxury

A Reuters investigation shows that Cambodia’s ruling elites have overseas assets worth tens of millions of dollars, and some have bought themselves European citizenship.

Reuters

Thai king strips consort of royal titles

CBS News

Bolivia breaks out in violence over vote-rigging

Protesters in Bolivia took to the streets for a second day after a preliminary vote count showed President Evo Morales had eked out an outright win. Bolivians are furious over the results amid allegations of vote-rigging.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A child assists with cooking and sits over an open fire, leaving him exposed to the harmful consequences of toxic smoke inhalation in OR Tambo District, South Africa in April 2012. The World Health Organization estimates that household air pollution kills about 4 million people each year, many of them women and children, through ailments such as heart and lung disease and cancer. (Photo by Russ Keyte) Photo used under CC BY

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