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Shocking numbers of children were used as human shields in Syria. The forced marriage and rape of children were also used as wartime tactics amid world conflicts this year, reports UNICEF. (Photo by Jeanne Menjoulet) Photo used under CC BY

For children all over the world, 2017 was defined by war

Lives of over 220,000 children in Ukraine are impacted by the proliferation of lethal weapons – including mines. ‘It is unacceptable that places where children could safely play less than four years ago are now riddled with deadly explosives,’ said UNICEF.

News Click

Let’s stop the cholera shame in Zambia

It is certainly embarrassing that in this day and age, Zambia is still grappling with cholera, which the WHO says remains a global threat to public health and an indicator of inequity and lack of social development.

Zambia Daily Mail

Zambia deploys army to battle cholera after 41 deaths

Medical Express

‘Worse than animals’: Tale of trapped Indian women

Neither the din of traffic nor the roar of aircraft from a nearby airport could blot out the screams neighbours say they regularly heard from the ashram building in west Delhi.

Guardian

Men marry ‘uncut’ girls, so why mutilate them?

Kenya’s Maasai girls are usually circumcised between the ages of 11 and 13 and soon afterwards married off to men of their fathers choosing in exchange for cattle and cash.

The Star, Kenya

Here is why Ugandan teens might need contraceptives

allAfrica.com

Early pregnancy is putting an end to girls’ education

Huffington Post

Nepal bans blind people from climbing Everest

Blind American Erik Weihenmayer scaled Everest in May 2001 and later became the only visually-impaired person to summit the highest peaks on all seven continents.

Daily Sabah

Why Gypsy children are often expelled in UK

A decade ago, four-year-old Ben was expelled from his school in Doncaster, after trying to defend himself from a physical attack that his family believes was racially charged.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

US military to allow transgender recruits

The Department of Justice withdrew its legal challenge to several federal court rulings that blocked President Trump from banning transgender people from enlisting in the U.S. armed services.

NPR

Rohingyas face fresh misery in Bangladesh

Goodwill towards their fellow Muslims has waned as local Bangladeshi workers see their food prices go up and their jobs undercut, with bosses exploiting the huge influx of terrified people from Burma. Now NGOs are desperate to avoid the violent clashes of the 1990s

The Independent

As 2017 ends, Rohingya crisis is far from over

Daily O

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

New economic protests hit Iran’s capital

A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.

Associated Press

Sudan imposes state of emergency in two states

A state of emergency is already in force in seven other conflict-ridden states. These include the five states that make up the region of Darfur, where government forces have been battling rebels since 2003.

News 24

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why 2017 was the year to believe in UFOs

It‘s one of the big philosophical questions we all love to ponder—is there life beyond Earth? We still don’t have any firm evidence there is, but that doesn‘t mean 2017 wasn’t an exciting year for alien enthusiasts.

Newsweek

China to build first Mars simulation base

‘Mars village’ to be built in an arid area of Qinghai province as China plans future missions to the Red Planet

South China Morning Post

GLOBAL HEALTH

Kenya to ban shisha smoking over health risks

The highly toxic tobacco substance is smoked using a hookah (water pipe) and gained popularity at entertainment establishments in Kenya over the last year.

The Star

Radiologist have a new tool to detect cancer

Scientists are working on finding new ways to detect breast cancer while at the same time they are studying existing screening methods to find out what is best.

VOA News

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GOOD NEWS

Man builds food pantry in lawn, inspires town

This summer, Roman Espinoza put up a miniature food pantry, modeled after Little Free Libraries, on his lawn. Today, his town -- Watertown, New York -- boasts more than 20 of these boxes.

MSN

Act of kindness leads to family reunion

A homeless man living on the streets of Sacramento is heading to a new home after his Christmas wish was granted by two women who wanted to provide an act of kindness.

SFGate

2017 IN REVIEW

Healthy food trends that blew up in 2017

This year there were a lot of interesting health and wellness fads, such as goat yoga and cryotherapy, but healthy food trends really took the spotlight in 2017.

CTV

10 big medical breakthroughs of 2017

Every year, medical technology advances, bringing hope for those suffering from grave illnesses and debilitating conditions. These breakthroughs wowed the world in 2017.

Health 24

HBV prevention, elimination: Eight reports from 2017

Healio

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Corporation grants $10.8M to medical research

The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil), a limited liability corporation has announced grants totaling $10.8 million in support of high-risk medical research.

Philanthropy News Digest

Stable markets keep nonprofit portfolios intact

Investors are optimistic about the economy although the outlook is slightly less rosy than it was in the last quarter of 2016, according to a poll of managers of endowments and foundations.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Fusion power may be a reality soon

The long wait for fusion power may be coming to an end as some experts think commercial fusion reactors could begin operation as soon as 2030.

NBCNews.com

Trump rolls back offshore safety rules

The Trump administration is rolling back offshore drilling rules put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 workers and spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Business scandals that rocked 2017

The real estate proved a god-send haven for fraudsters and scammers who capitalised on Kenyans’ raw appetite for land and houses, to leave behind a trail of broken dreams and empty bank accounts.

Standard Digital

How high will Litecoin go in 2018

In terms of total value it is still dwarfed by Bitcoin, but from January 1 to December 27 it gained around 6,000pc, compared with Bitcoin’s 1,500pc.

Telegraph.co.uk

Why Litecoin is beating Bitcoin this year?

Fortune

Photo of the Day

Farmers working on a field in Inle Lake, Myanmar. Agriculture is Myanmar’s main industry, accounting for 60 percent of the GDP and employing some 65 percent of the labour force. (Photo by Marcela Tokatjian) Photo used under CC BY

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