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Youngsters in India. A research team in India investigated inequalities in learning achievements at age 12 and found some 47 percent of children studied experienced “food insecurity.” (Photo by Jeff Porter) Photo used under CC BY

Food insecurity imperils Indian teenagers’ learning

Food insecurity — that is, limited access to sufficient safe and nutritious food at home — negatively impacts the learning ability of adolescents in India, new research shows.

ScienceDaily

Threats against Muslim Americans on the rise

The two most recent FBI reports on hate crimes showed that anti-Muslim assaults are at record levels in the U.S., hovering at three times higher than they did a decade ago.

Mother Jones

Global trade is fueling mass deforestation

An international research team found that global trade drives rainforest clearance at enormous scales, and that global trade is responsible for 29 to 39 percent of the carbon dioxide released through deforestation.

Deutsche Welle

Climate change creates ocean trash dumps

Al Jazeera

Venezuela’s elite enable cocaine superhighway

As cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the U.S. soars, regional officials say Venezuela’s own military and political elite are facilitating the passage of drugs in and out of the country via tiny, unmarked planes.

CNN

Crisis forces 60K Nicaraguans to flee in a year

Doctors, journalists, students and farmers are among more than 60,000 Nicaraguans who have fled the country in fear of their lives since anti-government demonstrations began last year, the UN Refugee Agency said.

UN News

Special section:

A year into Nicaragua crisis, uncertainty and skepticism prevail

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights group raises alarm for Calais refugees

Refugees and migrants in the northern France city of Calais are being held in such poor conditions by French authorities, that some have gone on hunger strike or have attempted suicide, according to Refugee Rights Europe.

TRT World

Chile to punish sexual harassment in streets

Chile will soon start punishing rampant street sexual harassment against women and girls with fines and prison terms but getting victims to speak up will be a significant challenge, experts say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump vetoes Yemen War Powers Resolution

President Donald Trump issued the second veto of his presidency, stopping a congressional resolution that would have sought to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

CNN

The world has left Yemen to die

National Geographic

Yemen’s complicated war explained

TRT World

Are foreign powers worsening Libya’s conflict?

Eight years since the fall of Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi, the nation is on the brink of war again. UN says the fighting is undermining international peace efforts, while some Western countries continue to support Haftar.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study indicates AI tech is too white, too male

Research shows that AI technologies are rife with racial and gender bias and discrimination, and a new study identifies a key reason why: The people building these technologies are overwhelmingly white and male.

USA TODAY

Need for social skills helped shape human face

Researchers suggest that our faces evolved not only due to factors such as diet and climate, but possibly also to provide more opportunities for gesture and nonverbal communication.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Germany to decide legality of assisted suicide

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court will hear oral arguments this week about whether medical associations and physicians should be allowed to aid terminally ill patients in their own deaths, a hotly contested topic since 2015.

Deutsche Welle

Fast facts: Physician-assisted suicide in USA

CNN

Assisted dying: What does the law in different countries say?

BBC

Cholera cases rising in Kenya’s capital city

The Kenyan capital of Nairobi has experienced a jump in cholera cases, one of the city’s top hospitals has said, adding that eight of its own staff had been infected with the disease.

Channel NewsAsia

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Jasmine O’Connor):

Slavery was supposed to be abolished over 180 years ago—so why is it rife within modern Britain?

The Independent

Column (Matthew Cullinen and Richard Harrison):

Achieving universal access to energy by 2030

Devex

Column (George Monbiot):

Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Rig workers rescue dog off Thailand coast

A team of oil rig workers rescued a dog found paddling some 135 miles off the coast of Thailand. Some reports suggest he may have fallen from a fishing trawler.

BBC

Friends of 12 years learn they’re half brothers

Walter Gordy took a 23andMe test to learn his medical history after he was diagnosed with lymphoma, only to discover he and his friend of 12 years, Mark Tolson, are half brothers.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

China’s new billionaires turn to philanthropy

This vast accumulation of riches at the top of Chinese society has led to record levels of inequality; it’s also fueling a rapid rise in private philanthropy in China.

Inside Philanthropy

France’s richest donate millions to Notre Dame

France’s three wealthiest families, the billionaires behind luxury giants LVMH Group, Kering and L’Oreal pledged a combined $565 million after a massive fire ripped through the Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

A floating city to cope with climate change?

As glaciers melt and sea levels rise, coastal cities are looking for ways to cope with the growing threat of flooding. One startup’s concept for urban areas is designed not to resist rising water but to float on it.

NBCNews.com

Tech giant Microsoft hikes internal carbon tax

Microsoft will nearly double its internal carbon fee to $15 per metric ton. The tech giant said that the higher fee will help it hold its divisions accountable for their emissions as it “doubles down on sustainability.”

CNN

Early ocean plastic litter traced back to 1960s

Old-fashioned metal boxes that have been dragged around the ocean since 1931 have accidentally created a record of the history of ocean plastic.

BBC

Plastic garbage in North Atlantic skyrockets

USA TODAY

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Women only earn 79% of what men are paid

Women earn $25 an hour on average, 79% of the $32 an hour their male counterparts make, according to a new study, based on data from 13 million employees at 30,000 firms across eight sectors in the U.S.

CNBC

Nigeria to diversify economy away from oil

In an attempt to reduce the country‘s high rates of extreme poverty, Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buharimore has promised to reduce the nation’s dependence on oil and develop its capacity to grow its own food.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A young boy collects water from an Oxfam installed water point in Mugunga camp in Goma, eastern DRC, after tens of thousands of people fled an escalation in fighting, in November 2012. Lack of safe drinking water and sanitation is leading to water-borne diseases like cholera, that affects 1.3 to 4 million people in developing nations worldwide. An estimated 54 percent of reported cases are found in Africa alone, according to WHO. (Photo by Kate Holt/Oxfam) Photo used under CC BY

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