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Incinerator at Baltimore. Of the 73 incinerators across the U.S., 79 percent are located within three miles of low-income and minority neighborhoods, adding to public health problems that heavily burden black, Hispanic and poorer communities. (Photo by Ivy Dawned) Photo used under CC BY

US incinerators affecting poor, minority residents

A total of 1.6 million Americans live next to the most polluting incinerators in the country, with lower-income and minority communities exposed to the vast majority of pollution coming from these waste-burning plants.

Guardian

US holding immigrants in solitary confinement

Newly obtained documents show that ICE detainees are sometimes placed in solitary confinement for reasons that have nothing to do with rule violations.

NBCNews.com

Fifth migrant child dies after being detained by US border patrol

The Independent

Global sea level rise could be bigger than expected

Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica. This could lead to the displacement of hundreds of millions of people.

BBC

A UN report says Earth faces ‘unprecedented’ threat to biodiversity

PRI

UN: 3M people have fled Venezuela since 2015

An estimated three million people have fled the crisis in Venezuela since 2015, most of whom should be considered refugees, the United Nations said.

Channel NewsAsia

Many rural Americans struggling financially

Polling finds that while rural Americans are mostly satisfied with life, there is a strong undercurrent of financial insecurity that can create very serious problems for many people living in rural communities.

NPR

Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food

MarketWatch

UN warns food aid to Yemen could end

The UN World Food Programme has warned that aid could be suspended to areas of war-torn Yemen under the control of Houthi rebels unless they abide by accords aimed at ensuring that supplies are not diverted.

Al Jazeera

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CNN exposes systematic abuse of aid in Yemen

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Water supply restored for millions in Libya

Water supplies to the Libyan capital and surrounding cities have been restored two days after they were cut off when an armed group stormed a control room, averting shortages that could have caused a humanitarian crisis.

Guardian

Hungary depriving asylum seekers of food

Hungary has been accused of widespread human rights violations by the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic. She said many asylum seekers held in transit zones had been deprived of food.

BBC

Rights bodies report torture in Indian Kashmir

Prisoners in Indian-administered Kashmir have been subjected to abuse and torture, including “water-boarding, sleep deprivation and sexualized torture,” according to a report by two rights bodies.

Al Jazeera

Muslims In India fear another Modi term

WBUR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ukraine’s new president dissolves parliament

Ukrainian TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought to capitalize on his huge popularity by dissolving the country’s parliament minutes after he was sworn in as president.

USA TODAY

Joko Widodo re-elected as Indonesia’s president

Al Jazeera

Iran refuses President Trump’s offer of talks

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has said his country won’t negotiate with President Donald Trump unless the US shows Tehran “respect” by honoring its commitments under the disputed nuclear deal.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists change the definition of kilogram

Instead of being based upon a hunk of metal stored in a vault in Sevres, France, the kilogram is now based on the Planck constant, a tiny, unvarying number that plays a key role in quantum physics.

NBCNews.com

Scientists introduce new kilogram on World Metrology Day

NPR

Tech giants failing to protect children at risk

The world’s largest technology companies have been accused of failing to protect children at risk of sexual abuse, a UK inquiry has heard, and they will give evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

UN health agency struggles with travel abuses

The WHO spent nearly $192 million on travel last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals.

NBCNews.com

Asia bears half of global low birthweight burden

Nearly half of all children with low birthweight are born in South Asia, a global report has found, likely due to the combination of dietary deficiency and lack of women’s rights.

Sci Dev Net

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GOOD NEWS

Tribe wins legal battle against oil companies

After a long legal battle, the indigenous Waorani community in Ecuador successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil by huge oil corporations.

Sunny Skyz

NGO drives homeless to medical appointments

Elaine, a nonprofit formed in Phoenix in February drives homeless individuals to their medical appointments and helps them navigate the health care system.

KTAR

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Billionaire vows to pay off student loan debt

Billionaire tech investor and philanthropist, Robert F. Smith says his family is providing grants to wipe out the student debt of the entire 2019 class at Morehouse College.

CBS News

Oprah Winfrey donates $500,000 to New Jersey high school for after-school program

NY Daily News

Robin Hood raises millions to fight poverty

Robin Hood’s annual benefit saw over 23 people pledging $1 million each to fight poverty in New York City. The 31-year-old organization choose not to disclose the full amount in donations.

Town & Country

ENVIRONMENT

Malaysia will send back plastic waste to source

Malaysia, which has become the dumping ground for the world’s plastic waste, will send back non-recyclable plastic scrap to the developed countries that sent it there, its environment minister said.

Reuters

Africa is leading the world in plastic bag bans

Quartz

Koalas now ‘functionally extinct,’ experts say

Koala bears have been declared “functionally extinct,” the Australian Koala Foundation reports. They are down to 80,000, meaning there aren’t enough breeding adults left to support another generation.

New York Post

Poison meant for city rats killing wildlife in S. Africa

UPI

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

For many S. Koreans, dating is too ‘expensive’

A growing number of South Koreans are shunning romantic relationships amid economic hardships and societal problems.

CNN

Are we over-medicalizing poverty?

BBC

Sen. Harris vows to fine over gender pay gap

Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris is vowing to fine corporations that don’t take steps toward closing the gender pay gap. Her plan requires firms to submit data each year on equal pay to comply with new standards.

FOX News

Photo of the Day

Girls collect water from a recently opened bore hole in this photograph from February, 2011. Plastic bottles are reused in South Sudan for all purposes, including to fill water, alcohol, vegetable oil, etc. (Photo by Arsenie Coseac) Photo used under CC BY

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