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A Rohingya woman in a refugee camp in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh. Scores of Rohingya Muslims, including many women, who fled to camps in Bangladesh after a Myanmar military clampdown in 2017, have been detained in recent months after returning to seek drugs and transport them, according to police. (Photo by UN Women/Allison Joyce) Photo used under CC BY

Rohingya risking lives with cross-border narcotics runs

Growing numbers of outcast Rohingya refugees are risking their lives by crossing the closed Myanmar-Bangladesh border with narcotics pills packed into their stomachs, police has said.

France 24

Abuses in Egypt’s Sinai amount to war crimes

Human Rights Watch has accused Egypt’s security forces of committing widespread abuses against civilians in the Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt has been battling Islamic militants for years.

FOX News

Smuggled documents allege Syria committed war crimes

CNN

North Koreans trapped in cycle of corruption

North Koreans face a daily struggle to make ends meet due to a “vicious cycle of deprivation, corruption and repression”, a new report says.

BBC

UN reveals rights abuse at thriving markets in North Korea

Seattle Times

Millions of senior Americans are food insecure

A report from Chicago-based non-profit Feeding America shows 5.5 million older Americans are skipping meals or going an entire day without eating.

KCRG

Violence has driven 20K Nigerians to Niger

Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced around 20,000 refugees to seek safety in neighboring Niger since April, the United Nations refugee agency said.

Nasdaq

Attacks on schools soaring in Afghanistan

Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled between 2017 and 2018, surging from 68 to 192, according to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, the first increase since 2015.

Guardian

Afghanistan: The children caught in conflict

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Activists renew battle for abortions in Argentina

Abortion rights activists in Argentina are proposing a new bill after a similar bill passed in the lower house of Congress, but failed in the Senate last year. They are seeking legal, safe abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

Al Jazeera

The rising wave of abortion restrictions in America

CNN

Who is trying to ban abortion in the US?

Guardian

Poor Haitians are forced to eat ‘dirt cookies’

Millions of Haitians cannot afford nutritious food, so many resort to eating “cookies” made out of dirt. Providing no nutritional value, these mud cookies may increase the risk of malnutrition for the Haitians who eat them.

The Epoch Times

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Romanian party leader arrested for corruption

The head of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, has been jailed for corruption. The politician was found guilty last year of having two party members paid by a state agency for fake jobs.

BBC

Romanians reject controversial changes to anti-corruption laws, judicial reforms

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Ireland votes in favor of liberalizing divorce laws

Ireland voted in favor of changing the country’s archaic divorce laws. More than 82 percent of voters supported changing the constitution to lower the waiting time, and also to recognize foreign divorces.

Quartz

Egypt teaches kids about love in bid to curb divorce

Middle East Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

People spent $1.9B on brain training apps

An estimated $1.9 billion was spent on apps for brain health and training last year, a significant increase compared to $475 million in 2012 as more people focus on keeping their mind keen as they age, according to research.

FOX Business

IVF couples could choose ‘smartest’ embryo

Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a leading U.S. scientist has predicted.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Rwanda battles to wipe out cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Rwandan women. Cultural taboos and rumors of infertility are just some of the many hurdles Rwanda’s campaign to end cervical cancer has had to overcome.

The Independent

New research finds a low-fat diet can lower a woman’s risk for breast cancer

CBS News

WHO recognizes gaming addiction as disorder

The WHO has made video game addiction an official mental health disorder. The condition has been included in the global medical guide in a section detailing disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors.

USA TODAY

WHO recognizes burnout as medical condition

Channel NewsAsia

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Timothy Webster):

Recent attempts at reparations show that World War II is not over

The Conversation

Column (Maa Zhi Hong):

America needs to rethink approach to immigration

Asia Times Online

Column (Abraham T. Zere):

Eritreans have peace, now they want freedom

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Group brings health care to Kenyan fishermen

Safari Doctors is a group bringing much-needed primary health care to fishing communities in Kenya’s remote Lamu.

BBC

Community helps Saudi women go running

With the Jeddah Running Community, women are taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia’s cities to go running. This is challenging cultural norms which considers it inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public.

YouTube

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

MacKenzie Bezos to donate half her fortune

MacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has promised to give half her $37 billion fortune to charity. She joins billionaires such as investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates in the Giving Pledge.

BBC

BitMEX co-founder pledges to give away majority of wealth

Coin Rivet

In Mexico, NGOs offer aid to young, deported

A new generation of migrants is arriving in Mexico: Young adults born in Mexico, raised in the U.S. With limited government support, NGOs are looking to help these educated migrants and take advantage of their skills.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

As drought persists, Sydney restricts water

Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales, Sydney, imposed water restrictions for the first time in a decade with dam levels at just over 50 percent due to a prolonged drought, stoking debates over climate change.

Telegraph.co.uk

Brazil’s mangroves on the front line of climate change

Reuters

Africa’s elephant poaching rates drops 60%

African elephant poaching rates have dropped by 60 percent in six years, an international study has found. It is thought the decline could be associated with the ivory trade ban introduced in China in 2017.

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

List shows nations with widest rich-poor divide

24/7 Wall St. analyzed data of 42 countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to identify those with the widest gaps between the rich and the poor. South Africa tops the list.

USA TODAY

Venezuelan criminals affected by the economy

In an unexpected silver lining to Venezuela’s economic crunch, experts say armed assaults and killings are plummeting in one of the world’s most violent nations. Even for criminals it’s become harder to get by.

ABC News

Photo of the Day

Children displaced by the earthquake in Haiti in January, 2010. Haiti will need continued support to accelerate the pace for attaining the elimination of extreme poverty, hunger, health and nutrition-related Millennium Development Goals, according to the Pan American Health Organization. (Photo by Pan American Health Organization) Photo used under CC BY

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