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Feed My Starving Children distribution partner in Thailand. The number of people who lack enough to eat has risen for the third year in a row as the population increases, after a decade when real progress was made. (Photo by Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)) Photo used under CC BY

Hunger rising in tandem with world population

More than 820 million people worldwide are still going hungry, according to a UN report that says reaching the target of zero hunger by 2030 is “an immense challenge.”

Guardian

UN: Climate crisis partly to blame for world hunger increase

Energy Live News

Racial inequity is playing out in US opioid crisis

The national attention on white victims of the opioid crisis has pushed minorities to the sidelines, even as the number of opioid-related deaths among non-whites is on the rise.

PBS

Climate change causing hottest months on record

Boosted by a historic heat wave in Europe and unusually warm conditions across the Arctic and Eurasia, the average temperature of the planet soared to its highest level ever recorded in June.

Yahoo! News

US denounces China’s treatment of Uighurs

China’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority is the “stain of the century,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says. China has rejected any suggestion it abuses rights.

Al Jazeera

How China hides its Uighur detention centers

YouTube

Polish paper to hand out anti-LGBT stickers

A Polish newspaper plans to hand out “LGBT-free zone” stickers in its next issue. The U.S. ambassador to Poland has criticized the move.

The Independent

US weighs allowing no refugees into next year

The Trump administration floated the possibility of admitting zero refugees next year during a recent meeting with officials.

CNN

Rise of anti-Semitism elevates fears in France

PBS NewsHour

HUMAN RIGHTS

‘Fake’ funerals help protect Myanmar children

In Myanmar, where families struggle to resist armed groups recruiting their children, parents are increasingly holding fake funerals for their children in order to keep them safe.

Al Jazeera

‘Misogynist’ Duterte approves harassment law

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte approved a bill that penalizes sexual harassment. Activists, who‘ve dubbed the president “misogynist-in-chief,” say they hope he’ll comply with the law.

Deutsche Welle

Latin American migrants looking toward Europe

As Trump closes the door to Latin American migrants, they are increasingly turning to Europe, where asylum applications from Central Americans have increased 4,000 percent in a decade.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Violence roils Colombia despite peace deal

A peace deal signed in 2016 with Farc guerrillas was meant to end decades of conflict in Colombia. But in Catatumbo, violence is worse than ever, as armed groups roil the country’s lawless border region

Guardian

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Despite the peace deal, former FARC fighters face a new war in rural Colombia

PRI

Asia becomes ‘playground’ for drug gangs

A report has found the methamphetamine trade is worth between $30 billion and $61 billion per year in East and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh, regions facing one of the worst drug crises in the world.

CNN

Rio governor says police killings rise ‘normal’

Amid a soaring number of police killings in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, its tough-talking governor has said it is “normal” for the rate to increase and will likely keep rising during his tenure.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Parents’ trauma may change their kids’ biology

Research using mice suggests that parents’ emotional trauma triggers changes in gene expression in their children, and that these changes may last for generations.

Science

Bathing before bedtime may improve sleep

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas found that bathing 1 to 2 hours before bedtime in water of about 104 to 109 degrees Fahrenheit can significantly improve your sleep.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Social factors raise dementia risk for LGBTQ

Research suggests that members of the LGBTQ community may be at a higher risk of showing early signs of dementia than the straight, cis-gendered population and suggests social factors such as discrimination play a key role.

Quartz

Heat waves fall hardest on poor and elderly

Experts say people most at risk during heat waves, like the elderly, poor and socially isolated, are less likely to have access to the internet or the news, and may not be receiving warnings about rising temperatures.

NBCNews.com

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GOOD NEWS

US honors Muslim cleric who saved Christians

The U.S. government is honoring 83-year-old Muslim cleric Abubakar Abdullahi, who hid 262 Christians in his home and mosque during an attack in central Nigeria, with the International Religious Freedom Award.

CNN

Red Sox fans give ticket to homeless man

Pedro Lugo, Sean Wetzonis and Francisco Rios had four tickets to see the Red Sox, because one of their friends couldn’t make it. When they saw a homeless man outside the stadium, they decided to give him the extra ticket.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Anonymous donor gives $25M to LA hospital

Children‘s Hospital Los Angeles has received an anonymous $25 million gift, one of the largest single donations in the hospital’s history. The gift will go, in part, toward a Neurological Institute Outpatient Center.

CNN

U of Pittsburgh gifted $6M for vision research

The University of Pittsburgh has announced a $6 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to develop a cortical vision research program, aimed at developing new ways to restore vision.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Kenya opens Africa’s largest wind power plant

Kenya has unveiled Africa’s largest wind power plant, a project aimed at reducing electricity costs and dependence on fossil fuels and moving the nation to meet an ambitious goal of 100 percent green energy next year.

Al Jazeera

Eco-friendly biofuels could cut air travel pollution

NBCNews.com

Colombia’s youth fight for Amazon rainforest

When young Colombian activists won a historic lawsuit against their government, they thought the Amazon rainforest was saved. A year later, they’re piling on the pressure to see their leaders act on the ruling.

Deutsche Welle

India’s endangered wildlife struggle to survive heavy monsoon rains

Al Jazeera

Exposed to heat, plastic leaches chemicals

Plastic items release a tiny amount of chemicals into the beverages or food they contain. As temperature increases, the chemical bonds in the plastic break down and chemicals are more likely to leach.

National Geographic

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

US House votes to raise minimum wage to $15

The United States House passed a bill to hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour in a win for liberal activists who have long pushed to give low-wage workers a raise.

CNBC

Australia has world’s highest minimum wage

Financial Review

“Gold rush” for mammoth ivory amid thaw

Activists and officials in northern Russia have warned of a “gold rush” for mammoth ivory as prospectors dig up tusks and other woolly mammoth remains that can net a small fortune on the rapacious Chinese market.

Guardian

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An older woman carries plastic bottles down the steps of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, in May 2009. Following China’s decision last year to ban imports of foreign plastic, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and now Cambodia are set to send plastic waste back to developed nations where it came from. (Photo by Emilio Labrador) Photo used under CC BY

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