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Little girls on train in India. Save The Children’s Prabhat Kumar said gender discrimination and female foeticide are a huge problem across India. India outlawed selective abortion of female fetuses in 1994, but the practice remains commonplace. (Photo by rpb1001) Photo used under CC BY

Sex-selective abortions rampant in Indian state

Officials in a northern Indian state are investigating whether sex-selective abortions have been conducted after government data revealed not a single girl was born in 132 villages in the last three months.

Al Jazeera

The violent rise of India’s cow vigilantes

Vox

Moms, babies lack basic needs in Greek camps

Greece continues to struggle with how to accommodate migrants — especially this new population, which has needs that are unique to pregnant and nursing mothers and babies.

PRI

Turkey: 6,000 refugees arrested in Istanbul crackdown

Al Jazeera

Indian female farmers going ‘womb-less’ to boost productivity

Al Jazeera

Informal settlements threatening the Amazon

Informal settlements are expanding in Brazil, with a new occupation attempt every 11 days, and the threat to the rainforest is severe. Critics say the clearances are also the result of a government failure to address a chronic shortage of affordable housing.

Guardian

ISIS suspects’ relatives being held in Syria

More than 11,000 foreign women and children related to Isis suspects are being held in “appalling” and “deadly conditions” in a locked desert camp in northeast Syria, a leading human rights organization has warned.

The Independent

Aid falls short for Venezuelans in Colombia

Funding shortfalls are hitting countries across Latin America hosting Venezuelan migrants and refugees. Colombia has promised not to close its doors, but needs international help.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

3.1M to lose food stamps under US proposal

About 3.1 million Americans would lose food stamps under a Trump administration rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The public has 60 days to comment on the proposal.

MarketWatch

Why Trump’s new limit on food stamp eligibility will affect working families most

PBS NewsHour

HUMAN RIGHTS

US to ramp up rapid deportations with new rule

The Trump administration said it will expand and speed up deportations of migrants who enter the U.S. illegally by stripping away court oversight, enabling officials to remove people in days rather than months or years.

Reuters

Job posting for doctor at an immigrant detention facility catches people’s attention

NPR

Hong Kong maids are in ‘humanitarian tsunami’

There are 390,000 domestic workers who keep Hong Kong running. One in every 20 employees in Hong Kong is a migrant worker, and most of these are women of child bearing age.

Guardian

Puerto Ricans fighting back against corruption

Eighteen months after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory, political unrest remains. A broad cross-section of society turned out for what many said was the largest demonstration they could remember.

CNN

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló will reportedly step down

YouTube

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Boris Johnson to be UK’s next prime minister

Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader and will become the next UK prime minister. In his victory speech, he vowed to deliver Brexit, unite the county and defeat Labor party’s Jeremy Corbyn.

BBC

No-deal Brexit risk may have already pushed UK into recession, says NIESR

Guardian

New Zealand plans registry, tighter gun laws

New Zealand’s government has further tightened the country’s gun laws to establish a firearm register and overhaul licensing systems after 51 people were gunned down as they prayed at two mosques in Christchurch.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

More water on the moon than earlier thought

A study conducted by researchers from the University of California determined that many of the shadowed craters on the moon are likely to hold millions of tons of ice, which could come in handy for future moon missions.

New York Post

Bangladeshi invents ‘green’ throw-away bag

A Bangladeshi scientist has found a way to turn burlap into low-cost biodegradable cellulose sheets that can be made into greener throw-away bags that look and feel much like plastic ones but degrade after three months in soil.

Yahoo! News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Global warming may increase fungal infections

Scientists have a new theory about the origins of Candida auris, a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus that can strike the sickest patients in hospitals and other facilities that provide long-term care: global warming.

NBCNews.com

Can microinsurance co-ops aid world’s poor?

Health insurance specialist David Dror is helping rural villages set up local savings pools or microinsurance funds so members can avoid becoming destitute through borrowing if they need medical treatment.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Rubayat Jesmin):

Without school, a ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya refugee children face uncertain future

The Conversation

Column (James Dyke):

Europe is burning just as new research offers a chilling truth about the volatility of climate change

The Independent

Column (Roya Rahmani):

Pakistan can benefit from a stable and thriving Afghanistan

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Pilots will teach boy who stole planes, to fly

A 13-year-old boy in China stole two planes and took them on a joyride at a local airport. Airport staff were so impressed, he’ll soon take flying lessons from a pilot.

USA TODAY

Canada airlifting trapped migrating salmon

Canada is airlifting thousands of salmon upstream after a rockslide blocked the path of the migrating fish, triggering concerns of a permanent loss of fish populations, government officials said.

Reuters

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Thunberg donates cash prize to climate groups

Greta Thunberg, the teen who inspired a youth movement to combat climate change, received Normandy’s Freedom Prize. She will donate the prize money of $27,883, to groups working for climate justice.

The Hill

Nonprofit plants 250M trees to help planet heal

Eden Reforestation Projects, an NGO which provides poverty relief by employing local villagers in Haiti, Madagascar, and Nepal to help with reforestation, announced they’ve planted 250 million trees around the world.

Good

ENVIRONMENT

Guam’s coral reefs could face death in weeks

A level two alert warning of coral reefs is anticipated in Guam, a U.S. island territory in Micronesia, in a little over a month, according to coral reef experts. Guam’s reefs currently are under a bleaching warning.

Guam Daily Post

Can this map save coral reefs? Researchers aim to conserve natural resource with satellites and AI

GeekWire

Animals not adapting to speed of climate crisis

The speed of climate disruption is outstripping many animals’ capacity to adapt, according to a study that warns of a growing threat to even common species such as sparrows, magpies and deer.

Guardian

Make environmental damage a war crime, say scientists

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Pakistan has to mobilize tax revenue, cut debt

Pakistan needs to mobilize domestic tax revenue to ensure funds for social and development programs while reducing debt, the acting director of IMF said after a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Al Jazeera

Debate rages over likely recession in Mexico

Mexico’s economy, the 2nd largest in Latin America, has hit a rough patch, weighed down by dwindling business confidence and an industrial slump.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Students protest at a rally organized by Teens For Gun Reform, an organization created by students in the Washington DC area, in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February 2018. A recent study in the journal Pediatrics, found that laws requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases in place for more than five years were associated with a 35 percent lower rate of child and youth deaths. (Photo by Lorie Shaull) Photo used under CC BY

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