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Inhabitants of Guiyu, on the developed Chinese coast, have abandoned the cultivation of rice for a business that is much more profitable but harms their health and the environment — the recycling of electronic waste from the rest of the world. (Photo by Anna) Photo used under CC BY

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Proposed UK law would ban exportation of plastic waste

Exporting polluting plastic waste to developing countries will be banned or restricted under a new law. The rule presented to the UK Parliament is aimed at protecting poorer nations against becoming the dumping ground for unwanted rubbish.

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BBC

Anti-nuke faction fuels reliance on coal, gas

Environmentalists’ anti-nuclear crusade is responsible for our dependence on coal and gas power plants. Reactors going online this year will only make a dent in global CO2 emissions.

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Asia Times Online

Thousands in Lesotho ‘one step from famine’

According to the UN, more than 500,000 people – a quarter of Lesotho’s population – face severe hunger due to droughts that caused a 60 percent fall in cereal production last year, compared with 2018.

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Guardian

Chileans losing faith in democracy, poll finds

Approval for Chile’s president has sunk to just 6% since widespread protests against elitism and inequality broke out. Less than half of Chileans believe the country is a functioning democracy, according to recent poll.

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Reuters

WHO declares global health emergency

The World Health Organization said the fast-spreading coronavirus that’s infected more than 8,200 across the world is a global health emergency — a rare designation.

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CNBC

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Coronavirus has spread to all regions of China

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US reports first human-to-human transmission of coronavirus

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Black S. African women win property rights

For black women married before 1988, the husband owned all matrimonial assets and could sell them without consulting his wife. A landmark win this month overturned the law.

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LGBTQ Hungarians facing increased hostility

Hungary’s gay community is facing increased government “attacks” and fears that its hard-won rights, and an improvement in public acceptance of them, may be at risk, a rights group said.

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Court hears sexual violence case from Ecuador

An Ecuadorian mother says her 16-year-old daughter killed herself after being sexually abused by staff in school took her 18-year battle for justice to the top Americas court in the region’s first case of its kind.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sudanese allege relatives lured to conflict zones

Dozens of Sudanese protested in Khartoum, alleging that their relatives had been recruited by a UAE firm as security guards but were despatched to war-zones in Libya and Yemen.

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DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Telescope captures most detailed images of sun

Images taken with the National Science Foundation’s Inouye Solar Telescope are the most detailed images of the sun ever taken.

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Inverse

UN warns ISIS is reasserting itself in Mideast

ISIS has begun to reassert itself in its heartlands in the Middle East and continues to seek opportunities to strike in the West, the UN has said. Its report says the group is mounting increasingly bold insurgent attacks.

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Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Drone students help map out Africa’s future

An institute in Malawi with financing from the UNICEF’s partners has provided tuition to the first cohort of 26. By 2022, the academy will run a tuition-free two-year master’s degree program in drone technology.

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Reuters

Aussie scientists grow coronavirus in lab

An Australian institute has grown coronavirus in a flask. The breakthrough lets scientists develop better tests for the virus — and it’s a crucial first step towards developing treatments or a vaccine.

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Sydney Morning Herald

GLOBAL HEALTH

US life expectancy up for first time since 2014

The CDC says life expectancy in the United States went up for the first time in four years in 2018, thanks largely to a decrease in death rates from cancer and drug overdoses.

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Hong Kong slashes border travel to halt virus

Hong Kong has announced plans to slash cross-border travel between the city and mainland China as the coronavirus continues to spread.

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Trump‘s immigrant ’wealth test’ hurts the economy and undermines the American dream

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Charity won’t fix inequality

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Dictators without borders

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GOOD NEWS

Autistic boys’s mom gets degrees to help kids

An autistic boy’s mother got with her master‘s degree in psychology in ABA therapy to help her son. She’s pursuing another master’s in early childhood education to start a daycare.

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Couple donates 2M to a school for children in foster care

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AZ Central

Motorcycle ambulances saving lives in India

According to government figures, up to 130 mothers die per every thousand births in India. Many of these women can’t get to the hospital in time. A local initiative is proving extremely beneficial to deal with the issue.

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Fighting for Congo’s most vulnerable girls in Kinshasa

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BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Humanitarian channel brings vital meds to Iran

A humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to Iran has started trial operations, the Swiss government said, helping supply Swiss goods to the struggling population without violating U.S. sanctions.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Coalition grants $9M for coronavirus vaccine

Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced a $9 million grant from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations for a vaccine against the coronavirus that has killed more than 100 people in China and infected more.

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Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Insects are dying and nobody knows how fast

Conservationists say fears of an insect apocalypse, Armageddon and absolute extinction are overblown, but acting now could save populations that are plummeting

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Climate change to force species to migrate

A new study found that many species of animals and plants likely will need to migrate under climate change, and that land conservation efforts will also need to shift to be effective.

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ScienceDaily

‘Venice of Africa’ losing battle with rising sea

Doun Baba Dieye, a vibrant fishing community in northern Senegal, has been wiped off the map, with only the tree and walls of an abandoned school remaining.

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Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Brexit a turning point for EU-Africa relations

Britain’s EU exit creates a new partner for Africa, which has implications for the power dynamics in Brussels. At a UK-Africa summit, deals worth nearly $8 billion were announced.

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EU leaders say they’ll find new path with UK

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Reuters

State-owned firms hamper Balkan economies

The closure of a debt-laden aluminum smelter epitomize the challenges facing Balkan countries as they try to keep loss-making state-owned businesses inherited from the communist era afloat in market economies.

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Reuters

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A motorcyclist hauls a precarious load of cargo in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by Julian Circo) Photo used under CC BY

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