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Can a GM banana solve Uganda’s hunger crisis?

Uganda’s parliament passed a bill that paves the way for the cultivation of genetically modified crops in the country. Critics say GM crops will make farmers beholden to big agribusiness by having to buy seeds every season.

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Guardian

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Ugandans say govt poor on economy, corruption

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The Observer

China continues to build on disputed islands

Beijing is building the infrastructure for fully functioning air and naval bases on some of disputed islands. The U.S. has accused China of militarizing the region.

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What is the United States doing in the South China Sea?

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Forbes

Food or medicine? Millions forced to choose

Almost 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of debts accrued through health care expenses, the WHO reports. The poorest and most vulnerable are forced to choose between health care and other necessities for their household.

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Health care costs push a staggering number of people into extreme poverty

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NPR

Why the US won’t confess to torture

While the U.S. has long supported truth commissions as part of a transitional justice “package” abroad, it has not done so at home. Domestically, such efforts are mainly nongovernmental or unofficial.

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Newsweek

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US torture continues at Guantanamo Bay, UN expert warns

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USA TODAY

Australia sexual abuse a ‘national tragedy’

A five-year inquiry into sexual abuse in Australia has released its final report, saying institutions had “seriously failed” to protect children. The accusations covered churches, schools and sports clubs over decades.

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BBC

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Australian Catholic leaders reject key calls by child abuse inquiry

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CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Army’s rape of Rohingya women sweeping

The rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar’s security forces has been sweeping and methodical, the Associated Press news agency found in interviews with 29 women and girls who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.

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Al Jazeera

El Salvador upholds sentence in stillbirth case

A court in El Salvador has upheld the 30-year sentence of a woman jailed for what she says was a stillbirth. Abortion is illegal in El Salvador and carries a maximum sentence of eight years. However, women suspected of committing abortions are often charged with murder.

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The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ecuadorean vice president given six years’ jail

An Ecuadorean court has sentenced the country’s vice-president, Jorge Glas, to six years in jail after finding him guilty of receiving bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in return for handing state contracts to the scandal-ridden firm.

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Guardian

OIC calls East Jerusalem Palestine’s capital

A summit of Islamic nations has issued a unified response to counter the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “not impressed” by the declaration.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA finds solar system with eight planets

Researchers used data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to discover an eighth planet orbiting a star known as Kepler-90. The discovery marks the first solar system to tie with our solar system in the number of planets orbiting one star.

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USA TODAY

What to expect with the repeal of net neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission vote on Thursday to end net neutrality, the regulation that ensured internet websites and services were treated equally by internet service providers, has left millions of Americans wondering what it means for them.

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CBS News

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What does the end of U.S. net neutrality mean for the world?

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CNNMoney

GLOBAL HEALTH

Report shows struggles of Zika toddlers

As babies born with Zika reach the toddler stage, they are continuing to show significant physical and developmental delays, according to the CDC’s latest report. From seizures to blindness, the report reveals the painful struggles of the children blighted by the virus.

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Daily Mail

Flu-related deaths are higher than estimated

A large, international survey conducted by the CDC and several of its global health partners suggests that significantly more people than previously estimated die from influenza-related respiratory illnesses each year.

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TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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West needs a new political movement to reinvent itself

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Gulf News

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Africa’s must-do decade

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Pakistan: One step forward, two steps back

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A vibrant press in the unlikeliest of places

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CNN

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Trump, tribalism and the end of American capitalism

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Al Jazeera

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Like it or hate it, Trump’s immigration enforcement is failing

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The Hill

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Women moan more than men, but it means deep down we are happier

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Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Boy’s toy drive collects nearly 1,200 toys

Cody Struble set a goal of 800 toys for his toy drive for kids at Children’s Hospital who can’t go home for the holidays. The community stepped up, and he collected 1,176 toys.

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Double amputee, 10, learns to snowboard

A 10-year-old double amputee who lost everything in the California wildfires learned how to snowboard from a Paralympic medalist who is also an amputee.

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WSB Atlanta

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Gates Foundation gives to crop research

New technologies are the key to helping Africa and Asia’s smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, said the Gates Foundation as it pledged $300 million in funding to research new crops that can thrive amid rising heat, drought and erratic rainfall.

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Reuters

Next-generation donors will reshape giving

New book explains the powerful ways in which the next generation of philanthropists will use their inherited and earned wealth.

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The Denver Post

ENVIRONMENT

EU agrees to catch more fish sustainably

European Union nations have agreed to set quota levels for 2018 that ensure more sustainable fishing in the northeastern Atlantic and the North Sea, but environmentalists say it is behind schedule to end overfishing by 2020.

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ABC News

How Greenland would look without its ice

Scientists have produced a stunning visualisation of Greenland – without its ice cover. This is critical information needed to understand how the huge island might respond to a warming world.

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BBC

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Venezuelans see bitcoin boom as survival

As Venezuela’s national currency loses value at a catastrophic rate, thousands have begun turning to the world of cryptocurrency to salvage what little value remains from their increasingly worthless bolivars.

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ABC News

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Venezuelans turn to ‘bitcoin mining’ to purchase basic needs

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Euronews

Disney is buying most of 21st Century Fox

Disney is buying a huge chunk of 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion deal that promises to reshape the media industry and help the entertainment giant fend off digital rivals such as Netflix.

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CNNMoney

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Disney is about to become the ‘Walmart of Hollywood’

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Bloomberg

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Dancers perform at the Ethel Goldman Academy in Montevideo, Uruguay. Photo captured on Dec. 10, 2017. (Photo by Jimmy Baikovicius) Photo used under CC BY

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