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In São Paolo, Brazil, where hundreds of thousands of impoverished people live in shanty areas known as favelas, the city government is considering providing food pellets for the poor. (Photo by Ben Tavener) Photo used under CC BY

Food pellets for the poor? Plan splits Brazilians

Plans to feed poor children reconstituted food made from expiring leftovers have sparked a row in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. The product, known as farinata from the Portuguese word for flour but dubbed “dog food” by critics, can be eaten as pellets or added to meals.

BBC

World hunger is increasing, thanks to wars and climate change

Scientific American

Catalan rebels say Spain will regret power grab

Catalan separatists say Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into as he moves to quash their campaign for independence.

Bloomberg

ISIS down but not out after Raqqa defeat

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces declared the liberation of Raqqa this week. A U.S. military spokesperson said more than 90 percent of Raqqa is cleared. The defeat of ISIS in Raqqa is a significant victory for the international community and Syrian groups.

The Hill

Drone video reveals destruction as Raqqa is declared ‘liberated from ISIS’

NBCNews.com

US-backed forces succeed in making Raqqa 80 percent ‘uninhabitable’

Almasdar News

72 killed in suicide attacks at Afghan mosques

Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Afghanistan, killing at least 72 people, including children. The bombing were in the capital, Kabul, and in central Ghor province.

Reuters

Malawi cracks down on ‘vampire’ lynch mobs

Police in the southeast African state of Malawi say they have arrested 140 members of lynch mobs who attacked people suspected of being vampires. At least eight people are believed to have been killed.

BBC

Special section:

Vampire scare triggers mob violence, deaths in Malawi

allAfrica.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN panel damns Australia’s rights record

Australia has been excoriated before the UN human rights committee for its “chronic non-compliance” with the committee’s recommendations, drawing particular condemnation over the mandatory detention of children and the same-sex marriage survey.

Guardian

Australia elected to UN Human Rights Council amid concerns of refugee rights abuses

Australian Broadcasting Company

Former Australian PM decries passage of Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying bill

Sydney Morning Herald

Denver wins perfect score for LGBTQ laws

The Human Rights Campaign has given Denver a perfect score for the city’s inclusivity — in terms of laws, policies and services — toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.

Denver Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

China’s Xi lays out vision as key meeting begins

Chinese President Xi Jinping laid out a sweeping vision for the country as he kicked off a pivotal meeting of the ruling elite that’s expected to shore up his grip on power.

CNN

China’s Communist Party is holding its most important meeting in years: Here’s what you need to know

CNBC

N. Korea’s nuke test mountain near collapse

North Korea’s nuclear tests are not only raising fears around the world, they are causing the peak under which the bombs are being detonated to suffer “tired mountain syndrome.”

FOX News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Toward efficient high-pressure desalination

One of the biggest operational challenges for desalination plants is the fouling of membranes by microbes. New research suggests a novel approach to reducing the rate of fouling, and thus improving desalination plant efficiency.

ScienceDaily

Gravitational-wave astronomy starts in earnest

Two weeks after this year’s Nobel physics prize was awarded “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” that detector has produced its most interesting finding.

Economist

Astronomers observed merging of neutron stars

Forbes

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO cancer agency edited weedkiller report

When the International Agency for Research on Cancer assessed the best-selling weedkiller glyphosate, significant changes were made between a draft of its report and the published version. The agency won’t say who made the changes or why.

Reuters

Childbirth deaths still high in Asian nations

An estimated 85,000 mothers died in 2015 from childbirth in the region, home to more than half of the world‘s population and some of its fastest growing economies, U.N. figures show, with the maternal mortality rate seen as a key way to measure improvement in a nation’s health.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Midwives treated ‘like civil servants’ battle Cambodia’s maternal deaths

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Peter Grier):

Could smaller, local measures offer a way forward on gun control?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Graeme Wood):

The bloody end of ISIS’ utopian dream

The Atlantic

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Proposed deal proves Hamas rule was a disaster for Palestinians

CNN

Column (Laurent Belsie):

NFL owners to meet, with racial divide on the agenda

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Trump might actually wreck NAFTA, believe him

Bloomberg

Column (Daniel Speckhard):

Puerto Rico shows how much of the world fares when disaster strikes

The Hill

Editorial:

Stop Big Pharma from ‘getting away with murder’

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Girl gets new prosthetics after fire takes hers

After a little girl lost her prosthetic limbs to the fires in her Santa Rosa neighborhood last week, the Hanger Clinic stepped in to fit her with new prosthetics for free.

NBCNews.com

Man buys 58 meals in honor of Vegas victims

A man stepped up to the counter at Maple’s Bakery in Yarmouth, Maine, and requested to pay for himself and the 58 customers to follow. He told the staff he wanted to honor the victims of the Las Vegas shooting rampage.

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Philanthropist to commit $1.5B to conservation

Continuing a trend demonstrating the increasing power of the nonprofit sector in China, a leading Chinese female business leader, He Qiaonv, has pledged $1.5 billion toward wildlife conservation efforts.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Google to give $1B to nonprofits for job growth

Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the largest philanthropic pledge to date from the Internet giant.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

A brief history of the Earth’s CO2

Climate change is one of the biggest problems faced by humankind, and carbon dioxide is its primary driver. A professor explains why this gas has played a crucial role in shaping the Earth’s climate.

BBC

Ethiopia now leads the Nile Basin Initiative

Ethiopia has assumed leadership of the Nile Basin Initiative, taking over from Uganda. Ethiopia will chair both the Nile Council of Ministers and the Nile Technical Advisory Committee of the NBI for the next one year.

The Independent

Special section:

Death of the Nile

BBC

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Infrastructure explains China’s corporate debt

Corporate debt levels in China look huge by international comparison. But a detailed look at the country’s corporate debt shows that infrastructure spending rather than speculation explains most of the debt growth of the past 10 years.

Asia Times Online

China stalls currency internationalization

At the Communist Party’s 19th congress, much will be made of the triumphs achieved in nearly four decades of reform. Expect a glossing over of one part of that process where progress has largely stalled: the “internationalisation” of China’s currency, the yuan.

Economist

Photo of the Day

The Fremont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas. The FSE occupies the westernmost five blocks of Fremont Street, including the area known for years as “Glitter Gulch,” and portions of adjacent streets. The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy, 90 feet high at the peak and four blocks long. (Photo by Bernard Spragg) Photo used under CC BY

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