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President Nixon welcomed Prime Minister Suharto of Indonesia to the White House in 1970. New evidence reveals the U.S. was complicit in Suharto’s brutal extermination of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in the mid-1960s in an effort to eradicate the communist opposition. (Photo by U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) Photo used under CC BY

US backed Indonesia’s mid-’60s mass killings

Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.

Guardian

Declassified files lay bare US knowledge of mass murders in Indonesia

NPR

What the United States did in Indonesia

The Atlantic

Residents of Kiribati battle climate change

The 33 islands of Kiribati, a remote and low-lying nation in the Pacific Ocean, are under threat from climate change. But the islanders have not given up hope.

Guardian

Rate of US uninsured rises to over 12 percent

The number of U.S. adults without health insurance is up nearly 3.5 million this year, as rising premiums and political turmoil undermine coverage gains that drove the nation’s uninsured rate to a historic low.

PBS NewsHour

Amid uncertainty, America’s uninsured rate climbs

CNNMoney

Scandal in collapse of Mexico City buildings

Many of the buildings that collapsed in the earthquake that killed 225 people in Mexico City last month were the subject of 6,000 citizen complaints about safety, a Guardian Cities investigation reveals.

Guardian

NAACP names new president and CEO

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has named Derrick Johnson the group’s president and CEO. Johnson held the positions on an interim basis since July.

USA TODAY

NAACP names Derrick Johnson as president amid time of ‘tremendous challenge’

NBCNews.com

Children starve as aid workers flee fighting

Children are starving to death in Central African Republic because violence has forced aid workers to pull out, said the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the country.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigerian DNA lab may embolden rape victims

The launch of Nigeria’s first state-owned DNA lab will speed up rape cases and should encourage more victims to seek justice, prosecutors and rights groups have said.

Reuters

Myanmar Buddhists don’t want Rohingya back

Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested to urge Myanmar’s government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh since late August to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Associated Press

How Myanmar’s Buddhists feel about the Rohingya

CNN

Baha’is seek to ‘unify humanity’ on anniversary

The world’s 5 million to 6 million Baha’is are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the faith’s prophet founder. The monotheistic religion has come a long way since Baha’u’llah, a native of Persia, was imprisoned for heresy.

Jerusalem Post

Does Iran require Baha’i students to renounce faith?

The New Arab

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Taj Mahal at heart of political storm

India’s famed monument of love, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm, with some members of the country’s ruling Hindu right-wing party claiming that the mausoleum built by a Muslim emperor does not reflect Indian culture.

Associated Press

Somalia: A broken state leads to hunger

Somalia has been in the grip of a civil war since 1991. The state has disintegrated, leaving powerful clans to fill the vacuum. With the government weak and dysfunctional, the country is on the verge of another famine.

Deutsche Welle

Catalonia may declare itself independent

The Catalan parliament will meet over the coming days to agree its response to the Spanish government’s unprecedented decision to impose direct rule as speculation mounts that the regional president will press ahead with a unilateral declaration of independence.

Guardian

Catalonia’s ’silent majority’ frustrated over lack of anti-independence campaign

Sky News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The latest AI can work things out on its own

The game Go occupies roughly the same place in the culture of China, Korea and Japan as chess does in the West. AI bot AlphaGo’s victory over a human was a stunning demonstration of the power of a type of AI called machine learning.

Economist

The place spacecraft go to die

Smaller satellites burn up, but pieces of larger ones survive to reach the Earth’s surface. To avoid crashing on a populated area, they are brought down over an area of approximately 580 square miles of ocean known as the point of oceanic inaccessibility.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pollution linked to one in six deaths

Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to a quarter of deaths.

BBC

World Pollutionwatch: Evidence grows of lifelong harm from polluted air

Guardian

African-Americans hit by heart health disparities

African-Americans have worse cardiovascular health and more deaths from heart disease than other groups, at least partly from less effective disease prevention and management efforts, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Reuters

WHO cancels Mugabe appointment after outcry

The World Health Organization has removed the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, as a goodwill ambassador following outrage among donors and rights groups at his appointment.

Guardian

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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

Gates foundation to shift education focus

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will step back from its traditional education reform agenda to instead invest close to $1.7 billion over the next five years on new initiatives that include a focus on building networks of schools.

U.S. News & World Report

Stockton experiments with basic income

Next year, a random sample of the 300,000 residents of Stockton will get $500 per month with no strings attached. It’s the latest test of a policy known as basic income, funded not out of city revenues but by individual and foundation philanthropy.

Vox

ENVIRONMENT

NOAA predicts third warm winter in a row

This year, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict a warmer-than-average winter. In the East and southern two-thirds of the country, temperatures will be higher than normal, while Southern California, Texas, and Florida will be drier than usual.

Wired

Cleaning up after disaster strikes

Natural disasters can reduce entire cities to rubble, and modern warfare’s devastation also brings the hidden dangers of unexploded weapons, landmines and booby traps. Who clears up the wreckage of various catastrophes and where does it go?

BBC

Digging in the mud to see what toxic substances were spread by Hurricane Harvey

NPR

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Chinese boycott damages South Korean trade

An American missile-defence system that was installed in South Korea starting in March has Chinese authorities protesting that its radar could be used to spy on its territory. Chinese newspapers have encouraged consumers to boycott South Korean goods as a result.

Economist

Central banks in limbo amid transitions, polls

Central banks in the U.S., Europe and Japan are unlikely to make any major policy shifts for the rest of the year. In Japan, Shinzo Abe’s resounding win in a snap election will see his ultra-easy monetary policy continue for the foreseeable future.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

Men harvesting cranberries in New Jersey. Cranberries are harvested in the fall after being flooded, cut from plants, and corralled on the water’s surface. (Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture) Photo used under CC BY

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