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Shot at the ranger camp in Kahuzi Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo by Joe McKenna) Photo used under CC BY

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Wildlife rangers are being gunned down in Africa

When two Dutch journalists travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to report on illegal gold mining in the vast Okapi wildlife reserve, they ended up running for their lives. Poaching presents a severe threat to wildlife and those enlisted to protect it.

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Guardian

Iranian president defends nuclear deal

Iran’s recently elected president Hassan Rouhani re-emphasizes his commitment to the nuclear deal. However, Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the deal, in a step that potentially could cause the accord to unravel.

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What it means to ‘decertify’ the Iran deal

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NPR

800,000 Rohingya will move into single camp

Bangladesh will build a single, 3,000-acre refugee camp to house around 800,000 Rohingya refugees as a Bangladeshi minister warned his country was struggling to deal with the flood across the border.

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Refugees struggle to get survival basics

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Report: Refugees International policy brief

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Refugees International

AU silent on Cameroon separatist massacre

Cameroon has disputed a report that said 100 people died in anti-government protests. The African Union has largely remained quiet as secession sentiments gather steam in the central African nation.

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Cameroon helicopters shot separatists: witnesses

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Reuters

Ghana gas station blast sparks indignation

A huge tanker explosion near a gas station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, that killed at least seven people and injured scores has sparked an outpouring of sadness and anger in the country.

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Al Jazeera

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VP hints of reforms to address disasters

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Ghana Business News

HUMAN RIGHTS

LGBTQ people targeted in Egypt arrests

Rights groups say dozens of people have been detained in the crackdown, which began after rainbow flags were waved at a rock concert on the outskirts of Cairo last month, prompting a furious reaction in the Egyptian media.

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Guardian

Transsexuals face grave danger in Colombia

In the past eight years, 74 percent of all reported murders of transsexual people were in Central and South America, according to a 2016 report from Transgender Europe. In Colombia, fear and prejudice force many into sex work.

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Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Brazilians in the south to vote on secession

Voters in the south of Brazil have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country. The referendum was organized by a secessionist movement called “The South Is My Country.”

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BBC

Protests test tribal authority in S. Africa

A new power struggle is unfolding in South Africa’s old homelands between global mining giants, traditional leaders and an impoverished rural populace.

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Reuters

Russian police arrest hundreds in protests

Russian police arrested 290 protesters in 26 cities as marches took place against President Vladimir Putin on the leader’s 65th birthday, according to independent monitoring group OVD.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Solar Challenge car race begins in Australia

An epic solar car race has begun in Australia, with vehicles crossing the country’s tropical north to its southern shores. The World Solar Challenge aims to showcase technology that could be used for commercial purposes.

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In pictures: Solar challenge race begins in Australia

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BBC

Researchers grow crop using only automation

A farm in the United Kingdom is the first in the world to successfully plant, tend and harvest a crop without a single person ever setting foot in the field, according to researchers and developers involved in the project.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

Trump guts insurance contraceptive mandate

The Trump administration today announced a change in health care policy that could affect hundreds of thousands of women’s access to contraception, effective immediately.

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PBS NewsHour

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Trump axes requirement that employer health plans pay for birth control

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The victims of India’s poisonous dust

Silicosis, caused by inhaling the silica dust in gold-bearing rocks, can lead to breathing difficulties, regular coughing and chest pains, and it can also lead to tuberculosis.

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Passion keeps man working, sailing at 80

Rod Johnstone has been sailing since the age of 4. As much as he loved his early boats, he always had the feeling that he could do better. Now 80, he is working full-time at the family business and competing in sailing competitions.

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CBS News

The man saving Kenya’s sea turtles

Fikiri Kiponda left his accounting job and fully immersed himself in the world of sea turtles. Now, he runs the Watamu Conservation Project and spends his time nursing critically endangered sea turtles back to health.

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NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Bill and Melinda Gates call for more foreign aid

Calling the case for U.S. foreign aid “increasingly obvious” in a turbulent world, Bill and Melinda Gates issued a call to the world’s largest economy to redouble its financial commitment to needy countries.

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CNBC

What drives exec compensation at nonprofits?

When it comes to attracting and retaining talented leaders, the setting of executive compensation packages has posed continuing challenges to nonprofits since the 1980s.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Britain to impose near-total ban on ivory

Conservation groups have called for the UK Government to outlaw almost all ivory items, warning that the legal market has been used as a cover for the illegal trade of elephant tusks.

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The Independent

Mexico creates giant marine protected area

The Mexican government has announced the creation of a new marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean Thursday, the largest protected area of its kind in North America.

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National Geographic

Humans have caused hundreds of quakes

A new database, created by geophysicists at Durham and Newcastle Universities, has tracked down 730 cases of man-made earthquakes. It is the most comprehensive collection of these quakes to date.

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PBS NewsHour

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HiQuake Database

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The Human-Induced Earthquake Database

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Spain warns of Catalan economic meltdown

Deputy Prime Minister de Santamaría said ministers were ready to stop Catalan President Carles Puigdemont from seceding. The Spanish Energy Minister said the push to break away is doing more damage to the Catalan economy than August’s terrorist attacks.

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Bloomberg

American wins Nobel Prize in economics

Richard Thaler, an American professor whose work influenced the Obama administration and led to a cameo in “The Big Short,” won the Nobel Prize in economics. He was cited for his research in behavioral economics.

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Thousands of protesters turned out across Australia over the weekend to oppose the proposed Carmichael coal mine. Rallies like this one in Princes Park in Melbourne heard messages against Indian company Adani’s proposed mine in the Galilee Basin. (Photo by Takeover) Photo used under CC BY

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