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Addiction, mental illness complicate homelessness

This is the lesson that the working-class city of Everett, Washington, has learned: It takes a community to rescue the hardcore homeless. It takes teams of outreach workers — building relationships with men and women struggling with addiction or untreated mental illness.

Associated Press

Mandatory death sentence now illegal in Kenya

Kenya’s Supreme Court specified that this decision does not affect validity of the death sentence.The decision means death sentence is still lawful but not mandatory.

Daily Nation

Over 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar, says report

More than 620,000 Rohingya refugees have fled what the UN has labelled “ethnic cleansing” in Rakhine State since clashes broke out between government security forces and Rohingya fighters on August 25.

NPR

Special section:

No turning back for Myanmar Rohingya women

The Indian Expreess

Why women fight to kill in CAR crisis

In the strategic town of the Central African Republic’s Bria, 21-year-old Mariame’s commander calls her “him”—and she’s fine with it. She has the same uniform, same weapon and same job as the men: to fight.

Newsweek

Russia asks UN for the green light to send arms to CAR

Daily Nation

Global firms snared in S. Africa’s corruption

South Africa’s biggest corruption case since the end of apartheid has entangled not only the president and ruling party but also some major international companies, including U.S. firm McKinsey and KPMG.

ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Congolese soldiers jailed for mass child rape

A group of 11 militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been jailed for life for raping 40 children, including at least one baby.

BBC

One last push to end South Sudan’s deadly civil war

Al Jazeera

Cinema is back in Saudi Arabia after 35 years

Cinemas were shuttered in the country in 1982 after clerics persuaded the government to do so. Now, General Entertainment Authority has said there is a desire to create entertainment that “will be like 99 percent of what is going on in London and New York.”

Deadline

Rising homelessness in Rio creating tensions

A year after Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympic Games, a grinding economic crisis has led to an influx of thousands of homeless people, creating a climate of tension that city officials are scrambling to address.

ABC News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Post-election chaos continues in Honduras

Security forces in Honduras attempted to clear the streets of barricades erected by supporters of presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla. More than two weeks after the election, no official winner has been declared.

BBC

Still no clear winner in Honduras election

NPR

Palestinians no longer accept US as mediator

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has formally declared that Palestinians will no longer accept the U.S. as a mediator in the Middle East peace process following Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Guardian

Puerto Rico’s migration is reshaping Florida

Since early October, some 231,000 Puerto Ricans have traveled to the Orlando, Tampa and Miami airports, a number that surpasses the population of Rochester, New York.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Robot swarms to map the seafloor

The aim is to have no feature on the ocean floor larger than 100m unmapped by 2030. A $7 million pot has been offered to find the systems and strategies that will bring about a step change in ocean mapping as part of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE challenge.

BBC

Why more and more Pakistanis disappearing?

People are now being picked up from cities for reasons never disclosed. Some of them may have returned home after suffering torture, but many others have not been so lucky. No one knows what crime they have committed or are even accused of, says a report

Hindustan Times

LA subway work finds array of Ice Age fossils

Since work on the extension began in 2014, fossilized remains have routinely turned up from creatures that roamed the grasslands and forests that covered the region during the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago.

Seattle Times

GLOBAL HEALTH

Study: Fracking, infants’ negative health linked

Babies born to mothers who lived near fracking wells during pregnancy are more likely to experience negative health effects than babies born elsewhere, according to new research.

TIME

New, major evidence that fracking harms human health

The Atlantic

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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.

WISN Wisconsin

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ABC News

Venezuelans turn to ‘bitcoin mining’ to purchase basic needs

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.

CNNMoney

Disney is about to become the ‘Walmart of Hollywood’

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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