This article describes how world hunger is not only a health issue, but very linked to things like climate change as well.

The World Bank is raising its 2017 forecast for crude oil prices to $55 per barrel from $53 per barrel as members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) prepare to limit production after a long period of unrestrained output. This isn't that significant or interesting in itself, but I'm curious about what it means for a lot of foreign policy, particularly for the US in the middle east.

The status quo of racism and the intolerance of immigrants in France is not improving, and islamophobia is just at the surface of the issue. The awareness of racism against Asian communities is increasing in the aftermath of the murder of a 49 year old Chinese man who immigrated to France in 2006. While he was walking around with a couple of old friends, a group of youths beat them and left them lying on the sidewalk, and the man died 5 days later in the hospital. Since, there has been a large scale protest over the governments lack of action (60,000 people marched into Paris). Furthermore, it is coming to light that frequent hate crimes against Asian people have been going on and the government has, for the most part, ignored them. Police make reporting a crime pointless because they reject most reports on grounds that either they can't understand their accent, or they just refuse to take the complaint.

The United States and Russia are to establish a Joint Implementation Center, where they will share targeting data, and begin to coordinate bombing of militants of the Nusra Front and the Islamic State.

Under intense pressure, South Sudan's beleaguered government has relented and will allow more United Nations peacekeepers into the country. In the two and a half years since civil war erupted, South Sudan has been the scene of atrocities including civilian massacres, the forcing of children into militias, the burning of emergency food supplies.