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Mourners light candles outside the late former President Nelson Mandela’s home in Houghton, Johannesburg. (Photo by GCIS / GovernmentZA)

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Dominican Republic rejects human rights report

The Dominican Republic rejected a human rights report that accuses the government of discrimination following a court ruling that could strip the citizenship of thousands of people born to migrants living there illegally.

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A storm in Hispaniola

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Economist

British aid to Typhoon Haiyan boosted by government donation one month on

British aid to victims of Typhoon Haiyan is to increase to over $80 million having already reached more than 2 million people in the month since the disaster struck.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Massive crowds, world leaders to honor Mandela

South Africa expects overwhelming crowds and a host of world leaders to attend services honoring the late president, though officials acknowledged they couldn’t offer any specifics yet.

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Yahoo! News

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Nelson Mandela’s journey from prisoner to president

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CNN

Japan passes a democracy-muzzling Patriot Act

Japan’s Obama-supported Protection of State Secrets Bill criminalizes investigative journalism and equates terrorism with “imposing one’s opinions.”

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GlobalPost

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Japan’s secrets bill turns journalists into terrorists

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Bloomberg

Shia and Sunni babies in Lebanon

A Lebanese couple defied a long-established sectarian system, becoming the first to remove all legal reference to their sects and get a civil marriage approved. Since then, 13 other couples have followed suit.

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GlobalPost

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Changing foreign aid: Can more groups ‘buy local’?

Governments from Myanmar to Zambia are pushing for international aid organizations to work with local companies as they pour in billions in aid and investment.

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Christian Science Monitor

Aid workers bring mixed fortunes for local economy in eastern Chad

Surge of Nongovernmental Organizations during refugee crisis boosted business and graduate employment but led to job losses and inequality.

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Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN decries ‘slow, uneven’ use of law protecting Afghan women

Afghanistan is failing to use a law designed to protect women from violence in a country regularly voted one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, the United Nations said.

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

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Addicted and hopeless in Afghanistan’s Herat

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Al Jazeera

Egypt frees 21 female pro-Morsi protesters after international outcry

Female protesters who were jailed after taking part in a demonstration in support of Egypt’s ousted president have been freed on appeal after their harsh prison terms drew international outcry.

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Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Boost for trade as global deal struck

The first major global trade deal in nearly 20 years was struck as 160 countries agreed on measures that could boost the world economy by as much as $1 trillion.

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CNNMoney

Why the WTO agreement in Bali has finally helped developing countries

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Poverty Matters

Next on Egypt’s to-do: Ethiopia and the Nile

Water ministers meet in Sudan for latest round of talks on how to share Africa’s fabled Nile river.

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Al Jazeera

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Al-Qaida thrives in Yemen amid weak security, stalled dialogue

Al-Qaida top government targets in Yemen are unlikely to abate while security services remain divided, ill-equipped and infiltrated by militants. Repairing the fractured political life remains stalled.

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Reuters

Ukraine sees largest anti-govenment protest since 2004

Angry anti-government protesters toppled a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the center of Kiev and blockaded key government buildings amid huge street protests.

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Houston Chronicle

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Ukraine protests: why Moscow played hardball with Kiev

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tesla’s industrial-grade solar power storage system

SolarCity, which sells and installs solar panels, began offering an industrial-grade power storage unit produced by Tesla. The system mounts on a wall and looks something like a white mini-fridge.

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Utility scale solar power to be cost competitive with natural gas by 2025

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Forbes

NASA shares image of massive ‘Hexagon’ on Saturn

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided your multicolored space distraction of the day: images of a swirling, six-sided weather feature on the surface of Saturn.

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GOOD NEWS

The only ballerinas in all of Abkhazia

In troubled Abkhazia, just across the border from Sochi, poverty is rampant and futures uncertain, but the tiny ballerinas of the territory’s only dance school still have dreams of the big stage.

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Daily Beast

Reddit finds lost dog, Internet says ‘aww’

When most people lose a dog, they put up posters, or call the local animal shelters. Reddit contributor p1percub turned to the massive online community and posted to the Houston subreddit for help.

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NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Activists demand stripping NFL of nonprofit status

The teams themselves are considered for-profit entities and pay taxes. However, the leagues, which set the rules, negotiate contracts, discipline players and come up with a programming schedule, do not.

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Ecuador ends environmental group after accusations of harassment

Ecuador’s government has shut down a nonprofit environmental group that opposes Amazon rainforest oil drilling, alleging that it incited abusive public behavior.

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ENVIRONMENT

Japan finds scrapping nuclear boosts pollution, fuel cost

Japan gave its strongest signal yet that it wishes to keep nuclear power following the meltdown in Fukushima almost three years ago, shifting from previous government’s intention to phase out the technology.

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Bloomberg

Real vs. fake Christmas trees: Which is better for the environment?

If you’re in the market for a Christmas tree this holiday season, whether you buy a farm-grown tree or an artificial one doesn’t change how much of an environmental impact you’ll have on the planet.

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Ecuadorean Ministers of Justice and Senplades (Development) bike to work as part of a national initiative called Ciclópolis. (Photo by Fernanda LeMarie - Cancillería del Ecuador)

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