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Nyumbani Children’s Home has taken care of more than 50,000 children with HIV since it was founded in 1992 by Father Angelo D’Agostino. (Photo by Lynn Ouellette)

Caring for Kenya’s HIV orphans

The Nyumbani children’s home in Kenya has been caring for orphans with HIV and Aids for over 20 years. The challenge is to find enough child-friendly pills for the residents.

BBC

Anti-cancer drug ‘can drive HIV out of hiding’

Reuters

Terrorism prosecutions often an illusion

The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity.

Eurasia Review

EU readies possible capital, tech sanctions on Russia

The European Union threatened Russia with harsher sanctions over Ukraine that could inflict wider damage on its economy following the downing of a Malaysian airliner, but it delayed action for a few days.

Reuters

MH17 black boxes to be handed over to Malaysia

Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine agreed with Malaysia to surrender the flight recorder boxes of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner downed by a surface-to-air missile and to let victims’ bodies be evacuated by train.

Russia Today

MH17 black box headed to Malaysian authorities

YouTube

Eating bushmeat may pose Ebola risk

The Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, said that there should be improved awareness among rural communities in West Africa about the risks of contracting the Ebola virus from eating certain wildlife species.

The Premium Times

This should be the last Ebola outbreak without a treatment

Christian Science Monitor

Red Cross condemns Ebola vaccine claims

allAfrica.com

Federal Aviation Administration bans U.S. airlines from Israel over rocket threat

Delta Air Lines, United and US Airways each canceled flights to Israel because of safety and security concerns after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv’s airport.

USA TODAY

Nigeria’s free-wheeling media fears crackdown over Boko Haram battle

Nigeria‘s press is traditionally free to write almost anything, whether it’s true or not. But reporters fear a government sensitive to criticism is cracking down, especially on coverage of the battle against Boko Haram.

Newsweek

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

US promises $49M in Gaza aid

Pledge for aid to Gaza comes as Secretary of State Kerry embarks on diplomatic push to secure ceasefire in the region.

Al Jazeera

Tears and gunshots: a snapshot of a 24-hour shift with one of Gaza’s paramedics

The Telegraph

8 Minnesota counties will get federal aid after storms

President Obama signed a disaster declaration to assist eight Minnesota counties in recovery from the summer storms and floods, the White House said.

Star Tribune

HUMAN RIGHTS

Laws targeting homelessness have increased dramatically across the country

While homelessness is worse than ever in many places across the country, more and more cities are addressing the crisis by making it illegal for homeless people to sleep, sit or simply be in public.

AlterNet

Ethiopia’s child brides see marriage as key to jobs abroad, says thinktank

On the eve of Girl Summit, ODI reveals trend of girls entering early marriages followed by swift divorces to migrate for family’s sake.

Guardian

Child marriage: one in three brides under 18 wed before 15th birthday

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Turkey proposes free trade zone with Russia

Ankara has proposed a free trade zone with Russia’s customs union after talks between the two parties in Sydney.

International Business Times

India keeps world guessing in countdown to landmark trade pact deadline

India will firm up its position on a landmark global trade pact shortly before the deadline, a senior official said, setting up a nail-biting showdown over a deal it says should safeguard a $12 billion anti-poverty food program.

Reuters

Face-offs and trade-offs: Defending India’s stance on subsidy at WTO

Hindustan Times

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Islamic State claims wave of Baghdad bombings

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a wave of car bombs in mostly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad, which killed at least 27 people on Saturday.

Reuters

Thousands of Nigerians flee northeast town after Boko Haram raid

More than 15,000 people have fled their homes in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Islamist militants left at least 21 people dead, said an emergency official.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Proton spin mystery gains a new clue

Protons have a constant spin that is an intrinsic particle property like mass or charge. Yet where this spin comes from is a mystery that has been dubbed the “proton spin crisis."

Scientific American

More eyes on the skies

If it all plays out as expected and budgeted, astronomers of the 2020s will be swimming in petabytes of data streaming from space and the ground. Herewith a report card on the future of big-time stargazing.

New York Times

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How to honor those on MH17

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GOOD NEWS

Positive travel with poetry at ten paces

In the Great Basin of northern Nevada – a vast desert of scratchy sagebrush and bleached white, dried out salt beds, there are cowboys who recite poetry.

Positive News

London street artist makes hit - and money - with dog sketches

A former homeless man’s sketches of his dog George, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier he credits with changing his life, are commanding rising prices in a London gallery and have earned him a show in Los Angeles.

Reuters

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

NGOs in India on tenterhooks after accusatory government report

The Indian government is scrutinizing NGOs after a leaked report blamed several foreign-funded NGOs for stalling development projects, hurting the economy.

Christian Science Monitor

Next to Silicon Valley, nonprofits draw youth of color into tech

Technology companies have a problem when it comes to employee diversity. The workforce at places like Google and Facebook is overwhelmingly white and male.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

‘Ugly’ Great Barrier Reef unable to regenerate by 2050

The Australian Coral Reef Society says the Great Barrier Reef will be “pretty ugly” by the middle of the century and may be incapable of regenerating after stress as it once did.

The Australian

Are we losing the Great Barrier Reef?

ABC News

South African park considers moving rhinos to stop poachers

South Africa, home to 80 percent of the world’s rhinos, is considering moving some of the animals out of Kruger National Park to keep poachers at bay.

Bloomberg

Illegal wildlife trade along the Burma-China border

Guardian

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Monarch butterfly seen in Hai Van Pass, Vietnam. (Photo by Harold Hoye)

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