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As U.S. gun violence is being more commonplace, the world is taking less notice. In many cities, it no longer makes headlines. (Photo by M Glasgow)

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For world, US gun violence is new norm

Foreigners are aware of the grim list of the sites of recent U.S. massacres. With gun laws little changed after the earlier killings, many said they fully expect the list to grow.

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Japan Times

Guns, violence and mental health: by the numbers

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(Al Jazeera)

America Tonight

Arizona expands ban on driver’s licenses to immigrants

Arizona is expanding a ban on giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants to include all those who have been granted relief from deportation, in a move rights advocates criticized as “vindictive.”

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NBCNews.com

Assad says he welcomes return of UN inspectors

Syria‘s president says he’ll welcome the return of U.N. investigators to follow up on more allegations of chemical weapons use in his country.

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CNN

Assad: Syria is committed to ‘full requirements’ of agreement

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(NPR)

the two-way

Iran: Nasrin Sotoudeh ‘among freed political prisoners’

Iran is reported to have freed at least 11 political prisoners, including noted human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. The eight women and three men may also include the reformist Mohsen Aminzadeh.

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BBC

Will NSA spying push Brazil toward ‘anti-imperialist’ neighbors?

The uncertainty or Brazil-U.S. relations has some wondering if Brazil will now be taking on a cooler tone with the U.S., long accused of treating Latin America like its backyard.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Brazil data plan aims to keep US spies at bay

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BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Ban Ki-moon: We must do better to achieve global partnership promise

The world must renew its commitment to increasing aid and reaching a trade deal to make progress on the millennium development goals, according to a U.N. report.

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Guardian

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MDG designer fears UN goals will ‘degenerate into wish list’

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EurActiv.com

Report: Donor countries failing Syrians

Donor countries, among them France, Qatar and Russia, are failing to adequately provide urgently-needed funding for the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Oxfam says.

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Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Horrific abuses by new rulers in Central African Republic

The Seleka, a coalition of rebel groups that took power in the Central African Republic in March, has killed scores of unarmed civilians, Human Rights Watch said.

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Human Rights Watch

Argentina calls for extradition of Francoists over human rights abuses

Argentina has called for the extradition of four Spanish former officials accused of torturing victims of the Franco regime in a decision described as historic by human rights activists.

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Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Ghana economy grows with help of technology and targeted aid

A grassroots revolution, spreading out from Accra and involving support from the west, digital start-ups and a commitment to open government, is helping to weed out corruption in Ghana.

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Guardian

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Ghana’s growing economy fails to create jobs

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Food crisis fears prompt UN wake-up call to world leaders

Governments in rich and poor countries alike should renounce their focus on agribusiness and give more support to small-scale, local food production to achieve global food security.

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Guardian

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Protesters pile pressure on EU over food prices and shortages

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Euronews

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

North Korea cancels reunions with South

The highly symbolic and emotional meetings of selected families from the North and South, separated for six decades by the 1950-53 war, would have been the first reunions in three years.

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Japan Times

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North Korea halts family reunions

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Sydney Morning Herald

Senator McCain attacks Putin in Russian website op-ed

Senator John McCain accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of allying himself with tyrants and ruling through violence and repression, in a scathing retort to a New York Times editorial by Putin.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield

An interview of 23 explosive ordnance disposal personnel found that the soldiers often assigned their robots human attributes and even displayed a kind of empathy toward the machines.

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ScienceDaily

The other 10 most important questions in science

Having previously presented my take on 10 of the 20 most important questions in science, I will run through here the rest of the list published in “Big questions in Science” last week in the U.K.

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Science

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Patrick Winn):

Youth interrupted: Myanmar’s underage, illiterate workers

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(NPR)

parallels

Column (Peter Lehner):

Sell-by labels send edible US food to the dump

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LiveScience

Column (Margaret Wurth):

Choosing not to protect child farmworkers in North Carolina

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Human Rights Watch

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GOOD NEWS

Cuban athletes score against violence

In Cuba, a handful of champions and rising young stars are wearing messages or appearing in TV spots against violence among men or toward women.

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IPS

Kenya poachers to be named and shamed online

A website to name and shame poachers in Kenya — PoachersExposed.com — has been launched by wildlife campaigners.

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BBC

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Literary activists attempt to restore Sudan’s love of reading

Book sales have plummeted in Khartoum, Sudan because of “war, drought and economic privation.” Now, a few bookshop owners have gotten together to try to revive the city’s love of reading.

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The Atlantic Wire

Books to Prisoners answers pleas of inmates

Books to Prisoners, a nonprofit group that sends free reading material to prisoners across the United States, operates on a shoestring but with dogged determination.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists make red food dye from potatoes, not bugs

Researchers are developing better vegetable-based alternatives to cochineal, a commonly used red food coloring made from crushed insects. One of the most promising candidates is the purple sweet potato.

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National Geographic

To deal with worsening drought, Pakistan turns to olives

As Pakistan struggles with unpredictable weather patterns linked to climate change, farmers are seizing on a drought-resilient crop better known from southern Europe and the Middle East: olives.

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

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Better forage conditions in many droughts

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Farm Talk

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Literary activists and book sellers in Khartoum are trying to restore a reading culture to Sudan. Book sales have plummeted 90% in 20 years, but Khartoum was once a major market for Arabic writers. (Photo by F Noy/ UNHCR)

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