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The Central African Republic has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the region. To prevent the disease from spreading further, humanitarian and development organizations teach the young about risks and prevention. (Photo by Pierre Holtz/ UNICEF)

Jungle plant: Thailand’s cure for meth addiction?

As America grapples with a kratom scare, Thailand is moving in the opposite direction with a push to end a 70-year-old ban on the leafy jungle plant that once helped opium users kick addiction.

GlobalPost

Thai dealers push candy-flavored methamphetamine on kids outside schools

TIME

Thai children seek help for drug addiction

Al Jazeera

China just bought five percent of Ukraine

China has made a deal to farm three million hectares of Ukrainian land over half a century. The Ukraine will give up about or nine percent of its farmland to feed China’s burgeoning population.

The Atlantic Wire

‘Dramatic’ drop in global HIV infections

The number of HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths has fallen dramatically, according to a U.N. report. Death rates fell from 2.3 million during its peak in 2005 to 1.6 million last year, says UNAIDS.

BBC

Swaziland shows signs of turning corner on world’s highest HIV rates

Reuters

Kenya’s economy seen resilient to mall attack, tourism apart

Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long-term investors pull money out after the attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, analysts say.

Reuters

Blog:

What is al-Shabab?

(PBS NewsHour)

The Rundown

UN General Assembly: Can Obama win over a skeptical audience?

Revelations about NSA spying and Obama’s recent readiness to bypass the Security Council and go it alone on Syria could chill his reception at the U.N. U.S. diplomacy on Iran and the Mideast could help.

Christian Science Monitor

Five things to look for at the UN General Assembly

CNN

Barack Obama: Syria chemical weapon ban must be enforced

Telegraph.co.uk

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Zimbabwe’s coffee farmers struggle amid global boom and political gloom

The EU restored aid earlier this year but not to farms on ‘disputed’ land — excluding the majority of small coffee growers.

Guardian

Thousands still waiting for aid in flood ravaged Mexico

Flooding and mudslides have destroyed villages in Mexico’s southwest state of Guerrero, leaving many residents waiting for aid.

Reuters

Blog:

Mexico: Armed gangs ‘steal food aid’

(BBC)

News From Elsewhere

HUMAN RIGHTS

West Africa’s disabled children face abuse, risk of death

Disabled children across West Africa face widespread discrimination, violence and abuse, and can be victims of infanticide and sacrificial killings, a child rights organization said.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

UN agency says drop in child labor not fast enough

The number of children doing hazardous work dropped by half from 2000 to 2012, but the rate of progress isn’t fast enough to meet the goal of no child laborers by 2016, the U.N. labor agency reported.

Yahoo! News

Blog:

Youth Interrupted: Myanmar’s underage, illiterate workers

(NPR)

Parallels

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Egypt’s new minimum wage disappoints many

Despite the ongoing economic malaise, authorities here have recently announced a rise in wages for the public sector workers, but critics say the amount is far from sufficient.

Al Jazeera

Microsoft beams Internet into Africa — using TV ‘white spaces’

Limpopo has been selected by Microsoft for an initiative using white spaces technology — the unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum — aiming at bringing broadband to rural communities.

CNN

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

North Korea ‘has technology to build uranium-based nuclear bombs’

North Korean scientists are thought to have the ability to build uranium-based nuclear bombs, cutting the need for imports that outsiders could use to monitor the country’s atomic work.

Guardian

New signs of rising illegal immigration into US

After dropping during the recession, the number of immigrants crossing the border illegally into the U.S. appears to be on the rise again.

Yahoo! News

Soccer brings together immigrant students from many countries

Columbus Dispatch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chaos Computer Club: Hackers crack Apple’s fingerprint scanner

A German hacker organization has thrown a wrench into the successful launch of Apple‘s 5S by bypassing the smartphone’s much-heralded fingerprint scanner.

Spiegel International

Touch ID hack verified as legit

CNET News

Spinning CDs to clean sewage water

While you could turn your old disks into a work of avant-garde art, researchers in Taiwan have come up with a more practical application: breaking down sewage.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Eric Michael Johnson):

Human nature and the moral economy

(Scientific American)

The Primate Diaries

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Food stamp cuts a cruel proposal

CNN

Editorial:

Liberia, a remarkable African success story, still needs help

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Indian village relocates to make room for tigers

Antelope, bison, deer and boars roam the streets of Ramdegi after 200 families accepted government incentive packages to move outside tiger reserve borders.

Mother Nature Network

Forty kids and counting

The story of one young woman’s journey from New Jersey to Nepal — and how, along the way, she adopted 40 children, opened up a school, and helped women empower their community.

Women In The World

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Saudi group campaigns against ban on women driving

A group of Saudi activists has begun another campaign for the lifting of a ban on women driving, urging women to get behind the wheel on Oct. 26 in defiance, according to its website.

Reuters

Children with autism practice travel at NYC’s JFK

JetBlue Airways and the nonprofit Autism Speaks set up an air travel practice session for families who have children with the disorder. JetBlue officials said it was the first such event at JFK.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

Elephant death toll climbs to 81 after cyanide poisoning

More than 80 elephants have died, found with their tusks removed, as a result of cyanide poisoning at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, in what is being described as a serious crisis for the park.

allAfrica.com

UN climate experts stress solidity of new report

Seeking to dispel any doubts over the credibility of their work, U.N. climate experts called their latest report an unbiased and reliable assessment of global warming as they presented it to officials from 110 governments.

ABC News

Curbing climate change could save 500,000 lives

Discovery News

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A prostitute works the Paris streets. Women‘s rights group Equity Now is challenging the UN’s resolution to decriminalize prostitution citing its dangers. (Photo by Nils Hamerlinck)

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