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Turkey is almost ready to unveil an underwater tunnel connecting Europe and Asia. The project, which was the dream of a sultan 150 years ago, took nine years and was funded partially by the Japanese government. (Photo by Erjo Baba)

First sea tunnel to link two continents

Turkey will unveil the world‘s first sea tunnel connecting two continents, fulfilling a sultan’s dream 150 years ago, but also fueling recent anti-government sentiment for such mega projects.

AFP

Turkey’s infrastructure: The sultan’s dream

Economist

China’s anti-pollution drive risks running out of gas

A chronic shortage of natural gas is hurting China’s plan to move away from burning coal to heat homes and offices, raising the prospect of more choking air pollution this winter and beyond.

Scientific American

The plight of China’s minorities

CNN

NSA chief: European spying reports ‘completely false’

The NSA told Congress that the agency is not collecting millions of phone records across Europe, and also suffested the outrage over spying on German Chancellor Angel Merkel is overblown.

Christian Science Monitor

US spy chiefs defend targeting EU allies

Al Jazeera

White House to review spying on allies

ABC News

Blog:

Four things to know about spying on allies

(NPR)

parallels

Refugee influx causes unease in Cameroon

Cameroon is grappling with the influx of over a hundred thousand refugees from neighboring Central African Republic and Nigeria, whose presence is causing tensions with the local population.

IRIN News

Blog:

On the road from Nigeria to Cameroon

(Economist)

Baobab

Roma stereotypes: how racist assumptions fueled fiasco

When Greek police stumbled upon a blond, blue-eyed girl when raiding a Roma settlement, it triggered a wave of worries fed by long-held stereotypes.

Spiegel International

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Attacks on aid workers hit record in 2012 – report

Attacks against aid workers hit a record last year, with 167 major incidents reported, according to a study which says kidnappings have quadrupled in recent years.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Open Society Institute’s social justice laboratory in Baltimore turns 15

Baltimore teens are among the many influenced by George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who decided 15 years ago that the city was ripe for an experiment.

Baltimore Sun

HUMAN RIGHTS

Latin America leading the way on promoting food as a human right

Latin America has blazed the way in the adoption of laws that promote and protect the right to food, a U.N. expert has said.

Guardian

Fewer North Koreans fleeing to South Korea, UN rights envoy says

Fewer North Koreans are fleeing to South Korea, possibly due to tighter border control and cases of asylum seekers being returned home by China, a U.N. rights envoy said.

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Bangladesh’s clothing industry: bursting at the seams

As workers continue to die in unsafe factories, the clothing industry keeps booming. The growth in demand suggests that Bangladesh’s clothing industry will quadruple over the next 20 years.

Economist

Overwhelming UN vote against US embargo of Cuba

188 countries condemned the five-decade-old U.S. embargo against communist Cuba in an annual U.N. General Assembly vote that signaled greater opposition to U.S. sanctions.

Yahoo! News

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Cambodia’s autumn of discontent

Rallies continue after opposition‘s election loss, which they say was marred by “serious irregularities”, and there have been few concessions to compromise over the disputed result.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

In Cambodia, monks get political after unpopular elections

(GlobalPost)

Belief

Why Syria isn’t tipping Lebanon into civil war

Syria’s war has certainly heightened tensions in Lebanon, leading to sporadic sectarian violence, but there is a difference between spates of attacks and a full-scale war.

Christian Science Monitor

Might be time to pay your bills, Russia warns West-looking Ukraine

Russia warned that Ukraine’s failure to pay its bills for Russian gas is becoming critical — just weeks before Ukraine plans to sign a deal with the EU that Russia opposes.

Christian Science Monitor

Russia breaks ‘Zero Waste’ Olympic pledge

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Childhood poverty ‘affects brain development’

New research suggests that children who experience poverty early on in their lives may suffer brain changes that can lead to learning difficulties, depression and coping skills.

Medical News Today

Pollinating bees are the pesticide deliverymen of the future

Bees might be the organic pesticide spreaders of the future. While they pollinate our crops, bees could simultaneously bring natural microbial pest control agents to help crops stave off disease.

Popular Science

Bees inspire robot aircraft

Science Alert

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett):

As children grow, the poverty divide cuts deeper

Guardian

Blog (Serri Graslie):

Startups try to reroute food waste to the hungry

(NPR)

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Column (Charlotte Potts):

Merkel’s indignation is genuine and rightly so

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Job satisfaction, like wine, gets better with age

A study by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that older workers report job satisfaction regardless of gender, race, educational level, political ideology and income level.

NBCNews.com

Gecko that looks like a leaf among new species found in Australia‘s ’lost world’

A leaf-tail gecko, a golden-colored skink and a boulder-dwelling frog are three new species discovered in a “lost world” in northern Queensland, Australia.

Guardian

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Inside the hidden world of thefts, scams and phantom purchases at the nation’s nonprofits

A Washington Post analysis of tax filings from 2008 to 2012 found more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations that checked the box indicating that they had discovered a “significant diversion” of assets.

Washington Post

Zeer pots: a simple way to reduce food waste

The nonprofit group Practical Action encourages the use of earthenware storage coolers called zeer pots to help prevent food waste.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Ethiopia opens Africa’s biggest windfarm

A windfarm billed as the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa has been opened by Ethiopia‘s prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, a potentially crucial step for the continent’s renewable energy industry.

Guardian

Invasive earthworms harming Great Lakes forests

Gardeners and farmers may love earthworms for their rich castings and composting help, but in forests near the Great Lakes, the creatures are alien invaders.

LiveScience

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Earthworms may be helpful in gardens but in the woods of Minnesota in the Great Lakes region, they are an invasive species which pushes out others by changing the habitat of forest floor. (Photo by Jacob Levine)

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