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The Philippines is still assessing the damage from the typhoon. Cadiz City, Negros Occidental was hit but standing while other cities have been completely decimated. (Photo by Karla Gina Piacentini)

Ethiopia’s indigenous excluded from rapid growth

As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia’s major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns for the region’s pastoralist communities.

IPS

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Earth, wind and water: Ethiopia bids to be Africa’s powerhouse

(CNN)

Marketplace Africa

2 killed as Saudi police clash with foreigners in Riyadh

Clashes between Saudi police and foreign nationals in Riyadh killed two people, including a Saudi citizen, as the government cracked down on undocumented workers.

Bloomberg

Typhoon Haiyan: a struggle to reach victims in Philippines

After one of the world’s most powerful typhoons slammed into the Philippines, as many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in a single city.

Christian Science Monitor

Relatives search for survivors in deadly Philippines typhoon

USA TODAY

World offers aid for typhoon-ravaged Philippines

Reuters

Typhoon aftermath ‘apocalyptic’

CNN

Shelter in Europe: Court orders asylum for persecuted gays

An EU court ruled that gays persecuted in other countries have the right to asylum in Europe. The decision came in a case involving three African men seeking safe haven in the Netherlands.

Spiegel International

Breaking new ground for trans children

IPS

What India’s space scientists and street children have in common

India’s space program uses its tiny resources to do innovative and original science. In some ways, what the street children of New Delhi do is even more impressive.

BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Feds deny aid for Yosemite’s Rim Fire

The federal government rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s request to help pay for damage caused by the Rim Fire, leaving the state and communities that suffered in the blaze on the hook for potentially millions of dollars.

San Francisco Chronicle

Neighbors in Syria to vaccinate 20 million children against polio

More than 20 million children are to be vaccinated in Syria and neighboring countries against polio to try to stop the spread of the crippling infectious disease following its re-emergence.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Europe at ‘polio risk’ from Syria

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN expert on labor abuse urges Qatar to end sponsorship system

A U.N. official called on Qatar to abolish a sponsorship system for migrant workers he said was a source of labor abuse, raising pressure on the 2022 World Cup host for reforms of its workplace practices.

Reuters

Uzbeks face crooked courts in Kyrgyzstan

A handful of legal cases are still underway more than three years after the conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks in southern Kyrgystan left hundreds dead — the vast majority of them Uzbeks.

GlobalPost

Kyrgyzstan’s bride kidnappings

Newsweek

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Latin American coffee growers struggle with rock bottom prices

Current rock bottom prices for coffee beans — below cost for many of the region’s growers — and a crushing outbreak of coffee leaf rust, a fungus that slashes harvests, are making difficult the lives of farmers in Latin America.

GlobalPost

Bo Xilai supporter creates new Chinese party as communist leaders meet

Wang Zheng, a Chinese academic and supporter of Bo Xilai, set up a political party to push the ruling Communist Party to obey the country’s constitution, and made the ousted Politburo member its chairperson.

BusinessWeek

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Failure to reach Iran nuclear deal may fortify hardline opponents

French objections helped block talks that appeared close to a preliminary deal. Kerry warned each day of delay meant “Iran will continue to enrich, and Iran will continue to put centrifuges in.”

Christian Science Monitor

Al Qaeda’s most dangerous stronghold

New jihadist fighters are flocking to a battlefield between Syria and Iraq. With the civil wars in both countries all but certain to endure for the foreseeable future, the danger from this stronghold is growing.

Daily Beast

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Depression therapy effective for poor, minority moms

Short-term, relationship-focused therapy through weekly home visits can relieve depression among minority mothers, even in the face of poverty and personal histories of abuse or violence, according to a new study.

ScienceDaily

Ants, like humans, can change their priorities

For the first time, Arizona State University researchers have discovered that at least in ants, animals can change their decision-making strategies based on experience.

ScienceDaily

Blog:

Lost ants backtrack their steps

(Scientific American)

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Winds of energy independence in Japan

Japan Times

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Germany got it right by offering an official 3rd gender on birth certificates

(Guardian)

Lessons for America

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EU needs to show leadership at Warsaw climate summit

RTCC

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GOOD NEWS

Why US veterans are returning to Vietnam

Nearly 40 years after the war, American vets who live in Vietnam are working to foster reconciliation between the two countries, while other former U.S. soldiers are traveling there to find “closure.”

Christian Science Monitor

New tool to help people who are unable to speak

People who are paralyzed and unable to speak may soon be able to communicate simply by focusing on voices saying “yes” or “no” while their brain is monitored.

New Scientist

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Stevens-Henager students knit scarves for Japanese orphans

Respiratory therapy students at Stevens-Henager College have hand-knitted more than 150 scarves for children in Japan who were orphaned or displaced by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster.

Salt Lake Tribune

Wells Fargo Alaska employees donate $404,000 to nonprofits

Wells Fargo announced that its team members donated a record $404,000 to state nonprofit organizations and schools. This is the highest Community Support Campaign contribution ever by team members in Alaska.

Juneau Empire

ENVIRONMENT

Foul play ahead of Russian Olympics

Despite IOC endorsement for adherence to environmental standards in preparations for the Winter Olympics, Russian authorities are cracking down on people trying to expose the Games’ environmental cost.

IPS

Police detain environment activist in Sochi

Climate Times

Genetically modified mosquitoes set off uproar in Florida Keys

When residents of Florida Keys found out that the mosquito control district was working to release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes in their town, they were outraged.

Al Jazeera

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Coffee beans dry in the sun at the farmer owned cooperative near Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Current low bean prices as well as coffee bean rust, a leaf fungus, can make it hard for farmers to profit. (Photo by William Neuheisel)

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