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The U.S. and U.K. are vowing to cease funding to foreign coal power plants and are encouraging the U.N. to do the same. (Photo by G. Bohne)

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A Google for India’s poor

Deep in the forests of central India live the Gond tribals, an almost forgotten lot. Thanks to a new technology, and the rapid spread of mobile phones, India is picking up their cell phones and making their voices heard.

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IPS

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34 percent of marginal farmers in Punjab living below poverty line

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Can fair trade in India help close gulf between rich and poor?

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(Guardian)

Poverty Matters

London slave case: Britain needs better laws, experts say

Amid shock in Britain over the arrest of two people on modern-day slavery claims, experts warn that it is just the tip of the iceberg and that British anti-slavery reforms need to be improved.

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Christian Science Monitor

Rich versus poor deadlock broken at UN climate talks

Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.

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Reuters

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Pay-as-you-go solar energy finds success in Africa

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Scientific American

Workers return empty-handed to Yemen, Arab world’s poorest country

Saudi Arabia is sending back about 200,000 Yemeni guest workers, adding to the pool of unemployed men, a potential target for militant recruiters.

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Christian Science Monitor

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The youth unemployment rate is terrible around the world

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Business Insider

Hanford Nuclear Reservation may be a ticking time bomb

Residents of Richland, Wash., live around what is routinely called the most toxic place in the Western Hemisphere: the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the place where plutonium was made for the Nagasaki attack.

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Newsweek

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Difficult work protects most vulnerable children

China’s nongovernmental organizations involved in child protection, especially from sexual assaults, are needed more than ever before.

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China Daily

Celebrate World Toilet Day with a potty

The reluctance of people to talk about human waste has had an effect even in advocacy circles, where nongovernmental organizations tend to focus on the clean water aspect of the problem, rather than sanitation and hygiene.

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PBS NewsHour

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

GM machines designed to aid development

Cheap and portable technologies to detect contaminated drinking water and diseases that are rife in developing countries are among the winning entries in a synthetic biology competition.

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SciDev

US may turn $20 million climate aid to $1 billion for projects

A U.S. government plan to spend $20 million in climate aid to kickstart clean-energy projects may unlock $1 billion for solar and geothermal installations in Africa, according to the country’s climate envoy.

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Bloomberg

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights groups urge UN to discourage mass digital surveillance

Five human rights groups urged the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a new resolution, titled “The right to privacy in the digital age,” against indiscriminate mass surveillance.

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PC World

Ontario not tracking garment makers, putting overseas workers at risk

Workers rights activists say Canada’s largest province puts workers overseas at risk without an ethical sourcing policy.

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Toronto Star

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Increase of investments in renewable energy development in Ukraine

The adoption of the Law of Ukraine on Power Systems engineering will expand access to domestic renewable energy market to foreign investors.

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4-Traders

Capital Governor receives book on Bahrain’s development, foreign trade

Historic aspects of trade in Bahrain and the development of the Bahrain economy have boosted the Kingdom’s regional and international status. They are noted in a book presented to Capital Governor.

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Bahrain News Agency

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he’ll delay signing of US accord on troops

President Hamid Karzai told a national assembly that he supports a newly forged agreement to allow U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014, but he won’t sign the deal until next spring.

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Washington Post

Voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, defeat measure to limit abortions

Voters in Albuquerque defeated a proposal that would have outlawed most late term abortions in New Mexico’s largest city, in the first test of such a measure on a municipal ballot in the U.S.

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Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Iranian-US rapprochement: What’s in it for Israel and Saudi Arabia?

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IPS

Refugee world: Kenya camp illustrates a global problem

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

At Iran nuclear talks, put trust on the table

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Low-cost device may detect otherwise hard-to-detect malaria

A low-cost, portable device that can detect malaria in people who show no symptoms is soon to be tested in Africa. This “mobile bio-lab” aims to help health workers identify asymptomatic malaria sufferers.

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SciDev

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Kenya: new water reserves can boost drought-stricken Turkana region

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UN: Hunger can be eradicated in Africa by 2025

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(The Telegraph)

Health

852 Thai school kids corralled to break Guinness record

One of Thailand’s largest shopping malls arranged a publicity stunt involving 852 schoolchildren dressed in green and red hoodies to break the Guinness World Record for the largest human Christmas tree.

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Eagle deaths: unprecedented $1 million fine for Wyoming wind farms

A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million.

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Christian Science Monitor

Entire economy depends on healthy environment

A new report shows the government is failing to meet around one-third of its environmental commitments

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Guardian

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2013 global carbon emissions to reach record level

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LiveScience

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Aged to perfection? 3,700-year-old cellar housed ‘luxurious’ wine

A 3,700-year-old palatial cellar packed with jars once filled with a wine-like brew has been discovered at an archaeological site in northern Israel.

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NBCNews.com

New waterproof surface is ‘driest ever’

U.S. engineers have created the “most waterproof material ever” — inspired by nasturtium leaves and butterfly wings.

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BBC

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Flamingos fly and fish in the shallow lake Nakuru in Kenya. Recently discovered water reserves in Kenya may benefit drought-stricken Turkana. (Photo by Emmanuel Keller)

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