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Women wait for family planning contraception funded by the European Commission at a health centre supported by International Medical Corps in the Damot District, Wolayta Zone, in Ethiopia. (Photo by Ashley Gilbertson)

Ethiopia most successful in cutting maternal deaths

Reuters

Blog:

Gambling with motherhood

Huffington Post

White House releases major climate change assessment

The White House released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, considered the most comprehensive ever generated of climate change and its impacts across America and major sectors of the economy.

Wisconsin Gazette

Federal report spells out global-warming threat to West

San Francisco Chronicle

Administration issues dire climate change report

FOX News

A bloody, crumbling Central African Republic

Central African Republic’s bloody battleground makes the Darfur conflict look like “a model of simplicity.”

The New Republic

Intense fighting in the Central African Republic

euronews

The changing picture of poverty: Hard work is ‘just not enough’

Many American families living in or right above the poverty line have flat-screen TVs, cars and cellphones — so what does living in poverty mean today?

NPR

How Germany could end Russian gas dependency

The crisis in Ukraine has made obvious just how dependent Germany and other European countries are on Russian natural gas. There are alternatives for supplying the vital resource.

Spiegel International

‘Eroding middle’ puts farming in fewer hands

American farming is changing, according to a recent census — and change comes with a warning from the Secretary of Agriculture.

NBCNews.com

Amid a national decline, some states are gaining farms

National Geographic

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Apple donates $500,000 to Silicon Valley anti-poverty group

The tech giant Apple has teamed up with Google, LinkedIn, and others in an effort to fight poverty during a time of rising tensions in Silicon Valley.

CNNMoney

Australian magnate leaves $3 billion to charity

Healthcare and media entrepreneur Paul Ramsay died after a short illness, leaving a philanthropic bequest of more than $3 billion to his personal foundation that could distribute as much as $50 million each year.

Sydney Morning Herald

HUMAN RIGHTS

DRC court clears most soldiers of rape

North Kivu court clears all but two of the 39 government soldiers on trial for the mass rape of 130 women in the biggest rape trial in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon‘s refugee schools provide hope for Syria’s lost generation

‘Despite the suffering, children have an amazing ability to recover,’ says Unicef as some of the 400,000 child refugees in Lebanon begin to receive education.

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

China factory activity shrinks in April, new export orders contract

Activity in China‘s manufacturing sector contracted for a fourth consecutive month in April, adding to questions about whether the world’s second-largest economy is still losing momentum.

Reuters

Philadelphia’s World Trade Center seeks higher profile

The attention the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia especially seeks is from the region’s small businesses, a sector it says is missing tremendous growth opportunity by not exporting.

Philadelphia Inquirer

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Credit Suisse in talks to pay $1.6 billion to resolve U.S. tax probe: source

Credit Suisse Group AG is in talks with the U.S. Justice Department to pay as much as $1.6 billion to resolve the bank’s role in helping Americans evade U.S. taxes.

Reuters

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau: A ruthless leader with a twisted ideology

He is the face of terror. A ruthless leader with a twisted ideology. And the sadistic architect of a campaign of mayhem and misery.

CNN

Nigeria’s Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped schoolgirls

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientist finds solution to save hatchlings of Galapagos finches from parasites

A scientist has found the solution to better the plight of the diminutive Galapagos finches that have their hatchlings killed by the larvae of a parasitic nest fly.

French Tribune

Old rock lines In Peru Are examples of ancient ‘social technology’

Ancient lines made of earth and stone that were recently uncovered in the Chincha Valley desert of Peru likely served as signposts leading 4th-century partygoers to fairgrounds.

International Business Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Charles Lane):

Pacific free-trade deal makes sense

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blog (Dana Nuccitelli):

The top ten global warming ‘skeptic’ arguments answered

Guardian

Editorial:

One Moscow voice for healing in Ukraine

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Man who saved abandoned newborn reunites with her 58 years later

A man searched for decades to find the newborn girl he rescued from likely death. Now, the mystery is finally solved. After nearly 60 years, the two reunited.

CBS News

92-year-old regular at restaurant pays for waitress’s tuition

Benjamin Olewine is a regular at the Peachtree restaurant where Melissa Mainier of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania worked for years as a waitress. When he came to know she wanted to be a nurse, he decided to help.

CBS News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

The comeback of polio is a public health emergency

The global drive to wipe out the virus had driven the number of polio cases down from 300,000 in the late 1980s but there are fears the numbers of new cases could rise.

NPR

Blog:

WHO urges travelers to get polio vaccine, declares public health emergency

Liberty Voice

How one Silicon Valley millionaire Is using tech to spark change In India

Karl Mehta has made quite a splash in the tech world. He founded PlaySpan, which sold to Visa for more than $200 million in 2011.

Business Insider

ENVIRONMENT

Geotagged safari photos could lead poachers right to endangered rhinos

For every elephant’s GPS tracking collar and drone for protective surveillance, there is also a poaching ring that’s trying to find the exact coordinates of an endangered species.

Quartz

Federal climate change report highlights risks for Americans

The White House released a major report on climate change, warning of global warming-related problems that are already affecting ordinary Americans and calling for more action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

National Geographic

Warming ‘increasingly disruptive’ across US — report

BBC

Photo of the Day

A sea otter grooms in the Kachemak Bay Reserve, Alaska, the largest reserve in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, encompassing over 360,000 acres of estuarine and upland habitats. (Photo by NOAA’s National Ocean Service)

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