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Building collapses like the two in south India and Delhi are a regular occurrence in India because of lax construction regulations. (Photo by Vaibhav Ahuja)

Sunni extremist group ISIS declares new Islamic caliphate

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s Shura Council has declared a new caliphate, and the organization’s extremist leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is the new caliph.

NPR

Bodies of 3 missing teens found in West Bank: Israeli media

Israeli security forces found the bodies of three teenagers who went missing in the West Bank earlier this month and confirmed them as the Israeli seminary students sought since June 12, Israeli media said.

Reuters

27 dead, more trapped in 2 India building collapses

The death toll in two building collapses in different cities in India has climbed to at least 27, with more victims still trapped in the rubble, officials said.

CNN

Dozens feared trapped as 2 buildings collapse in India

rt.com

GM announces giant new recall

General Motors is recalling another 7.6 million vehicles because of a range of problems, with the automaker saying that it is aware of three fatal crashes involving affected models.

CBS News

Supreme Court rules against Obama in contraception case

Some corporations have religious rights, a deeply divided Supreme Court decided in ruling that certain for-profit companies cannot be required to pay for specific types of contraceptives for their employees.

CNN

Hobby Lobby ruling: firms can refuse to provide contraception coverage

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Impact investing on the cusp of mainstream wealth management

The significance of investment directed at achieving impact is growing, as is the willingness to engage in it beyond the traditional confines of corporate philanthropy.

Investment News

Special section:

How the US government can boost impact investing and social enterprise

Forbes

Robert Wood Johnson reshapes approach to health philanthropy

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation unveiled a shift that will see the nation’s biggest health-centered philanthropy change focus from problems like smoking to an ambitious effort to promote a “culture of health".

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Google may have to face consequences for snooping on chats, emails, user passwords

In between mapping the world‘s wonders and immortalizing public hand jobs and fake murder pranks, Google Street View cars also captured extremely sensitive private data from users’ unencrypted Wifi networks.

AlterNet

‘Do not resuscitate’ and the right to die

The Supreme Court rejected the appeal of campaigners who asserted a right to die. A majority of the Supreme Court (7:2) rejected the appeal which sought to clarify the current prosecution guidance on assisted dying.

UK Human Rights Blog

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Australian Trade and Development Business Network aims to reduce poverty

A new business network has emerged to help tackle global poverty and will be launched in Adelaide by the Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

The Australian

EU support for strengthening trade sector development of Nepal

A financing agreement was signed between the EU and the Nepal government under which the EU will provide an assistance of 6 million euros for its trade and private sector development project.

The Telegraph

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Hong Kong braces for democracy rally amid turmoil warning

Hong Kong is bracing for a mass rally tomorrow that will be a litmus test of opposition to China’s proposed limits on democracy in the city.

Bloomberg

Hong Kong democracy poll closes with nearly 800,000 votes

Channel NewsAsia

Scotland to petition US to bring back haggis

Senior aides to Barack Obama are to be urged to let traditional Scottish haggis back into the U.S. by ending a decades-old import ban.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Potentially habitable Earth-like planet discovered

A potentially habitable Earth-like planet that is only 16 light years away has been discovered. The “super-Earth” planet, GJ 832 c, takes 16 days to orbit its red-dwarf star, GJ 832, and has a mass at least five times that of Earth.

ScienceDaily

Supreme Court declines to hear Google Street View case

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case in which Google is accused of violating federal wiretap laws when its Street View vehicles collected unsecured data over Wi-Fi networks.

PCMag

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

In defense of Common Core

Baltimore Sun

Column (Patrick McShea):

The great extermination: pigeons once filled the skies, but we killed them all

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

A Yosemite moment for nations in conflict

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Alaskan salmon isn’t radioactive! Probably.

The FDA has done extensive testing and has declared that commercially-fished Alaskan seafood, including the wild salmon, are not suffering from any harmful radioactive effects from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Jezebel

Gay pride parades celebrate history and marriage

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters celebrated a year of victories in the push for legal same-sex marriage with gay pride parades in cities across the nation.

USA TODAY

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Volunteering in international development, humanitarian relief

Volunteering isn’t just a great way to break into international development and humanitarian relief work. It’s also a great way for career professionals to sharpen their skills and for near-retirees to pass on knowledge.

Devex

Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti creates city nonprofit for public projects

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the creation of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles to raise money for city hall efforts such as cultural tourism, summer jobs for teens, and the revitalization of the Los Angeles River.

NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protesters

Law exempts soldiers and police from criminal responsibility if they cause injuries or deaths. Following a blockade of a highway near a town of Bagua early on June 5, the police moved to clear it and started shooting.

Guardian

Satellite images show that US air quality is actually improving

You may not have noticed, but if you’ve been living in a major US city for the past decade, your quality of air has actually been improving.

Nature

NASA says US air pollution has plummeted

TIME

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Workers in Barcelona perform maintenance on the Sagrada Familia. (Photo by EU-OSHA)

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