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Why is death rate rising for white, middle-aged Americans?

While non-whites, younger people and people in other countries are seeing falling death rates, a new study shows the reverse for white men and women in the US aged 45-54.

BBC

In reversal, death rates rise for middle-aged whites

NPR

Obama will decide on Keystone pipeline during his term

The White House has said it intends to rule on the Keystone XL oil pipeline before the end of President Barack Obama’s term. The company behind the pipeline, TransCanada, had wanted to delay the approval process.

BBC

Fact box: issues facing Keystone XL oil pipeline

Reuters

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A Quick Guide to the Oil Pipeline From the US to Canada

.Mic

The horror of the Calais refugee camp: ‘We feel like we are dying slowly’

The makeshift jungle is now home to 6,000 people. They are living in slum conditions, surviving on charity handouts and risking their lives under the wheels of trains. Now with winter approaching the true test comes.

Guardian

Refugees protest at British military base in Cyprus

BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Haunted house to aid philanthropy foundation

UNM fraternity Pi Kappa Phi will host a haunted house benefit raising money for their philanthropy foundation, The Ability Experience.

DailyLobo.com

Virginia Beach couple to be honored for philanthropy at New York dinner

Macon and Joan Brock’s 51-year marriage has been a monument not only to love, but also to philanthropy. They have donated more than $45 million, primarily to local charities that promote education, the arts and the environment.

Virginian-Pilot

HUMAN RIGHTS

Iran: Free writer, repeal internal exile

The Iranian authorities should immediately release the detained writer and blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, who is being unlawfully held despite the expired prison sentence.

Human Rights Watch

Blog:

Washington week on human rights

Human Rights First

David Cameron to host Egypt’s Sisi despite outcry on human rights

David Cameron will meet Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the first significant talks between the two leaders, despite growing criticisms about Cairo’s suppression of dissent.

Financial Times

UK’s Sisi invitation signals business as usual with Egypt

Guardian

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Ohio decides on marijuana legalization

Ohio voters are going to vote on whether to make marijuana legal for both medicinal and commercial purposes, the first time both questions have been on any state ballot at once.

FOX News

American polarization is broad but not deep

The prevailing theory of American party polarization is that it runs deep — that it taps into differences in the core beliefs and values of Americans and the politicians who represent us. But how deep is polarization, really?

Vox

Blog:

Modern politics: Public is more partisan, parties are powerless

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA confirms yet again that the ‘impossible’ EMdrive thruster works

Flying in the face of the laws of physics, the EM Drive uses a magnetron and microwaves to create a propellantless propulsion system. Pushing microwaves into a closed system, the drive creates a force to propel a craft forward.

Digital Trends

Study may have found evidence of alternate, parallel universes

An astrophysicist says he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago.

USA TODAY

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Bulgaria, Portugal presidents eye further development of trade-economic relations

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and his Portuguese counterpart Aníbal Cavaco Silva pointed at the potential of further development of the trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.

Focus News

Africa: Food safety and trade should improve nutrition and boost development

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed today to strengthen their cooperation to promote international food trade and safety.

allAfrica.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Study finds more evidence that animals protect from asthma

Babies exposed to dogs and farm animals may be less likely to develop asthma by the age of six, a Swedish study suggests.

NBCNews.com

France to pay $60m into compensation fund for US victims of Holocaust

France is to pay $60m (£39m) to mainly American victims of the Holocaust who were transported by train from France to Nazi death camps during the second world war.

Guardian

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

The Pentagons missionary spies

U.S. military used Christian NGO as front for North Korea espionage. The secret Pentagon program, which dates back to December 2004, continued well into the Obama presidency.

The Intercept

Center receives major gift to educate MetroWest nonprofits

A center focused on educating nonprofits throughout the region has received a substantial gift from the charitable arm of Middlesex Savings Bank.

Metro West Daily News

ENVIRONMENT

Paris to stop traffic when air pollution spikes

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has won a long-running battle with the French government to introduce emergency traffic bans in the city when air pollution spikes.

Guardian

Antarctic Ice Gaining Size, Thanks to Snowfall, NASA Says

There are two types of Antarctic ice used to gauge climatic activity: sea ice and land ice. This year, satellite data found both to be increasing in mass, rather than shrinking.

The Weather Channel

No, NASA has not reversed itself on the dangerous melting of Antarctica

Mashable

Photo of the Day

A pellet of “dry ice” floats on a shallow bed of water shooting off gaseous of carbon dioxide as it warms. The dry ice is solid CO2 which sublimates directly to gas as it warms up (skipping the liquid phase altogether). (Photo by Steve Jurvetson) Photo used under CC BY

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