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Drought spawned by one of the strongest El Nino effects on record is causing relentless famine in southern Africa. (Photo by european Commission DG) Photo used under CC BY

Drought spawns famine, disease in southern Africa

Drought has triggered relentless famine in Malawi. Hunger, malnutrition and disease continue to increase following the severe dry weather spawned by the El Nino, one of the strongest on record.

ABC News

El Niño leaves millions of kids at risk of starvation

CBS News

Olympic teams arrive in Rio to leaks, outages

Australian athletes will not move into their rooms at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics until serious plumbing, electrical and cleaning problems are fixed, with the troubled South American games opening in under two weeks.

CBC News

China floods: Death and evacuation toll rise

Floods in north and central China have killed at least 150 people, with scores missing and hundreds of thousands forced from homes.

BBC

Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC leader

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is stepping down as chair of the Democratic National Committee at the end of the party‘s convention. The resignation comes amid the release of leaked emails showing DNC staffers favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the primary.

CNN

Leaked DNC emails hint at Clinton favoritism

NPR

DNC emails show hostility to Sanders

USA TODAY

Turkey disbanding unit linked to coup attempt

Turkey is disbanding its elite presidential guard unit following an attempted coup that left hundreds dead this month, the prime minister said. Some of the soldiers who seized state broadcaster TRT during the attempted coup came from the presidential guard unit.

CNN

Baghdad suicide blast kills 21, injures 35

Terror once again struck the streets of Iraq’s capital Sunday, after a suicide bombing killed at least 21 people in a residential neighborhood in northern Baghdad. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

CNN

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe loses support of veterans

In a surprise reversal, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has lost the support of some of his staunchest allies — the war veterans. This comes amid escalating protests, an economic crisis and a crippling drought in the country.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hijab is schoolgirls’ right, Nigerian court rules

Nigerian girls have the right to wear the hijab headscarf to school, an appeals court has ruled in a country where suicide bombers have abused Islamic dress to hide deadly weapons.

ABC News

Syrian airstrikes cripple region’s hospitals

Syrian government air strikes overnight put four hospitals in Aleppo province out of action, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Turkey ruling, opposition parties rally together

Supporters of Turkey’s ruling and main opposition parties, usually bitter foes, rallied together in support of democracy following a failed military coup as President Tayyip Erdogan tightens his grip on the country.

Reuters

Erdogan opponents and supporters rally

Newsweek

Could NATO be the next alliance to unravel?

The Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, sparked a furor on both sides of the Atlantic by implying that under his leadership, the United States would not immediately defend a NATO ally that was under attack.

CNN

Republicans rip Trump over NATO plan

Politico

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Oil drops to 2-month low amid ample supply

Oil dropped to the lowest close in more than two months as the U.S. heads to the end of the summer-driving season with ample inventories.

Bloomberg

Wells Fargo, Amazon team up on student loans

Wells Fargo is offering Amazon.com customers discounted interest rates on private student loans, creating a partnership with the online retail giant at a time when private lenders are fighting for market share.

Chicago Tribune

Kerry urges diplomacy on China Sea tensions

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will urge Southeast Asian nations in meetings in Laos to explore diplomatic ways to ease tensions with China over the South China Sea following an international court ruling denying China’s claims.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chinese to pioneer first human CRISPR trial

Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique. A team at Sichuan University in Chengdu plans to start testing such cells in people with lung cancer next month.

Nature

Human gene-editing trial will take place

Daily Mail

Debate revs up on universe’s expansion rate

A puzzling mismatch is plaguing two methods for measuring how fast the universe is expanding. When the discrepancy arose a few years ago, scientists suspected measurement errors. But more precise measurements of the expansion rate have deepened the mystery.

Science News

A visual explanation of the expansion of the universe

Veritaseum

GLOBAL HEALTH

Doctors Without Borders raps inaction on HIV

Doctors Without Borders‘ HIV policy adviser says the global aid group has “zero tolerance” for inaction on fighting the virus in Central and West Africa. The organization says 4.5 million of the 6.5 million people living with HIV in those regions don’t get treatment.

Bowling Green Daily News

Study finds ‘brain training’ cuts dementia risk

A computerized brain training program cut the risk of dementia among healthy people by 48 percent, U.S. researchers said in reporting an analysis of the results of a 10-year study.

Daily Mail

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GOOD NEWS

3-D printed prosthesis lets girl play music

Born without her right hand, Cassie Stewart was unable to play certain instruments like her peers. Now she doesn’t have to worry, thanks to an invention by a high school student.

NBCNews.com

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Bahrain grounds some civil society leaders

Several leading figures in Bahrain’s civil society who have briefed the State Department on the country’s repression have been prevented from leaving the kingdom as Bahrain’s government chokes off voices of peaceful dissent.

Huffington Post

Nonprofit health insurance co-ops dwindle

Among the many provisions of the Affordable Care Act is one that allowed for the establishment of state-based “consumer operated and oriented plans,” often referred to as co-ops, to compete with private insurance. Only seven such plans will remain in 2017.

Nonprofit Quarterly

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

UK global aid chief wanted to scrap division

The UK’s new minister of international aid and development previously called for the department to be scrapped and replaced.

The Independent

Buffett sibs funnel river of charitable dollars

The unique philanthropic alliance between Warren Buffett and the Gates Foundation draws so much attention that many people pay little attention to Buffett’s pledge to funnel an additional sizeable chunk of stock to four foundations controlled by his three children.

Inside Philanthrophy

ENVIRONMENT

NSA project may impact environment

Major National Security Agency construction project on Fort George G. Meade could affect local traffic, environmental resources and two historic structures.

Baltimore Sun

GOP takes aim at Obama’s climate initiatives

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has threatened to kill the Environmental Protection Agency if he becomes president. The GOP’s platform would go far towards dismantling the Obama administration’s historic initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Fiscal Times

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Shot July 17, 2016. (Photo by Ken Walton) Photo used under CC BY

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