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Civilians flee fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIS fighters in Mosul, Iraq, in March 2017. (Photo by Ashley West) Photo used under CC BY

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Egypt retaliates for mosque attack with strikes

The Egyptian military launched airstrikes on militant hideouts in response to the horrific mosque attack that killed 305 people and wounded more than 128.

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NPR

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Bomb, gun attack kills 235 at Egypt mosque

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Al Jazeera

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Pakistan frees alleged mastermind of Mumbai attacks

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Turkey: US to stop arming anti-ISIS YPG militia

The US is to stop supplying arms to the Syrian Kurdish militia the YPG, Turkey has said. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said President Donald Trump had made the promise in a phone call to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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BBC

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Turkey’s main opposition leader vows to work on ’bringing democracy back to Turkey’

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Hurriyet Daily News

Mugabe’s farewell deal: $10M payout, immunity

Robert Mugabe and his wife will receive a “golden handshake” worth at least $10 million as part of a deal negotiated before the resignation of the aging autocrat last week.

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Guardian

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Ousted Zimbabwe finance minister charged with fraud

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Reuters

Traumatized Mosul orphans subject to abuse

There are no reliable statistics showing exactly how many civilians were killed in the battle for Mosul. But there are partial records showing that thousands of orphans were left behind.

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NPR

Pakistan seeks to quell ‘blasphemy’ clashes

Pakistan’s government has called for troops to be deployed in the capital, Islamabad, after violence broke out during protests by Islamists.

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BBC

Iran disses Saudi prince over ‘Hitler’ comment

Iran has accused the Saudi crown prince of being “immature” after he termed the Iranian Supreme Leader the Hitler of the Middle East.

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BBC

Vaccines, aid workers arrive in Yemen

Critically needed aid have arrived in war-torn Yemen, some of the first such aid to arrive since Saudi Arabia imposed a blockade of the country in early November.

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CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Berlusconi appeals politics ban to rights court

An appeal against a ban on Silvio Berlusconi holding public office is to be heard by the European court of human rights, in a move that could potentially see Italy’s scandal-tainted former prime minister leading the country again.

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Guardian

China jails prominent human rights lawyer

A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, has been jailed for two years, the latest conviction in Beijing’s crackdown on rights activists. Tianyong was found guilty of inciting subversion of state power and defaming China’s political system.

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BBC

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Israel pushes to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Modern US nuclear weapons deadlier than ever

By the time Obama left office in January 2017, the risk of Armageddon hadn’t receded. Instead, Washington was well along in a modernization program that is making nearly all of its nuclear weapons more accurate and deadly.

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Reuters

Right-wing Hindus threaten violence over epic

Producers of a Bollywood period epic have indefinitely delayed its release following countrywide protests by Hindu right-wing and caste groups that allege the movie depicts an intimate romantic scene between the two characters, a claim producers deny.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Firefox Quantum enters browser market

Chrome commands nearly 60 percent of the browser market, and is more than four times as popular as the second-place finisher, Firefox. Chrome won the browser wars. But then Firefox released Quantum, which manages to evolve the entire browser experience.

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Wired

Implant could allow paralyzed patients to move

Imagine if a matchstick-sized brain implant could circumvent damaged spinal cords and help paralyzed people become mobile —powered by their own thoughts.

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Bloomberg

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Flows of ‘water’ on Mars may actually be sand, new study reveals

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NASA tests supersonic parachute for future Mars mission

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GLOBAL HEALTH

New malaria strain causes fear of a global crisis

A new, drug-resistant strain of the disease, impervious to artemisinin and another popular drug with which it is frequently paired, piperaquine, threatens to upend years of worldwide eradication efforts — straining health care systems and raising the prospect that the death toll could increase again.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Industry withheld research on effects of sucrose

In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides than those fed starch.

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GOOD NEWS

Selfless act yields windfall for homeless man

When Kate McClure first met Johnny Bobbitt Jr., he was homeless. He spent this Thanksgiving resting in a hotel, drawing up a grand plan for his new life — thanks to several thousand dollars she raised to repay him for a good deed.

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CNN

Woman raises $13K for homeless man

An online campaign has raised more than $13,000 for a homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., who used his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist outside Philadelphia. The Gofundme.com campaign was started Nov. 10 by 27-year-old Kate McClure.

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NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Trump Foundation seeks to dissolve, again

The Donald J. Trump Foundation is seeking to cease operations, but continues to face opposition from the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The foundation just filed its most recent tax form, the final extension nonprofits can file in 2016.

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NonProfit Times

Nonprofit gives 12 to 14 tons of food per month

In August 2011, Food4Kidz was started as a nonprofit and set out to end, or at least reduce, child hunger in the Bay county area. Reaching the whole family takes a lot of food. At their food bank in Panama City Beach, Food4Kidz goes through 12 to 14 tons a food a month.

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Panama City News Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Researchers find one source of a methane

A study of a Lake Erie wetland suggests that scientists have vastly underestimated the number of places methane-producing microbes can survive—and, as a result, today’s global climate models may be misjudging the amount of methane being released into the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Network

Warming may cause larger thunderstorms

Summer thunderstorms in North America will likely be larger, wetter and more frequent in a warmer world, dumping 80 percent more rain in some areas and worsening flooding, a new study says.

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Denver Post

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Uber paid hackers $100K not to use stolen data

Uber said that two people outside the company accessed the personal information of 57 million Uber users in late 2016, including names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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CNN

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Uber’s breach cover-up triggers government investigations

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Fortune

Justice department sues to block telecom deal

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., is an unusual challenge to the $85 billion AT&T and Time Warner deal, which was announced by the two companies more than a year ago. AT&T says it will fight the case in court.

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Environmentalists protest in Bonn, where nations gathered this month to hammer out rules for enforcement of the Paris Climate Accord. (Photo by Takver) Photo used under CC BY

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