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Hubert, 26, makes a living as a tailor in his refugee camp through the aid of his big Singer sewing machine. He escaped with the machine after his village was raided and destroyed in Kimbumba, Eastern Africa. (Photo by Marie Cacace / Oxfam)

China and the environment: the East is grey

China is the world’s worst polluter but largest investor in green energy. Its rise will have as big an impact on the environment as on the world economy or politics.

Economist

China and India ‘water grab’ dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger

Guardian

US to reopen 18 embassies

The U.S. will keep closed its diplomatic missions in Sana’a, Yemen, and Lahore, Pakistan, as President Obama declared that al-Qaida was a continuing threat to U.S. and world security.

Haaretz

Britain’s foreign aid has fallen into hands of al-Qaida, UK DFID admits

Almost half a million pounds of British taxpayer-funded aid and equipment has fallen into the hands of al-Qaida, the Department for International Development (DFID) has admitted.

Telegraph.co.uk

Q&A: Who are Somalia’s al-Shabab?

BBC

Indonesia volcano eruption: six dead on Palue

Six people have been killed in a volcanic eruption on a tiny island in Indonesia, officials have said.

BBC

Mt. Rokatenda in NTT erupts

Jakarta Post

Pictures: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi Volcano erupts

National Geographic

Peru tackles financial education for its growing middle class

Peru’s economy has expanded over 10 years of sustained growth, stoking access to credit and higher risks of debt across the rising middle class.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Wolf In sheep’s clothing

The real test whether one’s act of charity is just for show is when that person expects nothing from those who benefited his generosity.

The Bohol Standard

Charities plan Autumn offensive against Tory plans to reform Human Rights Act

The UK’s best known charities are planning an Autumn campaign, part-funded by the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Trust, to fight Conservative plans to reform the Human Rights Act.

Telegraph.co.uk

HUMAN RIGHTS

Murle women flee tribal violence in South Sudan

As many as 100,000 people are estimated to have fled their homes as fighting surges in Jonglei.

Al Jazeera

Real death toll in Syria could be more than 200,000, human rights group says

The real death toll in the Syrian war could be more than 200,000 people, a pro-opposition watchdog group said as it provided a latest count that matched that of the UN.

Haaretz

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Momentum builds for US-India trade agreement

The time appears ripe for the enactment of a bilateral investment treaty to reinvigorate commercial ties between the world’s two biggest democracies, the U.S. and India

Area Development

Brazilian trade group urges hydroelectric project development

The development of Brazil‘s hydroelectric power sector was a key topic of discussion during FIESP’s (Federation of Industry in Sao Paulo)14th International Meeting.

Hydroreview

Hydroelectric power images

Bing.com

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

The key to Egyptian democracy

President Mohammed Morsi’s July 2013 ouster has triggered a serious debate in Washington about the future of U.S. policy towards Egypt.

U.S. News & World Report

Mali set for second-round vote

Mali’s presidential front-runner has ended his campaign promising to restore peace to the West African country reeling from a coup and an uprising that led to French military intervention.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New immunity-boosting drug helps body kill cancer

A new type of drug that “revs up” the immune system to destroy cancer is being tested on humans for the first time.

Telegraph.co.uk

Bacteria give lessons in investment economics

Colonies of bacteria balance growth against risk, just like financial investors, ecologists have found.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Fixing America’s subsidized homeownership

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Solomon Dersso):

The African Union versus Egypt

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

An immortal contribution

Baltimore Sun

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GOOD NEWS

Event aids cancer research, honors unbreakable spirit

Through contributions from individuals and a fundraiser, the foundation has raised more than $50,000 to benefit children‘s charities and establish health-care facilities in Third World countries.

Arizona Daily Star

University of Pennsylvania training dogs to sniff out ovarian cancer

Studies have shown that dogs might have the ability to sniff out cancer. If true, the method could provide a cheap and potentially non-invasive way to detect the disease.

CBS News

Sniffing out cancer: dogs are the pros in this lab

ABC News

NONPROFITS AND NGOS

This model could change charity forever

In Kenya a year after the election of 2007, people were still refugees in their own country, starving in camps with no electricity, no water, waiting for aid packages shipped by large NGOs.

Huffington Post

Disabled workers paid just pennies an hour

Goodwill Industries, whose executives earn six-figure salaries, used a legal loophole to pay disabled workers as little as three and four cents an hour.

NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Kenya uses paramilitary, drones to stop elephant killings

Kenya deployed paramilitary forces and plans to fight poaching of rhino and elephant populations in the African nation where wildlife parks help draw almost two million visitors a year.

Bloomberg

Fukushima leak: Japan government ‘to take measures’

Japan’s prime minister pledged government action on the Fukushima clean-up, as radioactive water leaks from the nuclear plant.

BBC

Chernobyl’s legacy recorded in trees

BBC

Photo of the Day

A mural of a Nepali woman is seen in Mission District, San Francisco. (Photo by Nagarjun Kandukuru)

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