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In one of the newest refugee crises, over 120,000 Sudanese have settled in Maban county of Upper Nile state in South Sudan following fighting in the Blue Nile state of Sudan. In Hofra transit camp, the biggest challenge is providing enough clean drinking water. (Photo by Thomas Conan/EU/ECHO)

Obama fears US growing numb to gun violence

President Barack Obama said he fears where we are heading: resigned to accepting gun violence with a collective shrug because it happens so often now it is the “new normal.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Reframing the gun control debate: Is mental health the next focus?

CNN

Anger as Bangladesh refuses to decriminalize homosexuality

Gay rights activists have criticized the Bangladeshi government after it rejected recommendations to remove a clause in its penal code which criminalizes gay relationships.

The Independent

‘Dramatic’ drop in global HIV infections

The number of HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths has fallen dramatically, according to a U.N. report. Death rates fell from 2.3 million during its peak in 2005 to 1.6 million last year, says UNAIDS.

BBC

Swaziland shows signs of turning corner on world’s highest HIV rates

Reuters

Kenya’s economy seen resilient to mall attack, tourism apart

Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long-term investors pull money out after the attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, analysts say.

Reuters

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The Rundown

New signs of rising illegal immigration into US

After dropping during the recession, the number of immigrants crossing the border illegally into the U.S. appears to be on the rise again.

Yahoo! News

Soccer brings together immigrant students from many countries

Columbus Dispatch

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

The inadequacy of donating medical devices to Africa

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, “medical device graveyards” litter the empty closets and spare corners of hospitals. The World Health Organization estimates that “a large proportion (up to 70 percent) of equipment lies idle.”

The Atlantic

EU tells Israel to explain seizure of Palestinian aid

Senior European Union officials told Israel to explain why its soldiers seized a truckload of humanitarian aid intended for Palestinians, saying they deplored the confiscation.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Daughters for sale: India’s child slavery scourge

Millions of Indian children work as slaves in factories, brothels or in the homes of families. Out of poverty and desperation, parents sell their daughters, and human traffickers wait.

Spiegel International

Sex trade victims struggle to reintegrate

Some children in southeast Asia are trafficked into the sex trade by their families, but activists are fighting back.

Al Jazeera

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Ghana economy grows with help of technology and targeted aid

A grassroots revolution, spreading out from Accra and involving support from the west, digital start-ups and a commitment to open government, is helping to weed out corruption in Ghana.

Guardian

Romania’s powder keg: Mine project launches protest movement

The Rosia Montana mine in Romania is currently one of Europe’s most controversial projects. Approval plans for the large-scale mining that would eliminate an entire town have sparked mass protests.

Spiegel International

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

President of Sudan confirms US travel plan

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has surprised United States officials by announcing that he plans to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York, despite being wanted for genocide by the ICC.

Al Jazeera

North Korea cancels reunions with South

The highly symbolic and emotional meetings of selected families from the North and South, separated for six decades by the 1950-53 war, would have been the first reunions in three years.

Japan Times

North Korea halts family reunions

Sydney Morning Herald

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA Curiosity Rover detects no methane on Mars

The roving laboratory performed extensive tests to search for traces of Martian methane. Whether the Martian atmosphere contains the gas has been a question of high interest for years as a potential sign of life.

ScienceDaily

Life on Mars: Down but not out says Mars Society founder

CNET News

Why it’s hard to make an ethically sourced smartphone

A Dutch startup called Fairphone has just unveiled what is being heralded as “the world’s first ethically-sourced smartphone.” But the handset is nowhere close to 100 percent ethically sourced.

BusinessWeek

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Henry Porter):

American gun use is out of control. Shouldn’t the world intervene?

Guardian

Column (Michael Wilner):

UN General Assembly could see real breakthroughs on peace process, Syria and Iran

Jerusalem Post

Column (Christopher J. Ferguson):

Don’t link video games with mass shootings

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Cuban athletes score against violence

In Cuba, a handful of champions and rising young stars are wearing messages or appearing in TV spots against violence among men or toward women.

IPS

Kenya poachers to be named and shamed online

A website to name and shame poachers in Kenya — PoachersExposed.com — has been launched by wildlife campaigners.

BBC

As elephants vanish, Kenya puts Chinese ivory smuggler in prison

Christian Science Monitor

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Children with autism practice travel at NYC’s JFK

JetBlue Airways and the nonprofit Autism Speaks set up an air travel practice session for families who have children with the disorder. JetBlue officials said it was the first such event at JFK.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Palestine’s budding fair trade olive oil industry

The Palestinian Fair Trade Association is a nonprofit that organizes Palestinian farmers into cooperatives, educating them on the concept of fair trade and organic produce.

Pulitzer Center

ENVIRONMENT

Aid groups warn of growing hunger and disease as planet warms

The potentially devastating effects of climate change on future generations are revealed today by two British aid groups, just before a crucial U.N. report.

The Independent

UN climate experts stress solidity of new report

Seeking to dispel any doubts over the credibility of their work, U.N. climate experts called their latest report an unbiased and reliable assessment of global warming as they presented it to officials from 110 governments.

ABC News

Curbing climate change could save 500,000 lives

Discovery News

Photo of the Day

A prostitute works the Paris streets. Women‘s rights group Equity Now is challenging the UN’s resolution to decriminalize prostitution citing its dangers. (Photo by Nils Hamerlinck)

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