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Women wait for family planning contraception funded by the European Commission at a health centre supported by International Medical Corps in the Damot District, Wolayta Zone, in Ethiopia. (Photo by Ashley Gilbertson)

Ethiopia most successful in cutting maternal deaths

Reuters

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Gambling with motherhood

Huffington Post

White House releases major climate change assessment

The White House released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, considered the most comprehensive ever generated of climate change and its impacts across America and major sectors of the economy.

Wisconsin Gazette

Federal report spells out global-warming threat to West

San Francisco Chronicle

Administration issues dire climate change report

FOX News

A bloody, crumbling Central African Republic

Central African Republic’s bloody battleground makes the Darfur conflict look like “a model of simplicity.”

The New Republic

Intense fighting in the Central African Republic

euronews

The sting: Fighting the rise of bee rustlers

In the California Central Valley, farmers planted 800,000 acres of almond orchards. Beekeepers bring millions of beehives to pollinate the trees.

The Weather Channel

Lebanon‘s refugee schools provide hope for Syria’s lost generation

‘Despite the suffering, children have an amazing ability to recover,’ says Unicef as some of the 400,000 child refugees in Lebanon begin to receive education.

Guardian

The comeback of polio is a public health emergency

The global drive to wipe out the virus had driven the number of polio cases down from 300,000 in the late 1980s but there are fears the numbers of new cases could rise.

NPR

Pakistan launches new polio vaccination efforts

CBS News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Philanthropists looking closer at recipients’ bottom lines

Today’s philanthropists want to do more than just sign checks. Before they unload their cash, these digital natives want hard evidence that the programs they fund are the best way to solve a problem.

San Francisco Chronicle

Major foundation initiative for returning veterans unveiled by White House

Joining Forces is committed to raising awareness about the service, sacrifice, and needs of military families, particularly around three priority areas for national initiatives: employment, education, and wellness.

Nonprofit Quarterly

HUMAN RIGHTS

DRC court clears most soldiers of rape

North Kivu court clears all but two of the 39 government soldiers on trial for the mass rape of 130 women in the biggest rape trial in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Al Jazeera

UN torture committee probes Vatican on sex abuse scandal, human rights issues

The Vatican is bracing for a blistering session this week before the U.N. Committee Against Torture, which is expected to address the Holy See’s handling of its churchwide sexual abuse scandal and its infringement on human rights.

Washington Times

UN calls Vatican‘s anti-abortion canon ’psychological torture’ of women

Washington Examiner

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

China factory activity shrinks in April, new export orders contract

Activity in China‘s manufacturing sector contracted for a fourth consecutive month in April, adding to questions about whether the world’s second-largest economy is still losing momentum.

Reuters

Philadelphia’s World Trade Center seeks higher profile

The attention the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia especially seeks is from the region’s small businesses, a sector it says is missing tremendous growth opportunity by not exporting.

Philadelphia Inquirer

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Credit Suisse in talks to pay $1.6 billion to resolve U.S. tax probe: source

Credit Suisse Group AG is in talks with the U.S. Justice Department to pay as much as $1.6 billion to resolve the bank’s role in helping Americans evade U.S. taxes.

Reuters

Pressure mounts for US to help find kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls

The U.S. is offering help, but making clear the Nigerian government must lead in the rescue of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

CNN

Nigeria’s Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped schoolgirls

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New cheap, environment-friendly solar cell developed

In a breakthrough, scientists have developed a new low cost, efficient and environment-friendly solar cell that uses tin instead of the hazardous lead.

Times of India

Blood of young mice boosts brains, muscles of older ones

University researchers have shown that substances in the blood of young mice rejuvenate the muscles and brains of older ones, an approach that could help Alzheimer’s patients.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Pacific free-trade deal makes sense

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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The top ten global warming ‘skeptic’ arguments answered

Guardian

Editorial:

One Moscow voice for healing in Ukraine

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Man who saved abandoned newborn reunites with her 58 years later

A man searched for decades to find the newborn girl he rescued from likely death. Now, the mystery is finally solved. After nearly 60 years, the two reunited.

CBS News

A beautiful mind: brain injury turns man into math genius

In 2002, two men savagely attacked Jason Padgett, leaving him with a severe concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder. But the incident also turned Padgett into a mathematical genius.

LiveScience

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

W.H.O.: Polio outbreak a ‘public health emergency’

The W.H.O. warned that the crippling disease polio has re-emerged as a public health emergency, calling the widespread resurgence of the disease a public health emergency after new cases surfaced in a range of countries.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

WHO urges travelers to get polio vaccine, declares public health emergency

Liberty Voice

How one Silicon Valley millionaire Is using tech to spark change In India

Karl Mehta has made quite a splash in the tech world. He founded PlaySpan, which sold to Visa for more than $200 million in 2011.

Business Insider

ENVIRONMENT

Where the wild things were

Conservationists are reintroducing large animals to areas they once roamed, providing ecologists with the chance to assess whether such “rewilding” efforts can restore lost ecosystems.

The Scientist

Historical lessons of successful conservation efforts

Wildlife News

Geotagged safari photos could lead poachers right to endangered rhinos

For every elephant’s GPS tracking collar and drone for protective surveillance, there is also a poaching ring that’s trying to find the exact coordinates of an endangered species.

Quartz

Photo of the Day

Hong Kong’s Occupy movement is making a resurgence after a university professor suggested there could be another movement over universal suffrage. Occupy Central proposes 10,000 people in July if demands are not met. (Photo by Michael Coghlan)

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