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While Nairobi sets it’s sights on a world class business status, Kenya becomes plagued by extremist violence. (Photo by Jonathan Stonehouse)

Miracle crop: India’s quest to end world hunger

Over one third of humanity is undernourished. Now, a group of scientists are experimenting with specially-bred crops and hoping to launch a new Green Revolution, but controversy is brewing.

Spiegel International

US to send troops to Iraq to secure embassy

President Barack Obama has announced that up to 275 military personnel will be deployed to Iraq after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of the country’s north.

Al Jazeera

Armed children watch as purported al-Qaida-linked ISIS militants execute prisoner in Iraq

New York Daily News

49 Killed while watching football in Kenyan town

The assault on Mpeketoni left at least 49 dead and was the worst attack by the Shebab on Kenyan soil since the siege of the Westgate shopping mall in the capital Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed.

Hindustan Times

How Kenya‘s ’war on terror’ disrupts a thriving Nairobi district

Christian Science Monitor

Kenya president blames locals for deadly attacks

The Hindu

Evacuating children along a dangerous Ukraine route

It was a trip no mother would wish to take. But faced with few options, a group of women and children piled into a blue minivan to take to the dangerous road out of town on the way to a safer place.

New York Times

South Sudan crisis threatens ‘loss of a generation of children and youth’

The U.N. is appealing for more than $1 billion in emergency humanitarian funding for South Sudan, warning that the fighting has left the country facing famine and the “loss of a generation of children and youth.”

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Activist’s fall from grace stirs concerns about Cambodia’s charities

Allegations that Cambodian anti-trafficking activist Somaly Mam fabricated details of her past has cast a harsh light on what some aid workers say is routine deception by charities in her home country.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

UK aid for DR Congo going to agencies working with police accused of rape

Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding programmes for police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned torture against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Suspect in Benghazi terror attack captured

A suspect in the Benghazi consulate attack was arrested in Libya, a U.S. administration official said.

NBCNews.com

Israel ramps up pressure on Hamas in hunt for missing teens

Israel widens a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank after troops detained more than 40 members in sweeps searching for three missing Jewish teenagers.

Reuters

Israel says Hamas militants behind abduction of 3 teens

Reuters

Israel expands West Bank hunt for missing teens

USA TODAY

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Income gap widens as American factories shut down

The downfall of manufacturing in the U.S. has done more than displace workers and leave communities searching for ways to rebuild devastated economies.

Erie Times News

Australia buys up, enters Asian arms race

Australia is now the seventh-largest importer of major arms in the world and the biggest customer of the largest weapons producer, the United States.

Sydney Morning Herald

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Australia’s foreign aid overhaul to squeeze more value for money

A fifth of Australia‘s aid budget will be geared towards driving economic growth in developing countries — known as ‘aid-for-trade’ — under a radical restructure to be unveiled by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

Sydney Morning Herald

UK resumes ties with Iran

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague restored Britain’s diplomatic relations with Iran. He confirmed Britain would press Tehran to end support for terrorist groups and to resolve its controversial nuclear weapons program.

Jerusalem Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How big data works

A conversation with Michael Olson, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Cloudera, about the role of big data in today’s world.

The Atlantic

Trapping light now possible for longer time than previously thought

Confining light will soon improve technologies such as telecommunications and biosensing by processing light incredibly fast without consuming high amounts of energy.

Tech Times

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GOOD NEWS

Soon astronauts will be able to drink “good, hot and steaming” coffee in space

In a feat of coffee engineering, the International Space Station will soon get its first-ever espresso machine.

Salon

Starbucks to pay college tuition for thousands of baristas

Starbucks announced plans to offer full and partial scholarships to employees to attend Arizona State. It‘s not the first program of its kind, but it’s likely the most generous.

Christian Science Monitor

Does Starbucks’ college tuition plan create a corporate monopoly?

MSNBC

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Greenpeace loses millions in donations

An employee of Greenpeace International has lost 3.8 million euros of the NGO’s donations in a risky financial transaction. The scandal could undermine public confidence in the environmental non-Profit organization.

Deutsche Welle

Giving estimated at $335.17 billion for 2013

Charitable giving in the United States jumped 4.4 percent last year to an estimated $335.17 billion and was led, as usual, by individual donors supporting their favorite charities and institutions.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Reports: Obama to propose creation of world’s largest ocean sanctuary

President Barack Obama is preparing a proposal that would create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary south and west of Hawaii, according to reports.

NPR

Environmental group says no guarantee of cleanup in NC Senate’s coal ash plan

N.C. Senate leaders are unveiling their approach to cleaning up the state’s hazardous coal-ash ponds, but a leading environmental group is already saying new legislation does not go far enough.

Progressive Pulse

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Crowds of people move about their day in the busy metropolis of Shanghai, China. (Photo by Tania Huiny)

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