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The largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded will require major efforts to keep in from spreading further and claiming more and more lives. (Photo by EC/ECHO/Jean-Louis Mosser)

Sierra Leone lockdown not extended

A three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone aimed at stemming the worst Ebola epidemic on record has identified dozens of new infections, but will not be extended, despite not reaching everyone in the country.

CBC News

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The Liberian church stopping Ebola with Gospel and chlorine

Time

Crowdsource mapping aids Ebola fight in West Africa

PC World

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Is Ebola the beginning of the end of the world?

Foreign Policy

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Dr. Daniel Bausch knows the Ebola virus all too well

NPR

China reveals cases of woe in military detention

Three military officers and 4 other people have been convicted of torturing suspects to obtain confessions, China’s central state news group reported, in a singular instance of charge of a practice.

USA TODAY

Undocumented mothers press Democrats on immigration reform

The police arrested undocumented immigrant mothers who staged a sit-in outside the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters to alert Obama and his party about their unfulfilled promises to immigrant groups.

MSNBC

Detroit residents describe pain of water shutoffs

Carol Ann Bogden recounted the humiliation she experienced when a city crew turned off her water service for delinquency.

Detroit News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

UN says there’s unprecedented demand for food aid

The World Food Program‘s top official said that the agency is responding to half a dozen major crises in addition to helping the largest number of refugees in the world since World War II.

ABC News

The new golden age of urban parks philanthropy

Private funding is pouring into parks lately, and not everyone is happy about it. Regardless, cities are putting together creative projects with massive backing from wealthy donors.

Inside Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

The Islamic State: On the ground in Iraq

Islamic State urged its followers to attack citizens of the United States, France and other countries which have joined a coalition to destroy the ultra-radical group.

CBS News

200,000 flee in biggest displacement of Syrian conflict

CNN

After ISIS’s call, Frenchman is kidnapped and threatened with beheading

ABC News

Feds censure local police but give lethal weapons

A Pentagon program that distributes military surplus gear to local law enforcement allows even departments that the Justice Department has censured for civil rights violations to apply for and get lethal weaponry.

San Jose Mercury News

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Chinese and Indian troops in Himalayan standoff

Hundreds of Indian and Chinese troops have dug into positions on a high Himalayan plateau, leading India’s army chief to cancel a foreign trip and monitor a standoff that underscores deep differences between the Asian giants.

Reuters

Salmond has ‘lost plot’ says Alistair Darling

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has “lost the plot” after voters rejected independence, the leader of the campaign to keep the Union said.

BBC

Jim Sillars goes on epic Scottish independence twitter rant

Huffington Post

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

China beige book shows economy stuck in low gear

China’s economy remained stuck in “low gear” this quarter, with struggling retail and residential real-estate industries countering improvements in manufacturing and transportation.

Bloomberg

Air France strike crisis deepens as both sides dig in

A bitter Air France labor dispute deepened as management pledged to press ahead with its low-cost airline ambitions and pilots said that the strike would continue indefinitely.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

India’s spacecraft inches closer to Mars... and history

Just days after NASA‘s Mars orbiter reached the Red Planet, India’s first mission could follow suit and make history.

CNN

SpaceX breaks ground on private spaceport in Texas

The private spaceflight company SpaceX has begun construction on a new launch site in Texas, a seaside spaceport that will be used to blast commercial satellites into orbit.

SPACE.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Together we make football

Grantland

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Black girls murdered (but do YOU care?)

Ebony

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Superpowers have failed us, so small nations must unite for climate revolution

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Scientists create ‘evolved’ protein that may stop cancer from spreading

Stanford researchers have developed a protein therapy that disrupts cancer cells that break away from original tumor sites, travel through the bloodstream and start new growths elsewhere in the body.

Phys.org

Good samaritans flip SUV to save teens in river

Bystanders rushed to the aid of three teens who were trapped in an SUV that landed upside down in Utah’s Jordan River, authorities said.

ABC News

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Nonprofit orgs take heed

There’s more to running a successful nonprofit agency than raising money and providing services. How about taxes?

The Californian

Sri Lanka accused of trying to gag NGOs

Activists in Sri Lanka have accused the government of trying to silence the voice of civil society groups by imposing what they call “illegitimate” new regulations.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

As global leaders gather for UN climate talks, protesters urge action

There’s widespread skepticism about what the summit can achieve, in part because the leaders of two of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters – China and India – are not attending the event.

The Globe and Mail

Rockefellers divesting from Big Oil

The Rockefeller family is divesting some of its massive fortune from fossil fuels. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund will announce the landmark move along with 49 other foundations.

Huffington Post

Photo of the Day

Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tiger first baseman, swings at a pitch during an early season game against the San Diego Padres. Now the Tigers and Cabrera are hoping to wrap up yet another American league Central Division Championship (Photo by Navin Rajagopalan)

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