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Activists visit Syrian refugees in Turkey. (Photo by Freedom House)

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CDC predicts up to 1.4 million cases of Ebola

Yet another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was released, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Crowdsource mapping aids Ebola fight in West Africa

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PC World

Is Ebola the beginning of the end of the world?

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Turkey’s jihadi highway open to refugees and ISIS alike

Turkey’s border with Syria allows passage both ways for the right price. Refugees fleeing north to escape a civil war and Islamic extremists heading south to fight the Syrian president need help to make the crossing.

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Reuters

More than 700 infants exposed to tuberculosis at Texas hospital

More than 700 infants and 40 health care workers have been exposed to tuberculosis, at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, according to the city’s Department of Public Health.

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CNN

Students protest in Denver over proposal from school board

Hundreds of students from Denver high school walked out of their classrooms to protest a proposal suggested by the school board.

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Uncover California

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.

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ABC News

X-Prize taps the crowd to tackle global education

The U.N. estimates 58 million children from ages 6 to 11 do not attend school. One nonprofit has the solution: create software so exciting to use that kids will want to teach themselves.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

ISIS hostage Alan Henning’s wife invokes Sharia Law in new plea

The wife of British aid worker Alan Henning, who is being held by ISIS released the second statement within a week following a new video put out by the terror group where they threaten another British hostage.

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NBCNews.com

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ISIS’s forgotten hostages: Islamic State still holds thousands

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Newsweek

Egypt’s human rights groups ‘targeted’ by crackdown on foreign funding

Egyptian rights groups and journalists paid by foreign news outlets fear they are the target of a presidential decree banning the receipt of foreign money for activity deemed harmful to national interests.

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Guardian

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.

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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.

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BBC

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Jim Sillars goes on epic Scottish independence twitter rant

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Huffington Post

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

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.

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Reuters

Amnesty slams China over ‘tools of torture’ industry

The number of Chinese firms exporting “tools of torture” has grown dramatically over the past decade, a new report from Amnesty International says. Many of the products are used by human rights violators worldwide.

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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.

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CNN

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India puts spacecraft into Mars orbit

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Huffington Post

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.

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SPACE.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Black girls murdered (but do YOU care?)

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

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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.

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Phys.org

Struggling bartender left ‘speechless’ after customer gives $1,000 tip on $14 bill

A customer at One Whirled Café left Chrisi Kemp, a 37-year-old bartender in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a $1,000 tip and insisted she keep it.

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Huffington Post

NONPROFITS & NGOS

North Texas breaks fundraising record

The sixth annual day of giving founded by the Communities Foundation of Texas broke its own record by raising more than $26.3 million for nonprofits in the North Texas area.

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NonProfit Times

What does “not charitable enough” mean when it comes to tax exemption?

A tax court in Oregon recently ruled a local nonprofit was “not charitable enough,” which resulted in making it a local property taxpayer. A lawsuit against Princeton University focuses on what is charitable?

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NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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The Globe and Mail

Encouraging planting trees will sequester carbon and conserve habitat

Rewarding landowners for converting farmland into forest will be key to sequestering carbon and providing wildlife habitat, according to a new study by Oregon State University and collaborators.

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Environmental News Network

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Le Mont Saint Michele, a 247 acre ancient island fortification on the Normandy coast of France, houses a monastery built in the 8th century from which this unusual island draws its name. (Photo by Dennis Jarvis)

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