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Old refugee boats line the coast off the Italian island of Lampedusa. The island, at 70km from Africa, is a popular people-smuggling route on a dangerous and often deadly journey. (Photo by Carlo Alfredo Clerici)

The tiny Italian village that opened its doors to migrants

As yet another boat filled with desperate migrants tragically capsizes in the Mediterranean, one mainland community has secured its own future by offering them homes and jobs.

Guardian

EU plans Big Brother system in Mediterranean

Spiegel International

After tragedy, ban calls for action to protect human rights of migrants

allAfrica.com

Migrants appear undeterred, even after deadly shipwrecks

CNN

Why some Mexicans want to get out of Acapulco

Acapulco was where Hollywood stars went on holiday. But the area is now home to violent drugs gangs, and last month the region was hit by devastating floods and mudslides that killed dozens of people.

BBC

US no closer to deals on debt and shutdown

Talks among United States politicians have failed to agree to end a partial government shutdown and raise the country’s debt ceiling as a deadline looms ever closer.

Al Jazeera

Talks between White House and House break down, action shifts to Senate

McClatchy Newspapers

US shutdown dashes immigrant dreams

IPS

Feeding the hungry, or the greedy?

As Uganda prepares to legalize GMO, supporters say it will save a farming industry gripped by epidemic blights and help alleviate hunger. Opponents see a conspiracy fueled by corporate greed.

The Global Mail

Witchcraft trade, skin cancer pose serious threats to albinos in Tanzania

In the East African country of Tanzania, people with albinism are vulnerable to attacks fueled by superstitious beliefs that albinos’ body parts can lead to power and wealth.

Scientific American

‘To boldly go where no man has gone before’: Not if you’re Chinese, NASA says

China has hit out at NASA for its decision to ban Chinese scholars from an upcoming scientific conference in California, calling it “discriminatory.”

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Money, research target mystery kidney disease in Americas

Pledging $1.7 million to combat a mysterious kidney disease killing agricultural laborers by the thousands, health ministers from across the Americas passed a resolution formally recognizing the disease as a serious threat.

Center for Public Integrity

Aid watchdog praises UK efforts to empower poor people but adds caveats

An aid watchdog has praised the British government’s efforts in pushing poor countries toward better public services, but warns that it must be clearer about its goals and more strategic in its allocation of money.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigeria urged to reduce child marriages

Child marriage — defined as a marital union with a person under the age of 18 — affects more girls in Nigeria than in all the countries of West Africa combined.

Al Jazeera

Country of kings, Nigeria’s many monarchs

BBC

Côte d’Ivoire: People displaced by conflict face land theft

At least hundreds of people who fled violence in western Côte d’Ivoire during the country’s 2010-2011 post-election crisis have returned to find that their land has been illegally taken over, Human Rights Watch reported.

Human Rights Watch

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Tax the rich? International Monetary Fund report raises eyebrows

Tax the rich and better target the multinationals: The International Monetary Fund has set off shock waves in Washington by suggesting countries fight budget deficits by raising taxes.

Japan Times

India hopes food security issues will be resolved at Bali meet

India expressed the hope that all issues related to food security and trade facilitation will be resolved during the forthcoming meeting of World Trade Organization members at Bali.

Economic Times

World food security talks: challenges of bringing everyone to the table

(Guardian)

Poverty Matters

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

US-Afghan deal edges closer despite ‘immunity’ snag

A long-delayed security deal on the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan is close to being completed, officials said, after marathon talks in Kabul between President Hamid Karzai and U.S. secretary of state John Kerry.

Times of India

Discontented with governance, Zimbabweans head out for a better life

After the controversial polls here saw President Robert Mugabe win another term of office, Zimbabweans, convinced that there will be no change of rule, are leaving the country in large numbers.

Inter Press Service

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Digital natives: the most and least wired countries revealed

While it may seem like young people are always using the Internet, it’s perhaps surprising that only 30 percent of people ages 15 to 24 worldwide are “digital natives,” new research shows.

LiveScience

Europe’s Mars rover put through its paces – with help from a hand powered drill

The European Space Agency is conducting trials of a new rover in the desert that is due to be sent in 2018 to explore the surface of the red planet to search for water and signs of extra-terrestrial life.

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Tim Hanstad):

Myth busting: how we can really achieve food security

(Forbes)

Skoll World Forum

Column (Gayle Tzemach Lemmon):

Child brides robbed of their future

CNN

Column (Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein):

A junk news diet

U.S. News & World Report

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GOOD NEWS

UN rights office welcomes Tunisian law on national anti-torture body

Welcoming the adoption by the National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia of a law on setting up a national body to prevent torture, the United Nations hailed the decision as an “important milestone.”

UN News Centre

Nonprofit plots mine fields with Google Earth

Luan Jaupi is the information technology officer at HALO Trust, a nonprofit organization that specializes in identifying and helping to clear land mines in war-torn countries.

Sydney Morning Herald

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

NGO in campaign against lifting of Zimbabwe diamond sanctions

Center for Natural Resource Governance, a Western-backed Zimbabwean NGO, has launched a scathing attack on the EU for lifting sanctions imposed on the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation.

allAfrica.com

Nonprofit makes major renovations to Marine’s home

RenovatingHope is a Chester County, Pa., nonprofit that organizes an extensive series of renovations to overhaul homes, including electrical, plumbing, bathroom and kitchen fixtures, flooring and appliances.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Israel conference: Cavemen discovered recycling

There is mounting evidence that hundreds of thousands of years ago, our prehistoric ancestors learned to recycle the objects they used in their daily lives, say researchers.

U.S. News & World Report

Financial pressure grows on fossil fuel industry

The financial and economic muscle of the global fossil fuel industry’s corporate behemoths may not protect them from the costly effects of negative stigmatization if they ignore climate change pressures.

Climate Central

Blog:

Today’s record highs may be climate norm by 2047

(Discovery Magazine)

D-Brief

Photo of the Day

Nigeria is looking to turn its garbage problem into power to help supply energy scarce Lagos. Dumps could be covered while extracting the methane gas and making scavengers a thing of the past. (Photo by John Bracken)

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