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As the U.S. celebrates the 521st anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, Chilean activists are calling for the return of ancestral lands. Statue of Christopher Columbus in Madiera, Portugal. (Photo by Claus Rebler)

Columbus Day 2013: Hero, villain or both?

Columbus wasn’t the first European to reach the Americas. But he made the most of it, for better or worse. The Columbus Day debate continues, including periodic calls to dump or modify the holiday.

ABC News

In Chile, indigenous groups mark Columbus Day with protests

Al Jazeera

Chilean groups march against Columbus Day

San Jose Mercury News

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

Senators struggle to end US shutdown as default looms

Senate leaders struggled to draft an accord that averts a U.S. default and restores full government operations, with a lapse in borrowing authority days away.

Bloomberg

World chastises US as debt ceiling approaches

CNNMoney

Blog:

Shutdown philanthropy: Americans lend a helping hand to those in need

(NBCNews.com)

Daily Nightly

Government hopes new Tanzanian constitution bans child marriage

Tanzania is banking on the on-going constitutional review process of marriage laws to stop child marriages, according to a report in the government newspaper Daily News.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Chinese journalists to get on-the-job training

All reporters with Chinese media organizations are to receive on-the-job training to strengthen their “professional practices,” according to state media.

BBC

‘De-Americanized’ world needed after US shutdown: China media

Yahoo! News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

7 aid workers kidnapped in Syria, Red Cross says

Seven aid workers were kidnapped by armed gunmen in northwestern Syria, according to the Red Cross.

GlobalPost

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

A move to blend culture with maps to save indigenous culture and vanishing forests

A new type of indigenous activism is taking root around the world. There’s a movement afoot to blend map-making with cultural knowledge to help people without formal land title hang on to what’s left of their homes.

Christian Science Monitor

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

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Israel freezes shipments to Gaza over tunnel

Israel has frozen the shipment of building materials into Gaza after discovering what it says is a sophisticated “terror tunnel” into its own territory from Palestinian land.

Al Jazeera

Africa is rising but slowly and unevenly

Every African country has seen at least some improvement in the indicators of human development, a survey reveals, though some nations have shown deterioration in fields such as civic participation.

allAfrica.com

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

Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use ‘Allah’

A Malaysian court has ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, even in their own faiths, overturning a 2009 lower court ruling.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

America’s new $100 bill

The new $100 bill is a product of more than a decade of research and development, and the most sophisticated piece of currency technology in U.S. history.

The Atlantic

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

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Homeless in suburbia

Baltimore Sun

Column (Jean MacKenzie):

Afghan-US talks: A bad end to the ‘good war’?

GlobalPost

Blog (Tim Hanstad):

Myth busting: how we can really achieve food security

(Forbes)

Skoll World Forum

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GOOD NEWS

Calif. man survived on snakes, algae, other flora and fauna during 19-day wilderness ordeal

A 72-year-old California man is recovering after spending nearly three weeks lost alone in the woods.

CBS News

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

Blind Israeli workers pay price for NGO dispute with ministry

Social Affairs Ministry denies it has stopped funding charity that employs visually impaired.

Haaretz

ENVIRONMENT

Mozambique, China take first steps to curb illegal logging

Both countries are stepping up efforts to crack down on the illegal logging that costs Mozambique millions of dollars a year and put its forests at risk.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Sean Gallagher’s ‘Meltdown’ shows China’s environment in crisis

Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

Bringing do-it-yourself concept to solar power

An entrepreneurial engineer has brought the assemble-it-yourself concept to solar power. The SolarPod developed by Mouli Engineering of Eagan, Minn., comes with four solar panels and related parts.

San Jose Mercury News

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In Ariz., a solar plant that powers 70,000 homes day or night

(NPR)

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Illegal logging is a problem in Mozambique. In additional to conservation factors, other trees have to be cleared to get out hardwoods and other large pieces are left behind which, when dried in the sun, become hazards in forest fires. (Photo by F H Mira)

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