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One in four Londoners is in poverty according to Trust for London. This is in part due to high housing costs and low employment of young adults. (Photo by Gary Knight)

More than a quarter of Londoners ‘in poverty’

The capital has problems with child poverty, young adult unemployment, low pay and high housing costs, according to London’s Poverty Profile.

BBC

Red Cross launches emergency food aid plan for UK’s hungry

The Independent

Syrians find safety for Eid al-Adha holiday in Iraq

Almost 14,000 Syrian Kurds in the Kawergosk refugee camp will be spending Eid al-Adha — the Feast of Sacrifice, which is the biggest Muslim holiday of the year — away from their home country.

Yahoo! News

Somber Eid festivity in Iraq and Syria

Reuters

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

China state media blasts US shutdown, calls for a ‘de-Americanized’ world

CNBC

With national parks closed, state park booming

CBS News

EU Parliament report: Europe has 880,000 slave laborers

In the EU, there are 3,600 international criminal organizations and some 880,000 slave laborers, including 270,000 victims of sexual exploitation, says a European Parliament report.

Spiegel International

African migrants reach Italy as government prepares to boost sea patrols

A migrant boat carrying 137 people reached Italy from North Africa as the Italian government prepared to launch new naval and air patrols to prevent repeats of shipwrecks which have drowned hundreds.

Reuters

Africa is rising but slowly and unevenly

allAfrica.com

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

4 of 7 kidnapped aid workers freed in Syria

Efforts continued to free three aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross who were kidnapped in Syria, after four fellow abductees were released.

Yahoo! News

7 aid workers kidnapped in Syria

CNN

Why the world’s technology giants are investing in Africa

Is investment in Africa driven by philanthropy or a desire to get in on the ground before their competitors? Three tech giants explain their reasons for investing in the continent.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Over 1,600 migrants rounded up after ethnic riots in Moscow

An advocacy group warned migrants from the mainly Muslim Caucasus and Central Asia of an increased risk of attacks after the worst ethnic disturbance in Moscow in three years.

Reuters

UN agency urges China to drop HIV spa ban

China plans to ban HIV-positive people from spas, hot springs and public bathhouses, provoking condemnation from the United Nations’ AIDS agency and outrage from campaign groups.

Yahoo! News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Giant companies pinpricked by ‘direct democracy’

A Swiss village decided to reject tax money from a Glencore firm, donating instead to charities. Other towns may follow, sending a strong signal to the government to introduce transparency rules.

IPS

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Native American tribe battles corporations

(Al Jazeera)

Americas

Airports seek improvement dollars elsewhere as federal fiscal woes deepen

The nation’s airports once counted on billions of dollars in federal grants to upgrade their facilities, but in an increasingly uncertain fiscal environment, some would prefer leverage their own resources instead.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

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

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

At robotic petting zoo, ‘animals’ touch back

Developed by a London-based experimental design studio, the life-like robotic habitat features intelligent creatures that have been designed to learn and explore behaviors via interactions with zoo visitors.

Discovery News

Brazil to fortify government email system following NSA snooping revelations

The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service will build a secure email system for Brazil’s federal government following media reports that foreign intelligence agencies intercepted electronic communications in the country.

PC World

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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

Eyesight to the blind: Cheap, fast surgery tackles cataracts

A Nepalese doctor and his American counterpart’s promotion of a dirt-cheap, ultra-fast, assembly-line form of surgery is restoring sight to hundreds of thousands of blind people in developing countries.

CNBC

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

US nonprofit hospital CEO annual pay averages $600,000

Heads of U.S. nonprofit hospitals earn an average of almost $600,000 a year, compensation that isn’t tied to quality measures such as mortality rates, a Harvard University study found.

Bloomberg

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

US parks accidentally fertilized by air pollution

America’s national parks receive harmful, accidental fertilization from air pollution. Unwanted nitrogen nutrients harm plants and disrupt aquatic environments at 38 U.S. national parks, says a study.

Discovery News

How scammers steal millions through carbon markets

The Atlantic

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

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Airport management like those of Kansas City International are considering whether to raise their own funds for construction projects rather than wait for the government to reconvene and produce funding. (Photo by Jeffrey Beall)

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