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The Philippines is still assessing the damage from the typhoon. Cadiz City, Negros Occidental was hit but standing while other cities have been completely decimated. (Photo by Karla Gina Piacentini)

Nigeria considers law to fine oil firms over spills

Nigerian legislators are considering a law to impose new fines on operators responsible for oil spills, a measure that could face major foreign companies with penalties running into tens of millions of dollars a year.

Reuters

Oil spills devastate Niger Delta

allAfrica.com

UNESCO yanks US, Israel voting rights for not paying dues

The U.S. hasn’t paid its dues to the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in three years in protest to the decision to make Palestine a UNESCO member in 2011.

CBC News

Thousands feared killed in Philippine typhoon

The death toll from a super typhoon that decimated entire towns in the Philippines could soar well over 10,000, authorities have warned, making it the country’s worst recorded natural disaster.

Al Jazeera

Foreign aid, words of sympathy pour in

philSTAR

Blog:

How to help Typhoon Haiyan survivors

(CNN)

Impact Your World

Thousands feared dead after Typhoon Haiyan

NPR

Executions at their highest in post-Saddam Iraq

Increases of death penalty in Iraq has brought the number of known executions to the highest since Saddam Hussein in 2003, with at least seven prisoners sent to the gallows yesterday, many more at risk.

Amnesty International

Shelter in Europe: Court orders asylum for persecuted gays

An EU court ruled that gays persecuted in other countries have the right to asylum in Europe. The decision came in a case involving three African men seeking safe haven in the Netherlands.

Spiegel International

Breaking new ground for trans children

IPS

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Feds deny aid for Yosemite’s Rim Fire

The federal government rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s request to help pay for damage caused by the Rim Fire, leaving the state and communities that suffered in the blaze on the hook for potentially millions of dollars.

San Francisco Chronicle

Neighbors in Syria to vaccinate 20 million children against polio

More than 20 million children are to be vaccinated in Syria and neighboring countries against polio to try to stop the spread of the crippling infectious disease following its re-emergence.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Europe at ‘polio risk’ from Syria

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hawaii legislature passes marriage equality

The Hawaii House has granted marriage equality its third and final passage with a vote of 30-19. The bill was amended and needs Senate approval before advancing to Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s (D) commitment.

ThinkProgress

Raise minimum wage? One answer to income disparity, advocates say

Since poverty affects 50 million Americans, advocates say it’s time to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Opponents say it would be a job killer, but polls show most Americans favor a hike.

Christian Science Monitor

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Poland gives coal a voice during UN climate talks

With coal-reliant Poland hosting U.N. climate talks, the fossil fuel industry will get a rare chance to play a more visible role in the global warming debate.

Yahoo! News

Fossil fuels receive $500 billion a year in government subsidies worldwide

Think Progress

Syria’s economy may be devastated for 30 years

The almost three-year-old Syrian civil war has been a “silent war on human and economic development,” destroying the ability of ordinary Syrian citizens to maintain basic livelihoods.

IPS

Looking for shelter (and a little privacy) in Jordan’s largest Syrian refugee camp

TIME

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Deal still eludes on Iran’s nuclear activities

Iran and six world powers remain split on the terms of a nuclear deal. Tehran is resisting demands that it suspend work on a plutonium-producing reactor and downgrade its stockpile of higher-enriched uranium.

Japan Times

Journalists in Syria face growing risk of kidnap

Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom.

ABC News

Libya’s Berbers block the gas and crude oil complex

With central government lacking, Libya has power separation among tribal lines. Former insurgents against Gadhafi have turned into militias and only pay loyalty to their local councils.

IPS

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New asteroid that ‘belches out dust’ discovered

The first-of-its-kind discovery “completely knocked out” astounded astronomers. Perhaps just as exciting is the expectation that this “amazing object (is) almost certainly the first of many to come.”

CNN

Ants, like humans, can change their priorities

For the first time, Arizona State University researchers have discovered that at least in ants, animals can change their decision-making strategies based on experience.

ScienceDaily

Blog:

Lost ants backtrack their steps

(Scientific American)

Not bad science

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Nick Mabey):

EU needs to show leadership at Warsaw climate summit

RTCC

Column (Allan Melzer):

On why South Korea thrives while North Korea starves

Forbes

Editorial:

China’s need for golden-rule economic reforms

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

New tool to help people who are unable to speak

People who are paralyzed and unable to speak may soon be able to communicate simply by focusing on voices saying “yes” or “no” while their brain is monitored.

New Scientist

Delegates from divided societies offer help in Nigeria

Kaduna, Nigeria, is hosting the Forum for Cities in Transition, a peace conference that bridges 50 delegates from 11 cities that know conflict and want to help Kaduna continue its progress toward reconciliation.

GlobalPost

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Stevens-Henager students knit scarves for Japanese orphans

Respiratory therapy students at Stevens-Henager College have hand-knitted more than 150 scarves for children in Japan who were orphaned or displaced by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster.

Salt Lake Tribune

A nonprofit pushes to make legal aid key part of disaster services

The New York Legal Assistance Group is doing all it can to get charities, grant makers, and government to think about legal aid as an essential nonprofit service that starts work right after a disaster strikes.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Critically endangered species in Sumatra on the road to extinction

Some of the last Sumatran tigers, rhinos, bears and eagles could be extinct if road construction occurs through an Indonesian tropical forest reserve currently being restored by British conservationists.

Guardian

Helping communities adapt to climate change by reducing disaster risks in Samoa

Understanding climate change is integral to the Samoa Red Cross Society’s disaster activities. Communities are being supported under a Community Disaster and Climate Risk Management Program.

International Red Cross

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Scientists have discovered that ants use past experience as the basis of decisions. However, they do so collectively as a colony or group and act with a consensus. (Photo by Samantha Henneke)

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