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Ethiopia’s indigenous excluded from rapid growth

As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia’s major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns for the region’s pastoralist communities.

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Earth, wind and water: Ethiopia bids to be Africa’s powerhouse

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President, nation honor military veterans for ‘highest service’

Hailing “patriots who have rendered the highest service any American can offer this nation," President Barack Obama honored the country’s military veterans at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Typhoon Haiyan: a struggle to reach victims in Philippines

After one of the world’s most powerful typhoons slammed into the Philippines, as many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in a single city.

Christian Science Monitor

World offers aid for typhoon-ravaged Philippines

Reuters

Indian Mars mission hit by snag

India‘s mission to Mars has hit a snag, after a planned engine burn failed to raise the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth by the intended amount.

BBC

Falling satellite causes no damage after re-entry

The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites that had run out of fuel caused no known damage after re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

USA TODAY

Satellite hits Atlantic — but what about next one?

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Peru uses climate twist to lure tourists

In its heyday, the Pastoruri glacier in central Peru, drew daily throngs of tourists packed into dozens of double-decker buses 16,000-feet high into the Andes to ski, build snowmen and scale its dizzying peaks.

NBCNews.com

TYPHOON HAIYAN: HOW TO HELP

Nine ways to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan

Rescue and relief efforts are underway, with many organizations mobilizing teams on the ground to get victims access to clean water, medical supplies and food..

Mashable

Scrawling messages of survival from Tacloban

With fears that up to 10,000 people may have perished in Tacloban city alone, as Typhoon Haiyan cut a ruthless swathe through the central Philippines, survivors have struggled to get messages out.

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PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Merchant Marines see new obstacles In food aid proposal

Over the past quarter-century, the Merchant Marine has hit one obstacle after another. Now, a proposed change in the U.S. food aid programs threatens to further reduce funding.

NPR

UK commits aid for 500,000 in Philippines

The Department for International Development said money would be given to pre-approved organizations to assist up to 500,000 people affected by the typhoon that swept through the Philippines.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN expert on labor abuse urges Qatar to end sponsorship system

A U.N. official called on Qatar to abolish a sponsorship system for migrant workers he said was a source of labor abuse, raising pressure on the 2022 World Cup host for reforms of its workplace practices.

Reuters

Uzbeks face crooked courts in Kyrgyzstan

A handful of legal cases are still underway more than three years after the conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks in southern Kyrgystan left hundreds dead — the vast majority of them Uzbeks.

GlobalPost

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Latin American coffee growers struggle with rock bottom prices

Current rock bottom prices for coffee beans — below cost for many of the region’s growers — and a crushing outbreak of coffee leaf rust, a fungus that slashes harvests, are making difficult the lives of farmers in Latin America.

GlobalPost

Bo Xilai supporter creates new Chinese party as communist leaders meet

Wang Zheng, a Chinese academic and supporter of Bo Xilai, set up a political party to push the ruling Communist Party to obey the country’s constitution, and made the ousted Politburo member its chairperson.

BusinessWeek

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Failure to reach Iran nuclear deal may fortify hardline opponents

French objections helped block talks that appeared close to a preliminary deal. Kerry warned each day of delay meant “Iran will continue to enrich, and Iran will continue to put centrifuges in.”

Christian Science Monitor

Al Qaeda’s most dangerous stronghold

New jihadist fighters are flocking to a battlefield between Syria and Iraq. With the civil wars in both countries all but certain to endure for the foreseeable future, the danger from this stronghold is growing.

Daily Beast

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Depression therapy effective for poor, minority moms

Short-term, relationship-focused therapy through weekly home visits can relieve depression among minority mothers, even in the face of poverty and personal histories of abuse or violence, according to a new study.

ScienceDaily

This is the FAA’s plan for drone-friendly skies

The FAA, which regulates civilian flight in America, just published a report considered a road map for adding drones to the skies of tomorrow. It‘s the FAA’s plan to safely integrate drones into the airspace.

Popular Science

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Drone-mounted laser weapons are on the way

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial (Craig O’Neill):

Keep a lid on it: The controversy over Earth’s oldest rocks

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Thank you, Iraq war veterans

USA TODAY

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Food security in India is not doomed after all

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GOOD NEWS

Olympic torch taken on first spacewalk after arriving at ISS

An Olympic torch took a spacewalk for the first time, held by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station as it orbited 400 km above the Earth.

Japan Times

Why US veterans are returning to Vietnam

Nearly 40 years after the war, American vets who live in Vietnam are working to foster reconciliation between the two countries, while other former U.S. soldiers are traveling there to find “closure.”

Christian Science Monitor

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Wells Fargo Alaska employees donate $404,000 to nonprofits

Wells Fargo announced that its team members donated a record $404,000 to state nonprofit organizations and schools. This is the highest Community Support Campaign contribution ever by team members in Alaska.

Juneau Empire

Farm helps traumatized veterans re-enter civilian life

For disabled veterans, a halfway point between the military and civilian life unfolds on a farm. It’s so quiet, the only sounds out here are the wind and the occasional small tractor rumbling by.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Foul play ahead of Russian Olympics

Despite IOC endorsement for adherence to environmental standards in preparations for the Winter Olympics, Russian authorities are cracking down on people trying to expose the Games’ environmental cost.

IPS

Police detain environment activist in Sochi

Climate Times

Mysterious disease turning sea stars to goo

A mysterious disease that has turned hundreds of starfish into limp lumps of goo along both the East and West coasts in recent months could potentially induce a cascade of other ecological effects in tidal systems, researchers say.

Discovery News

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