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New Yorkers campaign for AIDS prevention with affordable health care with HIV testing, housing for those affected, and better sex education in schools. (Photo by Otto Yamamoto)

New $100 million initiative to find cure for HIV

President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure for HIV.

Star Tribune

Research identifies the ‘fuse’ of HIV

Higher Education

A unique Indian wedding website for HIV positive people

BBC

Shanghai warns children to stay indoors on air pollution

Shanghai warned children and the elderly to stay indoors as the level of harmful pollutants exceeded more than 10 times the level deemed safe by the World Health Organization.

Bloomberg

Air pollution and genetics both increase risk for autism

Medical Press

Thailand: Prime minister rejects resignation demand

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has rejected protesters’ demands that she step down, amid fresh clashes in Bangkok. Ms. Yingluck said that she would not resign, but that she remained open to talks.

BBC

Thailand PM rejects resignation demand as clashes rock Bangkok

Times of India

Scenes from protest-rocked Bangkok

Irrawaddy

Ukraine protesters blockade government headquarters over failed EU deal

Pro-European protestors remain in control of central Kiev after tens of thousands occupied the capital’s Independence Square in defiance of a court order.

Telegraph.co.uk

Ukrainians blockade government buildings after clashes

Bloomberg

Central African Republic: Where have all the people gone?

Central African Republic is suffering after rebel takeover. Some 460,000 people have been driven from their homes and more than a million are dependent on external aid.

BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Impact investing: harnessing the power of business for social good

Impact investing is a way to invest and generate social impact with a return on capital. It ends the old dichotomy, which saw business as a way to make profit, while social progress was achieved through charity.

Guardian

Members of the church at Bakerview aid Hope House

Bob Friske, senior pastor at The Church at Bakerview in Bellingham, said the goal this year was to help those who help others. Here’s a story about how his church helped out a Catholic Charities Ministry.

Bellingham Herald

HUMAN RIGHTS

Philippines: Army reaffirms commitment to human rights

The Army renewed its commitment to uphold human rights in all its operations amid cases of enforced disappearances attributed to soldiers.

Philippines Star

Rights court to examine claims of CIA torture in Poland

The European Court of Human Rights will examine claims that Poland turned a blind eye to the torture on its territory of two Guantanamo-bound prisoners of the CIA.

Yahoo! News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

The world isn’t as fragile as the US thinks

An increasingly stable and prosperous developing world is one with considerable prospects for American business. It’s time to see low- and middle-income countries as potential partners, not pariahs.

BusinessWeek

India eyes food subsidy reform as WTO Bali talks begin

India is all set to tighten its belt and hammer out a critical deal on reforming the food subsidy regime of World Trade Organization as negotiations begin in Bali, Indonesia.

Business Standard

ENVIRONMENT

African elephant numbers ‘could fall by one-fifth’ due to poaching

Africa will lose a fifth of its elephants in the next decade if the continent’s poaching crisis is not stopped.

Guardian

African elephant survival tops agenda at Botswana talks

Tengri News

Microplastics ‘pose toxic threat to marine biodiversity’

Tiny particles of waste plastic that are ingested by shoreline “eco-engineer” worms may be negatively affecting biodiversity, a study says.

BBC

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Malaysian PM calls for open politics and effective governance

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called for a more open and transparent politics, effective and stable governance in facing common changes across the world.

Global Times

Nuclear deal signed, Iranians await economic rewards

The sanctions relief provided in the nuclear deal reached in Geneva looks good to Iranian businessmen, but ordinary Iranians are wary.

Christian Science Monitor

Deal reached in Geneva on Iran nuclear program

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China reforms can’t stop at water’s edge

Christian Science Monitor

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Machines for living

Al Jazeera

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Africa’s Aid Mess

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GOOD NEWS

Thanksgiving shopping becomes social, but spending down

Thanksgiving night shopping looked like a new family tradition as stores opened earlier and consumers took advantage of the extra time to spread out their Black Friday shopping.

USA TODAY

Gov’t diagnosis: HealthCare.gov on the mend

Computer crashes should be giving way to insurance coverage, if the government’s diagnosis of its health care website is correct.

Seattle Times

Health plan sign-ups grow in Mich., online and off

Yahoo! News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Monitoring elections in the Arab world

Civil society organizations in Egypt and Tunisia are investigating quicker, more effective ways of monitoring elections using text messaging.

Sci Dev Net

Loose change left at airports targeted for USO amenities

The United Service Organizations operates lounges in 45 U.S. airports, collects misplaced change by passengers which The TSA is required to use for military purposes.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Camera takes 3D photos in the dark

A camera that can create 3D images in almost pitch black conditions has been developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BBC

How male brains are wired differently than female’s

The research, which involved imaging the brains of nearly 1,000 adolescents, found that male brains had more connections within hemispheres, whereas female brains were more connected between hemispheres.

LiveScience

New study suggests low vitamin D causes damage to brain

ScienceDaily

China launches its first moon rover mission

China successfully launched a lunar probe into space, on a journey to deliver a robotic rover to the surface of the moon.

USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

Pearl and Hermes Atoll lies about 1,080 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu. It is a huge oval coral reef within several internal reefs. (Photo by NOAA’s National Ocean Service)

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