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The Vatican is refusing to share sex abuse allegations with the U.N. (Photo by Xiquinho Silva)

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Vatican refuses to share abuse investigations with UN panel

The Vatican refused to provide a U.N. rights panel with information on the Church’s internal investigations into the sexual abuse of children by clergy, saying that its policy was to keep such cases confidential.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Judge orders St. Paul archdiocese, Winona diocese, to release lists of accused priests

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Star Tribune

Vatican abuse prosecutor says Rome ‘well aware’ of accountability problem

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National Catholic Reporter

Egypt police brutality ‘unchecked’

Reform of the police was one of the key demands of the 2011 revolution. Almost three years later, critics say the security forces remain completely unaccountable.

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BBC

Desperate Syrian rebels turn homes into weapons factories

With western countries reluctant to aid Syria’s opposition, a cottage industry has sprung up to supply the increasingly desperate rebel forces.

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NBCNews.com

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EU warns about threat of foreign fighters in Syria

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Yahoo! News

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Inside the battle for Damascus

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CNN

Five Arab states top the most corrupt list

Five Arab countries are ranked among the top 10 most corrupt nations, according to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index, as instability in the region has profound effects on governance.

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Al Jazeera

Is Transparency International’s measure of corruption still valid?

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(Guardian)

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Detroit becomes largest US city to enter bankruptcy

The city of Detroit officially became the largest municipality in U.S. history to enter Chapter 9 bankruptcy after a judge declared it met the specific legal criteria required to receive protection from its creditors.

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USA TODAY

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Detroit bankruptcy forges ahead — who will foot the bill?

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NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Charity accuses Sri Lanka over ‘heinous’ aid workers massacre

France’s Action Against Hunger accused Sri Lankan security forces of killing 17 aid workers in cold blood and then organizing a cover-up of what it termed a “heinous” war crime.

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GlobalPost

The changing landscape in foreign aid, giving, and investment

New research shows that emerging economies are dramatically increasing their financial flows to the developing world.

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PR Newswire

HUMAN RIGHTS

Restoring sight to Africa’s gender-blind rice sector

Research by Africa Rice Centre, a pan-African rice research organization, shows male rice farmers have greater and unequal access to resources, such as farming land, inputs, capital, equipment and knowledge.

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US urged to tighten message on human rights abuses

Human rights activists urged the US government to be more consistent in its approach toward repressive regimes, warning that muddled responses sent the wrong message to democracy campaigners.

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Yahoo! News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

The Asia-Africa link is IT

Only 16 percent of Africa’s population of over a billion is online. But as Internet and mobile phone connectivity grows rapidly, the continent wants to join forces with Asian powerhouses to change its digital landscape.

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IPS News

Why developing countries will consume 65 percent of the world’s energy by 2040

China and India hold the world’s fate in their hands as energy use skyrockets in poorer countries.

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The Atlantic

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India will be largest source of oil demand growth after 2020: International Energy Agency

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POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

House takes aim at TSA’s loose change

The House of Representatives voted to redirect that mountain of pocket change to the United Service Organizations (USO), which supports U.S. military troops.

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Yahoo! News

Biden calls for trust with China amid airspace dispute

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, visiting China as a dispute over a new Chinese air defense zone rattles nerves around the region, said that relations between Washington and Beijing had to be based on trust.

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Reuters

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China flexes its geopolitical muscles on eve of Biden visit

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CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How a money-tracking tool is helping businesses grow in India

While growing up in northern India, Shivani Siroya says she encountered entrepreneurs on a regular basis. Now, she’s helping them track their finances in order to boost their businesses.

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PBS NewsHour

Watch out for climate ‘surprises,’ scientists warn

The long, slow process of climate change may trigger “surprise” shifts that could threaten human communities in years or decades, researchers from the National Academy of Sciences warned.

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CNN

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Abrupt climate change tipping points

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Science World Report

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas):

Common Ground: A cure for health reform?

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USA TODAY

Blog (Henrietta Miers):

Focus on gender: Women are more than agricultural victims

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SciDev.net

Column (Elizabeth Maguire):

US aid policy gives women in Africa grim choices

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GOOD NEWS

Town’s Christmas tree of toys will be donated to needy

This holiday season, the town of Silver Spring, Md., is putting a twist on the traditional idea of a Christmas tree display — and helping neighbors in need in the process.

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NBCNews.com

Teaching the youth to care an awful lot about the planet

Young voices filled the room as YES-O (Youth for Environment in Schools Organization) Apolaki sang about initiating change and rapped about saving the environment.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

The One Percent Foundation wants millennials to turn philanthropy into a habit

San Francisco-based One Percent Foundation has focused on convincing people that every dollar they give matters. Now the group is seeking to help companies and organizations become more charitable.

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TechCrunch

Google+ modernizes telethons with charity hangout-a-thon

Even though needs more work from Google‘s branding department, the company’s first ever Hangout-a-thon aims to raise donations for charitable causes working around the globe.

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The Verge

ENVIRONMENT

Fukushima two years on: a dirty job with no end in sight

The tsunami that wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has led to the toughest nuclear cleanup ever. Radioactive water is still poisoning the sea — and it could take 40 years to fix the mess. Is Japan up to the challenge?

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Guardian

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Samurai in Fukushima guard a 1,000-year-old tradition

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Wired

UN launches Green Climate Fund with little in its coffers

The Green Climate Fund, designed as the U.N.’s most important funding body in the battle on climate change in developing nations, but uncertainty over finances clouded the event.

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

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Green Climate Fund may lure investors seeking bond alternatives

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Bloomberg

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Rice farming in Africa can be difficult for female farmers, as most of the land, resources, capital, knowledge, and equipment go to males. (Photo by Africa Renewal)

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