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Thomas Frieden, MD, CDC, describes Ebola risks in a seminar at Kaiser Permanente, Center for Total Health. (Photo by Ted Eytan)

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People should join Clean India campaign: Modi

In a free-wheeling chatty address to the nation, through radio, Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a clarion call to citizens to join his social initiatives and contribute to nation-building.

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Hindustan Times

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Indian officials ordered to take up brooms on day off

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BBC

Solutions still in reach as world biodiversity suffers major decline

Detailing its findings that global wildlife populations have declined, the WWF’s “Living Planet Report 2014” also puts a finer focus on available solutions that could heal the planet and reverse current trends.

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The Nation

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Global biodiversity targets won’t be met by 2020

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Guardian

Doctor had access Ebola patient’s travel history

The Dallas hospital treating the lone U.S. Ebola patient says an emergency room doctor who initially treated and released him did have access to the man’s travel history, after all.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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‘They came back with white masks’: CDC responds to sick passenger on flight

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CNN

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Ebola and Flu raise serious public concern: Is it safe to be in public?

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What we know about the Texas Ebola case

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ABC News

Missing students and Mexico’s worst massacre

The Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City was the most dramatic incident in suppressing political opposition. Demonstrations this year in Mexican cities were clouded by disappearance of students in southern Guerrero state.

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Al Jazeera

Mass graves found in Mexico, near place where 43 students went missing

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NPR

Navy’s self-guided, unmanned patrol boats make debut

Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they‘re protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy’s fleet within a year, defense officials say.

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ABC News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Asian philanthropy: Strategic social stewardship

Asian philanthropy is an emerging force in international relations. As social impact investors, philanthropists in Asia are non-state actors transforming civil society and diplomacy.

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The Diplomat

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10 philanthropists from emerging markets who are making a difference

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Devex

The church game $500 to every member to do good in the world

After receiving an unexpected windfall of $1.6 million, a small Chicago church took a giant leap of faith: it chose to give a chunk of the money away to congregants, with a modest request for how it was to be spent.

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Huffington Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

Merkel raises human rights ahead of China summit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for free speech in Hong Kong to be protected and criticized the harsh sentence recently handed to a Chinese Muslim scholar.

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ABC News

‘Staggering array’ of gross human rights abuses in Iraq – UN report

A “staggering array” of gross human rights abuses and “acts of violence of an increasingly sectarian nature” were committed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant over a period of nine weeks, the U.N. reported today.

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GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Thailand’s political future: Changing of the garb

Top generals have swapped their uniforms for civilian dress, some four months after toppling Thailand’s electoral democracy in a coup d’état. Thailand’s political future is still up in the air.

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Economist

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At college campuses, cracks in Thailand’s peaceful facade

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San Francisco Chronicle

Brazilians voting in nail-biter election for president

Brazilians are voting in the most unpredictable presidential election in decades and the first since the end of an economic boom underpinning the leftist Workers‘ Party’s 12-year rule.

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Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Hiring puts US jobless rate at six-year low

A surprisingly powerful surge in hiring pushed unemployment to a six-year low of 5.9 percent in September as the U.S. labor market showed renewed vigor.

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Bloomberg

French court suspends Airbus insider trading trial

French judges suspended a trial involving allegations of insider trading in the shares of Airbus Group to allow a higher court to rule on whether the procedure was constitutional.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

World‘s 1st ’solar battery‘ captures and stores Sun’s energy

Researchers have created a “solar battery” by combining the energy-harvesting panel with the energy-storing medium at a microscopic level.

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NBCNews.com

Satellites detect ‘thousands’ of new ocean-bottom mountains

It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done.What is more, these peaks are all at least 1.5 km high.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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A 1st responder to the fear of Ebola

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Christian Science Monitor

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Should you see ‘Gone Girl’ with your significant other?

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MTV

Column (Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill):

Alibaba: “Open sesame” to a culture of philanthropy in China?

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Philanthropy Daily

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GOOD NEWS

After 8 years of infertility, couple reacts to getting pregnant with quadruplets

The Gardners of Utah have been trying to get pregnant for the eight years and tried in vitro fertilization as a last resort. They expected twins at best but will be getting triplets — see photos of their reaction.

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Tech Times

Save the Children rescued donors in its mail universe via merge/purge

Nonprofit executives in charge of generating names for mail campaigns might have been making their jobs harder. Implementing a few merge-purge best practices can open up new quantities of viable prospects.

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NonProfit Times

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Society holds contradictory attitudes about money and those perceptions affect how people see volunteering, too. Let’s explore some of the most common notions, which you’ll quickly see are quite contradictory.

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NonProfit Times

German universities to be free of charge: “Fees are socially unjust”

One discourse has fired the interest of university students worldwide: the argument around fees. A new round of this argument will be sparked by the announcement that Germany has scrapped student fees.

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NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Walruses forced ashore as sea ice melts

An estimated 35,000 walruses packed a stretch of Alaskan shoreline late last month, a phenomenon that’s being chalked up to diminishing sea ice and alarmingly warm ocean temperatures.

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15 years later, Great Lakes levels rebound

Lakes Michigan and Huron have recovered after more than a decade of low water levels. Government scientists say the lakes rose above their historic average this month.

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Algal blooms threaten public health, Great Lakes mayors fight back

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Huffington Post

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Great Lakes: The light blue in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is sediment brought to the surface by strong winds. The green in Lake Erie and in Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay is algae, which builds on the surface when winds are calm. (Photo by NASA Earth Observatory)

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