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Protesters in Taiwan opposed to the government’s strengthening of trade ties to China take a break from their peaceful sit-in to clean up rubbish. (Photo by Kirby Wu)

Police and students clash over trade protests

Riot police evicted scores of protesters from Taiwan’s executive building after rallies over a controversial trade deal between Taiwan and mainland China entered.

CNN

‘I am a journalist’ Canadian jailed in Cairo yells

Shouting out from a metal cage, an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo told a court that he wasn’t a member of an outlawed Islamist group the local government considers a terror organization.

The Canadian Press

8 dead in Washington state mudslide

Eight people have been confirmed dead in a devastating mudslide that struck a small riverside neighborhood in Washington state. Authorities said that 108 people were still missing.

Time

Washington landslide

CNN

China seeks full evidence on MH370

Malaysia said that a missing Boeing 777 jetliner had crashed into the Indian Ocean, an announcement that was greeted with huge grief by Chinese relatives of those on board.

Irish Times

Malaysia Airlines MH370: Relatives in Beijing scuffles

BBC

As it happened: Malaysia plane lost in ocean

BBC

US to overhaul NSA electronic surveillance policies

The White House wants the National Security Agency to get out of the business of sweeping up and storing vast amounts of data on Americans’ phone calls.

CBC News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

The conservative myth of a social safety net built on charity

Ideology is as much about understanding the past as shaping the future. Conservatives tell themselves a story about the way the world was and can be again under Republican policies.

The Atlantic

Cincinnati startup takes local philanthropy mobile

A Cincinnati startup, Giveunity, wants to make charitable giving to local nonprofits easier through its mobile philanthropy application.

Cincinnati Business Courier

HUMAN RIGHTS

Egypt puts Muslim Brotherhood leader, 682 others on trial

Egypt outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 682 others went on trial, just after over 500 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi were sentenced to death.

Reuters

Affordable Care Act and birth control: Can corporations assert religious rights?

Supreme Court justices are poised to examine if President Obama’s Affordable Care Act violates the religious rights of company owners who object to being forced to pay for birth control that offend their religious beliefs.

Christian Science Monitor

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Visa and MasterCard resume service at 2 Russian banks

Credit cards are working again at two Russian banks after both Visa and MasterCard had shut down services based on concerns about dealing with firms linked to U.S. sanctions.

CNNMoney

Western banks lend billions to Russia

CNNMoney

Crimea fears knock down global stocks

Global equity markets fell, rattled by the ongoing Ukraine crisis and weak data from China, while gold fell on concerns about higher U.S. interest rates and a stronger dollar.

Reuters

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

US airlift support to bolster African hunt for violent warlord

The U.S. military is deploying transport planes to Uganda in response to African Union requests for support in the hunt for the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army extremist group.

Chicago Tribune

Japan to turn over nuclear cache to US

Japan will hand over a decades-old stockpile of material large enough to build dozens of nuclear weapons in President Obama’s biggest success yet in securing nuclear materials.

Time

Review:

‘Fukushima: a catastrophe that could happen here

Seattle Times

Ukraine may dominate talk at nuclear summit

Columbus Dispatch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New wearable antenna could aid in health monitoring

A new, flexible antenna that can stretch and bend with a person’s movement could be used in wearable health monitoring devices, say the researchers who designed the device.

LiveScience

Cloud-based archive tool to help catch child abusers

Victims of child sexual abuse could soon be identified more quickly thanks to law enforcement agency work on a cloud-based archive of abuse material.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (John Skipper):

Secrecy’s a fact of life in economic development

globegazette.com

Editorial:

To safeguard Asia, Obama must first deal with a test of penitence

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Road hazard: Toyota pays dearly for ignoring its customers

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

New strategy would drop college textbook costs to zero

Universities are exploring ways to bring textbook costs to zero with “open-source” electronic textbooks — an experiment in changing the way students are taught.

Baltimore Sun

Hero dad saves daughter from kidnapper, helps catch kidnapper

A man grabbed an 11-year-old girl and tried to run off with her but the child‘s father wrested her from the kidnapper’s grasp. The father and other family members held him until authorities showed up.

CBS News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Working to measure the global impact of the nonprofit’s giving

We found that the way most people measure the impact of an NGO is how much money you give away, which is great if you’re the Gates Foundation.

Computerworld

Fernando Garcia bridges the gap between residents and law enforcers

His Border Network for Human Rights doesn’t just point out problems but proposes solutions. It could become a national model for dealing with immigrant rights.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change also means opportunities, scientists say at Yokohama meeting

Among the risks global warming poses for humanity are opportunities to improve public health and build a better world, scientists at a climate change conference in Yokohama said.

Japan Times

Ebola in Guinea threatens 3-nation spread as Unicef responds

African Ebola outbreak threatens to spread from Guinea to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the U.N. said. Suspected cases are being investigated in southeast border areas, according to the World Health Organization.

Bloomberg

Guinea confirms deadly mystery epidemic as Ebola

DW.DE

Photo of the Day

Students from the Millstreet Community School in Millstreet, Ireland stage a sleepout to raise funds for Trocaire’s international water efforts. (Photo by Trocaire)

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