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Pakistani women train to become bee keepers as part of a women’s empowerment initiative. (Photo by Hashoo Foundation)

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Pakistan PM demands action on stoning of pregnant woman

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered officers to take “immediate action” over the stoning of a pregnant woman outside the nation’s top court.

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ABC News

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Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by her own family for marrying the man she loved

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Daily Mail

Veterans Affairs investigators: Delayed care is everywhere

Delaying medical care to veterans and manipulating records to hide those delays is “systemic throughout” the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, the VA’s Office of Inspector General said.

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USA TODAY

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Inspector: Medical center hid long waits

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Columbus Dispatch

Ukraine army helicopter shot down near Sloviansk

Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine shot down a military helicopter near Sloviansk, killing 14 people, including an army general, said the country’s outgoing president.

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Ukraine helicopter shot down near Sloviansk, 14 dead

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Elliot Rodger rampage shows gaps in mental health law

Well before Elliot Rodger killed six people and took his own life, the 22-year-old college student was questioned by sheriff’s deputies and had convinced them he was calm, courteous, and no threat to anyone.

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California lawmakers push ‘gun violence restraining order’ after mass killing

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CNN

Apple to get Beats, music mogul Iovine for $3 billion

Apple will buy Beats for about $3 billion and bring recording mogul Jimmy Iovine into its ranks, hoping to win points with the music industry and help it catch up in fast-growing music streaming.

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Reuters

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Most big companies have no idea if the billions they throw at social programs work

Together, 100 of the largest companies reported social investments valued at $12.2 billion. Yet few companies are reporting the impact these investments are having on the people they are trying to help.

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Business Insider Australia

Cambodian sex slavery activist quits US foundation

Somaly Mam, honored internationally for her work against sexual slavery, resigned from her own foundation after allegations that she had distorted aspects of her personal history.

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BusinessWeek

HUMAN RIGHTS

Companies commit human-rights abuses in America too

Human rights are clearly at risk in business operations in the U.S., but it is rare that companies or media frame such issues in human-rights terms.

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The Atlantic

East Ukraine city largely calm after battle, rebels seek Russian help

Relative calm returned to the streets of Donetsk after the biggest battle of the pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine, a conflict transformed by the landslide election of a pro-European leader.

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Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Nepal’s bogus orphan trade fueled by rise in “voluntourism”

Poor parents routinely duped into sending children to homes where owners use them to extract money from foreign visitors

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Guardian

Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus sign treaty creating huge economic bloc

Citizens of the three countries will have the right to work freely throughout the member states without any special work permits.

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Time

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Putin creates ex-Soviet trade bloc, says he isn’t aiming for new USSR

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Haaretz

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Muslim politics in India at a crossroads

The 16th Parliament has returned just 23 MPs from the Muslim community, the fourth lowest in the history of independent India.

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Hindustan Times

Modi takes over, signals change in India’s governance

For the first time since 1984, a political party has won an absolute majority with 282 of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, making the Modi-led BJP free of coalition compulsions.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Identical twins offer up selves for space science

As part of a study of identical twins, researchers are working with NASA hoping to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness by comparing the space twin with the ground twin.

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Concerns grow over farm drugs used like ‘sweets’

The widespread use of antibiotics on farms without medical supervision has been condemned at a meeting of the World Organization for Animal Health.

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The India-China rivalry over anti-graft campaigns

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Christian Science Monitor

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Scapegoats won‘t cure Veterans Affairs system’s ills

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Detroit News

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The gift of hospice

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Canton resident creates app for trading parking spots in Baltimore

When a man’s car was booted after being ticketed one too many times in Canton, he thought, “Man, there must be a better way to find parking.”

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Police push Vietnam vet’s scooter for 1 mile to bring him home

A Vietnam veteran injured in the line of duty was about to have a lousy Memorial Day weekend after his motorized scooter broke down on a sidewalk in San Diego.

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Huffington Post

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Russian “foreign agents” law hits hundreds of NGOs

Russia has launched a nationwide campaign to inspect thousands of NGOs to identify advocacy groups that the government deems “foreign agents” and force them to register as such.

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Human Rights Watch

Electrify Africa: bringing light to the dark continent

The Electrify Africa Bill, HR 2548, passed with support from Democrats and Republicans. This is just the first hurdle in the bill becoming law, but it is a step closer to providing power to 500 million Africans by 2020.

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Media Club South Africa

ENVIRONMENT

A sacred reunion: the Colorado river returns to the sea

The Colorado River, which flows 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Sea of Cortez in northwestern Mexico, has reached its final, natural destination for the first time in 16 years.

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National Geographic

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The unsung heroes of the Colorado River Delta pulse flow

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National Geographic

Antarctic ice sheet began melting 5,000 years earlier than previously assumed

An international study reveals that the Antarctic ice sheet started melting thousands of years earlier and is more unstable than previously assumed.

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Science World Report

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Giant waves breaking up Antarctica’s sea ice

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LiveScience

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In a backyard in Lakeside, OH, raised beds covered with chicken-wire frames protect late-spring greens from rabbits and other critters. (Photo by Richard Hudson)

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