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Aid organizations brace for a half million refugees into the Kurdish territory after ISIL fighters seized Mosul. (Photo by CODEPINK Women for Peace)

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India rocked by new rape cases

Indian police said they were investigating a spate of rapes and hangings in a troubled northern region, as the national women’s rights body called for the state government to resign over the crisis.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Narendra Modi says India’s parliament must protect women

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Guardian

Babies pay for Detroit’s 60-year slide with mortality above Mexico’s

Detroit’s deterioration has taken a toll not just on business owners, investors and taxpayers. It’s meant misery for its most vulnerable: children and the women who bear them.

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Bloomberg

Saudi MERS response hobbled by institutional failings

When Saudi Arabia announced it had found 113 more cases of the deadly MERS, it didn’t just force a rethink of the threat the virus poses, it exposed institutional failings.

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Reuters

Iran sends forces to Iraq as ISIS militants press forward

Emboldened Sunni militants, backed by local tribal leaders, pushed toward Baghdad as Iran sent troops to fight alongside government forces.

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CNN

Obama rules out troops in Iraq, but says U.S. weighing other options

President Obama has ruled out the use of ground troops in Iraq, saying any action will be “targeted and precise,” but must be accompanied by political action by Iraqis to end sectarian divisions.

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NPR

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How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the world’s most powerful jihadist leader

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Washington Post

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Iraqi insurgents capture northern cities, move toward Baghdad

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The Atlantic

Obama cites Australia’s gun confiscation program as example for US

The Obama administration may be looking for an example in Australia as the White House considers potential new firearm laws for the United States in the wake of the latest in a series of devastating school shootings.

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Russia Today

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There have been 74 US school shootings since Sandy Hook

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Mashable

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Principal: I want Columbine to mean hope

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PHILANTHROPY AND AID

A city that pays criminals to behave

By counseling the city’s “most lethal” young men, an innovative program is helping make Richmond, California. safer.

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Al Jazeera

Texas man is arming India’s women against rapists

For every wallet Kuro Tawil sells on his website, the 23-year-old donates a can of pepper spray to a woman in India, where the number of reported rapes doubled in 2013.

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Vocativ

HUMAN RIGHTS

Over 100 people detained during Tiananmen anniversary

A human rights group released a list of over 100 activists, journalists, lawyers, dissidents and others who are thought to have been detained by the government on the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen protests.

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South China Morning Post

North Korea threatens ‘plot-breeding’ U.N. rights office with ‘punishment’

North Korea threatened a planned U.N. field office in South Korea set up to investigate human rights abuses in the isolated country, saying anyone involved would be “ruthlessly punished”.

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Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK

Thai ‘ghost ships’ that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers.

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Guardian

More than 10,000 suicides attributed to Great Recession, finds study

Researchers have suggested that more than 10,000 suicides in Europe and North America can be linked to the severe economic downturn brought on by the 2008 financial crisis.

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Al Jazeera

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

US schools chief calls California ruling ‘a mandate’ to fix tenure, firing laws

A California judge ruled as unconstitutional the state’s teacher tenure, dismissal and layoff laws, saying they keep bad teachers in the classroom and force out promising good ones.

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CNN

Republican Cantor to leave leading House post after election shock

The toppling of Eric Cantor left his political party in chaos, as financial markets worried the shakeup might renew messy budget fights.

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Reuters

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What Eric Cantor’s loss could mean for the GOP

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NBCNews.com

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Cantor ‘earthquake’ rattles Capitol Hill

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sun erupts with 3rd huge solar flare in 2 days

The sun is hitting its stride. Earth’s closest star shot off yet another powerful solar flare after producing a pair of major solar storms.

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SPACE.com

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Solar flares disrupt communications on earth could send shockwave

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Burgess Shale discovery believed to be fossil record’s first fish jaw

Canadian scientists believe they’ve hooked the fossil record’s first fish jaw from recently discovered beds.

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Calgary Sun

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Don’t walk away from war

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Why cosmetic testing on animals is no gold standard

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LiveScience

Judge’s ruling a landmark for California schools

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San Mateo Daily Journal

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GOOD NEWS

Waitress gets $1,000 tip after Waffle House returned it to customer

A Raleigh waitress will be able to keep her $1,000 tip from a generous customer — but only after that customer found a way around the restaurant’s tip policy.

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WTHR TV

Strangers save fawn from floodwaters in Missouri

Firefighters tried to save a deer trapped in floodwaters, but it was the quick thinking of strangers who saved the helpless fawn, CBS affiliate KCTV-TV reports.

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CBS News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Millionaire’s social mission pushes tech geeks to think local, hack global

In lieu of retirement and endless leisure, Karl Mehta made better use of his time and his talent by launching Code for India — an initiative that partners with nonprofits and NGOs to help solve critical issues in India.

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Foundations announce plans for spending $194M to improve lives of minority men

Eleven foundations laid out a blueprint for spending at the annual Council on Foundation’s conference.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Luxury home dangles off cliff over Texas lake

A vacant luxury home is dangling over Lake Whitney after the bluff beneath it has given way and fallen into the lake.

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CBS News

More than 90 percent of lemurs face extinction, IUCN warns

Updated ‘red list’ describes the primates as one of the most threatened groups of animals on Earth.

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Guardian

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Women’s rights as well as safety is in jeopardy after a fourth woman in weeks was found raped and hanging from a tree in the northern state of Uttaranchal Pradesh, India. The public and media outcry is building after each case. (Photo by Paula Rey)

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