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Men in Cairo demonstrate at a pro-el-Sisi rally. Egypt‘s former military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was sworn in after receiving 96% of the vote in last month’s election. (Photo by Sebastian Horndasch)

Egypt’s new President vows to ‘correct the mistakes of the past’

Egypt’s former military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was sworn in as President, vowing to lead the country through important changes.

CNN

Gunmen take hundreds of students hostage on Iraq university campus

Gunmen occupied a university in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, taking hundreds of students and their professors hostage on campus, security sources said.

Reuters

Iraqi security forces ‘launch assault’ on university seized by gunmen

France 24

Ukraine’s Poroshenko sworn in and sets out peace plan

Petro Poroshenko has been sworn in as president of Ukraine, setting out a plan to bring peace to the conflict-torn east of the country.

BBC

Separatists, government troops continue faceoff in eastern Ukraine

CNN

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Car explodes in Ukraine’s capital near parliament as Poroshenko swears in

RT.com

Afghan candidate Abdullah Abdullah survives Kabul bombs

The front-runner in Afghan’s presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, has survived a suicide bomb attack targeted at his convoy.

BBC

Egypt court sentences 10 Brotherhood supporters to death

An Egyptian court sentenced 10 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death in absentia but postponed sentencing of its leader and other senior members tried in the case.

Reuters

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Donor-advised funds aid financial planning, teach children about giving

Philanthropically-inclined families with donor-advised fund accounts are using them to prepare the next generation to take up the family’s giving legacy.

Think Advisor

The guide to sustainable philanthropy 2014

The guide looks at the current state of charitable giving and delves into where the future of philanthropy lies.

Blue and Green Tomorrow

HUMAN RIGHTS

Surviving in New York, 5 cents at a time

Ruo is a canner, a person who collects cans, bottles, and other plastics for a five-cent deposit. For this 72-year-old illiterate Chinese immigrant, it is her sole source for survival.

Epoch Times

Bergdahl tells officials he was tortured, caged and tried to flee his Taliban captors

U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility that he was tortured, beaten and caged by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after trying to escape, a senior U.S. official said.

Star Tribune

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

News analysis: coal traders in sombre mood over low prices, soft demand

“There is no skin left on my teeth to hang on with,” was the lament of a coal trader, expressing a sentiment echoed time and again at the industry’s largest gathering in Asia.

Business Day

Coal bonds suffering well before new EPA rules

MSNBC

Tetris at 30: a history of the world’s most successful game

During the height of the Cold War, a Russian programmer first released the code for a game he called Tetris. It would eventually cause a worldwide scramble for rights and royalties that would last over a decade.

Telegraph.co.uk

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Part-time legislature will not reduce cost of governance in Nigeria

The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. George Akume (APC-Benue) said part-time legislature would not reduce the cost of governance in Nigeria.

Nigerian Bulletin

Afghanistan blasts target presidential candidate Abdullah’s convoy

Two bombs exploded outside a hotel in western Kabul where Afghan presidential frontrunner Abdullah Abdullah was holding a rally, striking his car and injuring his bodyguards.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Prehistoric fire fossils reveals more information about dinosaur extinction

The fossil-record evidence of forest fire ecology in Canada, reveals the ecology on Earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, when the region’s climate was a lot warmer and wetter than it is today.

Auto World News

Massive rocky planet challenges traditional views of planet formation

Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size.

Environmental News Network

Columns And Op-Ed

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Ukraine, an old country searching for a new soul

Kyiv Post

Column (Ahmed Tharwat):

Fitting in, gratefully

Star Tribune

Column (David Woodruff):

Draghi needs to realize ECB’s gas pedal is already on the floor

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Traces of another world found on the Moon

Researchers have found evidence of the world that crashed into the Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon. A more refined analysis of Moon rock has found evidence of material thought to have an alien origin.

BBC

Lunar rock chemistry argued to reveal how the moon formed

Scientific American

Leicester cancer victim left hidden ‘be happy’ note

The parents of a teenager who died from cancer have spoken of their pride after finding an inspirational message she left hidden behind her bedroom mirror.

BBC

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Technology and partnership approach drives MasterCard financial inclusion

Public-private partnerships, such as the recently announced social security program in Pakistan MasterCard, offer citizens new opportunities to join the financial mainstream.

Wall Street Journal

Japan spending focus on grassroots projects in Papua New Guinea

Japan will have spent approximately K39 million (US $14 million) on about 264 grassroots grant projects throughout Papua New Guinea.

Island Business

ENVIRONMENT

A small ‘sigh of relief’ in climate debate

While there are still numerous hurdles to cross before the recent U.S. domestic initiative can become reality, the fact that the Obama administration has taken action is being viewed as a positive sign.

Deutsche Welle

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Good environment for sustainable business

Huffington Post

Global warming plays a role in Australia’s record heat

On the heels of the warmest 12-month period in Australia’s recorded history, parts of the country experienced an unusually strong stretch of warm autumn weather in May.

Scientific American

Photo of the Day

Bill Prindible, of the Ramstein Airmen, takes the controls during a flight over Normandy inside a C-47 Skytrain that flew during D-Day celebrations. (Photo by Jordan Castelan- U.S. Air Force)

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