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Activists visit Syrian refugees in Turkey. (Photo by Freedom House)

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Students protest in Denver over proposal from school board

Hundreds of students from Denver high school walked out of their classrooms to protest a proposal suggested by the school board.

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Uncover California

Woman punched by cop settles for $1.5M

A woman punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol officer on the side of a freeway in an incident caught on video will receive $1.5 million under a settlement, and the officer has agreed to resign.

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Detroit Free Press

New air strikes in Syria and Iraq

U.S. warplanes have carried out new air strikes on Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, hitting vehicles and arms dumps, the U.S. military says. Earlier there were air strikes on IS near the border with Turkey.

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BBC

Europe arrests 1000 suspects, rescues 30 children

Police have arrested more than 1000 suspects and rescued at least 30 trafficked children in an unprecedented swoop on organized crime groups across Europe.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Key report in Michael Brown shooting doesn’t exist, Ferguson police say

Yahoo News requested the review under Missouri’s public records laws. Ferguson City Clerk Megan Asikainen said the document of the Michael Brown shooting doesn’t exist.

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Yahoo! News

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After weeks of calm, Ferguson erupts again over burned memorial

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CNN

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Ferguson police chief apologizes

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CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

UN says there’s unprecedented demand for food aid

The World Food Program‘s top official said it’s unprecedented that the U.N. aid agency finds itself responding to half a dozen major crises in addition to helping the largest number of refugees in the world since World War II.

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Guardian

X-Prize taps the crowd to tackle global education

The U.N. estimates 58 million children from ages 6 to 11 do not attend school. One nonprofit has the solution: create software so exciting to use that kids will want to teach themselves.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hervé Gourdel, French hostage, beheaded by ISIS allies

Algerian extremists allied with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group have decapitated a French hostage after France carried out airstrikes in Iraq, according to a video that appeared online.

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CBC News

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ISIS’s forgotten hostages: Islamic State still holds thousands

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Newsweek

American begins sentence of farm work, isolation in North Korea

Matthew Miller, an American held in North Korea since April for “hostile acts”, began a six-year hard labor sentence that he said involved farm work and isolation.

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Reuters

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Obama: World must reject “cancer of violent extremism”

Somewhere inside the White House they are calling it the president’s “crossroads speech” ; a somber vision of a world at yet another turning point

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RealClearPolitics

Floods and governance

Once again, people in Metro Manila went through the ritual of coping with floods during rainy days. They also go through the not-so-normal ritual of blame regarding the lack of solution to the ever-worsening flood problem.

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Yahoo! News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Soda makers pledge to cut calories 20 percent by 2025. Too little, too late?

In the face of falling sales, soaring public opinion, and increased legislative scrutiny, the three largest soda companies in the United States have banded together to cut calories.

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Christian Science Monitor

Amnesty slams China over ‘tools of torture’ industry

The number of Chinese firms exporting “tools of torture” has grown dramatically over the past decade, a new report from Amnesty International says. Many of the products are used by human rights violators worldwide.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

India’s budget Mars mission sends back 1st pictures

India’s space agency has released an image of Mars taken by the nation’s first interplanetary spacecraft.

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Toronto Star

India‘s orbiter to join NASA’s Maven around Mars

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NPR

SpaceX breaks ground on private spaceport in Texas

The private spaceflight company SpaceX has begun construction on a new launch site in Texas, a seaside spaceport that will be used to blast commercial satellites into orbit.

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SPACE.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Pallava Bagla):

India’s giant interplanetary leap to Mars

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Al Jazeera

A plan for climate-change ‘resilience’?

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Carlos Lopes):

Superpowers have failed us, so small nations must unite for climate revolution

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Thousands of food bags donated to pop-up food bank in Scotland

About 2,000 bags of food have been donated to an impromptu foodbank in central Glasgow, Scotland that started amid a gathering of peace campaigners.

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BBC

Struggling bartender left ‘speechless’ after customer gives $1,000 tip on $14 bill

A customer at One Whirled Café left Chrisi Kemp, a 37-year-old bartender in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a $1,000 tip and insisted she keep it.

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Huffington Post

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Nonprofit health got $9.2 billion inoculation

Giving to nonprofit health care institutions in the U.S. during fiscal 2013 increased over 3 percent compared to 2012 and 20 percent since the low point of the recession four years ago exceeding the gross domestic product.

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NonProfit Times

Turning nonprofit: for-profit news site eyed by San Diego philanthropist

Malin Burnham, a prominent San Diego philanthropist who believes deeply in engaged communities, has launched a bid to buy U-T San Diego and turn it into a large nonprofit news site.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Developed world must ‘walk the talk’ on climate change: India

India has told a high-powered summit convened by UN chief Ban ki-Moon that if the developed world “walks the talk”, the international community can certainly achieve the targets of climate change.

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The Hindu

Study: Abundant natural gas won’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough

Researchers at UC Irvine, Stanford University and the energy nonprofit Near Zero found that high supplies of natural gas does little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the future.

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Huffington Post

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The Maharana’s summer place, the Lake Palace,where he spent time alone. Now it is a top hotel run by the Taj Group, but also well-known as a setting for one of the James Bond films. (Photo by McKay Savage)

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