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In Northern Ethiopia building wells to provide clean drinking water to the poor in remote villages is critical. The results are immediate and gratifying. Kids will no longer be at risk for dysentery. The entire community will be healthier, and everyone can now attend school. (Photo by sacca) Photo used under CC BY

100 Million more in poverty by 2030 without action on climate

If countries fail to combat the impacts of climate change while also providing for the world’s poor, global warming will drive an additional 100 million people into poverty by 2030.

Huffington Post

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi reaches out to military with big landslide in sight

Myanmar’s democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, moving closer to an absolute majority in parliament, requested a meeting with the president and the powerful military chief to discuss national reconciliation.

Reuters

Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi wins seat, predicts majority for her party

CNN

Myanmar election: Opposition hails victory, but will military cede power?

Christian Science Monitor

University of Missouri president resigns amid athlete activism

Protests have been a part of campus life in America since the 1960s. The unrest over racial slurs at the University of Missouri that led to the resignation of the president featured 32 members of the football team.

Christian Science Monitor

University of Missouri President resigns after protests

NPR

Protesters rally for higher US fast-food wages, union rights

U.S. fast food workers protested in support of a $15 an hour minimum wage and union rights in a campaign they hope will catch the attention of candidates in the 2016 elections.

Reuters

Senate passes legislation barring transfer of Guantánamo prisoners to US

Quick vote on National Defense Authorization Act designed to frustrate Obama’s plans to shutter facility but administration denies that bill is a roadblock.

Guardian

Shaker Aamer, freed Guantanamo Bay detainee, pictured for first time in Britain

The Telegraph

Charts show the disconnect between gun deaths and mental health

In the month since the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, Congress has turned not to gun control, but mental health.

Arizona Daily Star

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Cash offensive: US aid organization kits out army units to battle Boko Haram

Kitting out a Nigerien army unit is not what most humanitarians would consider the best response to Boko Haram. But for the NGO Spirit of America, it is precisely the sort of aid that’s needed to tackle the militants.

Guardian

Sandy recovery: Where’s the $9B in aid going?

Nearly $9 billion in federal disaster aid has been pledged to New Jersey, but only slightly more than half of that money has been released to the state, according to new figures released by New Jersey’s State Comptroller.

Asbury Park Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Burundi: President’s speech instills fear as killings increase

Burundian security forces should exercise restraint during search operations for illegal weapons in the capital, Bujumbura, and not use these operations as a license to kill.

Human Rights Watch

Dispatches: finally – US to protect child farmworkers from pesticides

For the first time, the EPA’s Agricultural Worker Protection Standard will ban children under 18 from handling pesticides in fields where they work and from re-entering fields where pesticides have recently been sprayed.

Human Rights Watch

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Portugal’s left-wing opposition topples minority government

Portugal’s government has been toppled less than two weeks after taking power after left-wing opponents rejected its programme in parliament.

BBC

Clinton says she would not support war declaration against ISIS

Hillary Clinton said she was not ready to support a formal declaration of war against Islamic State militants.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Does Pluto have volcanoes? If so, how did it get them?

Icy volcanoes may lie on the southern rim of Pluto‘s frozen heart. Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have identified two peaks that tower nearly 4 miles (6 kilometers) high over the surface of the dwarf planet.

Christian Science Monitor

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Nasa reveals 3D images of mountains on Pluto

Daily Mail

Fireballs are falling to Earth this week in numbers we won‘t see for another 10 years

Keep your eyes peeled this week for some spectacular fireballs — extremely bright meteors — lighting up the sky.

Business Insider

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Charges brought in largest US financial cyber-hacking

Prosecutors have charged three men relating to the largest cyber-attack of financial firms in U.S. history.

BBC

TalkTalk: 157,000 Customers Hit In Hack

Yahoo! Finance

At G20, U.S. will urge countries to kickstart global growth

The U.S. will urge countries during the G20 leaders summit to use monetary, fiscal and structural tools at their disposal to offset a shortfall in global demand.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Scientists breach brain barrier to treat sick patient

For the first time, doctors have breached the brain’s protective layer to deliver cancer-fighting drugs. The Canadian team used tiny gas-filled bubbles to punch temporary holes in the blood-brain barrier.

BBC

This baby elephant was drowning, when his family made a dramatic rescue

The rescue mission was successful and the herd continued on after crossing the river. The images were captured on camera by Sandy Gelderman, who was staying at a camp in central Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy.

Fuzzfix

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Indonesian NGO takes aim at government for failure to handle haze

Kontras says the Indonesian government has failed to implement sufficient measures under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations in 1966.

Mongabay

Human rights must be at the core of migration policies, NGOs say

NGOs from several Mediterranean countries have issued a joint declaration before the Valletta summit, insisting that human rights must be at the core of migration policies.

Times of Malta

ENVIRONMENT

Deadly dam burst in Brazil prompts calls for stricter mining regulations

Six bodies have been found with 22 still missing in one of the country’s worst mining disasters as hundreds are displaced in Minas Gerais.

Guardian

Samarco may not shield BHP, Vale from Brazil dam-breach repercussions

Wall Street Journal

Renewables to overtake coal as world’s largest power source

International Energy Agency report predicts major slowdown in coal and low oil prices to remain for 35 years.

Business Green

Renewable energy investment predicted to surge

Guardian

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A quiet mountain stream in the Kingdom of Bhutan, a land-locked country in South Asia at the eastern end of the Himalayas bordered by China in the north and India in the south and east. (Photo by Inga Vitola) Photo used under CC BY

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