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Clouds are raising the temperature of the Greenland Ice Sheet by up to 3 degrees, contributing to almost 30 percent of the sheet’s melting, according a study published in the journal Nature Communications. (Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Photo used under CC BY

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Night clouds hasten melting of Greenland’s ice sheet

A team of scientists from the University of Leuven in Belgium have found that clouds are raising the temperature of the Greenland Ice Sheet by up to three degrees, contributing to almost 30 percent of the sheet’s melting.

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Christian Science Monitor

Indonesia blames ISIS in deadly attack

At least seven people have been killed in downtown Jakarta in what the Indonesian government described as a "terrorist attack,” according to a statement released by the U.S. Embassy.

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Philippines concerned over ‘emerging’ terror threat

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Nearly 200 ISIS militants killed in retaliation for Istanbul bombing

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FOX News

As aid convoys roll, UN urges end to siege tactics

As aid convoys rolled into besieged Syrian towns, relieving starvation and medical crises, a U.N. representative urged an end to the siege warfare causing such grave civilian suffering.

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BBC

WHO declares end to Ebola epidemic in Africa

The WHO declared an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever after no new cases emerged in Liberia, though health officials warn that it will be several months before the world is considered free of the disease.

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Denver Post

Ebola in Africa

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Economist

3 winners will split $1.6B Powerball jackpot

An unprecedented jackpot whose rise to $1.6 billion became a national fascination will be split three ways. Winning tickets for the world record jackpot were sold in Los Angeles, Florida and Tennessee, California.

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CBS News

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What $1.6B looks like

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Alex, a rare winter hurricane, heads for Azores

Hurricane Alex formed in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday morning. The hurricane has winds of 85 mph and is headed north-northeast at 20 mph, toward the Azores.

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USA TODAY

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Storm formed by dip in air stream and massive difference in temperatures of water and air

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CNN

IN-DEPTH

Understanding the great Republican revolt

The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?

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At least 15 dead in Pakistan suicide bombing

At least 15 people were killed in a blast apparently targeting police outside a polio vaccination centre in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, according to officials.

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News24

Attacks on polio eradication center as part of larger assault on vaccine campaign

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Beijing detains Swedish human rights worker

A Swedish human rights worker is in detention in Beijing, accused of “harming the national interest.” Dahin’s NGO, the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group (or simply China Action).

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TIME

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China‘s pursuit of rights lawyers signals aggressive push against ’subversion’

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Guardian

Writers support imprisoned Palestinian poet

Ashraf Fayadh was arrested for apostasy in Saudi Arabia last year and has subsequently been sentenced to death. Now, writers in more than 120 countries are taking part in an initative to support the artist and poet.

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GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Politicians stand down amid Venezuelan probe

Three opposition politicians in Venezuela have agreed to give up their seats in the National Assembly while the electoral authorities investigate allegations of voting irregularities.

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BBC

Sister of jailed Saudi blogger is released

Amnesty International said that Samar Badawi, sister of blogger Raif Badawi who was arrested in 2012 for criticizing Islam, had been detained in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

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Al Jazeera

Denmark considers seizing migrants’ valuables

Plans to seize the assets of asylum seekers are among controversial new measures on immigration being debated in Demark.

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BBC

TERROR

Istanbul bomber a Syrian refugee, PM says

An ISIS suicide bomber who killed 10 German tourists in Istanbul’s historic district entered Turkey as a refugee from Syria and went undetected as he was not on any watch lists, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

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Reuters

Iran terrorism compensation case divides court

The Supreme Court was torn over how to help victims of terrorism recover financial damages from Iran without letting Congress dictate that result to an independent judiciary.

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USA TODAY

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Al Jazeera America to shut down in April

Al Jazeera America is shutting down in April less than three years after it began broadcasting in this country, its CEO announced.

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TPP seen as minor boost for Australia

Government continues to trumpet Trans-Pacific Partnership’s “enormous benefits” despite analysis showing Australia’s growth will be worse than 11 of the other 12 countries in the international agreement.

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Guardian

Will the Pacific Trade Pact really put pressure on China?

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GOOD NEWS

US economy expands even as wages stay flat

The U.S. economy expanded across most of the country, though the otherwise strong job market has failed to stoke broad wage pressures.

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Bloomberg

US court boosts slave case against Nestle

A U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold Nestle accountable for using child slaves to harvest cocoa in Africa looks set to be a landmark battle over labor used overseas, lawyers said.

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NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Major health system embraces transparency

The Tulsa World reported on the nonprofit health system joining the trend towards fully transparent procedure pricing. The trend has demonstrated an ability to reduce surgical costs 50-90 percent over the norm.

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Forbes

Philadelphia Media tests mixed profit status

The Philadelphia Media Network, parent of the Inquirer, was donated to a local foundation in a unique structure that allows it to take advantage of both nonprofit and for-profit status.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Fee hikes are killing Nevada solar industry

Nevada’s public utility commission gave the state’s only power company, NV Energy, permission to charge higher rates and fees to solar panel users, shattering the rooftop solar industry’s business model.

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Guardian

Global warming could stave off next ice age

Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said.

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NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Samaritan’s Purse sends winter aid to Nepal

Evangelist Franklin Graham and his Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse plan to send relief supplies to Nepal, where survivors of an April earthquake face deadly winter conditions.

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Charlotte Observer

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Satellites dissect Nepal quake

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BBC

Remembering Bowie’s HIV/AIDS philanthropy

Bowie and his wife, Iman Abdulmajid, supported the Keep A Child Alive Foundation. The campaign helps to provide low-cost HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs to clinics in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.

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Forbes

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Search for airliner turns up second shipwreck

The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast.

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U.S. News & World Report

Google sharpening its focus on virtual reality

Reports suggest that Alphabet’s subsidiary Google GOOGL +0.11 percent is forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing and a key executive has been appointed to run this division.

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Forbes

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Borgo Medioevale Torino (Photo by Alberto Biscalchin) Photo used under CC BY

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