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Nice attack part of emerging DIY-style terrorism trend

The attack in Nice that killed more than 80 people is an example of a shift in tactics by terror groups who are encouraging followers in the West to stay home and wreak havoc with whatever means they have at their disposal.

USA TODAY

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What we know about the Bastille Day killings

BBC

Ugandan army aiding evacuation from S. Sudan

A heavily armed Ugandan military convoy has crossed into South Sudan to evacuate citizens trapped by recent fighting in the capital, Juba. The operation comes a day after the United Nations warned of the possibility of fresh fighting in Juba despite a two-day ceasefire.

Al Jazeera

Turkish faction attempts government takeover

Both the Turkish prime minister and the Turkish military claimed that a coup attempt had taken place, but it was not immediately clear who had seized control of the country.

CNN

Live coverage of coup attempt

NBCNews.com

Germany to admit genocide of Namibians

Germany will apologize for the massacre of 100,000 of the Herero people of Namibia by German troops between 1904 and 1908, the first genocide of the 20th century.

New Europe

Oxfam urges U.S. to end embargo, help Cuba

The director of Oxfam broke the global aid agency’s longtime silence on the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, urging Congress to lift it “sooner rather than later” given the island’s mounting economic woes.

Agweek

Trump picks IN governor as running mate

Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, adding political experience and conservative bona fides to his GOP presidential ticket.

MSN News

Clinton camp calls Pence ‘extreme pick’

Politico

HUMAN RIGHTS

Zambia urged to let opposition paper reopen

Delegates from the International Press Institute and the African Media Initiative call on Zambian authorities to allow opposition daily The Post to reopen immediately, noting the apparent politically motivated attempt to silence it.

International Press Institute

Two top Zambian newspaper editors arrested

YouTube

Romania cracks down on slave labor

Romanian police have detained 38 people suspected of holding dozens of vulnerable young men and boys like slaves for years, chaining them up and forcing them to do various types of work, or fight each other for entertainment.

Al Jazeera

‘Freed’ Chinese rights activist still missing

The mystery surrounding the fate of a young Chinese activist entangled in a major human rights crackdown has grown after her husband was unable to locate her despite police claims she had been freed from detention.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Congress opens ‘28 pages’ on Saudi, 9/11 links

Congress has released the “28 pages,” a previously classified document that examined possible connections between the Saudi government and the Sept. 11 hijackers.

NPR

The long road for rising democracies

Rising democracies have given only partial and sporadic attention to issues of democracy support. Yet it would be a mistake to conclude that these countries have no real interest in trying to foster democracy in their neighborhoods or more widely.

Carnegie Endowment

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Why coworking may be the future of work

At Menlo Innovations, a software development firm in Michigan, programmers work in rotating pairs, and the company’s social structure is designed to help employees collaborate. That increasingly popular approach seems to have a strong basis in the psychology of performance.

Fast Company

Investors cheer Monsanto’s shift to prey status

Six months ago, Monsanto Co. was still painting itself as a predator, saying it would continue to seek acquisitions in crop chemicals after failing to buy Syngenta AG. Now, the St. Louis-based company is the prey, and some investors say they’re fine with the switch.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Obesity may ultimately be a disease of the brain

Obesity may boil down to a brain disease involving a progressive deterioration of various cognitive processes that influence eating. Memory inhibition, the useful ability to block out useless memories, is linked to dietary excess.

ScienceDaily

Struggling families crave stability, study shows

Over a third of families (more than 2 million households) in the UK are earning below the minimum income needed for an acceptable living standard. This is among the key findings of a unique study into the life of families unable to afford a minimum household budget.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

GM mosquitoes reducing dengue, maker says

Genetically modified mosquitoes can put a dent in dengue cases. The first evidence of the health effects of releasing the insects into the real world comes from a year’s worth of disease data from Brazil, says biotech company Oxitec, the mosquitoes’ engineer.

ScienceNews

Gates backs GM mosquitoes against malaria

The Verge

Gonorrhea may soon resist all antibiotics

Gonorrhea may soon become untreatable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the wily Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria may be developing resistance to the only two antibiotics left that can cure the sexually transmitted disease.

Scientific American

Chinese firms buying up global health assets

China’s health-care companies are on an acquisition tear, attempting to buy their way into international markets like never before.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

3-D printed prosthesis lets girl play music

Born without her right hand, Cassie Stewart was unable to play certain instruments like her peers. Now she doesn’t have to worry, thanks to an invention by a high school student.

NBCNews.com

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

UN’s Ban troubled by Israel’s new NGO law

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was deeply concerned by Israel’s passage of the NGO Transparency Law, which states that any nonprofit that receives more than half of its funding from a foreign political entity must state so in publications and correspondence.

Jerusalem Post

Mexican NGOs condemn unlawful executions

Mexican human rights organizations have issued a scathing preliminary report accusing the Mexican government of a series of human rights abuses — including excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial executions — during deadly police operations.

TelesurTV

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

UN: Nigeria needs $164M to prevent famine

Nigeria is in need of $164 million in humanitarian funding to prevent thousands of deaths from malnutrition in its war-torn northeast, a United Nations humanitarian coordinator said.

Vanguard Nigeria

Philanthropy critical to scientific innovation

Why private funding is so important to the experimenting that makes us smarter, healthier, and richer.

Philanthropy Roundtable

ENVIRONMENT

12,000 species of trees cataloged in Amazon

A new study of all known tree specimens taken from the Amazon rainforest over the past 300 years has counted some 11,676 species – and they aren’t done yet, say scientists.

Christian Science Monitor

Browse through species in master list

Scientific Reports

Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystems

Earth’s ecosystems are becoming more fragile, a study suggests, as biodiversity loss threatens their ability to preform functions vital to their survival and ours.

Christian Science Monitor

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Shot July 3, 2016, in Thailand. (Photo by JoséDay) Photo used under CC BY

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