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Ethiopia is still reeling from its worst drought in 50 years, and 10.2 million people - one-tenth of the population - need food aid. (Photo by European Commission DG) Photo used under CC BY

Olympic champ urges aid for hungry Ethiopians

Millions of Ethiopians in the grip of a severe hunger crisis are at risk of being forgotten by the international community and urgently need more aid to help them recover, former Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Turkey suspends human rights pledge

Turkey has suspended the European Convention on Human Rights, in a move that will raise further fears about the country’s drift toward authoritarianism.

The Telegraph

EU calls government measures ‘unacceptable’

BBC

Clinton picks Va. Sen. Kaine for VP slot

In selecting as her running mate Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine — a former governor, lieutenant governor and mayor — Hillary Clinton chose a candidate who will be in a strong position to govern rather than a progressive firebrand who might help her rev up Democratic base voters.

USA TODAY

Indonesia found guilty of 1965 genocide

An international panel of judges has concluded that Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity, and that the U.S., UK and Australia were all complicit in the crimes. Their report estimates that 400,000 to 500,000 people were killed by military deaths squads.

CNN

Interview:

‘The Act of Killing’ filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer

PBS NewsHour

9 victims, gunman dead in Munich rampage

At least nine people were killed and 21 others hurt in a shooting rampage at a busy shopping district in Munich, Germany, police said. Police found a man who had killed himself and concluded he was the only gunman.

CNN

Video of shooting outside McDonald’s

CBS News

Armenia standoff: Hostages released

Gunmen released final four police officers held captive during a hostage crisis sparked by political unrest, officials say, but they remain holed up and heavily armed.

Al Jazeera

China floods: Death and evacuation toll rise

Floods in north and central China have killed at least 150 people, with scores missing and hundreds of thousands forced from homes.

BBC

Heavy rains hit north and central China

Euro News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hijab is schoolgirls’ right, Nigerian court rules

Nigerian girls have the right to wear the hijab headscarf to school, an appeals court has ruled in a country where suicide bombers have abused Islamic dress to hide deadly weapons.

ABC News

Court kills restoration of felons’ voting right

Gov. Terry McAuliffe‘s action restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 felons was unconstitutional, Virginia’s highest court ruled, siding with Republican lawmakers who said the governor overstepped his authority.

ABC News

Pentagon alters Law of War manual

The Pentagon has revised warfare guidelines to remove a clause suggesting that journalists could be seen as combatants, following outcry from news organizations that argued the rules would endanger media workers.

Washington Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump overstated crime, violence, Obama says

President Obama criticized Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention acceptance speech, saying violence and crime aren’t as bad as the GOP nominee claimed.

MSN News

Obama denies reported chaos

ABC

Estate objects to GOP use of ‘Here Comes Sun’

The Beatles‘ beloved Abbey Road song “Here Comes the Sun” was played at the Republican Convention, George Harrison’s estate slammed Republican nominee Trump for using the song, calling the act “offensive”

MSN News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Civil societies laud UN trade, development arm

Civil society organizations urged governments to strengthen the mandate of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, including on tax issues and trade imbalances, and commended the body for having been the first to warn about the global financial crisis.

United Nations

Kerry urges diplomacy on China Sea tensions

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will urge Southeast Asian nations in meetings in Laos to explore diplomatic ways to ease tensions with China over the South China Sea following an international court ruling denying China’s claims.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chinese to pioneer first human CRISPR trial

Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique. A team at Sichuan University in Chengdu plans to start testing such cells in people with lung cancer next month.

Nature

Debate revs up on universe’s expansion rate

A puzzling mismatch is plaguing two methods for measuring how fast the universe is expanding. When the discrepancy arose a few years ago, scientists suspected measurement errors. But more precise measurements of the expansion rate have deepened the mystery.

Science News

A visual explanation of the expansion of the universe

Veritaseum

GLOBAL HEALTH

HIV med prevents transmission to partners

A daily dose of anti-HIV medication almost eradicates the risk of infection for people in a relationship with an HIV positive partner, a study shows, raising hopes of reducing HIV rates among one of Africa’s highest-risk groups.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Doctors Without Borders raps inaction on HIV

Doctors Without Borders‘ HIV policy adviser says the global aid group has “zero tolerance” for inaction on fighting the virus in Central and West Africa. The organization says 4.5 million of the 6.5 million people living with HIV in those regions don’t get treatment.

Bowling Green Daily News

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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

Aid worker: My idealistic path to depression

Writing anonymously, an aid worker tells a tale of overwork, conflicting loyalties, corruption, loneliness and defeat.

Guardian

Bahrain grounds some civil society leaders

Several leading figures in Bahrain’s civil society who have briefed the State Department on the country’s repression have been prevented from leaving the kingdom as Bahrain’s government chokes off voices of peaceful dissent.

Huffington Post

Nonprofit health insurance co-ops dwindle

Among the many provisions of the Affordable Care Act is one that allowed for the establishment of state-based “consumer operated and oriented plans,” often referred to as co-ops, to compete with private insurance. Only seven such plans will remain in 2017.

Nonprofit Quarterly

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

UK global aid chief wanted to scrap division

The UK’s new minister of international aid and development previously called for the department to be scrapped and replaced.

The Independent

Buffett sibs funnel river of charitable dollars

The unique philanthropic alliance between Warren Buffett and the Gates Foundation draws so much attention that many people pay little attention to Buffett’s pledge to funnel an additional sizeable chunk of stock to four foundations controlled by his three children.

Inside Philanthrophy

ENVIRONMENT

Software lets anyone monitor climate change

New Google-powered software will help the world tackle problems related to climate change, deforestation and food production, a United Nations agency said on Friday, as it presented its revamped online platform.

firefox

GOP takes aim at Obama’s climate initiatives

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has threatened to kill the Environmental Protection Agency if he becomes president. The GOP’s platform would go far towards dismantling the Obama administration’s historic initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Fiscal Times

Global Warming 101

National Geographic

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Shot in Cuba; uploaded on July 12. (Photo by Viaggio Routard) Photo used under CC BY

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