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Kenya has rescinded its decision to close Dadaab, the worlds largest refugee camp. Dadaab is home to 338,000 refugees from 13 countries; most are Somalis. (Photo by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland) Photo used under CC BY

Kenya rescinds closure of largest refugee camp

Kenya has backed down yet again on its decision to close Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. Interior minister Joseph Nkaissery announced the government’s decision, stating the repatriation process would not be completed until there’s stability in Somalia.

Huffington Post

FDA: Screen all blood donations for Zika

The Food and Drug Administration recommended expanding the screening process for all blood donations in the United States as a precaution against contaminating the blood supply with the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

USA TODAY

Obama: Zika funding delay in Congress dangerous

NBC News

Civilians and rebels evacuate Syria’s Daraya

After four years of siege and bombardment, the evacuation is underway of civilians and rebels from embattled Daraya, southwest of Syria’s capital Damascus.

NPR

Italy grieves as funeral is held for quake victims

Weeping relatives hugged each other and reached out to touch the simple wooden coffins at a state funeral for some of the 291 people killed in an earthquake.

Reuters

Italy earthquake survivor: ‘You can’t live in fear’

USA TODAY

Trump sparks outroar regarding Chicago violence

Donald Trump’s latest appeal to African-American voters had Twitter users fuming fuming after he tweeted about the death of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s cousin, Nykea Aldridge.

CBS

Venezuela signs $5.5B mining deals

President Nicolas Maduro said that Venezuela had signed over $5.5 billion in mining deals with companies including Canada‘s Barrick Gold Corp and China’s Shandong Gold.

Yahoo! News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Italy quake: Poor construction may be at fault

Pope Francis pledged to visit the central Italy towns devastated by an earthquake “as soon as possible,” while a local prosecutor said substandard construction may be responsible for some of the 290 deaths.

USA TODAY

Aleppo bomb attack kills 16 during wake

A helicopter dropped two barrel bombs on a funeral wake for children in the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing at least 16 people, Syrian monitoring groups said.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

ZWE cops disperse ‘mega-demonstration’

In Zimbabwe‘s capital city, police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse a demonstration that the country’s top court had ruled could proceed. Opposition leaders termed the march in Harare a “mega-demonstration.”

NPR

Bolivia: Striking miners kill top minister

A high-level government minister in Bolivia has been kidnapped by striking miners and beaten to death, Bolivian officials said.

NPR

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

German companies hire few refugees

While one out of three German companies says it plans to hire refugees this year or next, only 7 percent of all German firms have actually done so in the last 24 months, according to the Institute for Economic Studies in Munich.

NPR

DE expects up to 300,000 refugees in 2016

Guardian

Lockheed could “fail to deliver” on F-35

The Pentagon’s director of testing, Michael Gilmore, wrote that the program to develop the next-generation F-35 fighter jet is may fail to deliver the plane’s full capabilities in time after spending more than one trillion dollars.

Fortune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Venus once possibly habitable, study suggests

Venus might have once been prime real estate. New computer simulations suggest that the hellish planet next door could have been habitable in the not-too-distant past.

Science News

Where to look to see rare Venus-Jupiter conjunction

SPACE.com

Scientists create flexible 3D printed objects

So-called ‘4D’ printing with shape-memory polymers could have significant applications in many fields, including aerospace and solar energy.

Christian Science Monitor

GLOBAL HEALTH

Arab uprising has lowered life expectancies

The Arab uprising in 2010 and subsequent wars in the eastern Mediterranean region have had serious detrimental effects on the health and life expectancy of the people living in many of the 22 countries in the region.

EurekAlert!

Zika spread through sex by man with no signs

U.S. health officials are reporting the first case of Zika spread through sex by a man with no symptoms of the disease. In earlier cases of sexual transmission, the virus was spread by someone who at some point had symptoms.

Global News

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GOOD NEWS

Former gang rivals providing gourmet meals

Tired of life on the streets, friends in Los Angeles are putting aside gang colors to provide home-cooked, gourmet meals to members of their community. Their popularity has grown enormously thanks to social media.

NBCNews.com

Professor couples mindfulness, compassion

Growing up, Jim Doty had many strikes against him: an alcoholic father, a mother with depression, a family living in poverty. But somehow he managed to overcome them.

Daily Good

NGOs

The plight of the overworked NGO employee

The Department of Labor finalized an update to federal rules on overtime; the new rules will more than double the salary threshold for guaranteed overtime pay. Business lobbies and nonprofits disparaged the rule.

The Atlantic

3 powerful marketing techniques for nonprofits

Brand recognition is key for a nonprofit because increased awareness helps to fulfill its goals of raising funds and spreading its message. The challenge, of course, is identifying effective strategies to help your organization appeal to a wider audience.

Forbes

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

An international billionaire’s gifts to science

London-based billionaire Len Blavatnik has been giving away lots of money in recent years. Blavatnik’s largest sums have gone toward institutions of higher learning.

Inside Philanthropy

Global Fund leads fight against HIV, TB

The Global Fund is leading the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria around the world. A partnership between governments, civil society, and the private sector, the organization invests $4 billion a year.

Devex

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming began earlier than we thought

Until now, scientists believed that climate change started in the late 1800s. But researchers were able to track very slight changes in temperature in North America, Europe and Asia going back as far as 1850.

Christian Science Monitor

Watch how global warming stresses corals out

City Lab

Confront climate change, coal exec says

It’s one thing when environmentalists say that fossil fuel companies’ positions on climate change are similar to Big Tobacco’s past deflections. It’s another entirely when it’s done by a coal official, who says his industry should heed tobacco’s costly lessons.

Scientific American

Photo of the Day

Shot Aug. 23, 2016, at a market in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Sergio Boscaino) Photo used under CC BY

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