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Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Adha festival in Thrace, Greece. (Photo by Creative Commons) Photo used under CC BY

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Muslims around world celebrate Eid al-Adha

Muslims around the world are celebrating the festival of Eid al-Adha, held after the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The multi-day festival, also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, is one of the most important Islamic festivals.

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What is Greater Eid and how is it celebrated?

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OneIndia

Iran honoring nuclear deal, inspectors say

Iran stuck by its nuclear deal with world powers by keeping its uranium stockpile and production capacity below set thresholds, according to UN inspectors. That may come as a surprise to the Trump administration.

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Bloomberg

Harvey claims will hit insurance program

The National Flood Insurance Program has compiled $25 billion in debts that managers concede policyholders will never repay. Now Hurricane Harvey’s record rainfall in Texas will funnel as many as 100,000 more claims into a system that is set to expire Sept. 30.

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USA TODAY

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‘Don’t touch me. I‘m dying.’ Harrowing Harvey stories emerge

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Associated Press

Turmoil in Venezuela to vie for pope’s attention

The plight of so many struggling people from the neighboring nation of Venezuela is likely to steal at least some of Pope Francis’ attention when he arrives in Colombia next week.

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Associated Press

US bombers drill over Korean peninsula

South Korean and Japanese jets joined exercises with two supersonic U.S. B-1B bombers above and near the Korean peninsula on Thursday, two days after North Korea raised tension by firing a missile over Japan.

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Reuters

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Putin says putting pressure on North Korea is a ‘dead-end road’

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CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Dozens of fleeing Rohingya die in capsizings

Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar have capsized in Bangladesh, killing at least 26 people, according to officials. The bodies of 15 women and 11 children were recovered in Cox’s Bazar after the vessels, which carried an unknown number of Rohingya, sank in the Naf River.

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Al Jazeera

French schools must provide pork-free lunches

A French court has ruled that schools should provide an alternative to pork school lunches in the interest of Muslim and Jewish children who do not eat the meat. The decision came after a rightwing local authority stopped providing a choice for children.

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Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Court orders new Kenyan presidential election

Kenya‘s Supreme Court has declared the results of last month’s presidential election invalid, and ordered it to be re-run. Reacting to the ruling, opposition leader Raila Odinga said members of the electoral commission had committed a monstrous crime against the people of Kenya and should be jailed.

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BBC

Mueller, NY AG team up in Manafort probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several sources.

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Politico

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Yawning: Why is it so contagious?

Even if we aren’t tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts have published research that suggests the human propensity for contagious yawning is triggered automatically by primitive reflexes in the primary motor cortex.

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BBC

Asthma drug may thwart Parkinson’s disease

When people with asthma have trouble breathing, they may reach for an inhaler containing salbutamol, a drug that expands the airways. Salbutamol may have another beneficial effect — protecting against Parkinson’s disease.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

Fatherhood after 40 becoming more common

In 1972, the average age of fathers of newborns in the U.S. was 27. Now, it‘s closer to 31 years old (30.9 years to be specific), the study finds. If you need a little reassurance that it’s not too late, consider this: Twice as many dads of newborns are now in the 40-plus age group, compared to the 1970s.

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NPR

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What’s at stake for older dads?

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CNN

The unexpected health impacts of a hurricane

Most immediate health problems after any disaster in the U.S. are fairly ordinary. But some health dangers from floods are subtler and longer-term.

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GOOD NEWS

Woman sings ‘Amazing Grace’ at shelter

It was an impromptu moment captured on camera: Victoria White, a 30-year-old university admissions counselor, singing a song of hope at the Lone Star Convention Center shelter. She was doing it for the dozens of people in Conroe, Texas, who were forced to flee their flooded homes. Less than two days later, more than 16 million people had seen it.

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Gospel singers lift spirits at storm shelter

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NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Gamers stream to help Harvey victims

It’s been an unimaginably tough week for those affected by the weather in the Gulf Coast. Games Done Quick has announced Harvey Relief Done Quick in order to raise money during a live stream.

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Nerdist

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J.J. Watt’s fundraiser for Houston passes $14M in donations

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ESPN

Lessons from NOLA: Addressing equity threats

The damage that Hurricane Harvey is doing to the greater Houston area raises haunting memories of the devastation that New Orleans faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans’ experience provides some important lessons and warnings.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

2017 posing record $1B weather disasters

Even before Hurricane Harvey began to form, out in the north Atlantic, federal climate experts signaled that 2017 was going to be a bad year for weather and climate catastrophes in America.

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Guardian

Harvey’s environmental toll will only get worse

Any mass flooding event brings with it public health concerns about the spread of contaminants through the water, but Houston’s industrial sector — heavy on oil, gas and chemicals — has experts particularly worried that extreme flooding has created conditions that could lead to environmental disaster.

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Time

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In Houston, attention turns to chemical facilities

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BUSINESS

Treasury head unsure about honoring Tubman

The Trump administration is reconsidering an Obama-era initiative to replace Andrew Jackson with the 19th-century American abolitionist as the face of the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says.

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USA TODAY

Strategic oil reserve tapped over Harvey

The U.S. government will release 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Gulf Coast refinery, the first emergency discharge in five years, after Hurricane Harvey halted foreign-crude deliveries to the heart of the refining industry.

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Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

Five NGOs with extensive experience in Somalia and Somaliland have come together under the name ‘EU CASH Alliance’ for Cash Assistance to Somali Households (CASH). In addition to other aid, Concern, COOPI, DRC, NRC and Save the Children have made cash grants to vulnerable families a priority this year, supported by EU humanitarian funds. (Photo by European Commission DG) Photo used under CC BY

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