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In many parts of South Sudan, girls have little chance to go to school. In Bahr el Ghazal, Oxfam’s girls’ education project building classrooms and training teachers – gives some of them that opportunity. 12-year-old Monica hopes to become a doctor. (Photo by Laura Pannack / Oxfam)

Should humans eat meat?

Is it possible to answer a simple question: are the benefits of eating meat greater than the costs of producing it?

Scientific American

Rain is coming to douse the heat wave, but weather could get rough

High temperatures forced Amtrak to keep the brake on rail speed in the Northeast, while a cold front bearing thunderstorms hinted at some relief from the Great Lakes to northern New England.

CNN

Palestinian prisoner release is critical in resuming peace talks

Secretary of State John Kerry is counting on an Israeli government release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners as the remaining step for resumption of Middle East peace talks.

New York Times

Israel‘s Netanyahu says talks with Palestinians ’vital’

BBC

Tanzania farmers accuse biofuel investors of land grab

Farmers in Tanzania’s coastal region are protesting government’s collusion with land grabbers, investors the farmers accuse of swallowing up entire villages to make way for renewable energy projects.

allAfrica.com

India’s acid attack survivors welcome rules to help stop rise in assaults

After pressure and criticism from the Indian supreme court, the Indian government published guidelines to reduce sale of acids to lower the number of acid victims within the country.

Guardian

Blog:

Acid attacks: a look at India and other countries

Hindustan Times

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Guinea’s anti-corruption activists raise doubts over mining crackdown

Guinea’s first democratically elected government since independence is trying to reform and rebrand the country after decades of chronic mismanagement, but it is still an uphill battle.

Guardian

USAID program aimed at empowering Afghan women in male-dominated society

The U.S. Agency for International Development is launching a program to educate and train at least 75,000 young women in Afghanistan where females have suffered repression for decades.

Star Tribune

HUMAN RIGHTS

Thousands flee new fighting in eastern Congo

Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east has driven more than 4,000 people to seek refuge in the provincial capital Goma, aid workers said.

Al Jazeera

Norwegian woman alleges rape, fights Dubai jail sentence

A Norwegian woman sentenced to jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after she reported an alleged rape decided to speak out to highlight risks for visitors to the city.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Hyderabad debates health insurance model as public hospitals decay

Due to overpopulation, neglect, lack of funding and other factors, India’s health care model and system is in desperate need of revamping.

Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

Study reveals rural India gets only one third of hospital beds

The Hindu

G20 backs reform of corporate taxation

The G20 backed a rethink of the rules on taxing multinational corporations, taking aim at loopholes used by companies such as Apple and Google to avoid billions of dollars in taxes.

Economic Times

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Tanzanian government responds to the proliferation of elephant poaching

Reacting to reports over escalating crime on poaching of elephants and the bloody ivory trade, the Tanzanian government said more than 1,000 poaching suspects were booked in the span of a year.

eturbonews

Suspected poachers in Kenya kill two wildlife rangers

Voice of America

EU pushes to bar aid to Israelis in West Bank

The EU is pushing ahead with plans to bar financial aid to Israeli organizations operating in the occupied territories. But the EU insisted the decision would not affect peace efforts.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Two-drug combination, under certain circumstances, can eliminate cancer

New research conducted by Harvard scientists is laying out a road map to one of the holy grails of modern medicine: a cure for cancer.

ScienceDaily

Aquatic animals can fall from the sky

Sharks fell from the sky in the SyFy Channel’s movie “Sharknado." In real life, sharks don’t fall from the sky, but fish, frogs, and alligators do, and scientists think they are due to a “waterspout.”

National Geographic

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (John Bare):

They sacrificed, and now they’re giving more

CNN

Editorial:

Finding peace for Israelis and Palestinians among people – not policies

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Bill Reese):

Meeting goals to end poverty is possible

(Huffington Post)

Opportunity

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GOOD NEWS

Children delivered meals in the inner city

Now, 40 years after the federal Summer Food Service Program began in Baltimore, only about half of the children receive three meals from local shelters. So, the program is now driving the food to them.

Baltimore Sun

Entrepreneur offers India’s aboriginal children opportunity to attend school

Aboriginal children are getting the opportunity to go to school thanks to the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, an educational system in rural India that mixes learning with sports.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

What education looks like: photos from classrooms around the world

Good.com

NONPROFITS AND NGOS

Red Cross failed to deliver promised aid to Hurricane Sandy victims

The Red Cross is under fire again for failing to give aid it promised to as many as 1,000 struggling Superstorm Sandy victims, the New York Daily News reported.

Huffington Post

Is .NGO the next web frontier?

To a nonprofit’s website, you usually enter the organization’s name followed by .COM or .ORG. But what if instead of that, organizations could choose a nonprofit-related extension?

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Ghana: Climate change could deprive Volta River Basin of needed water

A new study found that so much water may be lost in the Volta River Basin due to climate change that planned hydroelectric projects there may only tread water in keeping up with actual demand.

allAfrica.com

Snow lines around a young star

A group of researchers hoping to glean clues into planet formation has found the perfect snow line. They’ve been using an array of radio antennas pointed at the cosmos.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

Children in Kulaley, East Africa, giggle and find games to play even though most suffer from sickness through poor sanitation and lack of nutrients daily. (Photo by Oxfam)

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