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France train shooting: Americans overpower gunman

Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by three American passengers. The attacker was arrested.

BBC

France train gunman identified as known Islamist militant

Reuters

Thousands of migrants rush past police into Macedonia

Thousands of migrants have rushed past police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece.

USA TODAY

Macedonian police shoot stun grenades at migrant families stuck in no-man’s land

The Independent

Another 2200 migrants rescued off Italy

Sky News Australia

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After clashes along border, Macedonia begins letting some refugees In

NPR

Climate change pushing Earth‘s boreal forests to ’tipping point’

International policy makers should set their sights on the protection of boreal forests, international forestry experts argued this week in an article published in Science.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

MacArthur Foundation vows to push climate solutions with $50M pledge to green groups

The charitable foundation known for its annual “genius grants” and its public broadcasting underwriter’s message promoting “a more just, verdant and peaceful world” is deepening its commitment to addressing climate change.

Energy Wire

Graham’s $880,000 pay raises eyebrows at christian groups

Religion News Service looks at the issue of pay for megachurch pastors and Christian nonprofit leaders in the wake of media reports that Samaritan‘s Purse CEO Franklin Graham’s annual earnings total $880,000.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Serious human rights violations in Darfur largely go uninvestigated

Serious human rights violations in Darfur in 2014, including killings and sexual violence, have largely gone uninvestigated and unpunished, according to a new report by the UN Human Rights Office.

Cihan

Deadly bomb blast rocks central Bangkok

A deadly bomb blast rocked a commercial hub in Bangkok during the evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least a dozen people and wounding many more, Thai authorities said.

USA TODAY

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

The biggest risk to Obama’s climate plan may be politics, not the courts

After releasing the Clean Power Plan the Obama administration must shift from offense to defense. The plan, which set the first national limits on carbon pollution from existing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants.

Guardian

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Obama wants you to think his climate plan Is bold – it’s not

Slate

Too soon for ‘illogical’ US to return to Tehran

Iran‘s foreign minister said on Sunday it was too early to talk of reopening the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, as Britain restored its diplomatic mission four years after protesters ransacked the British ambassador’s residence.

Reuters

British embassy in Iran reopens

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Carnage on Wall Street signals fears about US economy

As U.S. stocks joined a global selloff to mark their biggest weekly decline since 2011, economists and investors cut their projections of what was already lackluster economic growth.

CBS News

Dow plunges 530 points amid China and Greece worries

TIME

US trade gap widens 7 percent in June as imports jump

The U.S. trade deficit increased in June as solid consumer spending pulled in more imports, while the strong dollar restrained exports.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Former President George W. Bush shows up for jury duty in Dallas

Potential jurors who showed up at a downtown Dallas courtroom found a surprise fellow citizen in their jury pool: former President George W. Bush.

FOX News

Nasa begins satellite project to improve hurricane forecasting

The mission is called CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System), and relies on eight microsatellites – as opposed to one, large satellite – working in a group.

Sentinel Republic

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Facebook co-founder’s foundation awards $25 million to GiveDirectl

The foundation started by the Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, awarded $25 million to GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that awards cash to extremely poor individuals in Kenya and Uganda.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NGOs need to be accountable

A section of Delhi’s elite has closed ranks behind activist Teesta Setalvad, who is under investigation for violation of regulations on funding by NGOs. Some champions see her as a victim of the ongoing drive against NGOs.

The Free Press Journal

ENVIRONMENT

As winds ease, crews in Northwest hope to contain blazes

Officials batting wildfires that have raged across Washington state said they hoped that easing winds could make it possible to contain the fires.

Washington Post

Typhoon Goni claims seven lives after torrential rain triggers landslides and floods

Seven people are dead and thousands have fled to higher ground as powerful Typhoon Goni brings torrential rains to the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and floods, officials said.

ABC News

Typhoon Goni impacts: 10 killed by mudslides, strong winds in Philippines

The Weather Channel

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Flu could one day be wiped out without the need for a vaccine

Flu could one day be wiped out without the need for a vaccine after scientists discovered how to ramp up the body’s own defences to the virus before it even enters the body

Telegraph.co.uk

Cosmic neutrinos from the black holes, supernovas detected in Antartica

Few particles in the universe are as strange and interesting as the neutrino. These elementary particles have no charge and so little mass that they can usually slip through matter without leaving a trace.

Market Business

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Shootings stars graze the sky over a planetarium in Mallorca, Spain. (Photo by Andrés Nieto Porras) Photo used under CC BY

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