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South Sudan starves as aid blocked, money spent on fighting

  AWEIL / AP The mother faced an anguished decision: choosing which of her children to save. With hunger gripping this remote region of South Sudan, Elizabeth Athiel could either get urgent medical attention for her 8-month-old daughter, Anger, or make sure her other five children could eat. The little girl was shockingly thin, but the medical clinic was a ...

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New messaging apps gain traction in workplace

  Washington / AP Looking to break out of a “messy” email situation, the nonprofit group dosomething.org recently switched over to a new way of communicating among its far-flung teams. Moving most internal communications to the messaging application Slack with its “channels” for various teams made it easier to coordinate the group’s social change projects across 131 countries, said software ...

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FilmStruck aims to bring art house into living room

  NEW YORK / AP Does this sound familiar? You want to stream a movie and end up spending most of your time clicking through a disorganized sea of options, most of which aren’t especially good, anyhow. FilmStruck, a new subscription streaming service to launch on Wednesday by Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection hopes to fill what’s been ...

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