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A woman digs for water in a dry riverbed in northern Kenya. Water shortages are seen as one of the world’s top threats over the next ten years. (Photo by Marisol Grandon / Department for International Development)

Lack of drinking water greater threat than terrorism?

The lack of running water killed more people in Nigeria last year than Boko Haram. The shortage of potable water and poor sanitation led to about 73,000 deaths, according to WaterAid, a London-based nonprofit.

Bloomberg

Water crises seen as a top threat in next decade

scidev.net

Looming water crisis forces dire living conditions in South Africa

YouTube

Millions of genetically-modified insects could be released in Florida Keys

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases.

Associated Press

Will the India-US nuclear deal work?

US and India announced a breakthrough on a pact during President Barack Obama’s landmark three-day visit to India that will allow American companies to supply India with civilian nuclear technology.

BBC

Timeline: Indo-US nuclear agreement since George W Bush, Manmohan Singh regimes

CNN-IBN

Obama assures Modi on concerns over H-1B visas, popular among Indian techies

Times of India

Issues like LGBT rights, forced labour that went unheard during Obama’s visit

FirstPost.com

Bill Gates predicts HIV vaccine by 2030

Microsoft founder tells Davos that vaccine and new intense drug treatments could end most new cases of the deadly virus.

Guardian

HIV cases up 14% in China, say officials

International Business Times

Pakistan replies with ‘weaponised’ teaching

Following last month‘s Taliban school massacre, Pakistan is allowing teachers to carry weapons. It’s one of a number of protective measure brought in following the tragedy.

BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Turkey opens biggest refugee camp for 35,000 from Kobani

Turkey opened its biggest refugee camp on Sunday to house 35,000 people fleeing fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamist militants in Syria’s Kobani, national disaster management agency AFAD said.

Reuters

‘Here, the dead are dead and the living are dead’

Syrian refugees struggle not only to stay alive, but also to find land and money to lay loved ones to rest.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report

Europe’s top rights body says scale of NSA spying is ‘stunning’ and suggests UK powers may be at odds with rights convention.

Guardian

How the decline of arranged marriages ‘helps the fight against poverty’

Globally, the proportion of young women who were married before the age of 18 has dropped from a third to a quarter since 1985, and the proportion married before 15 has declined from 12 percent to 8 percent, according to UNICEF.

Bloomberg

How do we keep girls safe?

The Telegraph

Serving life for surviving abuse

Misconceptions about domestic violence can turn the justice system against survivors, often with devastating results.

The Atlantic

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Greece ‘leaves behind the austerity that ruined it,’ party leader vows after vote

The firebrand leader of Greece‘s left-wing Syriza party appeared to be bracing for a bigger battle as he declared victory in Sunday’s election.

CNN

Greek election: Syriza sweeping to victory

Telegraph.co.uk

Jordan to issue statement on hostage crisis, Japanese captive’s slaying

The Jordanian government will release a statement on the hostage crisis and apparent murder of a Japanese national by the Islamic State militant group.

Japan Times

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Africa’s quiet solar revolution

The continent skipped land lines for mobile phones. Now a new generation of start-ups is trying to bring sun power to rural Africa – and leapfrog the fossil fuel era.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Inside Africa

CNN

Doctors group urges measles vaccinations as Disneyland outbreak spreads

The leading U.S. pediatrician group urged parents, schools and communities to vaccinate children in the face of an outbreak that began at Disneyland and has spread to more than 80 people in seven states and Mexico.

Grand Forks Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Donated eyewear allows blind mother to see her newborn baby

The 29-year-old Ontario woman became the latest recipient of eSight glasses, which use a video camera to record images which are then enhanced and projected onto screens in front of the eyes.

Good News Network

South Sudan finds hope in honey

A harvest of honey from the equatorial forests of South Sudan will help its struggling poor and, through the pollination of bees, improve the nation’s crop yields, those involved say.

Reuters

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Single new case can reignite Ebola outbreak if vigilance lost, says medical NGO

A decline in Ebola cases in West Africa must not result in a loss of vigilance because a single new case is enough to reignite an outbreak, international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said.

Reuters

Hostage crisis puts work of aid groups on Japan’s public agenda

Japan-based nongovernmental organizations offering aid to displaced Syrians there say they hope the ongoing Japanese hostage crisis will not turn the public against the region or their international aid work.

The Japan Times

ENVIRONMENT

Study: Global warming ‘doubles risk’ of extreme weather

Extreme weather arising from a climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean will get much worse as the world warms, according to climate modelling.

BBC

Map:

Predicting climate change

The Daily Telegraph

David Cameron rejects call for fracking ban

British prime minister renews his support for exploiting shale gas as MPs call for moratorium and anti-fracking campaigners protest in Westminster.

Guardian

Obama-Modi climate deal: Unlike China, no emission target for India

India and the US on Sunday stressed enhancing bilateral cooperation to deal with climate change but did not have a China-like bilateral deal.

Times of India

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Vampire bat drone walks and flies

Talking a cue from vampire bats, which can both fly and walk, researchers have built a drone that works on land and in the air.

Discovery News

New Horizons probe eyes Pluto for historic encounter

A Nasa probe is to start photographing the icy world of Pluto, to prepare itself for a historic encounter. The New Horizons spacecraft has travelled 5bn km (3bn miles) over nine years to get near the dwarf planet.

BBC

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Toddler chimpanzee Shangwe stretches with joy at the Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam. (Photo by Kitty Terwolbeck)

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