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Despite its bankruptcy as a city, Detriot is experiencing pockets of revival where developers and new businesses are making thriving neighborhoods. (Photo by Sam Beebe)

Latin America promoting food as a human right

Latin America has blazed the way in the adoption of laws that promote and protect the right to food, a U.N. expert has said.

Guardian

Australia PM: Climate change is not responsible for wildfires

The Australian government staunchly rejected arguments that climate change is causing the wildfires ravaging parts of eastern Australia following a record hot start to the spring season.

Yahoo! News

Australia wildfire video captured by drone

CBS News

Hardships mounting for refugees inside Syria

Some five million Syrians are now refugees in their own country, many living hand-to-mouth in vacant buildings, schools, mosques, parks and cramped homes of relatives.

New York Times

Syrian refugees face bleak time in Bulgaria’s broken asylum system

Guardian

Blog:

The 37-year-old refugee situation you know nothing about

(PBS NewsHour)

The Rundown

Interview:

Kurdish fighters as powerful players in the Syrian war

IPS

Youth homelessness at all-time high

An annual report from the National Center for Homeless Education found that 1.2 million students enrolled in schools across the U.S. were homeless between 2011 and 2012.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s women police fight criminals, militants and scorn

Women make up just 560 of Abbottabad, Pakistan’s, 60,000-strong force. Police chiefs hope to double that within a year, but tough working conditions make recruitment hard.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Howard Buffett seeks lasting solutions to the world’s food and water crises

Philanthropist and farmer Howard Buffett travels the world looking for how his Howard G. Buffett Foundation can help solve the biggest challenges.

Christian Science Monitor

Hungary: Needy village hopes murals will bring aid

Gypsy artists from across Europe have been out painting the town — creating large murals on the outside walls of 33 homes in Bodvalenke, a small Hungarian settlement in one of the poorest regions in the country.

Yahoo! News

HUMAN RIGHTS

History on hold for victims of Guatemalan genocide

Guatemala’s former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt was the first in the continent to face genocide charges in court, but the historic process is now in jeopardy.

Amnesty International

Saudi Arabia warns online backers of women drivers

Saudi officials stepped up warnings over a planned protest that will see women get behind the wheel to challenge male-only driving rules, saying that even online support could be grounds for arrest.

Detroit News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

African countries agree to curb illegal timber trade in the Congo Basin

Governments from Africa’s main timber producing countries, timber industry representatives and civil society organizations all agreed to jointly combat illegal timber trade in the Congo Basin.

African Press Organization

India, Pakistan exchange gunfire over border

Indian and Pakistani troops fired machine guns and mortar shells over the border in Kashmir, wounding at least 12 people, including children.

ABC News

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Results trickle in from Madagascar’s 1st election since coup

Results trickled in from Madagascar’s presidential election, though it was too early to identify a dominant candidate in the vote that many hope will save a cash-starved economy left crippled by a coup.

Reuters

Afghanistan disqualifies 16 from presidential race

The top contenders for Afghanistan’s 2014 presidential elections all survived a preliminary disqualification round that eliminated 16 minor candidates for not meeting requirements, officials said.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

World’s 1st Bitcoin ATM to go live in Vancouver, British Columbia

What’s believed to be the first Bitcoin ATM in the world will go live in Vancouver, British Columbia, operated by Nevada-based Robocoin and Vancouver’s Bitcoiniacs.

CBC News

For Bitcoin’s biggest believers, digital currency is better than gold

Wired

Astronomers spot most distant galaxy yet from the ancient universe

Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy yet. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have detected a galaxy that was created within 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Science World Report

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (César Chelala):

Now is the time to avoid a full-blown regional AIDS epidemic

The Globalist

Column (John E. Schwarz):

Rehabilitating the poverty line

Los Angeles Times

Blog (Fabien Tepper):

Bo Xilai will spend his life in prison, for sure

(Christian Science Monitor)

Global News

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GOOD NEWS

A $200M strategy is being planned to conserve snow leopards

Snow leopards are facing extinction due to a variety of factors, but countries are increasing efforts to protect animals from poachers, local communities and changing weather patterns.

World Bank

Nepal ‘prioritized’ for global effort to save snow leopards

eKantipur

Saving black rhinos from poachers by helicopter

Telegraph.co.uk

Dallas mosque feeds the hungry at a ‘Day of Dignity’

Through its Beacon of Light community center, Masjid al Islam mosque in southeast Dallas serves more than 15,000 free meals per year, mostly to non-Muslims.

Christian Science Monitor

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

American Red Cross to make changes in disaster fundraising

American Red Cross has agreed to make changes in the way it solicits donations after major disasters to avoid potential confusion over how that aid money is likely to be spent.

ABC News

Group makes 3-D backups of world landmarks

A nonprofit named CyArk has created digital copies of more than 100 of the world’s best-known monuments, mapping Roman ruins, ancient statues and even an entire island.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

India and US HFC row brews at UN talks in Bangkok

India has blocked attempts to curb the use of the highly polluting chemicals used in refrigeration, in a move that places them on collision course with the U.S.

RTCC

Montreal Protocol makes progress on HFCs

Economic Voice

Arctic temperatures highest in 44,000 years

New research shows that average summer temperatures in the Canadian Arctic over the last century are the highest in the last 44,000 years, and perhaps the highest in 120,000 years.

Discovery News

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Hijabi Monologues, a theater space for the stories of Muslim women, was performed in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Photo by Buds Sudarmo)

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