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The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department has a team based in the capital of South Sudan working closely with humanitarian organizations to meet immediate needs of the population. (Photo by Ludovico Gammarelli/ EU/ ECHO)

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Central Americans search for family missing in Mexico

Santos del Socorro Rojas knew that one day she would find her son, Jorge Alberto Reyes. She just wasn’t sure how.He had gone north, as do many who flee poverty in Nicaragua, but after a few weeks they had lost touch.

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Catholic Sentinel

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Immigrant allowed to practice law

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KPCC

Romania awakes to open borders: ‘Not many people are traveling today’

January 1 marked the first day in which Romanians and Bulgarians could travel to Britain to seek work. But there was no dash for the border.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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EU tries to calm fears of Bulgarian, Romanian exodus

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EurActiv.com

South Sudan ceasefire talks open as battles rage

South Sudan‘s warring parties opened negotiations to end nearly three weeks of raging conflict in which thousands are feared dead and that has taken the world’s youngest nation to the brink of all-out civil war.

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Growing pains, old rivalries behind South Sudan conflict

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9 questions about South Sudan you were too embarrassed to ask

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(Washington Post)

WorldViews

Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate

The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Obama’s new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Cambodian forces open fire as factory strikes turn violent

Cambodian military police opened fire with assault rifles to quell a protest by stone-throwing garment factory workers demanding higher pay, killing at least three people, witnesses said.

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Reuters

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Civilians ‘going without food’ in South Sudan UN camp

At least 7,000 civilians, including vulnerable orphans, are going without food inside a United Nations camp in South Sudan as they shelter from the country’s civil war.

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Telegraph.co.uk

2013’s biggest gifts signal rebound

Big gifts made a comeback in 2013, with America’s wealthiest philanthropists donating a total of more than $3.4-billion to charity, according to a new tally by The Chronicle.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cambodia: Child protection workers call for an end to ‘orphanage tourism’

Child protection and NGO workers are pleading with tourists and volunteers to stay away from orphanages in Cambodia, claiming so-called “orphanage tourism” damages the children and enables exploitation.

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Guardian

Haiti minimum wage increase ignites competition row in textile industry

The issue of Haiti’s minimum wage is inflaming employment relations, as garment factory owners and workers unions dispute the optimum rate. The country’s textile exports may become uncompetitive.

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Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

World manufacturing ends 2013 on a strong note

Major exporters like the United States, Japan and Germany all saw demand pick up, although China’s performance remained modest, surveys showed.

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Reuters

China’s manufacturing sector runs into trouble

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Wall Street Journal

China Wal-Mart surprise: How did fox meat get into donkey products?

Wal-Mart has just recalled donkey meat products from some of its stores in China because tests have found them to be contaminated with fox meat.

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Christian Science Monitor

Waiter, there’s fox in my donkey meat: the global scandal of food fraud

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(TIME)

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POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

China tells police to be loyal to party amid graft crackdown

China’s police chief wrote that his officers must uphold the leadership of the Communist Party and be loyal to it, as the government targets the domestic security apparatus in a crackdown on corruption.

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Reuters

Government must supply minimum water to all, says Delhi CM Kejriwal

The chief minister of the Indian state of Delhi defended his decision of providing up to 20kl of free water each month to some families by saying it was the government’s duty to ensure water supply.

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Delhi households to receive free tap water

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Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

E-cigarettes divide health experts

Quitting smoking is always one of the top New Year’s resolutions. But while e-cigarettes are marketed as a non-tobacco alternative to traditional smokes, they remain controversial.

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CBC News

Trials to begin on new degradable surgical implant

Researchers have developed a degradable implant which they say has huge potential to improve surgical success rates. The protective patch, which wraps soft tissue, will be trialed in patients with shoulder injuries.

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Human rights progress took a winding road in 2013

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Christian Science Monitor

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When will we get the verdict on Obamacare?

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CNN

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Echoes of Palestinian partition in Syrian refugee crisis

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Pope Francis nearly triples Vatican City crowds in 2013

Pope Francis drew more than 6.6 million people to his audiences, Masses and other events in Vatican City during his first year in office, figures show.

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BBC

An unexpected gift from a controversial tweet

Aid for Africa, a coalition of small American charities, didn’t set out to reap financial benefit from a racist comment that attracted global attention just before the Christmas holiday.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

UK aid money helps train giant rats to sniff out landmines

With the help of funding from British taxpayers, mine-clearance charity Apopo uses African giant pouched rats for its life-saving work of sniffing out buried landmines in Mozambique.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Charity begins on your phone: East Africans buoyed by novel way of giving

“We’re totally different,” enthuses Paul Niehaus, co-founder of GiveDirectly, a non-profit that uses mobile money technology to transfer cash directly from donors to some of east Africa’s poorest people.

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Gulf News

ENVIRONMENT

Plastic found beneath the Thames Estuary river

Thousands of plastic pieces were discovered submerged along the river bed of the once cleaned upper Thames Estuary by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Natural History Museum.

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Environment News Service

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How mass-produced meat turned phosphorus into pollution

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NPR

Federal flood insurance program drowning in debt. Who will pay?

Millions of property owners have government flood insurance. But over the past decade, the government has paid out huge amounts of money after floods, and the flood insurance program is deeply in the red.

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NPR

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A man works on a snow sculpture in the Sapa region in northern Vietnam. (Photo by Hoang Giang Hai)

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