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A Syrian girl waves from the balcony of an unfinished apartment block in northern Lebanon. There are over 800,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon now; around 400,000 of them are children. (Photo by Russell Watkins/ UK DFID)

Five dead as Ukraine police storm protesters’ barricades

Ukrainian police stormed protesters’ barricades in Kiev amid violent clashes that left five activists dead, the first fatalities in two months of anti-government protests.

Sydney Morning Herald

Ukraine opposition say they’ll brave bullets

Reuters

Morocco amends controversial rape marriage law

The parliament of Morocco has unanimously amended an article of the penal code that allowed rapists of underage girls to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.

BBC

Syria peace talks stuck over Assad’s future

The biggest push yet to end the conflict is marked by fiery exchanges as the warring sides clash over the president’s fate.

Al Jazeera

Far from Syria peace talks, rebels focus on gaining ground

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Syrian children caught in crossfire are dying by the hundreds

(NBCNews.com)

World News

In delay-plagued Brazil, World Cup airport welcome to include a tent

Brazil promised the world it would roll out the red carpet at 21st century airports for this year’s World Cup, but soccer fans landing in Fortaleza will instead be shepherded through a temporary canvas structure.

Reuters

Blog:

World Cup prep? São Paulo razes shantytown

Latin America Monitor

(Christian Science Monitor)

8-year-old boy rescues 6 relatives from fire, dies trying to save 7th

An eight year old boy was killed in a mobile-home fire in upstate New York while attempting to rescue a disabled relative inside.

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Bill Gates predicts an end to poverty in 20 years

Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, used his annual letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to criticize the belief that extreme poverty and disease are unsolvable, calling it a “harmful” opinion.

Daily Mail

Interview:

Gates: Cynicism of foreign aid holds back progress

Bloomberg

Central African Republic: UN truckers’ strike cuts food aid to displaced

A strike by U.N. truck drivers in Cameroon, fearing for their safety, is preventing vital food aid from reaching the CAR’s hundreds of thousands of displaced people, the U.N. World Food Program said.

allAfrica.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

New leader in CAR, same human rights crisis?

The appointment of a new transitional president in the Central African Republic is generating optimism in some quarters that the country’s first female leader will manage to quell mounting ethnic strife.

IPS

Family of black teenager executed in 1944 demands retrial

The family of the youngest American to be executed during the 20th century are demanding a new trial to clear his name seventy years later.

Telegraph.co.uk

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Gas riches give Trinidad no escape from crime and violence

Trinidad and Tobago, a wealthy island federation, suffers little economic distress compared to its neighbors, thanks to abundant oil and gas exports. But its crime rate is one of the worst in the world.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Brussels seeks to curb investor litigation under trade deals

The European Commission is pushing to include strict constraints on investors’ ability to take legal action against governments as part of a new trans-Atlantic trade deal, according to leaked documents.

Financial Times

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Japan tells world to stand up to China or face consequences

Japan told the world it must stand up to an increasingly assertive China or risk a regional conflict with catastrophic economic consequences.

Japan Times

China condemns report on elite’s ‘hidden wealth’, censors discussion

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Private-sector corruption in developing countries costs at least $500 billion — study

Private-sector corruption in developing countries is a tax on growth, costing at least $500 billion a year — more than three times all foreign assistance in 2012, according to a new study.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

On Facebook, clicking ‘like’ can help scammers

Liking posts that fill your news feed seem harmless. But all too often, experts say, scammers and spammers are using Facebook, often against the site’s rules, to make some easy cash.

CNN

3D printing could transform home building

A professor at the University of Southern California says it is possible to build a house using 3D printing.

CBS News

A 3D printed house rises in Amsterdam

Gigoam

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Joseph A. Kechichian):

Lebanon’s sleeping demons

Al Jazeera

Blog (Rana Foroohar):

The real threat to economic growth is the digital divide

(TIME)

The Curious Capitalist

Editorial:

Abortion rights: a tale of 2 countries

USA TODAY

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Pallavi Sukhia, Lukas Dregne and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Couple brings gift of hearing to impaired across the globe

For 10 months a year, Bill and Tani Austin travel around the world to fit the hearing impaired with hearing aids. Last year, the Austins’ Starkey Hearing Foundation fit 165,000 free hearing aids globally.

ABC News

Don’t say it with flowers – website offers alternative gifts for cancer patients

Founder inspired by her own experience to set up business aimed at cancer patients’ friends and families.

Guardian

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Group estimates philanthropy rose 13% in 2013

Charitable giving rose last year, says a research group that is trying to deliver estimates far earlier than “Giving USA”, which has long been the most-cited source of data on how much Americans donate.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MP urges state to address Kenya hunger woes

An MP from Turkana has asked the government and humanitarian groups to supply food and water to more than 400,000 people facing starvation.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

World‘s highest deforestation rate on uncontacted tribe’s land

A new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay‘s Chaco forest — the last refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo tribe — is being devastated by the world’s highest rate of deforestation.

The Ecologist

India’s forest man

Al Jazeera

EU scales down 2030 climate and energy goals

The European Union scaled back its long-term climate and energy ambitions, proposing less stringent targets than in the past, because of tougher economic conditions and the need to curb rising energy costs.

Reuters

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Pilgrims celebrate Lavagem do Bonfim or the Feast of Bonfim in Salvador, Brazil. (Photo by Rita Barreto/ Turismo Bahia)

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