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Syrians living in Malaysia display placards during a silent protest in Kuala Lumpur. Refugees fleeing Homs and other violent hotspots have emigrated to other countries whenever possible. (Photo by Freedom House)

Malaysia’s stranded Syrian refugees

Mohammad once owned a factory producing shampoo and soap in Homs. But Syria‘s civil war left his business a bombed-out ruin and brought an end to the family’s comfortable, even well-to-do, existence.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Games in Sochi, siege in Homs

The New Yorker

Escaping besieged Homs

BBC

Spain invites descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled 500 years ago to return

More than five centuries after Spain’s Jews were forced to flee, convert to Catholicism or face execution without trial, their descendants are being invited to return and take up dual citizenship.

Telegraph.co.uk

Washington governor suspends death penalty

Gov. Jay Inslee said he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to “join a growing national conversation about capital punishment.”

USA TODAY

Who is currently on death row in Washington State?

Kiro TV

North and South Korea seek better ties at rare high-level talks

North and South Korea held their first high-level talks in seven years on their armed border, exploring ways to improve ties while the South and the U.S. geared up for large-scale military drills.

Reuters

New welfare guides for Qatar World Cup workers apply only to stadiums

The organizing committee for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has promised that contractors will be held to high standards on the welfare of migrant workers.

Guardian

First case of polio found in Kabul since 2001

A three-year-old girl has been diagnosed with the first case of polio since 2001 in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Historic French development law makes aid more transparent, democratic

France’s National Assembly adopted an historic bill that will allow members of parliament to debate policies on international development for the first time.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Pope’s Harley goes for $327G at charity auction

Pope Francis’ Harley-Davidson was bought by a European buyer for $327,000 at a Paris auction. Money from the sale will be donated to charity Caritas Roma, which runs a soup kitchen and hostel for the homeless in Rome.

FOX News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hundreds of Eritreans enslaved in torture camps in Sudan and Egypt

Hundreds of Eritrean refugees have been enslaved in camps in Sudan and Egypt in the past 10 years, enduring violence, rape and extortion by traffickers often in collusion with state security forces.

Guardian

Eritrea, Africa’s hermit state

International Business Times

Belgium set to extend right-to-die law to children

Belgium is expected to take the unprecedented step of abolishing age restrictions on who can ask to be put to death — extending the right to children for the first time.

USA TODAY

A protester demonstrates against the new law in Brussels

Thomas Reuters Foundation

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Fitch Ratings downgrades Puerto Rico’s debt

The last of three major credit rating agencies downgraded Puerto Rico’s debt by two notches to junk status.

Yahoo! News

China, Taiwan governments start ‘new chapter’ at meeting

China and Taiwan agreed to set up a communication mechanism after historic talks in Nanjing, the first formal contact between the governments in 65 years.

BusinessWeek

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Obama to sign minimum wage order on US contract workers

President Obama will soon sign an order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for U.S. government contract workers hired in the future, fulfilling a promise from his State of the Union address.

Bloomberg

Former Czech prime minister a corruption suspect

The lawyer for former Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas says he is a suspect in the corruption case that brought down his government.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Digital harassment is the new means of domestic abuse

When most hear the words “domestic violence,” the image of someone physically battered comes to mind. But technology is increasingly replacing fists as the weapon of choice in abusive relationships.

Daily Beast

EU rules blocking life saving cancer drug trials could be killing children

Health experts have warned that hundreds of young cancer patients are dying because potentially life-saving drugs are only tested on adults and EU rules are to be blamed.

Tech Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Nurturing the impulse to save Syria’s millions

Christian Science Monitor

Column (DeWayne Wickham):

Do you know when slavery began and ended?

USA TODAY

Column (Hamish Mcrae):

You can’t blame immigrants for wanting to go to Switzerland

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

To rise out of poverty, Asian women head to the library

For more than two million rural villagers across South Asia, libraries provide powerful ways to learn skills, network with other women, and become agents of change.

Christian Science Monitor

Gabe Sonnier was a school‘s janitor for 27 years. Now he’s the principal

Joseph “Gabe” Sonnier used to clean up after everyone at Port Barre Elementary in Port Barre, La. Now, the former janitor is the principal at that school.

Huffington Post

More masterpieces found in German‘s ’Nazi art trove’

Officials investigating the secret Nazi-era art cache hoarded by an elderly German art collector are examining a second stash of paintings found at another of his addresses.

Telegraph.co.uk

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Mali Red Cross team ‘abducted by Islamists’

A leading Islamist militant group has abducted a group of Red Cross workers in northern Mali, according to an official from the jihadist group.

Guardian

Narrow funding base ‘puts WHO drug program at risk’

The future of a WHO program that ensures the quality of medicines for numerous global health NGOs and U.N. agencies is vulnerable unless more donors start funding it, health experts have warned.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

US tightens the noose on the ivory trade

The Obama Administration announced a strategy on wildlife trafficking, including new restrictions on ivory trade designed to create “a near complete ban” on the sale of African elephant ivory in the US

National Geographic

Study shows impact of urbanization on biodiversity

A dataset, the largest of it kind, has assessed the impact of urbanization on biodiversity levels. It found that though cities have lost large numbers of plants and animals, they retain endemic native species.

BBC

Britain’s wettest January on record yields severe flooding — and blame

Prime Minister Cameron is facing harsh criticism for his response to flooding in which thousands have been evacuated, the Thames burst its banks, and neighbors have battled over sandbags.

Christian Science Monitor

Storm threatening 100 mph gusts hits soggy Britain

USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

A humpback whale comes to the surface in Silver Bank, an area of the Atlantic Ocean 70 miles off the coast of the Dominican Republic used as whale sanctuary. (Photo by Christopher Michel)

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