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The UN is reporting having received only about half the promised aid money for Syria from donor countries. This is causing a decrease in size of food packages and increasing pressure on other agencies and its neighboring countries. (Photo by İHH İnsani Yardım Vakfı/TURKEY)

Syria food shortage due to looming drought

Drought in Syria could lead to a record low wheat harvest and put millions of people at risk. The World Food Program said rainfall has been less than half the long-term average.

BBC

Town by town, Assad regime retakes southwestern Syria

Christian Science Monitor

Flight 370: No new “black box”-like sounds heard

Search crews hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet have failed to relocate faint sounds heard deep below the southern Indian Ocean that officials said were consistent with a plane’s black boxes, the head of the search operation.

CBS News

MH370 hunt costliest in aviation history

The Sun Daily

Kerry blames Russian agents for unrest in Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of using “special forces and agents” to spark unrest, as Ukrainian authorities sent security forces to Kharkiv to clear the city of separatists.

Bloomberg

Lavrov challenges US claims that Russia has role in Ukraine unrest

the Voice of Russia

Ukraine moves to assert control in east

Wall Street Journal

Takeda, Lilly jury awards $9 billion over Actos cancer risks

Takeda Pharmaceutical and Eli Lilly & Co. were ordered to pay a combined $9 billion in punitive damages after a federal jury found hidden cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine in the first U.S. trial of its kind.

Bloomberg

Officials say Ebola outbreak could last months

Ebola could continue to spread in West Africa in one of the most challenging outbreaks of the disease the international community has ever faced, health experts said.

Time

Blog:

Ebola outbreak dire but not hopeless

NPR

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Uganda: questions over Karamoja food security plan

Aid agencies are giving out food relief in Uganda’s Karamoja region earlier than usual due to greater food insecurity, which locals and experts blame on the failures of a key government food security plan.

allAfrica.com

Chili’s cancels autism event after vaccine backlash

U.S. restaurant chain Chili’s has canceled a fundraiser for a group that states on its website that autism can be triggered by vaccinations, a position widely discredited by the medical community.

Toronto Star

HUMAN RIGHTS

The mad, mad debate over Rwanda — 20 years after the genocide

At a conference last year a U.S. State Department official told a group of us that Rwanda was so polarizing that even at the consulate in Nairobi the DRC crowd did not get along well with the Rwanda crowd.

Christian Science Monitor

Rights group: no justice in C. African Republic

Photos were shown of a Muslim man being stabbed and stomped to death by soldiers in the Central African Republic’s capital to top government officials and were asked what was being done to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Iraq: clashes prevent voting in parts of province

Iraq’s electoral commission said that there will be no balloting in parts of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province engulfed in clashes between security forces and al-Qaida-inspired militants.

Seattle Times

Millions of voters share some common issues

National Editorial

Walmart to open 50 cash & carry outlet in next couple of years

Walmart India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Bentonville-based Walmart Stores has said it will open 50 cash and carry stores over the next four to five years.

Business Line

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Bill to restore US unemployment insurance likely to deadlock in Congress

A bipartisan attempt to restore unemployment insurance to more than two million out-of-work Americans appeared likely to fall victim to deadlock in Congress.

Guardian

‘Duck Dynasty’ congressman says kiss won’t drive him out

Vance McAllister told a local newspaper that he does not plan to resign from Congress following the release of a video showing the married congressman, kissing a staffer.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Major security alert over ‘heartbleed’ eavesdropping bug

A major online security alert has been issued after experts found a bug in one of the web‘s most common security systems. Called the ’heartbleed’ bug, it allows hackers to eavesdrop on supposedly secure communications.

Daily Mail

Blog:

The Security Bug That Affects Most Of The Internet, Explained

NPR

Hackers lurking in vents and soda machines

Companies scrambling to seal up their systems from hackers and government snoops are having to look in the unlikeliest of places for vulnerabilities.

Times of India

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

The very real perils of climate change

Spectator

Column (Ben Richardson):

Transparency the only way for China to earn global trust

CNN

Column (Tom Krattenmaker):

Mozilla uproar questions ‘tolerance’

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Electrical pulses help paralyzed patients move

Four people who were paralyzed below the waist for more than two years were able to voluntarily wiggle their toes and flex their legs, after researchers surgically implanted an electrical stimulator in the epidura.

Time

Spinal cord work is unexpected shocker: ‘This is a breakthrough’

CNN

Obamacare ‘accomplishing goal’: Gallup poll

The percentage of Americans without health insurance dipped to its lowest in nearly six years due in part to U.S. President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, commonly known as Obamacare.

Reuters

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Foreign aid reaches record high

Foreign aid for development in poorer countries hit a record high last year, with large spending increases recorded by the UK, Iceland, Japan and the United Arab Emirates.

Guardian

Swiss contribution will boost nutrition for mothers and children in Sudan

The United Nations World Food Program welcomed contributions from the government of Switzerland that will improve the nutritional status of children, pregnant women and nursing mothers in Sudan.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

Machnouk sets broad environment plan

A new plan to recycle waste and close down a controversial landfill site in the costal town of Naameh will be presented to the Cabinet, Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk told The Daily Star.

Daily Star

Many nations wary of extracting carbon from air to fix climate

Many nations want a draft U.N. report to tone down prospects for sucking greenhouse gases from the air to help fix global warming, reckoning the technologies are risky, documents seen by Reuters show.

Reuters

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Dedicated fundraisers take a “polar bear plunge” into frigid water in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA to raise money for Special Olympics. (Photo by Steve Baker)

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