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Hong Kong leader is lauded for pledge to ban ivory trade

A pledge by Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese city, to ban its ivory trade has been welcomed by conservationists who describe it as a key step toward curbing the slaughter of African elephants.

Townhall.com

Indonesia arrests three in deadly terror attack

Indonesian police arrested three suspected militants in a predawn raid and hunted down others across the country after an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of the Asian nation’s capital.

Reuters

Philippines concerned over ‘emerging’ terror threat

Yahoo! News

Nearly 200 ISIS militants killed in retaliation for Istanbul bombing

FOX News

Obama to halt coal leases pending full review of fees

The Obama administration will announce a moratorium on major new coal leases on federal lands until it fully reviews whether the fees charged to mining companies reflect coal’s impact on the environment.

ABC News

Trump, Cruz clash over eligibility particulars, ‘New York values’ in combative GOP debate

GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and top challenger Ted Cruz clashed sharply over the Texas senator’s eligibility to run for the White House in a tense debate weeks before voters start to pick party nominees.

Reuters

3 ‘undercard’ candidates focus on denouncing Obama

USA TODAY

Watch both Republican debates

Fox Business

Video footage shows unarmed Chicago teen running from officers when he’s fatally shot

Newly released video shows a plainclothes Chicago police officer fatally shooting an unarmed 17-year-old as he sprinted away from cops after stealing a car. The city has been on edge over controversial shootings.

USA TODAY

Navigational error cited in seizure of US boats

A mistake in navigation was the reason U.S. sailors entered Iranian waters earlier this week, leading to the brief seizure two boats and 10 sailors.

CNN

IN-DEPTH

Understanding the great Republican revolt

The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?

The Atlantic

At least 15 dead in Pakistan suicide bombing

At least 15 people were killed in a blast apparently targeting police outside a polio vaccination centre in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, according to officials.

News24

Blog:

Attacks on polio eradication center as part of larger assault on vaccine campaign

(Slate)

The Slatest

HUMAN RIGHTS

Beijing detains Swedish human rights worker

A Swedish human rights worker is in detention in Beijing, accused of “harming the national interest.” Dahin’s NGO, the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group (or simply China Action).

TIME

China‘s pursuit of rights lawyers signals aggressive push against ’subversion’

Guardian

Writers support imprisoned Palestinian poet

Ashraf Fayadh was arrested for apostasy in Saudi Arabia last year and has subsequently been sentenced to death. Now, writers in more than 120 countries are taking part in an initative to support the artist and poet.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Politicians stand down amid Venezuelan probe

Three opposition politicians in Venezuela have agreed to give up their seats in the National Assembly while the electoral authorities investigate allegations of voting irregularities.

BBC

Sister of jailed Saudi blogger is released

Amnesty International said that Samar Badawi, sister of blogger Raif Badawi who was arrested in 2012 for criticizing Islam, had been detained in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

Al Jazeera

Denmark considers seizing migrants’ valuables

Plans to seize the assets of asylum seekers are among controversial new measures on immigration being debated in Demark.

BBC

TERROR

London adds 600 cops to repel terror threat

Six hundred extra armed officers are to be trained and patrols more than doubled to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London, the Metropolitan Police has announced.

BBC

Iran terrorism compensation case divides court

The Supreme Court was torn over how to help victims of terrorism recover financial damages from Iran without letting Congress dictate that result to an independent judiciary.

USA TODAY

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Al Jazeera America to shut down in April

Al Jazeera America is shutting down in April less than three years after it began broadcasting in this country, its CEO announced.

The Atlantic

TPP seen as minor boost for Australia

Government continues to trumpet Trans-Pacific Partnership’s “enormous benefits” despite analysis showing Australia’s growth will be worse than 11 of the other 12 countries in the international agreement.

Guardian

Blog:

Will the Pacific Trade Pact really put pressure on China?

(Wall Street Journal)

Real Time Economics

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GOOD NEWS

WHO declares end to Ebola epidemic in Africa

The WHO declared an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever after no new cases emerged in Liberia, though health officials warn that it will be several months before the world is considered free of the disease.

Denver Post

US court boosts slave case against Nestle

A U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold Nestle accountable for using child slaves to harvest cocoa in Africa looks set to be a landmark battle over labor used overseas, lawyers said.

allAfrica.com

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Major health system embraces transparency

The Tulsa World reported on the nonprofit health system joining the trend towards fully transparent procedure pricing. The trend has demonstrated an ability to reduce surgical costs 50-90 percent over the norm.

Forbes

Philadelphia Media tests mixed profit status

The Philadelphia Media Network, parent of the Inquirer, was donated to a local foundation in a unique structure that allows it to take advantage of both nonprofit and for-profit status.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Fee hikes are killing Nevada solar industry

Nevada’s public utility commission gave the state’s only power company, NV Energy, permission to charge higher rates and fees to solar panel users, shattering the rooftop solar industry’s business model.

Guardian

Global warming could stave off next ice age

Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said.

NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Samaritan’s Purse sends winter aid to Nepal

Evangelist Franklin Graham and his Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse plan to send relief supplies to Nepal, where survivors of an April earthquake face deadly winter conditions.

Charlotte Observer

Satellites dissect Nepal quake

BBC

Remembering Bowie’s HIV/AIDS philanthropy

Bowie and his wife, Iman Abdulmajid, supported the Keep A Child Alive Foundation. The campaign helps to provide low-cost HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs to clinics in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.

Forbes

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Search for airliner turns up second shipwreck

The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast.

U.S. News & World Report

Google sharpening its focus on virtual reality

Reports suggest that Alphabet’s subsidiary Google GOOGL +0.11 percent is forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing and a key executive has been appointed to run this division.

Forbes

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