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Scientists have discovered seven Earthlike planets orbiting a single star. (Photo by Artist’s rendering: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Photo used under CC BY

NASA finds 7 Earth-size planets around single star

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.

Science Daily

5 things you need to know about discovery

The Independent

Iraqi forces take airport in battle for Mosul

Iraqi security forces have recaptured Mosul airport, a key part of the government’s offensive to drive ISIS forces from the city.

BBC

Mexico to fight Trump’s deportation plans at UN

Mexico will vigorously fight U.S. mass deportations of undocumented immigrants back to Mexico and refuse to accept any non-Mexicans expelled across the border, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray vowed.

Yucatan Times

US envoy begins ‘tough trip’ to Mexico

CNN

Leftist Mexican firebrand challenging Trump in US engagements

Mexico News Daily

Trump rolls back transgender protections

Barack Obama took several steps to support transgender people. But the tide is now heading in a new direction. The Trump administration has taken what LGBT-rights groups view as a big step back, one they are describing as “bullying” transgender kids.

Time

Syria peace talks kick off amid fragile ceasefire

The UN’s chief negotiator has warned warring parties that the conflict does not have a “military solution.” Talks in Geneva are to focus on the political dimensions of the conflict.

Deutsche Welle

Syrian women liberated from ISIS burn veils

The Independent

HUMAN RIGHTS

DR Congo probes alleged army massacre video

Democratic Republic of Congo said that “as a precautionary measure” it was investigating a video purportedly showing government troops massacring civilians prompted outrage. The seven minutes of footage shows a group of uniformed men opening fire, then walking among at least 20 bodies.

ENCA

Indonesia president: Democracy ‘gone too far’

During the New Order regime, Indonesia enjoyed robust economic growth, which many believe came largely at the expense of civil liberties. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo now finds himself under pressure to prove that he is not inspired by that type of order.

Jakarta Post

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Bill to put more women in Kenya Parliament fails

An attempt by the Senate to increase the number of women in Parliament suffered a blow when Senators opposed to the bill skipped voting. Opposition lawmakers were attending a rally and failed to turn out for the crucial vote that would have increased the number of nominated women.

allAfrica.com

Sweden defends generous immigration policies

Sweden hit back at criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, defending its generous immigration policies and saying the diversity from thousands of asylum seekers would build a stronger society.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Royal Rumble of phones set to start

It’s going to get crazy in Barcelona. Just about every heavy hitter in the wireless industry is bringing a shiny new phone to Mobile World Congress — held this time each year in Spain’s hippest metropolis — each trying to out-wow the others with its latest wares.

CNET News

Evidence of a ‘chaotic solar system’ found

Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.

ScienceDaily

Watch this guy build a massive solar system in the desert

National Geographic

Scientists re-create space weather of 400 years ago

Sky & Telescope

GLOBAL HEALTH

Disease agency aims to prevent Ebola crisis

Africa’s new continent-wide public health agency could help prevent a repeat of the disastrous Ebola epidemic by monitoring diseases across country borders and deploying a rapid task force at the first signs of an outbreak.

Reuters

Amid bird flu, China urges poultry marts to shut

China’s Prime Minister urged local authorities to shut down live poultry markets in places affected by the H7N9 bird flu virus which killed 79 people in January, China’s cabinet said.

Channel NewsAsia

Bushmeat trade tests Cameroon’s Ebola prevention

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Dog surrendered with owner’s manual adopted

When a three-year-old dog named Rhino Lightning was surrendered by his family to the Utah Humane Society, he came with something very unusual: A colorful little notebook with pages of information about the pup, written by an 8-year-old girl.

ABC News

Hero turns family bar into safe haven for kids

Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood was known for its poverty and crime, but a hometown hero stepped in to change the landscape and give kids a safe place to be inspired.

NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Giving stagnant, slowly moving to mobile

Increases in online giving outpaced overall giving nearly eightfold in 2016, 7.9 percent versus a paltry 1 percent. Though still representing just a fraction of gifts, donating online showed a staying power in 2016 that had yet to be previously seen.

NonProfit Times

$48M awarded for homeownership aid

NeighborWorks America has announced grants totaling $48 million to nineteen community development financial institutions in support of efforts to increase low- and middle-income home ownership.

Philanthropy News Digest

BUSINESS

Landlords taking over the US housing market

As rising home prices, slow new home construction, and demographic shifts push homeownership rates to 50-year lows, the U.S. is increasingly a country of renters—and landlords.

Bloomberg

Global public cloud market growth peaking

The global public cloud market is expected to grow to US$246.8 billion this year — up from US$209.2 billion in 2016 — according to a new report which sees most of the growth coming from cloud system infrastructure services.

iTWire

ENVIRONMENT

Heavy rains are ending California drought

After years of extreme drought, Southern California is now completely free of the worst conditions following recent rains that brought flooding, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

CNBC

See mammoth ‘hole’ open in this lake

National Geographic

UN declares war on ocean plastic

The available data is enough for the United Nations to literally declare war on oceans plastic: more than 8 million tons of leaks into their waters each year – equal to dumping a garbage truck of plastic every minute, wreaking havoc on marine wildlife, fisheries and tourism.

IPS

Photo of the Day

Shot Feb. 20, 2017, at Koxinga Ancestral Shrine in Tainan, Taiwan. (Photo by Wenchieh Yang) Photo used under CC BY

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