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Half a billion people have no clean drinking water

Hundreds of millions of people across the world are being forced to live without access to clean water for drinking, according to a new report by the international charity WaterAid released to mark World Water Day.

Deutsche Welle

World Water Day: Six trends for optimism

National Geographic

EU refugee deal near collapse, Turkey says

Turkey’s agreement with the European Union to help stem the largest flow of refugees since World War II is nearing collapse, Turkey’s minister in charge of EU integration says.

Bloomberg

Trump campaign head was paid to promote Putin

President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed a strategy to undermine Russian opposition across former Soviet republics.

Associated Press

Biden slams administration‘s ’romance with Putin’

The Hill

Deadly terror attack near Parliament in London

An apparent terrorist attack has left multiple victims wounded on Westminster Bridge in London with at least one assailant shot by police. An attacker who stabbed a policeman near Britain’s Parliament was shot by police.

Al Jazeera

U.S. victims seek justice one year after Brussels terror attack

USA TODAY

Failed N. Korean missile explodes in seconds

A North Korean missile exploded “within seconds of launch,” according to U.S. Pacific Command. US officials confirmed North Korea had attempted to launch a missile near Kalma, on the country’s east coast, but early reports suggest it failed.

CNN

S. Koreans dislike China even more than Japan

Japan Times

HUMAN RIGHTS

WH refuses to attend global meeting on rights

The U.S. pulled out of a international meeting that was to examine the potential impact on human rights of Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting refugees and immigrants.

The Independent

Court bolsters rights of learning-disabled

A unanimous Supreme Court bolstered the rights of millions of learning-disabled students in a ruling that requires public schools to offer special education programs that meet higher standards. The court struck down a lower standard endorsed by President Donald Trump’s nominee to the high court.

ABC News

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Brexit: Article 50 will be triggered next week

British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger Article 50 on March 29, starting official Brexit negotiations between the UK and the European Union, her spokesman has confirmed.

CNN

EU warns of ‘serious consequences’ if no Brexit deal

Associated Press

US, Britain curb electronics on flights

The United States and Britain have imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to security threats.

Reuters

The airline electronics ban is already causing confusion and frustration

CNN

Airline electronics ban: What you need to know

CNNMoney

Nigeria moves to stop illegal emigration

Nigeria’s government is worried about clandestine migration. Unlike in Europe, the issue is not illegals coming in, but Nigerians leaving the country. New rules are being enacted to solve the problem.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hackers threaten to wipe Apple devices

A group of hackers is threatening to wipe data from millions of Apple devices in two weeks if the company doesn’t pay them $150,000. The group, which calls itself Turkish Crime Family, claims to have login credentials for more than 627 million email addresses.

PC World

Twitter suspends accounts linked to terrorism

Twitter has suspended more than 600,000 terrorist-linked accounts since the middle of 2015. Social media platforms are coming under increasing pressure to help governments fight extremism online.

Deutsche Welle

Google Maps tracks you; now people can, too

Google Maps users will soon be able to broadcast their movements to friends and family — the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing.

Associated Press

Benefit of smartphone to track children’s health

Mobile health interventions appear to be a viable health behavior change intervention modality for youth,“ the study concludes. ”Given the ubiquity of mobile phones, mobile health interventions offer promise in improving public health."

ScienceDaily

A smartphone can accurately test sperm

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Doctors develop surgery to counter FGM

FGM usually takes place before adolescence, and can result in severe pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, cysts, recurrent infections, difficulty in childbirth and even death.

Time

Breast implants linked to rare blood cancer

The Food and Drug Administration says at least nine women have died of a rare blood cancer after receiving breast implants, and that the agency is officially acknowledging an association between the implants and the disease.

NPR

Funnel web spider venom could protect brain

Australian researchers were sequencing the DNA of the venom when they discovered a compound, which they say could protect brain cells even when injected hours after a stroke has occurred.

Yahoo! News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Andrew Mitrovica):

The futility of secrets in the age of technology

Al Jazeera

Column (Jessica Valenti):

Trump did to Merkel what men do to women all the time

Guardian

Column (Christiana Figueres):

Green cities will change the world

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Sesame Street welcomes first autistic muppet

A redhead who loves to sing and remembers the words to lots of songs, Julia will debut on the show for preschoolers on April 10 after a five-year outreach effort to families and experts on autism, Sesame Workshop said on Monday.

Scientific American

Historic Black Church Receives $3 Million Gift

A historic black church in Pennsylvania is counting its blessings after an anonymous donor reportedly gifted the establishment over $3 million to help pay off its mortgage.

Huffington Post

14 teachers spread love in the classroom

In the time teachers have with kids, they’re expected to help their students learn and prepare them for the coming years. But many go the extra mile to make sure their students also feel welcomed, accepted and heard.

Huffington Post

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Suit: PayPal’s donation tools stiff charities

PayPal was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit over its treatment of charity donations. When charitable accounts are not set up correctly, PayPal continues to accept donations on their behalf, the suit alleges.

CNBC

Woman runs marathons for global water crisis

When Mina Guli, 46, learned of the global water crisis, she decided to take action. On World Water Day 2017, she will begin her mission of running the equivalent of 40 marathons down six of the world’s great rivers across six continents in just six weeks.

Forbes

BUSINESS

Sears shares sink as creditors, investors fret

Sears Holdings Corp.’s shares slumped 16 percent as bondholders and investors questioned how long the retailer could remain in business, a day after the company flagged going-concern doubts.

Reuters

Ivanka Trump firm accused of exploiting WH

A San Francisco clothing company is accusing Ivanka Trump’s company of improperly leveraging the power of the White House for private profit.

USA TODAY

17,000 AT&T workers go on strike

AT&T said that the strike does not include workers in wireless departments and that the company is engaged in conversations with CWA in an attempt to get “employees back to work as soon as possible.”

CNNMoney

AT&T and Verizon halt Google ads over extremist videos

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Where will the future’s water crises hit hardest?

As populations grow or move around, so too will demand. And as climate change redraws temperature and rainfall patterns, supply will change as well. The nonprofit World Resources Institute mapped how water stress will fluctuate around the globe from now and 2040.

Popular Science

A world without water

Deutsche Welle

Climate change increases risk of diabetes

Global warming may be increasing the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, including 100,000 or more new annual cases in the United States alone, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.

Popular Science

Climate improves as fewer coal plants built

Associated Press

Arctic ice falls to record low after ‘heat waves’

The extent of Arctic ice has fallen to a new wintertime low, as climate change drives freakishly high temperatures in the polar regions. The ice cap was 14.4 million square kilometers, lower than any year in the 38-year satellite record.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Arctic sea ice was at a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second straight year. (Photo by NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr) Photo used under CC BY

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