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Solidarities International workers provide water to drought-stricken Somalis. Lack of access to clean water is gravely worsening burgeoning famine conditions in four countries. (Photo by European Commission DG ECHO/Malini Morzaria) Photo used under CC BY

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UN: 27 million people lack clean water amid famines

Nearly 27 million people in countries facing famine — Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen — do not have access to safe water, which can be as deadly to severely malnourished children as a lack of food, UNICEF says.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Children who escaped Boko Haram live in shadow of famine

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Huffington Post

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Drought-stricken Somalia battles hunger and cholera

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Associated Press

Civilians killed in Kashmir protests against India

Three civilians were killed and 28 other people were injured in anti-India protests that erupted following a gunbattle between rebels and government forces that killed a rebel in disputed Kashmir, police and witnesses said.

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Yahoo! News

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Highway tunnel will become Jammu and Kashmir’s lifeline

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Venezuela condemned after Congress annulled

Opposition leaders branded Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro a “dictator” after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy political standoff to new heights.

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Reuters

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Venezuela’s high court dissolves National Assembly

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CNN

Number of Syrian refugees surpasses 5 million

The number of refugees who have fled the war in Syria now exceeds five million with millions more displaced internally, according to the UN. Syrians have poured across their borders since anti-government protests in 2011 spiraled into a full-blown conflict.

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Al Jazeera

Israel OKs first W. Bank settlement In 20 years

The Israeli Security Cabinet has approved the construction of the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in 20 years, setting the stage for a confrontation with the Palestinians who bitterly oppose the project and claim the land as their own.

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NBCNews.com

Russia probe fallout grows ominous for Trump

The fallout over Russian election interference, already a major distraction for a flailing Trump White House, has grown more ominous with the unraveling of a White House cover story and the fired national security adviser’s announcement that he has “a story to tell.”

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NBCNews.com

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What is immunity and why does Michael Flynn want it?

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USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Remembering Gambia’s notorious Mile 2 Prison

Political prisoners of the former president, Yahya Jammeh, share stories of torture and life behind bars.

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Al Jazeera

Court condemns Greece over ‘forced labor’

Europe’s top human rights court accused Greece of failing to protect migrant workers who had been subject to “forced labour” and shot at by security guards when they protested over unpaid wages.

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Reuters

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Bangladeshi fruit pickers shot at by Greek farmers win human rights case

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Guardian

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Immigration crackdown enables worker exploitation, labor department staff say

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Guardian

Trump drops human rights demand in F-16s bid

The U.S. State Department told Congress it backs the sale of 19 Lockheed Martin Corp. F-16 fighters to Bahrain without preconditions on improved human rights previously demanded by the Obama administration, according to two people familiar with the proposal.

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GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Zuma faces backlash after S. African purge

South African President Jacob Zuma faced a widening public backlash from senior members of the ruling African National Congress including his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, after he fired his finance minister and made sweeping cabinet changes.

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Bloomberg

Assad’s overthrow no longer a priority for US

The United States has said that it is no longer focused on ousting President Bashar al-Assad as it seeks a new strategy to end Syria’s civil war.

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Al Jazeera

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In major shift, U.S. no longer pushing for Assad’s ouster

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CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Galaxy S8’s facial scanner easily tricked

Just days after Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S8’s new facial-scanning feature, someone has already successfully spoofed it. Bloggers at Marcianophone secured a S8 with their face and then tricked the phone with a selfie that was saved on another device.

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The Verge

Heart tissue grown on spinach leaves

Researchers face a fundamental challenge as they seek to scale up human tissue regeneration from small lab samples to full-size tissues and organs: how to establish a vascular system that delivers blood deep into the developing tissue. Researchers have successfully turned to plants.

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ScienceDaily

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Scientists create ‘beating’ human heart muscle for cardiac research

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Newly ID’d tyrannosaur had a sensitive side

Behind their ferocious façade, tyrannosaurs were probably a bit touchy-feely. A new species of tyrannosaur may have had highly sensitive organs in its face that could detect touch and temperature, researchers report.

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Science News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Climate change contributes to mental illness

Climate change isn’t just bad for the planet and for our bodies. According to a new report by the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica, climate change is bad for our mental health too.

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Popular Science

Fewer Zika-linked birth defects than expected

Scientists expected a surge of severe birth defects in Brazil because of last year’s Zika outbreak. But that didn’t happen. Researchers are re-examining the link.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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American carnage - all over the world

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Alliance with Syria tightens Russia’s ties with Iran

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Trump’s attack on the climate will fail, spectacularly

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How cartoonists around the world reacted to Article 50 and ‘Brexit Day’

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GOOD NEWS

The best April Fools’ Day pranks in history

April Fools’ Day has been around for a long, long, long time. In the hundreds of years since people first started celebrating it, at least one thing hasn’t changed: People are still gullible. Here are some of the best April Fools’ Day pranks from the last 300-plus years.

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Time

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AdWeek’s roundup of year’s best brand hoaxes

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AdWeek

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Google claims to unveil ‘Google Gnome’ for yard

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Customer kick-starts worker’s education

Popeye’s employee Shajuana Mays had a dream to go to nursing school but didn’t have the money for tuition. That all changed after one encounter with a customer, whose generosity made her dream a reality.

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NBCNews.com

Teacher raises $80K for bikes for school

In September 2016, right after Labor Day, Blomquist started a campaign on GoFundMe in hopes of raising $65,000 for the bicycles. She said today that she‘d initially come up with the idea to start the campaign for a student who wanted a bike that she couldn’t afford.

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ABC News

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

New nonprofit puts money over mission, ethics

On the Facebook page of the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives — or Nanoe — you’ll find a picture of its five board members holding up checks they’ve received for their services.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Men’s giving circles: How guys are stepping up

A common rap on men in philanthropy is that they’re more apt to operate in traditional hierarchical or ego-driven ways. We’re happy to report that this stereotype is overblown.

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Inside Philanthropy

BUSINESS

Apps empower wave of secrecy on Wall Street

Dirty jokes and NSFW GIFs. Snaps of unsuspecting colleagues on the trading floor. Screenshots of confidential client positions. All that ― and legally dubious information ― is increasingly being trafficked over the new private lines of Wall Street: encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal.

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Bloomberg

Major ISPs won’t sell browsing histories

Comcast Corp, Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc say they won’t sell customers’ individual Internet browsing information, days after the U.S. Congress approved legislation reversing Obama administration era internet privacy rules.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

El Salvador imposes ban on metal mining

Lawmakers in the water-parched country passed the ban in a unanimous vote on, declaring El Salvador a mining-free territory.

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Guardian

Air pollution kills 3,450,000 people a year

Air Pollution kills. A study released in the journal Nature found that in 2007, air pollution lead to the premature deaths of 3.45 million people worldwide—a number equivalent to the population of the state of Connecticut.

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Popular Science

Adani to mine coal near the Great Barrier Reef

The controversial coal mine project in Australia’s Queensland state is looking more likely to become a reality later this year. But it remains plagued by legal hurdles, environmental issues and fierce public opposition.

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Shot at an outdoor family session. The hands in the middle belong to twin 4-year-old boys. (Photo by RebeccaVC1) Photo used under CC BY

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