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A girl leaning on the wall in Maradi, Niger. The tradition of child marriage in Niger jeopardises the future of the young girls forced into such marriages and endangers their health. (Photo by Eric Haglund) Photo used under CC BY

Forced at 15: Can child marriage cure poverty?

The West African country of Niger has highest rate of child marriage in the world. Poverty is one of the major factors in the prevalence of such marriages. Half of the country’s population lives on less than two dollars a day.

Al Jazeera

Child abductions rise amid S. Sudan civil war

Kidnappings among rival tribes rise as South Sudan’s civil war leaves people desperate and hungry; children are sold for cattle, for marriage, for childless families.

ABC News

Over 300 child soldiers freed in South Sudan

Huffington Post

UN: 83 children were slain in war zones in January

At least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January, most of them in Syria, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said, vowing their voices “will never be silenced.”

Gulf News

Carnage continues in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta

Gulf News

India: The fight to end ‘virginity test’ on women

If woman does not bleed during intercourse, grooms are allowed to annul marriage, claiming wives have not “proven” purity.

Independent

War gives rise to new class of ‘untouchables’

The conflict in Yemen has had a devastating impact on ordinary Yemenis. Fighting has killed at least 10,000 people, wounded tens of thousands of others and forced more than one million from their homes.

Al Jazeera

Yemen war: Surviving winter without a home

Al Jazeera

Poland signs controversial Holocaust bill

The law would make it illegal to accuse the nation of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany, including the Holocaust.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Bermuda repeals same-sex marriage

Bermuda has become the first country to legalize and then repeal same-sex marriage, in what critics have called an unprecedented rollback of civil rights by the British territory.

Guardian

Australia to issue apology for child sex abuse

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he will offer a national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse this year.

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

N. Korea says no US talks planned at Olympics

North Korea has no intention of meeting U.S. officials during the Winter Olympics, state media said, dampening hopes the Games will help resolve a tense standoff over the North’s nuclear weapons program.

Reuters

Kim Jong Un watches parade of North Korean tanks, missiles and troops

CNN

Bangladesh’s ex-PM jailed for graft

Bangladesh opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia was jailed for corruption but plans to appeal her five-year term, her lawyer said, as thousands of supporters took to the streets to protest her innocence.

U.S. News & World Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Second man undergoes gene editing

A second patient has been treated in a historic gene editing study in California, and no major side effects or safety issues have emerged from the first man’s treatment nearly three months ago, doctors revealed.

ABC News

Face of first Brit revealed: Dark hair and skin

Researchers have revealed the face of “Cheddar Man,” Britain’s oldest nearly complete skeleton at 10,000 years old, with unprecedented accuracy. The results indicate that Cheddar Man had blue eyes, dark-colored curly hair and “dark to black” skin pigmentation.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Guinea reports Lassa fever death

Authorities in Guinea announced the first death from Lassa fever in more than two decades, heightening anxiety about another hemorrhagic fever in the West African country where an Ebola epidemic first emerged.

ABC News

Spread of breast cancer linked to asparagine

Researchers are investigating whether a change in diet could help patients with breast tumours after studies in mice showed that asparagine, a compound first identified in asparagus but present in many other foods, drives the spread of the disease to other organs.

Guardian

Study: Drowsy driving major factor in crashes

Drowsy drivers are a bigger risk factor in vehicle accidents than previously thought, according to a study published recently. And the problem gets worse when darkness falls.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Children’s hospital flooded with valentines

There are about 500 patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and they’re being showered with Valentine’s Day messages from around the world. The hospital has a program set up where Valentine’s Day messages can be sent digitally.

The Week Magazine

NY’s homeless soon to have free supplies

People who are homeless in New York City will be the first in the country to have access to free vending machines, dispensing items like food, socks, shampoo, books and more.

WBUR

Drake donates $50,000 to Miami homeless shelter for women, kids

Billboard

NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPY

Donors pay little attention to overhead costs

Most donors believe that the typical nonprofit organization spends too much on overhead, administration, and fundraising, but they often have no idea what their own favorite charity spends, a study from Grey Matter Research and Opinions4Good finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

Houston billionaire couple gives hospital $25M

Houston billionaires Fayez and Susan Sarofim have donated $25 million to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, the largest gift in the hospital’s history.

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

EPA head says global warming may be good

Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has suggested that global warming may be beneficial to humans, in his latest departure from mainstream climate science.

Guardian

Plastic waste ‘building up’ in Arctic

Plastic waste is building up in the supposedly pristine wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, scientists say. Researchers are particularly concerned about huge concentrations of microplastic fragments in sea ice.

BBC

Plastic bottle scheme that could help clean the oceans

BBC

ECONOMY

European bank caught laundering drug money

A European bank has been caught laundering money for the Mexican drug trade, and trying to cover it up. Rabobank has been fined $369 million by the U.S. government after admitting it handled millions in illicit funds.

CNNMoney

US jobless claims drop to near 45-year low

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, dropping to its lowest level in nearly 45 years as the labor market tightened further, bolstering expectations of faster wage growth this year.

Reuters

US economy fundamentally strong despite stock market plunge

ABC News

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Afghan children play just outside a military base in Kabul. (Photo by DVIDSHUB / Sgt. Catherine Threat) Photo used under CC BY

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