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A Yemeni child. An estimated 240,000 people are facing catastrophic levels of hunger in Yemen, a nation gripped by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The devastating conflict escalated in early 2015, when Houthi rebels forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad. (Photo by Dan) Photo used under CC BY

UN makes record appeal to aid starving Yemenis

A United Nations conference in Geneva is hoping to raise $4.2 billion to fund humanitarian operations in Yemen, where a civil war has left the country on the brink of famine. The UN aims to help 19 million people with its largest single country appeal.

BBC

Oxfam warns of families in Yemen taking desperate measures to survive

RTE News

Australian fashion firms exploit workers

Australian fashion companies use a “system of entrenched exploitation” that is trapping millions of garment workers in Bangladesh and Vietnam in poverty, campaigners have said.

Daily Sabah

Global inaction enables Mideast rights abuses

The international community’s “chilling complacency” towards human rights abuses in the Middle East last year gave authorities “free reign” to crackdown on dissent, a new Amnesty International report has said.

The Independent

Italy’s protection for trafficked women at risk

Thousands of Nigerian women could be expelled or left homeless as Salvini decree which seeks the abolition of humanitarian protection for those who are not eligible for refugee status, but cannot be deported.

Guardian

Agro firms in Africa could face land disputes

Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in decades-long legal disputes over land that could cost tens of millions of dollars as they could find that the land they are using is already claimed or occupied by local people, researchers said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Venezuela soldiers choose desertion

Dozens of soldiers in Venezuela have defected. Opposition leader Juan Guaidó appealed to the armed forces to allow aid in, promising amnesty to all officers who disown Maduro.

Euronews

Venezuela’s political battle over foreign aid turns to violent confrontation

PBS NewsHour

HUMAN RIGHTS

Drug offense executions more than halve in ’18

Human rights experts have hailed a sharp drop in executions for drug offenses in 2018. But the report warns that populist governments advocating use of death penalty may undermine global progress towards abolition.

Al Jazeera

Egypt activists condemn executions as illegal

Middle East Monitor

LGBT discrimination costs Kenya $1.3B a year

A culture of anti-LGBT discrimination could be costing Kenya up to $1.3 billion a year, that is, 1.7 percent of the country’s GDP, according to a new report.

Pink News

Tunisian government moves to shutter LGBTQ group

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

87% of Cubans ratify new socialist constitution

Cubans have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new constitution that enshrines the one-party system and ushers in a series of economic and social changes, according to government officials. Almost 87 percent voters ratified it.

CNN

Explainer: What is old and new in Cuba’s proposed constitution

Reuters

India launches overnight airstrikes on Pakistan

India says it has destroyed a militant camp in the Pakistani side of Kashmir in an overnight airstrike across the ceasefire border. The strike comes amidst heightened tensions after a militant attack killed 40 Indian troops.

YouTube

Celebrations, protests as India carries out air raids in Pakistan

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cloud loss could add 8 degrees to warming

Computer simulations have begun to suggest that as the Earth warms, clouds become scarcer. With fewer white surfaces reflecting sunlight, the Earth gets still warmer, leading to more cloud loss, further raising temperatures.

Quanta Magazine

At high enough CO2 levels, clouds will start to break apart

Science Alert

Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into coal

Researchers have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, in a world-first breakthrough that could transform our approach to carbon capture and storage.

PhysOrg

Researchers study global impact of coal power

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Opioid crisis engulfs blockaded Gaza Strip

An opioid crisis has spread in the Gaza Strip, trapping thousands in the hell of addiction and adding another layer of misery to the blockaded and impoverished coastal territory.

Associated Press

The surprising geography of opioid use around the world

Quartz

Japan battles decade’s worst measles outbreak

Japan is battling its worst measles outbreak in a decade, amid WHO warnings that global efforts to halt the spread of the disease were failing, in part due to vaccine-skepticism.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert W. Merry):

The increasing likelihood of a leftist US president

The American Conservative

Column (Amy Adamczyk and Christopher Thomas):

Why do so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana?

The Conversation

Editorial:

The Guardian view on Kashmir, the world’s most dangerous place

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Cookie buyer helps Girl Scouts get out of cold

A man in South Carolina has either a massive sweet tooth or just a warm heart after buying US$540 in Girl Scout cookies so the troop could pack up and get out of the cold.

Globalnews

Man restores, donates dozens of power wheelchairs - from a wheelchair

THV11

San Franciscans to get 100K free tulips

San Francisco will get a pop of color and a taste of Dutch culture next week with the deposit of 100,000 tulips in Union Square. Visitors are invited to pick their own bunch of tulips to take home for free.

SFGate

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

$13M Gates gift funds low-cost polio vaccine

A Dutch biopharmaceutical company has announced a $13.2 million grant from the Gates Foundation to manufacture clinical-grade inactivated polio vaccine (sIPV) using its low-cost polio vaccine manufacturing process.

Philanthropy News Digest

Activism spurs Columbia black studies unit

Columbia University approved its first African American and African Diaspora studies department last fall after decades of activism.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Future of food threatened as species disappear

The future of food supplies is under “severe threat” because of the number of animal and plant species fast disappearing, a United Nations report said, as the world grapples with how to feed a growing population.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Study: Lab-grown meat worse for environment

Vox

Can renewable energy save Uganda’s glacier?

The people at the foot of the Rwenzori glacier in Uganda want a switch to renewable energy to save the snow on the mountaintop, which is melting fast. Their goal: 100 percent green energy by 2020. Will they succeed?

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Can universal income help rural poor in US?

In central Appalachia, where one in four residents live below the federal poverty line, a Universal Basic Income could be a potential answer for generations of poverty.

Salon

Photo of the Day

Motorized tricycles, the equivalent of rickshaws, in Ilocos, the Philippines. These tricycles — motorcycles with little roofed sidecars — are found in most cities and towns in the Philippines. Tricycle drivers wait around in front of malls, restaurants and hotels, where they can command higher fares that tourists are willing to pay. (Photo by Bernard Spragg) Photo used under CC BY

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