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Syrian kids at refugee camp. The deadly toll of the Syrian war on kids has only climbed in recent years, per the United Nations children’s agency. Last year was the deadliest ever for children caught in the Syrian conflict, according to UNICEF. (Photo by Caroline Gluck/Oxfam) Photo used under CC BY

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Record number of Syrian children died in 2018: UN

In 2018 an estimated 1,106 children were killed amid the fighting ― the most since the war started, according to UNICEF.

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Huffington Post

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Syrian camps: Vulnerable children of ISIS ignored by the outside world

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Guardian

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UN warns against stigmatizing ‘caliphate’ children

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Digital Journal

Blackout is last straw for some Venezuelans

Venezuelans, already trying to cope with unemployment, hyperinflation and food and medicine shortages, are now forced to struggle without power. Some, who had been putting off leaving the country consider the blackout the last straw.

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Al Jazeera

Research shows pollution killing more than smoking

Air pollution is killing more people every year than smoking, according to research that called for urgent action to stop burning fossil fuels. Air pollution caused an estimated 8.8 million extra deaths in 2015.

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Reuters

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India’s youth want cleaner air, better infrastructure

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US envoy calls China’s Muslim camps ‘horrific’

Describing China’s internment of an estimated 1 million Muslims as a “horrific situation,” a U.S. envoy on religion called for an independent investigation into the detentions.

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FOX News

DRC violence likely crime against humanity

A UN investigation says ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo last year that killed at least 500 people may amount to crimes against humanity.

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BBC

Violence sparks human crisis in Burkina Faso

The conflict in Burkina Faso has forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes, more than half in the last two months alone, according to the United Nations.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Why is violence increasing in Burkina Faso?

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Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Central America confronts war crimes amnesty

Opposition grows to legislative initiatives in Guatemala and El Salvador that would set war criminals guilty of forced disappearance, rape, massacres and other war-time atrocities, free.

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Al Jazeera

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Madhya Pradesh: The Indian state with most death row cases

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Al Jazeera

UN Security Council urges Yemen peace deal

The UN Security Council urged Yemen’s warring parties to implement a peace deal in the port city of Hodeidah, a move they hope will lead to an end of the four-year-old conflict.

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Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Malaysia offers ‘ISIS’ citizens conditional return

While some countries are attempting to strip former ISIS fighters off citizenship, Malaysia says its citizens can come back, if they comply with checks, enforcement and complete a one-month government-run rehabilitation program.

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Al Jazeera

N. Korean ‘sham’ election had 99.99% turnout

North Korea’s state media claims the turnout in the country’s recent rubber-stamp election was 99.99 percent – up from 99.97 percent in 2014 – and said it would have been 100 percent if not for the citizens currently abroad.

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FOX News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

First person on Mars is likely to be a woman

Although NASA’s head Jim Bridenstine did not identify a specific person, he said on a radio show that women are at the forefront of the agency’s upcoming plans, and that a woman is “likely to be” the first person on Mars.

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CNN

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2 astronauts are scheduled for the first all-female spacewalk in history

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CNN

Web’s taking a downward plunge, creator warns

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web’s inventor, decries the spread of misinformation and user manipulation, warning global action is required to tackle the web’s “downward plunge to a dysfunctional future.”

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BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated, after a surge in measles cases. Parents can be fined up to $560 if they send their unvaccinated children to school.

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Vaccines are definitely not linked to autism, and other facts you can throw at anti-vaxers

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USA TODAY

FDA approves new drug to treat depression

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug, that can relieve depression in hours instead of weeks. Called Esketamine, it is a chemical cousin of the anesthetic and party drug ketamine.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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After Leaving Neverland, the people behind social media ‘kidfluencers’ skate perilously close to child abuse

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The Independent

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Robot overlords wouldn’t be the worst

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Bloomberg

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Prioritizing ISIS over survivors?

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Latest challenge encouraging people to clean

People are encouraging others to fight against litter with the #TrashTag challenge by urging people to grab supplies like gloves and a garbage bag, pick up litter in their community and post a before and after picture.

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Greenmatters

Grad gets congratulatory telegram in 50 years

A man who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1969 has finally received a congratulatory telegram from family friends that was sent more than 50 years ago.

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Associated Press

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Heartwarming moment as officer sings to scared girl

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ABC News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

WWF accused of funding abusive paramilitary

The World Wildlife Fund has launched an investigation into claims that it funds, equips and works with paramilitary forces accused of serious abuses against people in Africa and Asia’s national parks.

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Guardian

Indian NGO eyes 100M tree plantation by 2025

The Green Yatra NGO aims to increase India’s green cover by using the Japanese plantation method of Miyawaki. Currently growing 12,000 trees in one acre, the NGO wants to plant 100 million trees by 2025.

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The Logical Indian

ENVIRONMENT

Australian tool identifies end of winter by 2050

A new climate tool that visualizes data shows by 2050, Australians will no longer enjoy winter as they know it today and will experience a new season the tool’s designers are calling “New Summer”.

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Phys.org

New icebergs rupture in Patagonia, raise alarm

Scientists say rising temperatures have caused new icebergs to break off the Grey Glacier in Chile’s Patagonia, amid fears that such ruptures are becoming more frequent.

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Reuters

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Science explains Antarctica’s green icebergs

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LiveScience

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Iraqi youth fight unemployment with start-ups

Stuck between an endless waitlist for a government job and a frail private sector, Iraqi entrepreneurs are taking on staggering unemployment by establishing start-ups.

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Phys.org

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India’s engineers struggle for work as jobs crisis worsens

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Reuters

Study finds unions boost area workers’ wages

A new labor-backed study says unions are effective at boosting wages for all workers in the region, but cautions that a changing economy is altering the outlook for the region’s jobs and what they pay.

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Buffalo News

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Girls from Sana’a, one of the largest cities in Yemen. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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