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Nigeria: Girls made to look beautiful and sent to die

Hundreds of young women, most of them teenagers, who have been abducted by militants in Nigeria are forced to carry out missions for them. They are sent into the crowds to blow themselves up.

BBC

Suicide bombers target northeast Nigeria in Boko Haram ‘fight-back’

News24

Chibok girls kidnapper Haruna Yahaya jailed in Nigeria

BBC

How UN aid ends up in hands of terrorists

An investigation has revealed how money given directly by the United Nations to people displaced by conflict and famine in Somalia is ending up in the hands of Africa’s oldest terrorist organization, al-Shabaab.

CNN

45 countries, 76 million people at risk of famine

Following unprecedented food assistance needs in 2017 and little improvement being anticipated in 2018, 45 countries may require emergency food assistance in 2018. This was contained in a report from Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

New Telegraph Newspaper

Millions caught between drought and al-Shabaab

Telegraph.co.uk

US workers march for union rights, living wage

Thousands of low-wage workers in nearly 50 cities took part in demonstrations to renew their demand for a $15 minimum wage and the right to join a union.

USA TODAY

What is behind rising number of child soldiers?

Child soldiers is a problem that shows no sign of ending, in fact, UN say it is getting worse. There are tens of thousands of children around the world putting their lives at risk.

Al Jazeera

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed

The killings in Inn Din village marked another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar’s western fringe. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages since August.

Channel NewsAsia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sex abuse by peacekeepers: UN admits failure

The UN’s children’s agency has admitted shortcomings in its humanitarian support to children who allege that they were raped and sexually abused by French peacekeepers.

Guardian

Nigeria jails first Chibok girls abductor

A Nigerian court has jailed a Boko Haram militant involved in the 2014 kidnapping of the Chibok girls. Haruna Yahaya, 35, is the first member of the group to be sentenced for playing a part in the mass abduction.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

US sends conflicting signals over N. Korea

The U.S. has appeared to endorse closer post-Olympics engagement between South and North Korea with an eye to eventual U.S.-North Korean talks, but has agreed with Seoul that sanctions must be intensified to push Pyongyang to end to its nuclear weapons program.

Reuters

UK judge upholds Assange arrest warrant

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will continue to face detention if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a British judge upheld a warrant for his arrest.

Guardian

Iraq: Reconstruction after ISIS war to cost $88B

Rebuilding Iraq after three years of war with Islamic State will cost more than $88 billion, with housing a particularly urgent priority, Iraqi officials told an international donors’ conference.

Reuters

Kuwait conference aims to raise funds to rebuild Iraq post-ISIS

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Genes remain active after death, study finds

Cells continue to function even after an individual dies. That’s according to a scientific study published in Nature Communications. Analysing post-mortem samples, an international team of scientists showed that some genes became more active after death.

BBC

How Apple plans to fix iPhone bugs

Apple’s annual software upgrade this fall will offer users plenty of new features: enabling a single set of apps to work across iPhones, iPads and Macs; a Digital Health tool to show parents how much time their children have been staring at their screen; and improvements to Animojis.

Bloomberg

GLOBAL HEALTH

Yemenis turn to herbal meds as prices soar

More than 70 percent of the population had access to healthcare before 2015. Now, none of the country’s major hospitals provide the same level of service as before.

Al Jazeera

Yemen: Displaced in Sanaa’s Old City

Al Jazeera

Opioid makers gave $10M to advocacy groups

Companies selling some of the most lucrative prescription painkillers funneled millions of dollars to advocacy groups that in turn promoted the medications’ use, according to a new report released by a U.S. senator.

PBS NewsHour

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GOOD NEWS

Olympic skaters celebrate love by competing

How’s this as the perfect script for an Olympic romance movie? Two people who met through sports, fell in love and were married, then overcame heartbreak and a life-threatening illness, will compete — together, as a pair — on Valentine’s Day?

USA TODAY

Godiva calls for end to ‘obligation chocolates’

In Japan, women are expected to give Valentine’s Day chocolates to their partners. And to their colleagues, friends, bosses and family members. These “obligation chocolates” are expensive, and not very romantic.

Forbes

NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPY

NGOs push back on ‘gag rule’ compliance

Global health organizations have criticized the U.S. State Department’s findings that most foreign NGOS comply with its reinstated Mexico City Policy. The “global gag rule” bars U.S. global health assistance to foreign NGOs that conduct or consult on abortions.

Devex

Bill, Melinda Gates focus on poverty in US

Bill and Melinda Gates, as the world’s top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider their unsatisfactory track record on schools, the country’s growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

EU: No trade deals without climate accord

The European Union will refuse to sign trade deals with countries that do not ratify the Paris climate change agreement and take steps to combat global warming, under a new Brussels policy.

The Independent

Report: Warming is accelerating sea level rise

At the current rate, the world’s oceans on average will be at least 2 feet higher by the end of the century compared to today, according to researchers who published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

FOX News

ECONOMY

Venezuela oil production is plummeting

Venezuela‘s main source of cash is dwindling at a breathtaking pace. The country’s oil output in January fell to its lowest level in nearly 30 years, not including a brief oil strike in 2003, according to S&P Global Platts.

CNNMoney

US oil output surge ‘reminiscent’ of run-up to 2014 crash

ABC News

Applebee’s apologizes for racial profiling

Applebee’s has fired three employees at a Missouri restaurant that it determined were involved in the racial profiling of two African-American customers, whom they falsely accused of skipping out on their tab.

USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

A student of the Safar School smiles while listening to local elders speak about security and education in Garmsir district in Helmand, Afghanistan. (Photo by DVIDSHUB / Reece Lodder) Photo used under CC BY

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