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Millions of children in school but not learning, study finds

More than 260 million children worldwide are out of school, yet more than half of those in education are not learning, the World Bank has warned as it sounds alarm bell over what it calls a “learning crisis.”

Guardian

South Sudan: war deprives children of education

Al Jazeera

‘Global Gag Rule’ is impacting women’s health

In just one year since the “Global Gag Rule” has been reinstated, health care workers say clinics are shutting down, unsafe abortions are predicted to rise sharply and families are losing critical services across the globe.

TIME

Impact of ’global gag rule’ goes beyond abortion for these health groups in Kenya

PBS

Media crackdown imperils democracy in Kenya

Kenyan security forces shut down the country’s top three independent news stations before the opposition leader defied government threats and declared himself president. The crackdown has raised doubts about a country that’s been a stalwart of democracy on the continent.

NPR

UN calls on Kenya to end TV station suspension

Al Jazeera

Seattle using new anti-homeless architecture

Seattle has plenty of examples of hostile architecture like mid-bench arm rests to prevent lying down or the use of ‘leaning benches’ at bus stops – where the angled rests allow people to lean back, but there is no seat.

Guardian

China’s horrific foot-binding images released

Shocking images have been released that show the harsh reality of the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding. Carried out on girls as young as four, the practice involves breaking toes to manipulate the feet into a lotus shape.

The Independent

Asylum seekers stranded in Greek camps

The European Union’s inability to agree on how to manage migration has turned some of Greece’s Aegean islands into squalid dumping grounds for asylum seekers.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

More Rohingya mass graves found in Myanmar

The graves are the newest piece of evidence for what looks increasingly like a genocide in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state against the Rohingya, a long-persecuted ethnic Muslim minority in the predominantly Buddhist country.

CBC News

Twin blasts orphaned 1,500 Somali children

Somalia has suffered countless bomb attacks over the years, but the twin explosions in Mogadishu three months ago were the largest ever, killing more than 500 people.

Al Jazeera

Government plans to reduce famine threat

Al Jazeera

Canada ordered to fund indigenous child welfare

The Canadian government has failed to implement a legally binding decision ordering it to provide equitable funding for Indigenous child welfare services, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has said.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Treasury: US sanctions on Russia spell trouble

The U.S. Treasury Department warned that Russia’s sovereign debt market is too important to sanction without risking global financial turmoil, signaling the Trump administration is wary of targeting it for penalties.

Bloomberg

Prominent Putin critic, Alexei Navalny, arrested

NPR

Tillerson raises prospect of Maduro ouster

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson raised the prospect that the Venezuelan military could decide to oust President Nicolas Maduro. He said he did not know whether that would happen.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sprawling Maya network found in Guatemala

Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications.

BBC

Microscopic fungus could mop up nuke waste

It turns out our best bet for containing radioactive waste might be to stick yeast on it. Many of these tiny fungi can survive extremely radioactive and acidic conditions, scientists reported in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.

Popular Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Venezuela’s health care system set to collapse

The death of a former major league baseball player in his native Venezuela this week is renewing concerns over the Latin American country’s growing health crisis amid ongoing economic and political turmoil.

NPR

Venezuela‘s government in denial as doctors warn of return to medical ’stone age’

Euronews

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GOOD NEWS

7-year-old rescues family from house fire

Tracy Durant said she remembered the fire safety tips she learned in school when her family’s Escambia County home caught on fire, according to reports.

ABC News

Friends find out they’re brothers after 60-year

Walter MacFarlane and Alan Robinson have been friends for more than 60 years, but neither knew their biological parents. While tracing their ancestry with DNA-matching sites, they found out they were brothers.

Today

NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPY

Most charities teetering on financial peril

Nonprofits account for more than 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 10 percent of the workforce yet half of them have cash reserves of less than a month, and almost a third lost money over three years. More than one in 12 are technically insolvent.

NonProfit Times

Why Super Bowl ads are touting philanthropy

Hyundai is using an expensive ad spot in the game to plug an organization dedicated to fighting childhood cancer, following the decision by Anheuser-Busch InBev to dedicate two big-game berths to its philanthropic efforts.

AdAge

ENVIRONMENT

US, Poland oppose Russia-Germany pipeline

The United States and Poland took a strong stand against a planned gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany, saying it is part of a Kremlin scheme to politicize energy and undermine attempts to make Europe less dependent on Moscow.

ABC News

Social media steps in to ease water crisis

As Cape Town braces for “Day Zero” — the day when it will run out of water — a grassroots campaign to donate water to the South African city’s residents, originated on WhatsApp, has become a social media phenomenon.

CNN

Climate change threatens half of US bases

Nearly half of US military sites are threatened by wild weather linked to climate change, according to a new Pentagon study whose findings run contrary to White House views on global warming.

Guardian

ECONOMY

UK economy will be worse off after Brexit,

A forecast prepared for the British government reportedly says the economy will be worse off after the country leaves the European Union whatever trade deal is struck with the bloc.

CBC News

Israel, Lebanon clash over offshore energy

Israel described as “very provocative” on a Lebanese offshore oil and gas exploration tender in disputed territory on the countries’ maritime border, and said it was a mistake for international firms to participate.

Reuters

$530M cryptocurrency heist may be record

A cryptocurrency exchange in Japan is coming under government scrutiny after it said hackers stole $530 million from its users. The exchange, Coincheck, has promised to partially refund the 260,000 cryptocurrency investors affected by the theft.

CNNMoney

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