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Honduran migrants wait near Mexico City to jump freight trains that will bring them up through Mexico and potentially to the U.S. (Photo by Amy Marie Phillips)

Central America migrants flee turf wars for refuge in Mexico

Extreme violence in Central America is sending a surge of refugees north to Mexico where they are caught between official indifference and yet more danger if they continue to the U.S., human rights activists say.

Guardian

Nearly 50,000 migrants have died in Mexico on the way to the US since 2007

Quartz

Japan’s homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

Japan is recruiting people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout.

Reuters

Volgograd blasts: Putin vows to ‘annihilate terrorists’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to fight “terrorists until their complete annihilation”, in his first comment on two suicide attacks in the southern city of Volgograd.

BBC

Fleeing anti-gay law, Russians head to New York

Al Jazeera

Volgograd suicide bombing kills at least 15

RT.com

13 states raising pay for minimum-wage workers

The retail worker strikes that swept the nation in 2013 did not move Congress to raise the minimum wage, but a growing number of states are taking action.

USA TODAY

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Haiti minimum wage increase ignites competition row in textile industry

(Guardian)

Poverty Matters

Philippines and Indonesia: Children mine for gold at great risk to their health

Mercury use in gold mining is widespread in the Philippines and Indonesia, where child labor is common and small-scale miners operate freely.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Civilians ‘going without food’ in South Sudan UN camp

At least 7,000 civilians, including vulnerable orphans, are going without food inside a United Nations camp in South Sudan as they shelter from the country’s civil war.

Telegraph.co.uk

UN moves on political and peacekeeping fronts to end South Sudan fighting

The Nation

Aid helps the poor more than advice, study says

Poor people really do tend to make worse financial decisions than rich people, but it‘s not for lack of good advice. It’s because they’re poor, says a new study.

San Francisco Chronicle

HUMAN RIGHTS

NGO accuses Israel of torturing Palestinian children during winter storm

An NGO accused Israel of torturing Palestinian children suspected of minor crimes, including placing them in outdoor cages during a winter storm, and of other acts designed to terrify the children.

Jerusalem Post

Uighur men held for 12 years leave Guantánamo Bay for Slovakia

12 years of detention without trial have ended for three men from China, who have left Guantánamo Bay for Slovakia, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Latvia brings dirty money trouble to EU

When Latvia adopts the euro, it will bring with it a banking sector that is swelling with suspicious money from Russia and the East — just as the currency bloc is trying to clamp down on such havens.

Japan Times

Latvia hopes euro will bring stability

BBC

China’s IPO market reopens

After a freeze of more than a year, China has reopened the market for initial public offerings, allowing five companies to pitch IPOs to investors.

Wall Street Journal

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

PM urges unity, Abhisit lauds change

Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has urged unity, asking Thais to pray together, unite and love each and those with different political views, and to reconcile for the benefit of the country.

Bangkok Post

Thai political crisis worsens

MarketWatch

North Korean leader says purge was a cleansing of ‘filth’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first reference to the execution of his powerful uncle, saying the reclusive state’s ruling party had become stronger after it was purged of “factional filth.”

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why a safety device that can stop overdoses by kids isn’t widely used

A flow restrictor on liquid medicine bottles could prevent accidental ingestions, but drugmakers have yet to promise or deliver such protection on many pediatric medicines.

Scientific American

Researchers use Hubble Telescope to reveal cloudy weather on alien world

A team of scientists report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Galya Benarieh Ruffer):

Echoes of Palestinian partition in Syrian refugee crisis

Al Jazeera

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Bombings bode ill for Olympic security

Japan Times

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What 2013 taught economists about infant mortality and austerity

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

In Afghanistan, Jan. 1 is everyone’s birthday

January 1 isn’t celebrated as the beginning of the year, but since the American invasion, it’s become a new kind of holiday — a de facto birthday for thousands of Afghans who don’t know when they were born.

Seattle Times

5 winning moments for the environment in 2013

While Congress may have been downright hostile to environmental concerns this year, President Obama has stepped up, and environmental groups have had some big successes.

Care2

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Pakistani NGOs fear new constraints

A new policy by the Pakistani government to regulate foreign-funded NGOs has been sharply criticized. Many suggest the policy could stifle rights-based groups and affect crucial services for the needy.

Al Jazeera

Hamdy al-Azazy helps victims of human trafficking in Egypt

Hamdy al-Azazy founded the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights in Egypt after learning of the hardships and vulnerabilities of African refugees trying to reach the Israeli border.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

27 eagle deaths in Utah caused by West Nile Virus

The mystery illness that has killed 27 bald eagles in Utah this month appears to be West Nile Virus, state officials said.

Seattle Times

Federal flood insurance program drowning in debt. Who will pay?

Millions of property owners have government flood insurance. But over the past decade, the government has paid out huge amounts of money after floods, and the flood insurance program is deeply in the red.

NPR

Planet likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn

Temperature rises resulting from unchecked climate change will be at the severe end of those projected by 2100, according to a new scientific study.

Guardian

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6 things we learned about our changing climate in 2013

Smithsonian Magazine

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After a much anticipated rain, a rainbow appears over Tekoa, Israel. (Photo by Betty Nudler)

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