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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

Helicopter comes to rescue of ship passengers stuck for a week in Antarctic ice

A helicopter rescued all 52 passengers from a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve after weather conditions finally cleared enough for the operation.

CBS News

South Sudan fighting continues ahead of talks

Fighting is continuing unabated in South Sudan as the two sides prepare to begin peace talks in Ethiopia. Both the government and rebels have sent negotiating teams.

BBC

Growing pains, old rivalries behind South Sudan conflict

Seattle Times

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9 questions about South Sudan you were too embarrassed to ask

(Washington Post)

WorldViews

Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate

The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Obama’s new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.

San Francisco Chronicle

Romania awakes to open borders: ‘Not many people are traveling today’

January 1 marked the first day in which Romanians and Bulgarians could travel to Britain to seek work. But there was no dash for the border.

Telegraph.co.uk

EU tries to calm fears of Bulgarian, Romanian exodus

EurActiv.com

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

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

Israel pushes for African migrant deportation

African asylum seekers say Israeli efforts to repatriate them violate their human rights. “Deferred deportation” designation protects people from repatriation, but doesn’t provide them with any social rights in Israel.

Al Jazeera

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

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

China factories lose some of their mojo

China‘s factories lost some momentum, adding to worries that growth in the world’s second-largest economy may soften in the new year.

CNNMoney

Blog:

China’s manufacturing sector runs into trouble

Wall Street Journal

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

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Government must supply minimum water to all, says Delhi CM Kejriwal

The chief minister of the Indian state of Delhi defended his decision of providing up to 20kl of free water each month to some families by saying it was the government’s duty to ensure water supply.

Economic Times

Delhi households to receive free tap water

Al Jazeera

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Syrian Electronic Army’ hacks Skype’s Twitter and blog accounts

The self-styled “Syrian Electronic Army” hacking group has embarrassed Microsoft’s Skype messaging service after taking over its Twitter, Facebook and blog.

Guardian

Trials to begin on new degradable surgical implant

Researchers have developed a degradable implant which they say has huge potential to improve surgical success rates. The protective patch, which wraps soft tissue, will be trialed in patients with shoulder injuries.

BBC

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

Editorial:

Bombings bode ill for Olympic security

Japan Times

Editorial:

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

An unexpected gift from a controversial tweet

Aid for Africa, a coalition of small American charities, didn’t set out to reap financial benefit from a racist comment that attracted global attention just before the Christmas holiday.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Charity begins on your phone: East Africans buoyed by novel way of giving

“We’re totally different,” enthuses Paul Niehaus, co-founder of GiveDirectly, a non-profit that uses mobile money technology to transfer cash directly from donors to some of east Africa’s poorest people.

Gulf News

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

ENVIRONMENT

Plastic found beneath the Thames Estuary river

Thousands of plastic pieces were discovered submerged along the river bed of the once cleaned upper Thames Estuary by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Natural History Museum.

Environment News Service

How mass-produced meat turned phosphorus into pollution

NPR

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

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

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