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Nearly one million people from the Central African Republic have fled their homes. Many stay at makeshift camps like the one at the back of the picture, with limited access to basic services. (Photo by Jean-Pierre Mustin/ EU/ ECHO)

‘Mother Courage’ fights to bring peace where men have failed

The first female leader of CAR, and only the third in Africa, has inherited a hellish legacy that leaves her trying to pull the country back from the brink of civil war.

Guardian

Can the CAR’s 1st female leader fend off genocide?

The Atlantic

Legacy of forced march still haunts Navajo nation

Starting in 1864, 9,500 Navajo and 500 Mescalero Apache were forced by the U.S. Army to walk 400 miles from northern Arizona to eastern New Mexico; like the Trail of Tears, thousands died.

NPR

Navajos recall long path to voting rights

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Syria peace talks: deal for women and children

Syrian negotiators have reached their first deal in peace talks in Geneva, an agreement to allow women and children to escape the siege of rebel-held districts of the city of Homs.

Telegraph.co.uk

Syrian refugees focus on survival, not Geneva

Al Jazeera

At least 49 dead in Egypt as throngs commemorate revolution

At least 49 people were killed and 247 wounded in violence marking the third anniversary of the revolution, Egyptian state media said.

CNN

Blog:

3 years after Egypt’s revolution, a sweeping crackdown on dissent

(Christian Science Monitor)

Security Watch

Egypt’s tumult told by the art it inspired

Al Jazeera

Obama focuses on inequality, unemployment in State of the Union

President Obama will confront a divided Congress with a demand to expand economic mobility, asserting in his address that he will take action if lawmakers fail to help shrink the income gap.

Al Jazeera

‘If I didn’t sell drugs, I’d be dead’: what it’s like to lose unemployment benefits

Mother Jones

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Charity: when doing good means you’re bad

The idea that a good act doesn’t count if the actor benefits as well is known as “tainted altruism,” and it can cause real harm, say Yale University professors in a new study.

TIME

‘Nothing is fixed’: Recovery is slow in typhoon-hit Philippine city

There has been a lot of cleanup since the storm, and even some of the greenery is coming back. But many areas still lack electricity and recovery efforts are far from finished.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gay Nigerians targeted as ‘un-African’

Despite evidence of homosexual customs pre-dating the colonial era, intolerant laws are flourishing across Africa.

Al Jazeera

Gays in Africa face rise in state-sponsored homophobia

Toronto Star

As Ukraine protests grow, slain demonstrators mourned

Thousands of Ukrainians chanted “Hero!” and sang the national anthem, as a coffin carrying a protester who was killed in clashes with police was carried through the streets of the capital.

CBS News

Fire and fury at Ukraine protests

Telegraph.co.uk

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Japan posts record $112 billion trade deficit in 2013

Japan‘s trade deficit surged to a record 11.47 trillion yen ($112 billion) in 2013 as the shutdown of nuclear power plants swelled the nation’s energy import bill.

San Francisco Chronicle

How Vietnam became a coffee giant

Vietnam is the world’s second largest exporter. How did its market share jump from 0.1 to 20 percent in just 30 years, and how has this rapid change affected the country?

BBC

Vietnamese coffee premium vanishes on selling before Tet holiday

BusinessWeek

Pride and trepidation in Latvia as it swaps to euros

Latvia became the eurozone’s newest member, its latest step into the European sphere. But it is also the poorest euro-using country, and still dependent on Russia.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Defying emergency rule, Thai protesters block polling stations in Bangkok

Antigovernment protesters in Thailand succeeded in disrupting advance voting in parliamentary elections, defying a state of emergency declared by embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

(Christian Science Monitor)

Security Watch

Thai court says election can be postponed

CNN

Philippines reaches peace deal with Muslim rebels

The Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim rebel group reached a deal to end four decades of fighting that has killed tens of thousands of people and helped foster Islamic extremism in Southeast Asia.

Huffington Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Body’s response to disease has a smell, study suggests

A new study suggests that sickness does actually have a unique odor — that of the overactive immune system. And other humans can actually smell when someone is fighting off an infection.

San Francisco Chronicle

Polar bears changed their diet to survive climate change

Polar bears in the western Hudson Bay area have become more flexible with their diet due to climate change.

HNGN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Jacki Lyden):

Violence abroad threatens students, as do guns at US schools

NPR

Column (Dave Sherman):

No, Thailand’s protesters don’t want ‘less democracy’

Guardian

Blog (Faris Alikhan):

Syria highlights the enduring problem of failed states

(U.S. News & World Report)

World Report

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GOOD NEWS

Australian tycoon wants Pakistan to free its slaves in return for coal

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest thinks he might have the answer to Pakistan’s energy shortage, and wants coal in exchange.

TIME

Portuguese architect designs lockers for the homeless

In Lisbon, Portugal, stands a set of 12 metal lockers. The lockers represent a pilot project designed by Portuguese architect Duarte Paiva as a way to safeguard the possessions of the homeless.

Difference Maker

(Christian Science Monitor)

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Russia: Constitutional court to review NGO foreign agent law

Russia’s Constitutional Court is to review a controversial law requiring civil society groups to register as “foreign agents” if they receive funding from abroad.

Moscow Times

EU Commission’s Humanitarian Office grants UNICEF Sudan $2.74 million

UNICEF Sudan will receive $2.74 million from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Office to help in the fight against child malnutrition in Sudan.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

Pope preparing major statement on ecology, Vatican says

Pope Francis, who took his name from the saint seen as the patron of the animals and the environment, is writing an encyclical on man’s relationship with nature, the Vatican said.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Grape expectations: climate change and the wine industry

Signature wines produced in some of the world’s most famous regions, such as Champagne or Bordeaux, will probably lose some of their quality as temperature changes will make it difficult to grow grapes.

Science News

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A man watches the sun set in Punta del Diablo. (Photo by Mark Veraart)

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