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The rows of white houses in Culiacán, Mexico hide Sinaloa‘s high unemployment. With drug cartel leader El Chapo arrested, many people wonder about the region’s future without cartel money. (Photo by Enrique Lopéz-Tamayo Biosca)

Mexican drug lord’s reach stretches to Chicago streets

Drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman is one of the major villains in Chicago‘s heroin epidemic, and his recent arrest is sparking a debate over how the city’s drug trade will be affected.

NPR

Boko Haram in Nigeria accused of killing sleeping children

Militants have killed an estimated 40 pupils in a pre-dawn attack on a Nigerian school, setting ablaze a locked hostel then shooting and slitting the throats of those who escaped through windows.

Guardian

Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists?

BBC

Scientists discover a whale graveyard beside the Pan-American Highway

Scientists have discovered a whale graveyard near the Pan-American Highway in Chile. They may be able now to determine how so many animals were preserved in one location over five million years ago.

French Tribune

Armed groups surround thousands in C.A.R

Over 15,000 people in Central African Republic, mostly Muslim civilians in makeshift camps, are surrounded and being threatened by armed militia groups, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency said.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Central African Republic orphans walk to safety alone

ABC News

Ukraine ex-aide shot; No new govt before Thursday

Pprotests in the country’s pro-Russian region of Crimea and the shooting of a top aide to fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych — a man despised by protesters — have raised fears of divisions and retaliation.

BusinessWeek

Ugandan ‘homosexuals’ named in Red Pepper paper

A Ugandan tabloid has named the country’s “200 top homosexuals”, a day after President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill toughening penalties for gay people.

BBC

How US evangelical missionaries wage war on gay people in Uganda

Guardian

In Venezuela protests, both sides draw battle lines — but call for peace

In a nationally televised government meeting, Maduro said he was convening a peace conference for mayors, governors and leading lawmakers to sign a deal renouncing violence.

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Syria aid still stalled after UN resolution

World powers have passed a landmark Security Council resolution demanding an end to restrictions on humanitarian operations in Syria, but aid workers doubt it has the punch to make Damascus grant access.

Reuters

George Lucas adds $25 million to Chicago education giving

Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, investment executive Mellody Hobson, have pledged $25 million to the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for construction of an arts building.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sri Lanka rejects call for war crimes probe

Sri Lanka has rejected a United Nations call for an international investigation into alleged war crimes committed by both sides during Sri Lanka’s civil war that ended in 2009.

Al Jazeera

Central American women put their lives on the line for human rights

IM-Defensoras is a three-year-old effort to provide women rights defenders in the region with protection mechanisms that are gender-sensitive and adapted to different contexts.

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Tanzania: Coffee remains crucial crop despite low output

Official figures from the Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) shows that the annual coffee production capacity is around one million bags compared to 50 million bags produced in Brazil alone.

allAfrica.com

South Korea committee to prepare for reunification with North

South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has announced a committee to prepare for reunification with North Korea in the distant future. President Park said unifying with the north would be an economic bonanza.

Voice of America

Korean reunions spark questions over fate of abductees

Financial Times

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

After Ukraine’s Maidan, a bigger crackdown in Moscow?

Ukraine‘s Maidan movement has caught the attention of Russians and there are signs the Kremlin is moving to further constrict the country’s political space.

Christian Science Monitor

Ukraine: Country’s new rulers ‘gun-toting mutineers’ says Russia

The Independent

US expelling 3 Venezuelan diplomats

The Obama administration said that it has expelled three Venezuelan diplomats in response to similar action against three U.S. consular officials in Caracas.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Use your Android phone to cure cancer

Smartphone manufacturer HTC has announced “Power to Give,” a new initiative that harnesses the collective processing power smartphones to solve scientific challenges.

Time

Imperfect but overdue: Malaria vaccine trial brings hope to millions

A hospital in Agogo is one of 11 centers in seven sub-Saharan countries where scientists are carrying out trials of the most advanced malaria vaccine. Even at the half-way point, the results are encouraging.

ITV

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Ian Lang):

Volcanic gasses keeping global warming at bay

Slate

Column (Marina Yannakoudakis):

Why the European Parliament has got the sex trade all wrong

Huffington Post

Column (Helena Malikyar):

Afghan women: No turning back

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

A credit card that steers consumers out of debt

The Trust Card, or ‘un-credit card,’ helps low-income borrowers shed unhealthy debt and stay out of debt while accessing affordable credit.

Christian Science Monitor

Hate groups decline in US

Demoralized by the reelection of President Barack Obama but calmed by Washington’s failure to enact new gun control laws, hate groups are on the decline in the United States.

TIME

Obesity rates drop for 2- to 5-year-olds

Obesity rates in children 2 to 5 years old have decreased significantly over the past decade, according to a new study.

CNN

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Oxfam raises alarm over humanitarian access as it pulls team out of Malakal

Oxfam withdraws four aid workers who have been trapped by fighting in Malakal, South Africa while raising a further alarm over a lack of humanitarian access across the country.

allAfrica.com

Pancreatic cancer charity’s ad could face investigation after 118 complaints

A controversial advert by a pancreatic cancer charity that showed patients wishing they had less a deadly form of the disease could face an investigation after receiving more than 100 complaints.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

As glaciers retreat in North India, rivers shrink and floods grow

The Tawi River once surged through the city of Jammu so deep and swift that residents were forced to take a boat to get across. It is now barely knee deep, its bed a dumping ground for city waste.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Rising temperatures blamed for Peruvian glacier retreat

Science World Report

Beijing smog prompts World Health Organisation to declare crisis

A thick blanket of smog covering much of northern China has led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a crisis.

The ABC

China looks for blue-sky solutions as smog worsens

CNN

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A rescued Florida panther kitten tries to nurse from the fingers of a handler. (Photo by Carli Segelson/ FWC)

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