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Unrest continues in Kiev, Ukraine, over a trade deal denied with Europe in favor of strengthening ties to Russia. (Photo by Ivan Bandura)

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Inside the Kiev Crackdown

Ukraine’s government is busing riot police into the capital as mass protests continue to roil the streets and activists brace for violence.

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Daily Beast

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Clashes as police try to dislodge Kiev protesters

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BBC

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Live stream: Hundreds of police storm protest camps in Ukraine

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The Rundown (PBS NewsHour)

Indian top court says gay sex is an offense

India’s Supreme Court has upheld a law criminalizing gay sex, setting aside a landmark lower court decision in 2009 which had overturned the colonial-era ban on homosexuality.

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Al Jazeera

Syrian army captures key town of Nabek

Syrian troops seized a key opposition-held town along a major north-south highway critical for transporting the government’s chemical weapons stocks to a port where they could be shipped out for destruction.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Syria’s civil war

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PBS NewsHour

UN rights chief marks Human Rights Day

The U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay has released a statement marking Human Rights Day. She praised the “groundbreaking” improvements in human rights across the world.

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Al Jazeera

Can a refugee simulation inspire change?

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Poverty Matters (Guardian)

More than 100,000 Ethiopians expelled from Saudi Arabia

Ethiopian migrants, most of whom were in Saudi Arabia without work permits, were expelled after a tightening of labor regulations and the expiration of an amnesty for illegal workers.

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Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Syrian opposition head urges Gulf states to launch aid fund

The head of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group urged wealthy Gulf Arab states to set up an aid fund for millions of Syrians stricken by civil war.

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

Justin Bieber visits Philippine typhoon victims

Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber visited young victims of Typhoon Haiyan after launching a worldwide campaign to help those affected by the deadly storm.

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USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sex workers in China still endure forced ‘re-education’

Although the government recently banned the controversial form of punishment, something similar remains in place for the country’s prostitutes.

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The Atlantic

Advocacy group calls China to shut labor camps for sex workers

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(Wall Street Journal)

No acknowledgment or justice for mass protester killings

Egyptian and international human rights organizations called on the Egyptian authorities to acknowledge and thoroughly investigate the killing of up to 1,000 people by security forces dispersing Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins.

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Human Rights Watch

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

US regulators seek to curb Wall St. trades with Volcker rule

U.S. banks will no longer be able to make big trading bets with their own money after regulators on finalized the Volcker rule and shut down what was a hugely profitable business for Wall Street before the credit crisis.

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Reuters

UN: Israel to allow some materials into Gaza again

Israel has agreed to again allow imports of construction materials into Gaza after a two-month clampdown following the discovery of a tunnel dug by militants from Gaza’s coastal strip into Israel.

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Yahoo! News

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

US organization optimistic on Afghan elections

The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs believes that while elections next April in Afghanistan are unlikely to be perfect, they should be better than previous fraudulent polls.

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ABC News

Uruguay to legalize marijuana

The passage of a landmark marijuana legalization measure means Uruguay is set to become the first country in the world to have a system regulating legal production, sale and consumption of the drug.

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CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Floating seismic devices peer deep beneath ocean floor

The vast two-thirds of the planet that is covered by water is largely invisible to us. But now, researchers are trying to map the areas of the deep ocean and beyond using seismic equipment.

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LiveScience

In a ‘rainbow’ universe time may have no beginning

Rainbow gravity was first proposed 10 years ago as a possible step toward repairing the rifts between the theories of general relativity (very big) and quantum mechanics (very small).

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Scientific American

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GOOD NEWS

An organic greenhouse run by farmers with autism

This crowd-sourced project in Indiana is seeing an outpouring of support. In a matter of days support has already put organizers well past their $15,000 goal.

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The Atlantic

Missing couple, kids found alive in frigid Nevada wilderness

A desperate search turned to jubilation as rescuers guided in part by cellphone signals found the family alive and well, huddled around a fire near their overturned vehicle.

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ABC News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

More than half of nonprofits haven’t recovered recession losses

The Great Recession is over, but nonprofits in Colorado and across the nation still are struggling to reverse fundraising declines that began in 2008.

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Denver Post

UK charity accused of censoring criticism of energy giants

A whistleblower has accused British charity Save the Children of suppressing criticism of energy giants for fear of upsetting existing or potential corporate donors.

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Japan‘s whaling fleet en route to Southern Ocean for ’scientific’ hunts

Japan‘s whaling fleet is on its way to the Southern Ocean, where it hopes to kill almost a thousand whales this winter as the world awaits a ruling on Australia’s landmark legal attempt to ban the controversial hunts.

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Guardian

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Distinct humpback whale populations found in Pacific

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Forests recover quickly after bark beetles attack

A forest ravaged by the “red hand of death” also known as a bark beetle attack recovers quickly with little ecosystem damage, scientists said at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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LiveScience

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Researchers find forests with bigger potential for carbon credit

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ScienceDaily

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A small but growing trend in Lebanon is for couples to have non-religious weddings and leave blank the religion on their babies’ birth certificates. (Photo by Imad Haddad)

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