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Thai protestors attempt to shut down Bangkok streets as the protests escalate. (Photo by Thomas Galvez)

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Bangkok shutdown: protesters gather at key intersections

One of the world’s favorite tourist destinations grinds to a halt yet again as protesters hit the streets to call for the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

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TIME

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Why is shutdown happening?

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CNN

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Bird’s-eye view of Thai protests

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BBC

Iran agrees to daily inspections as it reaches interim nuclear deal with world powers

Iran has agreed to limit uranium enrichment and to open its nuclear program to daily inspection by international experts. It sets the clock running for a final nuclear agreement.

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The Independent

Landmark moment as India to be declared ‘polio-free’

After three years during which no one has been infected with polio, the country will be officially declared rid of the disease.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Polio-free India fuels global drive to eradicate the virus

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

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Polio vaccination effort in Syria appears to have some effect

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Indonesia’s hotly-contested mineral ban takes effect

Indonesia has pushed through a hotly-contested ban on raw minerals exports after making last-minute concessions for the country’s two biggest miners.

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BBC

South Sudan refugees seek shelter in Uganda

Thousands of refugees waiting at the Dziapi reception center are relieved to be safely away from the fighting, but their struggle goes on.

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Al Jazeera

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Inside South Sudan’s refugee-packed UN base

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Telegraph.co.uk

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Audit slams World Bank agency

An internal World Bank investigation says the bank’s private lending arm violated its own rules in approving a loan to a Honduran palm oil magnate allegedly tied to the deaths of dozens of land activists.

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Al Jazeera

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World Bank Group: Inadequate response to killings, land grabs

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Aid agencies head to Tonga amid reports of extensive damage

Relief agencies were sending aid to Tonga amid reports of extensive damage to low-lying islands in the South Pacific archipelago after they were battered by a strong cyclone.

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Thomas Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

Weary Tunisian women little cheered over equal rights

For Nadia Mali, with her daily drudgery of being a working mother of six with an unemployed husband, advances in gender equality approved by Tunisia’s parliament offer little cause for cheer.

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GlobalPost

1,500 North Koreans escaped to South in 2013: Seoul ministry

More than 1,500 North Koreans fled to South Korea last year, maintaining a recent fall in the number of escapees that coincided with a clampdown by new leader Kim Jong-un.

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DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Brand expansion: China’s race to conquer world markets

Chinese firms have embarked on a quest to conquer the world market. Several have already done so, with the help of Western know-how.

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Spiegel International

YesStyle and Hong Kong Trade Development Council partner

Leading online Asian fashion retailer YesStyle and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council are partnering to sell unique Hong Kong designer products.

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Jakarta Post

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

John McCain seeks congressional investigation into ‘broken’ NSA

John McCain has called for a congressional investigation into America’s “broken” National Security Agency, just ahead of the White House’s upcoming announcement on reforms.

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Guardian

Governance lessons for AAP: No more ‘Janta Durbars’ for Delhi

After chaos at his meeting, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal later said that his government will no longer hold ‘Janta Durbars’.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

US Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa

The U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa in the early 1960s, when the prefecture was still under U.S. rule, according to U.S. documents obtained by Kyodo News.

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Japan Times

Sexting teen convicted of child pornography

A Canadian teen sends naked pictures of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to a friend and posts one to a Facebook page. She is more or less the same age as the victim, yet is convicted of child pornography.

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CNET News

Sexting in middle school means more sex for preteens and teens

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Blood on our backs

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Al Jazeera

The virtues of engagement

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How Haiti earthquake launched ‘digital humanitarianism’

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

A frozen, flashy city arises from the ice in China

Harbin, China, has its own brand of a polar blast that attracts visitors. Temperatures hovering near 20 below zero are hardly a deterrent. They’re essential for this mini-city built from ice.

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CBS News

Berbers celebrate Amazigh New Year

Berbers in North Africa, the region’s indigenous pre-Arab inhabitants, are celebrating the first day of year 2964 with festivities planned in several cities, including the Moroccan capital of Rabat.

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Al Jazeera

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Digging for their lives: Russia’s volunteer body hunters

Volunteers are searching former World War II battlefields for four million soldiers still considered missing in action, determined to give them a proper burial — and a name.

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BBC

Venezuela hasn’t delivered home heating oil to US nonprofit

Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. unit of state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, hasn’t delivered its annual oil supply for Joseph Kennedy II’s home heating assistance program.

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BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife poaching thought to bankroll international terrorism

Top diplomats and retired U.S. military officials are urging Western and African governments to step up the global fight against illegal wildlife poaching.

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IPS

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Debate over Dallas Safari Club auctioning black rhino hunting permit

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CNN

Millions at fatal risk as Fukushima radiation poisons Pacific

Nuclear regulators have called on Japan’s plant operator TEPCO to address rising radiation levels near the Fukushima reactors that have increased, causing panic across the Pacific region.

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Panorama

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Fukushima update: The nuclear disaster that won’t go away

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Truth-Out

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Interior Communications Electrician Fireman Chandell Hasselbring cleans the window of the camera room on the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Gulf of Oman. (Photo by Karl Anderson/ US Navy)

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