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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

Islamists blamed for attack on Nigerian college

At least 29 students at a college in Nigeria died after an attack authorities suspect was carried out by Boko Haram Islamists, according to the Nigerian military.

CNN

Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists?

BBC

Obama threatens full US withdrawal in Afghanistan

Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year.

Huffington Post

Ukraine Crimea: rival rallies confront one another

Pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow protesters have scuffled in Ukraine‘s Crimea region, as tensions increase following last week’s ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.

BBC

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Ukraine uprising

Al Jazeera

Drones could help areas devastated by drought

Drones could soon help communities suffering from extreme drought. Meteorologist Jeff Tilley tells CBS News they could help produce billions of gallons of additional water each month, a process called cloud seeding.

CBS News

Drones at work worldwide, but US still lacks laws

Voice of America

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Uganda slapped with aid cuts over anti-gay law

Uganda’s government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay measure over which some Western governments had warned of consequences.

Bloomberg

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

Corporate, political pressure rising on Ariz. Governor over anti-gay bill

Gov. Jan Brewer is facing pressure over a bill that has prompted a national debate over religious and gay rights. The bill would allow businesses to deny service to gay people based on religious beliefs of the business owner.

ABC News

US envoy stresses human rights in China farewell speech

China’s future development will hinge on a neutral judiciary and freedom of speech, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke said in his final speech as envoy to Beijing, focusing heavily on human rights.

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Israel’s $9 billion diamond trade needs a polish

Israel is facing mounting pressure to clean up its vast diamond trade after experts warned it may be vulnerable to money launderers and other criminals.

CNNMoney

JPMorgan cutting jobs, slimming branches

In an effort to cut costs, the country’s largest bank by assets said that it plans to slash 8,000 jobs in its consumer and community banking division this year.

CNNMoney

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Kirsten Gillibrand tries to revive debate on military sex assault bill

A bill to address the sexual assault crisis in the military was blocked, but two days later, survivors of sexual assault in the military were back on Capitol Hill voicing their support for the effort.

CBS News

Venezuela unrest shakes up opposition

An explosion of protests has put President Nicolas Maduro under pressure and also exposed rifts inside the opposition as a rival to Capriles takes a more prominent role.

Reuters

This is what it actually looks like on the ground in Venezuela right now

GlobalPost

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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

Scientists solve the mystery of a nine-million-year-old mass whale die-off

Smithsonian Magazine

Marine fossils from an ancient mass die-off

LiveScience

Report: UK spy agency collected Yahoo webcam images

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, aided by the National Security Agency, have intercepted and stored the webcam images from millions of Yahoo chats by users who were not being targeted for any wrongdoing.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Why a repentant Ukraine deserves support

Christian Science Monitor

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

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GOOD NEWS

Calif. couple strike $10 million gold-coin bonanza

A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.

CNBC

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

Student starts non-profit to aid Guatemala

Walk With is a nonprofit organization that works through “inspiration, development, and empowerment” to perform public service projects in underserved communities throughout the world.

Arizona Daily Wildcat

ENVIRONMENT

John Kerry calls for expansion of world’s marine reserves

U.S. secretary of state John Kerry called for expanding the world’s marine reserves by a factor of 10, signalling a bolder new U.S. approach to international environmental protection.

Guardian

North American scientists track incoming Fukushima plume

The likely scale of the radioactive plume of water from Fukushima due to hit the west coast of North America should be known in the next two months.

BBC

Radioactive materials from Japan’s Fukushima disaster reaches Canada, say scientists

Christian Science Monitor

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Ukraine warns Russia against military intervention in Simferopol in the Crimea region of Ukraine after armed men stormed the regional parliament building. (Photo by Steve Haslam)

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