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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)

March for peace vs. support for Mexican drug lord’s state

Fewer than a hundred people marched for peace in Sinaloa, several days after about 1,000 supporters of arrested drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman held a protest demanding his release.

Star Tribune

Beneath the violence in the Central African Republic

A Muslim-led coup last year triggered the violence in the majority-Christian country. But there’s a deeper reason: resentment over diamonds and gold, mined by Christians and traded by Muslims.

NPR

The Central African Republic in crisis

Spiegel International

Russian ‘invasion’ of Crimea fuels fear of Ukraine conflict

Russia and the west are on a collision course over Crimea after Moscow was accused of orchestrating a “military invasion,” of the peninsula, as groups of apparently pro-Russian armed men seized control of two airports.

Guardian

US, NATO, EU lecture Russia with ‘provocative statements’ on Ukraine

RT News

Special section:

Ukraine uprising

Al Jazeera

As Africans surge to Europe’s door, Spain locks down

Large groups of sub-Saharan immigrants have been charging the fences into a Spanish enclave in Morocco, raising alarms over their efforts and the officials’ response.

New York Times

Syria to become world’s largest source of refugees

Parallels (NPR)

Humanitarian aid groups prepare for long-term crisis in Syria

PBS NewsHour

South Korea warns Japan over comfort women review

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has warned Japan it will only bring isolation on itself if it reviews a statement acknowledging its wartime use of sex slaves.

BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

House tax plan would penalize nonprofits that pay high salaries

The House is taking aim at nonprofit financial practices. It would slap a tax on nonprofits that pay employees $1 million or more and would require gifts to be deployed to charities within five years.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

2 anonymous donors, 2 happy (mortgage-free) nonprofits

Two nonprofits can take a breath this week after anonymous donors either paid off or assumed their mortgages.

Non Profit Quarterly

HUMAN RIGHTS

Expose of abused grandmother puts harsh spotlight on China‘s ’black jails’

A woman petitioning for justice for her son was repeatedly held and beaten in an illegal jail. The resulting publicity from state-run media is raising hopes that officials will stop such abuses.

Christian Science Monitor

Foreign domestic workers across Asia rise up over exploitation

Guardian

Chinese police save hundreds of babies from online trading racket

China has smashed four child-trafficking rings and arrested more than a thousand people for using websites and instant messaging groups to trade babies, Chinese authorities said.

CNN

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Lights out for North Korea: space photo reveals country’s isolation

A recent image from the International Space Station shows in stark detail the utter lack of development in North Korea compared with next-door neighbor South Korea, a rapidly developing industrial power.

LiveScience

Niger fails to reach uranium mining deal with French nuclear firm Areva

Another deadline has passed without agreement in Niger in the government‘s ongoing negotiations with the French nuclear company Areva on the renewal of the company’s license to operate in the country

Guardian

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Nigerians urge leaders to brace up for prosperous nation

As the country marks 100 years of its existence, Nigerians have urged the Federal Government to brace up for future challenges and to worker harder to ensure a prosperous nation.

allAfrica.com

Idaho lawmakers poised to vote on guns on campus

Idaho lawmakers are going to vote on a bill that would allow people to carry guns on college campuses. Presidents of all eight public universities and multiple police chiefs protest the bill.

ABC News

Guns on campus rallies

Idaho Statesman

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Polar bears on Google Maps and Street View comes to the Arctic

Google Street View is taking viewers to the Canadian Arctic — the home of polar bears. Starting the International Polar Bear Day, people around the world will be able to see the bears in their natural habitat.

LiveScience

Watch a city evolve before your eyes with this Google street view GIF narrative

Co.Create

South Africa: government unveils free contraceptive device for women

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has launched a new contraceptive device, which will be available to women free at all state clinics.

allAfrica.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Leni Wild):

Malawi’s Cashgate corruption scandal highlights importance of accountability

Poverty Matters

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Crimea: where Ukraine could explode

CNN

Blog (John Yemma):

Toward a global collaboration- through internet.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

This 99-Year-old man begs every day and gives it all away

The generous guy lives off of his monthly pension of 80 euros (about $100) and gives all his donations to institutions that are most dear to him: churches and orphanages.

Huffington Post

Boy author raises $750K for sick friend

Dylan’s best friend Jonah suffers from glycogen storage disease. Dylan’s book raised more than $750,000 in a little more than a year by selling for $20 each in all 50 states and 42 countries.

ABC News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Phillipines: state body to regulate NGOs sought

A bill has been filed in Congress seeking the creation of a state committee to regulate nongovernment organizations (NGOs) amid a widening pork barrel scam.

Inquirer

MSF deeply shocked at expulsion from Myanmar

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has said it has been expelled from Myanmar and that tens of thousands of lives are at risk in the country.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Hydrogen fuel cells might clean up ports

Hawaii has become a hotbed of renewable energy projects, including a fuel cell to power refrigeration. Honolulu’s main port may soon get a power source as clean as the water under its docks.

Scientific American

EU environment ministers to debate 2030 climate framework

European Union environment ministers are set to open debate on controversial 2030 targets for greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy, the Greek presidency said.

United Press International

Photo of the Day

A nursery worker at Pakorto Nursery, teaches Ethiopian secondary students how to properly fill pots with soil so the students can establish their own nursery within their school’s compound. (Photo by Trees for the Future)

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