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Sherpas in Nepal are demanding more compensation from the Nepalese government after an avalanche at Everest killed 13, the worst accident in modern mountaineering. (Photo by Denn Ukoloff)

Expeditions could be halted after Everest tragedy

Expedition leaders and guides threatened to cancel all climbing on Mount Everest after the deadliest avalanche in its history claimed at least 13 lives, with the death toll expected to rise.

Business Day

Who dies on Everest—and where, and why

The Atlantic

Mount Everest climbing season up in air after avalanche deaths

CNN

Keystone Pipeline fate now in hands of Nebraskan jurists

The focus of the Keystone XL debate has shifted from a fierce lobbying war in Washington to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the state Supreme Court has been asked to weigh a legal challenge to the pipeline.

Bloomberg

DNC chair: Obama isn’t factoring politics into Keystone

Politico

Slavyansk shooting threatens Easter truce

At least two people have been killed after a gunfire battle erupted between pro-Russian separatists and far-right militiamen in the eastern Ukraine town of Slavyansk.

The Independent

Slaviansk crisis after Easter attack from Right Sector in Slaviansk, Ukraine

YouTube

Remembering Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter: A fighter through and through

Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter was never went down without a fight, fighting for his life in the courtroom, where he was wrongfully convicted of murder, or serving 19 years in prison before being exonerated in 1985.

Christian Science Monitor

Transcripts show confusion and inaction as Korean ferry sank

The death toll from the ferry that sunk off the coast of South Korea rose to 58. A newly released transcript shows the confusion that ensued between the first distress call and the ship’s evacuation.

NBCNews.com

Bureaucrats fought against for Holocaust justice

Amsterdam’s city archive letters from Holocaust survivors complained that the city was forcing them to pay back taxes and late payment fines on property seized after they were deported to Nazi death camps.

Yahoo! News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

New York Road Runners help raise money to aid Boston bombings victims

The New York Road Runners have helped raised millions for charities around the world through its races, and have encouraged their fans and runners to lend a hand to the Boston victims.

am New York

Foundation honors women for achievements and courage

Five West Michigan women are being recognized. The Michigan Women’s Foundation, is hosting the 2014 Women of Achievement and Courage West Michigan Celebration.

Grand Rapids Business Journal;

HUMAN RIGHTS

4 French journalists freed after 10 months held hostage in Syria

Four French journalists who had been held hostage in Syria for 10 months have been released, the French President’s office said. They are in good health despite the tough conditions they endured.

CNN

Burundi creates reconciliation body that divides public opinion

Burundi, locked in its worst crisis since its civil war ended, has created a reconciliation commision that opposition parties say will shield the ruling party from accountability for past crimes.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Fracking foes cringe as unions back drilling boom

Some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are benefiting from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom, complicating efforts by environmentalists.

ABC News

Africa: US officials working to help developing nations boost trade

U.S. trade representatives met with government ministers and others to help developing countries implement the new World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement.

allAfrica.com

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Young voters reflect new kind of politics

When Sanketh Jain finished voting, the computer science student did what other first-time voters did: He uploaded a “fingie,” a smartphone capture of his inked thumb, on social networks.

International The News

Tunisia: Marzouki announces reduction in President’s wages to one third

President Moncef Marzouki announced the reduction in the President of the Republic‘s legal wage to one third, saying that he gave instructions to reduce expenses as much as possible.

allAfrica.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

With climate change, wildfires getting worse in the West

Across the western U.S., wildfires have grown bigger and more frequent according to a new study that blames climate change and drought for the worsening flames.

Yahoo! News

1st potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed

The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

The crisis of civilian supremacy

The Express Tribune

Editorial:

An Internet army of truth-tellers

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Andrew Wallis):

International justice and Rwanda: Has the UN failed again?

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Boy saves the environment ‘one bottle cap at a time’

Logan Blanco went above and beyond to support Straub Environmental Center’s Plastic Bottlecap Recycling Program. He organized weekly pickups of plastic bottle caps at the local Starbucks locations.

Statesman Journal

Malaysian minister talks to MH370 families about financial help

A Malaysian minister met relatives of passengers on missing flight MH370 and discussed ways of helping them financially.

South China Morning News

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Haiti Economy : Everything you need to know about the new minimum wage

Effective May 1, 2014 the minimum wage of reference will experience an adjustment in accordance with a presidential decree dated April 16, 2014.

Haiti Libra

AmCham to donate recycled computers to Taiwanese NGOs

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Taipei announced that it will donate more than 100 recycled computers to non-profit organizations in Taiwan as part of its corporate social responsibility.

Focus Taiwan

ENVIRONMENT

In India, a toxic harvest of recycled electronics

As developed countries dump their e-waste in India, an informal industry of recyclers has emerged. In places such as Sangrampur, it’s common to find women, young men and children picking away at piles of electronics.

Bloomberg

Blog:

The genius entrepreneurs who turn e-waste into usable products

Slate

Ancient plants ‘frozen in time’ by space impacts

Ancient plant material has been preserved in the glass formed by asteroids hitting the Earth, scientists report.

BBC

Red tape hinders study of asteroid impacts on Earth

SPACE.com

Fireball explodes over Russia, stunning ‘meteor’ lights up the sky

International Business Times

Photo of the Day

Vidar Helgesson tests seaweed for Hortimare, an aquaculture company, in the Solund municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. (Photo by Hilde Steinfield- Utenriks Dept)

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