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Turkish miners march for their rights and to keep mines open. An explosion in a Soma mine has killed over 200 with the death toll rising. (Photo by Charles Roffey)

Nigeria mulls prisoner swap as Islamists show abducted girls

Nigeria said it was considering a prisoner exchange with Boko Haram after the Islamist group threatened to hold schoolgirls it abducted last month until detained members are freed.

BusinessWeek

Special section:

Nigeria’s missing girls

BBC

In Somalia, collecting people for profit

Distributing aid can be an incredibly risky job for Westerners in Somalia, so local entrepreneurs have filled the gap. But what happens when aid becomes a profitable business in a lawless place?

NPR

Rescuers search for trapped workers in mine explosion

Rescuers desperately raced against time to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 205 workers.

Telegraph.co.uk

Turkey coal mine disaster: desperate search at Soma pit

BBC

Special section:

Fatal mine disasters

ABC News

South Sudan food security crisis could spiral into famine, agencies warn

The conflict in South Sudan has set the country on course towards a “hunger catastrophe”, with almost 4 million people already in dire need of food and humanitarian assistance.

Guardian

Syria used chemical weapons on rebels

A leading human rights group says it has strong evidence that Syria’s army used chemical weapons on rebel-held areas last month.

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

More than 300,000 donors give over $50 million to 7,000 nonprofits on ‘Give Local’ day

A hundred and twenty U.S. communities, national sponsors and thousands of nonprofits activated more than 300,000 donors and raised over $50 million. Give Local America was organized by Kimbia.

PRWeb

Big 3 Detroit automakers mull donations to support Art Institute

Detroit’s three automakers are giving back to the now bankrupt city, considering donating as much as $50 million to the Detroit Institute of Arts to ensure the museum’s collection is not sold off.

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Assad’s new bomb: Syrian regime hasn’t abandoned chemical weapons

Despite its pledge to eliminate chemical weapons, the Assad regime is attacking towns and villages with chlorine gas bombs.

Spiegel International

ICC reopens probe of alleged British Iraq war crimes

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said she has reopened an initial probe into allegations of war crimes committed by British soldiers after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

GlobalPost

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

What’s next for the trade facilitation agreement

The World Trade Organization’s landmark Trade Facilitation Agreement is ready to be signed, paving the way for better trade and access to markets for developing nations, but the vote will be challenging.

Devex

Japan’s trade surplus is lowest on record

Strained by a dependence on fossil fuel imports and a depreciated yen, Japan has logged its lowest annual current account surplus since it began tracking data in 1985.

Deutsche Welle

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Federal govt failed to inspect high risk oil and gas wells, say auditors

The U.S. government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage, congressional investigators have found.

Al Jazeera

Coalition politics: schools and hard knocks

Politicians who preach about tough choices have lost none of their taste for diverting scarce funds into eye-catching schemes.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Space debris is a global problem

Blockbuster movie, Gravity, has done a great job by making a common man aware of the threat of space junk. Recently, scientists were called before the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss near-earth space debris.

Australian Tribune

How do you dodge 100 million pieces of space junk? Yes, it can be a ‘Gravity-like’ disaster

Tech Times

Legal complaint filed against GCHQ ‘hacking’

Privacy International said the U.K. intelligence service has infected millions of devices to spy on citizens and scoop up personal data.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Fractured Thailand: A once-stable nation is torn by political turmoil

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Lauren Carasik):

The long struggle for justice in Guatemala

Al Jazeera

Column (Dambisa Moyo):

After Boko Haram kidnapping: What does the US stand for?

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

8-year-old South Tampa girl helps deliver newborn brother

An 8-year-old girl helped deliver her baby brother as a 911 dispatcher talked mother and daughter along until rescue workers arrived and finished the job.

Tampa Bay Times

US twin baby sisters born holding hands

A pair of U.S. twin sisters who were born holding hands were breathing on their own after being removed from a ventilator, their mother has said.

BBC

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Social entrepreneurs honoured at World Economic Forum

The Schwab Foundation, at the just concluded World Economic Forum on Africa, held in Abuja, announced the winners of the Africa Social Entrepreneur of the Year awards.

Nigerian Tribune

Its EU dream thwarted, Turkey rejects 90 million-euro Cyprus fine

The European Court for Human Rights ruled against Turkey for its 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Turkey’s refusal to pay damages comes amid waning interest in European Union membership.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

‘Nothing can stop retreat’ of West Antarctic glaciers

Key glaciers in West Antarctica are in an irreversible retreat, NASA scientists say, analyzing 40 years of observations of ice streams draining into Amundsen Bay, concluded that nothing can stop them melting.

BBC

Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun

Guardian

Beijing‘s smog police outgunned in China’s war on pollution

Environmental inspectors in Beijing are scrambling to impose tough new standards on thousands of polluting firms, highlighting the growing logistical problems facing China’s war on smog.

Guardian

Blog:

An unloved budget from environment groups

ABC News

Photo of the Day

Men in the Kawkaban village of Yemen display their traditional kniveware. As they as usually worn for decoration, one man only wears the holder. (Photo by Rod Waddington)

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