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Why are there still so many hungry people in the world?

The world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people, yet poverty and hunger prevail because of economics, not scarcity.The greatest challenge is to eradicate poverty and hunger while sustaining food security.

Guardian

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Hungry? Maybe don’t go shopping

Huffington Post

Resistant-malaria ‘enormous threat’

Drug-resistant malaria has been detected at the Myanmar-India border and now poses an “enormous threat” to global health, scientists have said.

BBC

Drug resistant malaria strain in Myanmar causes alarm

Straits Times

Detroit worst big city for childhood poverty

Detroit continues to have more children living in extreme poverty than any of the nation’s 50 largest cities.

Detroit News

The poverty alert

Economist

Boko Haram crisis: Nigerian abductees reunited with families

A group of 158 women and children abducted by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria in December have been reunited with their families.

BBC

Ebola drives increase in sexual violence in Sierra Leone, experts say

Stigma, closed schools and lost jobs and family have left many women and girls vulnerable to violence and exploitation.

Al Jazeera

Superbug spread reveals thin pipeline of newest antibiotics

Every year at least 23,000 Americans die from bacterial infections that don’t have effective treatments, including two patients killed in a recent outbreak in a Los Angeles hospital.

Bloomberg

Understanding CRE, the ‘nightmare’ superbug that contributed to 2 deaths in L.A.

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Business leaders move quickly to send thousands of kids to see ‘Selma’ free

An act of “pop-up philanthropy” in New York City raised thousands of dollars to help school kids see the movie “Selma” and sparked similar movements in more than 30 cities across the country.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Writer knows other side of philanthropy

As a marketing and communications consultant dealing with philanthropy, Betsey Russell has been telling the stories of foundations and what they do for more than 20 years. Those accounts, naturally, emphasize the positive.

News Record

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN human rights chief urges Syria to release activists, lawyers

The U.N. human rights chief urged the Syrian authorities to release all activists, lawyers and other detainees they have been holding without due process.

Al Arabiya

Prevent violent extremism, promote human rights, Ban tells summit

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon warned against “discarding our moral compass” and giving into fear. He called for “cool heads and common sense” to deal with what may be the greatest test we face in the 21st century.

UN News Center

Libya is turning into Iraq

Just four years after the Arab Spring, ISIS attacks reveal a country on the brink of total failure.

The Atlantic

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ISIS beheadings In Libya devastate an Egyptian village

NPR

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Clinton Foundation defends foreign donations

The Clinton Foundation defended lifting its self-imposed ban on accepting foreign government donations on Wednesday, coming under scrutiny as Hillary Clinton is expected to run for president in the coming months.

CNN

Separate philanthropy from political clout

New York Times

US allows sales of armed drones to allies with clean human rights records

A day after the State Department loosened restrictions on the sale of armed drones to foreign allies, the risks posed by targeted killings again became apparent.

Huffington Post

Where can Amazon legally fly its drones?

Fortune

800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax information

About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration said, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns.

PBS NewsHour

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Evolution ‘favors bigger sea creatures’

The animals in the ocean have been getting bigger, on average, since the Cambrian period - and not by chance. That is the finding of a huge new survey of marine life past and present, published in the journal Science.

BBC

When it comes to evolution, bigger really is better

Christian Science Monitor

Apple reportedly aiming to launch electric car by 2020

Apple is aiming to get an electric car rolling on the streets in five years, according to the latest report.

CNET News

Apple poaching auto engineers to build battery division: lawsuit

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Vatican offers free showers and shaves to the homeless

Barbers are volunteering on their days off, and students from a local beauty school are donating their time, along with sisters from religious orders and other volunteers.

The Sentinel

Obama to give free national parks admission to fourth graders

President Obama announced that the National Park Service will give all fourth graders and their families free admission to national parks and other federal lands for a full year.

USA TODAY

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Student organization connects non-profits with app development

Co-founded by Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari and Engineering senior Ali Altaf, Hack4Impact connects student developer talent with nonprofit organizations free of charge.

Daily Pennsylvanian

Easily distracted but vital; what NGOs really think about journalists

ournalists are an essential conduit for NGOs to get their messages to the public, but do they have to make it so difficult? Press officers air their media grievances.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Lake Erie almost frozen over

Lake Erie had 98% ice cover on Wednesday, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.

USA TODAY

Germany flirts with fracking on road to renewable energy

Opposition to hydraulic fracturing has been very strong in Germany, but the government is flirting with the idea of allowing oil and gas drillers to begin fracking as an answer to energy security issues.

Christian Science Monitor

Train derailment shows renewable energy needed to protect the environment

The West Virginia oil spill and explosion shows that it’s absolutely critical for the U.S. to reduce its dependence on oil and base our future economy on clean energy.

Environmental Working Group

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Somalis face stark choice after US banks shut down cash transfer operators

Banking regulations designed to prevent the flow of money to terrorists may force law-abiding Somalis to use illegal methods to support their families.

Guardian

EU and Moscow – led economic bloc should develop free trade – Hungarian PM

Efficient cooperation between the EU and Russia will define the future of Europe. That’s why the EU shouldn’t waste any opportunity to unite with Russia.

RT.com

Photo of the Day

The beached jelly fish shown next to a young woman who provides scale, showing the rather large size of the jelly fish which have continued to grow larger. Jelly fish are thought to be growing larger and in increasing numbers as the oceans warm, (Photo by Gene Selkov)

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