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Some Russians propagate nostalgia for Soviet era

With economic woes at home and tensions with the West abroad, Russians are putting a new gloss on the Communist years – one that even previously unsupportive authorities seem to now be tacitly backing.

Christian Science Monitor

FBI negotiating with Oregon refuge holdouts

The FBI negotiated further with four armed occupants at a remote federal wildlife refuge in Oregon while the holdouts in a video posted online expressed their mistrust of the government and reluctance to leave.

Reuters

Damascus attacks kill 45 as Syria peace talks begin

Talks to end five years of war in Syria got off to a difficult start, barely averting a boycott by President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents and clouded by a triple bombing outside Damascus that killed at least 45 people.

Bloomberg

Boko Haram attack kills 65 in Nigeria

Bloomberg

Refugees will go home after war, Merkel says

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.

Reuters

Migration tensions lead to arrests, violence

CNN

37 Syrian migrants drown as Greece-bound boat capsizes

BBC

Candidates scramble to motivate Iowa voters

The 2016 presidential contenders are begging their Iowa supporters to get to the caucuses, the first contest of the presidential campaign.

FOX News

America 2016: We’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore

McClatchy Newspapers

IN-DEPTH

What the Ebola crisis can teach authorities about responding to the Zika outbreak

Two public health experts explain what the world needs to do better this time. Their advice: Act rapidly, decisively and with leadership.

Huffington Post

Why Haitians are chanting ‘Down with Obama’

Demonstrators chanted “Down with Obama” as they marched through the streets, protesting American complicity in the Haitian government’s blatant effort to rig the presidential election.

The Nation

Haitian tourism promises fade amidst crisis

TIME

ARTS AND CULTURE

‘Spotlight,’ diversity win big at SAGs

Spotlight finally garnered the spotlight this award season, winning the top prize Saturday at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which reflected a diverse cast of winners in movies and television.

USA TODAY

TERROR

British woman guilty of joining ISIS

A British mother who took her toddler son to Syria, has been found guilty of membership of ISIS. Tareena Shakil, 26, is the first British woman to return from the self-declared caliphate to be convicted of the offence.

BBC

Timeline of her journey to join Islamic State

ITV

Colombia’s Santos wants FARC off terrorist list

President Santos wants the US to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia from its list of terrorist organizations if he seals a peace deal with the oldest leftist insurgency in Latin America.

Boston Herald

HUMAN RIGHTS

Obama administration seeks to bolster gender wage gap fight

The Obama administration announced plans to expand wage reporting requirements for private businesses on Friday, bolstering its efforts to narrow the longstanding U.S. gender wage gap.

Yahoo! News

Special section:

The simple truth about the gender pay gap (Fall 2015)

aauw.org

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Obama to meet Speaker Ryan next week

Obama will meet for the first time on Tuesday with Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss budget priorities and ways to work together this year, the White House said.

Reuters

Ted Cruz clashes with moderator Chris Wallace

Ted Cruz clashed briefly with moderator Chris Wallace over not getting to respond after his name was mentioned in a question to Chris Christie, though Christie himself didn’t mention Cruz.

Politico

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Stocks jump as Japan rate goes negative

Stocks jumped worldwide and the yen slumped after the Bank of Japan stunned markets by adopting negative interest rates, while hopes the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of U.S. rate hikes also underpinned stock gains.

Reuters

After 40-year ban, US exporting crude oil

America is wasting little time getting back into the oil exporting business. Just weeks after Congress lifted a 40-year ban on exporting oil, the first shipments of the black stuff left U.S. ports for Europe.

CNNMoney

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GOOD NEWS

Miners rescued after 36 days underground

Four Chinese miners who were trapped underground since Christmas are finally safe after they were rescued. Twenty-nine miners were trapped after a collapse at a gypsum mine in the Shandong province.

TIME

Baltimore youths shovel sidewalks for seniors

The program, a collaboration between the city Department of Transportation and YouthWorks, was announced last summer by Mayor Rawlings-Blake as a way to provide work opportunities in a city starving for them.

Baltimore Sun

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

NGO gives low-Income earners an opportunity to own a home

The Millard Fuller Foundation (MFF), a Non-Governmental Organisation, said it had constructed residential houses for low income earners resident in the FCT and its environs.

Bella Naija

After raising millions for local nonprofits, The Amazing Raise takes final bow

The Community Foundation announced Thursday it will discontinue its annual Amazing Raise event, a 36-hour online fundraiser for local nonprofits.

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Canadian officials talk carbon-cutting strategy

Canada‘s environment ministers were meeting in an effort to negotiate a national carbon-cutting strategy to meet the country’s ambitious international targets.

Globeandmail.com

Environmental and climate change meeting

CBC News

Humans ate giant ancient bird into extinction

The giant bird, which scientists have dubbed Genyornis newtoni, weighed roughly 500 pounds and stood about seven feet tall. Its eggs would have been the size of cantaloupes, and likely weighed 3.5 pounds.

Christian Science Monitor

Risky pesticides left on market too long

The federal Pest Management Regulatory Agency is taking years to remove confirmed pesticide risks from the marketplace while failing to evaluate many other products, according to a new audit.

CBC News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Google donates 25,000 laptops to refugees

The Californian tech giant, via its charitable arm Google.org, is donating 25,000 laptops to German charities and aid groups trying to tackle the ongoing refugee crisis.

Business Insider

The faces Of China’s new philanthropy

Three decades after economic reforms paved the way for 400 billionaires to emerge (if briefly), extremely wealthy Chinese have started giving their money away in large sums.

Forbes

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Can GMO mosquitoes eradicate Zika virus?

Humans are trying to recruit a key ally in the fight against the mosquito-borne Zika virus: other mosquitoes.

CBS News

Frequently asked questions about the Zika virus

CNN

Apple developing wireless-charged iPhone

Apple Inc. is working with partners in the U.S. and Asia to develop new wireless charging technology that could be deployed on its mobile devices as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the plans.

Bloomberg

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Sunset at Lake Sils taken from Sils with view in direction Maloja. (Photo by kuhnmi) Photo used under CC BY

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