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Swiss-Italian diplomat Staffan de Mistura takes the hot seat in Geneva this week as the man in charge of forging peace in Syria. (Photo by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) Photo used under CC BY

Diplomat brings humor to Syrian peace talks

Dismissed by critics as a diplomatic dandy, hailed by allies as a creative consensus-builder, Staffan de Mistura takes the hot seat in Geneva this week as the man in charge of forging peace in Syria.

Reuters

Protesters demand Brazilian president’s exit

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians poured onto the streets of major cities on Sunday to protest against President Dilma Rousseff, deepening a political crisis that threatens to unseat the leftist leader amid the worst recession in a generation.

Reuters

Germans batter Merkel over migrant policy

Voters punished Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in three German regional elections, giving a thumbs-down to her open-door refugee policy and turning in droves to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany.

Reuters

Refugees learn to find love in Germany

Deutsche Welle

Using an apparently doctored video, Trump claims man who rushed stage has ISIS ties

GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump apparently used a doctored video to allege the suspect accused of rushing on the stage at his rally in Ohio had ties to ISIS.

ABC News

Poll: Trump and Kasich neck-and-neck in Ohio

CBS News

The Sanders voters who would choose Trump over Clinton

Guardian

Car bomb blast kills at least 32 in Turkey

A car bomb has exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing 32 people and wounding more than 100, the health ministry has said.

BBC

Video shows moment bomb exploded

The Independent

IN DEPTH

Lavoy Finicum shooting prompts criminal investigation into FBI

The US Justice Department launched an investigation into FBI agents involved in the LaVoy Finicum shooting. Inspector General Michael Horowitz did reveal the inquiry is part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The Inquisitr

New video details LaVoy Finicum traffic stop, shooting

OPB

Four key details revealed by LaVoy Finicum investigation report

OPB

Ex-Brink’s manager admits $196,000 theft

An Alabama man will plead guilty to stealing nearly $200,000 worth of quarters while working for Brink’s armored transport.

UPI

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN reports grave rights abuses in South Sudan

Children burned alive. Detainees left to suffocate in closed shipping containers. Men hung from trees, or cut into pieces. This is all detailed in a report released by the United Nations about the war in South Sudan.

TIME

South Sudan’s militaries recruit child soldiers

CBS News

South Sudan troops systematically raped girls and women

CNN

Russia: journalists, activists attacked in North Caucasus

Masked men, armed with baseball bats, brutally attacked a group of foreign and Russian journalists and Russian activists documenting human rights abuses on March 9, 2016, in the North Caucasus.

Human Rights Watch

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Rubio campaign: vote for Kasich in Ohio

Marco Rubio’s campaign is expanding its focus from a vote-Rubio to stop-Trump. On Friday, Rubio came about as close as a current presidential candidate could get to advocating for a different candidate.

CBS News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Amazon to start air delivery network

Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it had signed a deal to lease 20 Boeing 767 widebody freighter aircraft to handle more of its own deliveries in the United States.

Reuters

Chinese exports plunge 25% in February

Chinese exports have seen their sharpest drop in almost seven years, adding to concerns over the health of the world’s second largest economy. This comes after Beijing registered the slowest economic growth in 25 years.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly to retire

Scott Kelly, the astronaut who spent a U.S. record 520 days in four flights in space, will retire April 1, NASA announced.

CNN

How 250 million-year-old reptile got its name

Researchers have unearthed the skull of a transitional form that survived “The Great Dying” about 250 million years ago. The reptile evolved into dinosaurs and eventually birds.

Tech Times

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GOOD NEWS

World’s oldest man, 112, survived Auschwitz

A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world’s oldest man. Yisrael Kristal was born in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to Israel.

BBC

Two sisters found a year after they disappeared

Two teenage sisters in upstate New York have been found almost a year after they went missing, and a woman described as a “family acquaintance” has been charged with kidnapping them, PEOPLE confirms.

MSN News

NGO AND NONPROFIT

NGO provides health screenings in Nigeria

Eagles Wings Development Center, a nongovernmental organization operating in Nigeria, has organized free diabetes, hypertension and blood sugar tests for widows and market women.

allAfrica.com

NGO clears over 60 schools under trees

Pencils of Promise, a nongovernmental organization committed to improving quality education, has made giant strides by removing over 60 schools under trees in 19 districts of the Volta Region during 2014/2015 academic year.

CITI FM online

Pro-democracy nonprofit is banned in Russia

A nonprofit that promotes democracy has become the latest American-linked group to be banned in Russia under restrictions on “undesirable” organizations signed into law by President Vladimir V. Putin in May.

New York Times

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

CDC, Walgreens work to prevent Zika spread

In an effort to curb the spread of Zika virus disease in Puerto Rico, Walgreens is collaborating with the (CDC) and the CDC Foundation to educate the public on preventive steps to avoid Zika.

BusinessWire

Sexual transmission of Zika more common than thought

USA TODAY

Turkey makes new proposal on migrant crisis

Turkey’s prime minister made a new proposal for tackling the migrant crisis at a summit in Brussels, leading EU leaders to extend their meeting, officials said.

MSN News

ENVIRONMENT

Unprecedented spike in CO2 levels in 2015

The annual growth rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose more in 2015 than scientists have ever seen in a single year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced.

MSN News

Report links extreme weather, climate change

Man-made climate change is worsening some extreme weather events, according to a report made public Friday by a top science group in Washington.

USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge, spans the River Tyne in England between Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter on the south bank and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. (Photo by Wisebuys21) Photo used under CC BY

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