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Migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America take shelter at a migrant hub north of Mexico City. (Photo by greensefa) Photo used under CC BY

Mexico’s ‘invisible wall’ is a migrant double standard

The Mexican government’s concern about how its citizens are treated in the U.S. sits incongruously with its own attitude towards the migrants passing through Mexico, which rights organizations have described as hypocritical.

Al Jazeera

Immigration decreases or stabilizes crime rates, data show

Ars Technica

New Trump travel ban order nearing completion

CNN

What happens during a deportation raid in the US?

Al Jazeera

Conflict-fueled famine begins in South Sudan

A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, a nation ravaged by more than three years of civil war, the government and three UN agencies said. A total of 4.9 million people – more than 40 percent of the country’s population – are in urgent need of food and agriculture aid.

Deutsche Welle

UN envoy questions US engagement on Syria

Days ahead of new peace talks in Geneva, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura has questioned US President Donald Trump’s commitment to solving the Syrian conflict. The Syrian army, meanwhile, has traded rocket fire with rebels.

Deutsche Welle

US not after Iraq’s oil, Trump’s defense chief says

Reuters

Security designee backs retooling US military

U.S. President Donald Trump has picked Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his new national security adviser, filling a key vacancy.

The Hill

Russia’s U.N. envoy dies suddenly in New York

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

China ‘criminalizing’ rights work, report says

“The Chinese government seems intent on eliminating civil society through a combination of new legislation restricting the funding and operations of NGOs, and the criminalization of human rights activities as a so-called threat to national security,” Frances Eve, a researcher at CHRD, told The Guardian.

Newsweek

ACLU steps up fight for liberties

Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, recently posted a detailed, seven point strategy of how the ACLU plans to be President Trump’s worst nightmare, tirelessly tracking his administration’s every move.

Good

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Security concerns boost Le Pen in French polls

Marine Le Pen gained ground on her rivals for the French election as she benefits from concerns about security while other candidates trained their fire on independent front-runner Emmanuel Macron.

Bloomberg

Panamanians protest government over bribery

Demonstrators take part in anti-government rally amid growing scandal over bribes paid by Brazilian firm Odebrecht.

Al Jazeera

Palestinians weigh Trump‘s ‘one-state’ plan

Palestinians must make clear that the sole prerequisite needed for a lasting peace is justice on their lands.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Human evolution occurred during migration

Recently, a genetic survey of 191 Greenlandic Inuit people found some genetic patterns that are so common that the best explanation for them is natural selection.

Ars Technica

Restricted diet extends lives of lab rats

Laboratory research has repeatedly demonstrated the anti-aging value of calorie restriction, often called CR, in animals from nematodes to rats — with the implication that the same might be true for humans.

Scientific American

SpaceX launch a triumph of space capitalism

US president Donald Trump’s administration is now weighing the future direction of NASA, with his top advisors pushing him to embrace the outsourcing of American space operations to private companies.

Quartz

SpaceX launches from historic pad, lands

SPACE.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

China shuts poultry markets to halt bird flu

The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts.

Asia Times Online

Form of epilepsy traced to African worm

The syndrome seems to be caused by the immune system’s response to a parasitic worm, an international team reports in the journal Science Translational Medicine. And they think it’s the same worm responsible for river blindness, an eye infection that’s also found in East Africa.

NPR

Genes show who’s at risk of male baldness

Medical News Today

Women’s heart attacks harder to detect

The most frequent sign of heart attack in a man is chest pain. Women also experience chest pain, but they are more likely than men to have nausea, shortness of breath, dizziness, indigestion, and other symptoms, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

San Diego Union Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Organization helps girls learn to skateboard

A skate park full of boys can be intimidating to young girls. But the ‘Girls Riders Organization’ aims to promote a stress-free environment where girls can learn to skateboard.

NBCNews.com

Donations help cat fight malnutrition, disease

What would have been a routine visit to her local animal shelter turned into an emotional experience for Elaine Seamans. A stray cat that had recently been brought to the shelter stopped Seamans in her tracks as she walked past his cage.

ABC News

Heroic pet squirrel attacks burglar, defends home

Mashable

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Joggers in undies raise money for sick kids

Philadelphia’s annual Cupid’s Undie Run featured 1,000 people in their underwear and little else, except for maybe some body-painted hearts, angels and Cupid‘s arrows on their chests. Participants ran through the streets near the city’s sports stadiums.

Associated Press

Importance of online fundraising grows

Online giving continues to be the fastest-growing type of fundraising for nonprofits, but the dollars it brings in remain very low compared to more traditional methods. That’s according to Michael Nilsen, the vice president of communications and policy at the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

MiBiz

The 4-step science of viral fundraising

Nonprofit Quarterly

BUSINESS

Facebook playing important role in activism

It’s clear that Facebook played a big role in mobilizing people to participate in the global Women’s March last month. And now researchers have determined just how much of an impact the social network had.

CNNMoney

Amazon adding 5,000 jobs in Britain in ’17

Online retailer Amazon is set to create more than 5,000 jobs in Britain this year, the company said, boosting its investment in the country once more even as it prepares to leave the European Union.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Oceans losing oxygen; why that’s a problem

A new Nature study published this week found that oxygen levels in worldwide oceans have dipped by more than 2 percent in the last half-century. While the change may seem small, scientists say even subtle shifts in gas levels can alter entire ecosystems.

Time

Ugandans like their bottled water

In Uganda, bottled water consumption is on the rise and with it, jobs and revenues. But as the country’s beverage industry registers significant growth, environmentalists are concerned about its impact on the ecosystem.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A boy reacts to the sight of a sunflower in Tainan, Taiwan. Taken on February 4, 2017. (Photo by Wenchieh Yang) Photo used under CC BY

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