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People are flooding Boston area hospitals offering to donate blood for those wounded in the explosions that rocked the Boston City Marathon. Here's a list of places those of you in the area can go to donate blood (please call first to make sure your donation is still needed.) If you want to check on any loved ones in the area, check out the Red Cross' Safe and Well site, which keeps tabs on the victims, as does this handy tool from Google. If you know of any places accepting other donations for those affected, let us know in the comments ... Discuss

 

By Jeremy Courtney

On the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we take a closer look at the aftermath of war. Read More
 

A new info-graphic from design group Pitch Interactive charts the causalities of drone attacks in Pakistan on a timeline dating back to 2004. The interactive chart pulls in data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the New America Foundation and shows the number of fatalities (and identifies who was killed—high profile targets, combatants, civilians or children), the location of the attacks and when they took place. As the Economist points out, there is a noticeable spike in attacks in late 2009, when the drone program was ramped up … Discuss

 

In case you were wondering whether or not Sudan had righted things, reconciled differences between warring factions and begun working together for the mutual good of their citizens while your back was turned, that has most certainly not happened—and, in fact, things look very grim. The government, led by internationally indicted war criminals President Omar al-Bashir and Governor Ahmed Haroun, has taken to bombing a refugee camp in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan. The result is half a million people displaced, by the UN's count, but the rebels remain nonviolent. They've chosen instead to photograph and film the government's atrocities, hoping to bring their own humanitarian crisis to the world's attention through the visual power of their own misery. CNN's Yoletta Nyange has put together a heart-stopping documentary on their story, which you can learn more about here ... Discuss

 

By Tyler Charles

What we aren't talking about is killing us. Read More
 

By Curt Devine

How the Central African Republic is making a comeback. Read More