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The Christian Science Monitor Daily News Briefing provides an editorially curated perspective on important news of the day. Each issue provides a daily commentary from the editors, abridged versions of five key stories, an Editorial, the Christian Science perspective article, and a Top Headlines column. Insights gained from the Monitor can support and strengthen your prayers for the world. For the latest news and 24/7 access to Monitor content, you can also visit CSMonitor.com.

The worst has been avoided in Ukraine. Step by step, the country is becoming more confident.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders must break the cycle of revenge and restart the peace process.

Freedom is worth supporting wherever and whenever it occurs. Then comes the hard part.

If done carefully and peacefully, democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong could inspire others in China.

The hearts of everyone -- of any religion or no religion -- know that brutality and fear cannot build a nation.

There are 51.2 million refugees in the world -- each a family disrupted by conflict. Leadership should be about reducing that number.

The conflict touched off by an assassin in Sarajevo 100 years ago tomorrow underscores the danger of national pride and overconfident militarism.

Privacy is essential to individual freedom, a bulwark against an intrusive, oppressive state.

Just as fundamentalism oversteps with harshness, authoritarianism oversteps with restrictiveness.

The issue in both Iraq and Ukraine is structuring a compromise that incorporates opponents and decreases opposition.