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China now has the highest population of diabetics at 98 million or 10 percent of the population followed by India and the USA. There are 382 million affected worldwide. (Photo by Tim Simpson)

Diabetes: Asia‘s ’silent killer’

Asia is in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. In human and financial terms, the burden is huge and it is hitting the poor especially hard. There are now 382 million people worldwide living with diabetes.

BBC

Diabetes kills 1 person every 6 seconds

Bloomberg

China’s meager aid to the Philippines could dent its image

China may have wasted the chance to build goodwill with its relatively paltry donation to the Philippines in the wake of the typhoon, especially with the U.S. and Japan ramping up aid.

Reuters

Grief and hunger dominate amid survival struggle

In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, nights are often the hardest. It‘s dark, wet, scary, there is little to do, and often even less to eat.

CNN

After typhoon tore through, people ‘were left on their own’

NPR

Depression ‘makes us biologically older’

Depression makes us physically older by speeding up the aging process. Tests showed cells looked older in people who were severely depressed or who had been in the past.

BBC

Pop-up schools could radically improve global education

Bridge International Academies launched 129 “schools in a box,” in 2013. Bridge now educates 50,000 students in Kenya, and its global aspirations may transform education for poor youth around the world.

Wired

Blog:

Do for-profit schools give poor Kenyans a choice?

(NPR)

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TYPHOON HAIYAN: HOW TO HELP

How nonprofits and donors can help with Typhoon Haiyan relief

International relief organizations are scrambling to get to devastated areas in the central Philippines to join relief and recovery efforts.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Relief slowly makes its way to typhoon-battered Philippines

Relief operations in typhoon-devastated parts of the Philippines picked up pace, but still only minimal amounts of water, food and medical supplies were making it to desperate survivors.

Al Jazeera

How to help Typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines

Miami Herald

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Merchant Marines see new obstacles In food aid proposal

Over the past quarter-century, the Merchant Marine has hit one obstacle after another. Now, a proposed change in the U.S. food aid programs threatens to further reduce funding.

NPR

UK commits aid for 500,000 in Philippines

The Department for International Development said money would be given to pre-approved organizations to assist up to 500,000 people affected by the typhoon that swept through the Philippines.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Activists: 5 women detained under Senegal’s anti-gay law

Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the country’s anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians in the deeply conservative West African nation.

CBS News

Hunger for drugs brings torture and death to Mexico City

The sadism and violence that has plagued other areas is now as close as 15 minutes from seat of federal government.

Al Jazeera

Mexico City: sex trafficking crackdown divides rights groups

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Latin American coffee growers struggle with rock bottom prices

Current rock bottom prices for coffee beans — below cost for many of the region’s growers — and a crushing outbreak of coffee leaf rust, a fungus that slashes harvests, are making difficult the lives of farmers in Latin America.

GlobalPost

US and European Union resume talks on new trade pact

The United States and the European Union sought to get past a rough patch in diplomatic relations to resume talks on a free trade deal that would grow what is already the world’s biggest business relationship.

Denver Post

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Failure to reach Iran nuclear deal may fortify hardline opponents

French objections helped block talks that appeared close to a preliminary deal. Kerry warned each day of delay meant “Iran will continue to enrich, and Iran will continue to put centrifuges in.”

Christian Science Monitor

Government spying hits Google where it hurts

Silicon Valley’s reaction to Edward Snowden and his leaks about government surveillance has taken on an indignant tone that was previously missing. All it took for the worm to turn was for the snooping to get personal.

InfoWorld

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Is the deadly typhoon a sign of climate change

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Christopher A. Bidwell):

Iran is negotiating with the wrong U.S. officials

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

A Philippines at the ready for typhoons

Christian Science Monitor

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Ashley Nawn, Rachel Barrus, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Olympic torch taken on first spacewalk after arriving at ISS

An Olympic torch took a spacewalk for the first time, held by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station as it orbited 400 km above the Earth.

Japan Times

Research disproves gentrification reputation

Gentrification is often thought to harm a neighborhood’s original residents, but research now suggests otherwise.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

These wrenches fix more than bikes

Bicycle maintenance as trust-building is a core part of Tennant’s nonprofit, Full Cycle Bike Shop in south Minneapolis.

Star Tribune

Farm helps traumatized veterans re-enter civilian life

For disabled veterans, a halfway point between the military and civilian life unfolds on a farm. It’s so quiet, the only sounds out here are the wind and the occasional small tractor rumbling by.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Vast Antarctic iceberg ‘could threaten shipping’

UK researchers have been awarded an emergency grant to track a vast iceberg in Antarctica that could enter shipping lanes.

BBC

Making corn-based ethanol badly hurting environment

As farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of conservation land, destroyed habitat and polluted water supplies, an Associated Press investigation found.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Evidence of 3.5-billion-year-old bacterial ecosystems found in Australia

Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks are not only rare, but also almost always altered by hydrothermal and tectonic activity.

ScienceDaily

Trace fossil

ScienceDaily

Mystery of black hole jets revealed: high-speed streams of matter made of heavy atoms

For the first time, astronomers have cracked the lid open on black hole jets – the little-understood, super-powerful streams of matter sometimes emitted from the centers of black holes.

International Business Times

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