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In response to growing food insecurity and the instability of grain prices, Asian countries are building their grain surplus even further. (Photo by Hector Buelta)

Asia grains swell in fret over food security

Towering grain mountains in Asia, already large enough to feed China for eight months, are set to grow even bigger as governments persist in shoring up their safety buffers against hard times.

Reuters

World hunger falls but bigger push needed to meet global goals, UN says

Guardian

Asia: too much food, not enough food

Asia Sentinel

Mexico’s bid for energy reform stirs passion on oil patrimony

Mexico‘s ambitious president has unleashed a staggering series of reforms in his first year but the trickiest gambit of all strikes at the heart of the nation’s pride and economy: the bid to transform Mexico’s energy sector.

National Geographic

Brazil’s Odebrecht bets on Mexico, eyes oil reform

Reuters

Shutdown leaves Wall Street ‘flying blind’

The partial shutdown of the federal government has brought to a near halt the flow of real-time statistical information about the economy needed by financial markets.

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama meets bank chiefs as economists warn of shutdown’s effects

Guardian

How Internet censorship works in China

Two studies led by political scientist Gary King uses patterns of censorship on Chinese social media to show just how systematically the Community Party works to avoid grassroots gatherings.

The Atlantic

The best — and worst — places to grow old

If you can’t hang out in Neverland, you’re best off getting old in Sweden and avoiding Afghanistan, Africa and some of the fastest-growing emerging markets.

CNBC

Tropical storm Karen prompts hurricane watch from Louisiana to Florida

Landfall for tropical storm Karen is projected for early Sunday morning just east of Mobile, Ala. But forecast uncertainties mean it could come ashore anywhere from the New Orleans area to Indian Pass, Fla.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

No return yet of Myanmar refugees

Conditions are not in place yet for the organized repatriation of thousands of refugees along the Thai-Myanmar border, according to a report released by The Border Consortium.

Bangkok Post

A long-standing love affair with Myanmar

The Picture Show (NPR)

UN Security Council urges easier access for Syria aid

Building on a fragile unity, the U.N. Security Council urged Syria’s government to allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on combatants to agree to humanitarian pauses in fighting and aid convoy routes.

Yahoo! News

HUMAN RIGHTS

The dark side of international migration

The number of international migrants continues its inexorable climb even as reports of slave-like conditions continue to proliferate.

IPS

‘Climate refugee’ fighting to stay in New Zealand

A man from one of the lowest-lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he’s a refugee — suffering not from persecution, but from climate change.

Yahoo! News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Global economy: Faith in revival put to test

Yet another budget showdown in Washington and yet another government crisis in Italy herald more turbulence for a global economy growing well below trend.

Reuters

The 10 stealth economic trends that rule the world

The Atlantic

Germany is exporting its grandmas

One in five Germans now consider going abroad for nursing home care. Families say it’s their best option to provide a dignified old age for their parents — and save money.

BusinessWeek

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Zimbabwe: Government legalizes spying on Zim citizens

A government spy program will now monitor phone calls, texts and email, and the details will be kept in a national database for use on demand by the state security agencies.

allAfrica.com

Report: Israel has caused peace talks to reach a dead-end

Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have been halted due to Israel’s “refusal to engage in serious negotiations about borders, focusing instead on security,” the Al-Hayat newspaper reported.

Jerusalem Post

Israel increases rate of home demolitions as peace talks chug along

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Twitter abuzz with #shutdown’s effects on science

The current shutdown is having particular effects for the sciences, with portions of the CDC and FDA being shut down, as well as all of the country’s national parks and the Smithsonian museums and zoo.

LiveScience

Discovery of charged droplets could lead to more efficient power plants

The discovery of an electric charge in tiny water droplets could lead to a new way of drawing power from the atmosphere and more efficient power plants, say MIT researchers.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

Lifting the ‘oil curse’ for resource-rich nations

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Lynne K. Varner):

Federal government shutdown sequesters kids

(Seattle Times)

Opinion Northwest

Column (Arjun Sethi):

Why is Brazil hosting 2014 World Cup?

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Palestinian authority legalizes online dating ‘for marriage purposes’

The Palestinian Authority’s Supreme Fatwa Council legalized online dating, with the caveat that adherents maintain “the required moral standards and Shariah’s rules,” as reported in The Jerusalem Post.

ABC News

Ancient kingdom discovered beneath mound in Iraq

In the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq archaeologists have discovered an ancient city called Idu, hidden beneath a mound.

LiveScience

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Microsoft’s ‘Office 365 for Nonprofits’ now in Kenya, Nigeria

Microsoft has launched its “Office 365 for Nonprofits” software donation program in Kenya and Nigeria, in efforts to meet the needs of organizations in streamlining IT and focusing on social impact.

humanipo

Tiny superheroes combat big challenges with capes made by Seattle mom

With a little fabric and a lot of love, Robyn Rosenberger is enabling children around the world who have illnesses and disabilities to be the superheroes their parents already know they are.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Hydrofracking resulting in radioactive contaminants in wastewater

Since 2008, hydraulic fracturing has been used to release and capture the shale gas for energy consumption. Its use has been highly disputed, and recent findings by Duke University further display harmful impacts.

Environmental News Network

Senegal struggles to safeguard seed quality

Senegal‘s 1994 legislation on seed certification has been hugely influential, inspiring West Africa’s harmonized law on quality seed production — yet Dakar still struggles with shortages.

allAfrica.com

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$Green MEPs and anti-fracking activitists pose with fracking flavored water outside the European Parliament.$

Green MEPs and anti-fracking activitists pose with fracking flavored water outside the European Parliament. (Photo by Greens EFA/ C European Union 2012)

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