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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

‘Let us into the UK or we will die here’: Syrian refugees in standoff at French port

Syrian refugees are in a standoff with police at a ferry terminal in northern France. The group has occupied a footbridge at the port of Calais and is demanding the British government grant them asylum into the U.K.

(NBCNews.com)

World News

Shutdown jeopardizes nutrition program for poor

WIC serves nearly 9 million mothers and young children, providing what advocates say is vital nutrition that poor families might otherwise be unable to afford.

NBCNews.com

Shutdown threatens Capitol Christmas tree

CNNMoney

Major US firms hit by government shutdown

Reuters

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

Italy Lampedusa: Europe’s migrant dilemma

The migrant boat disaster off Lampedusa has highlighted Europe’s struggle to deal with boatloads of migrants — many with legitimate asylum claims — heading across the Mediterranean from North Africa.

BBC

As its laborers die, Qatar fights to keep World Cup

At stake is how Qatar treats hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, whom it needs to build a vast World Cup infrastructure costing about $100 billion.

TIME

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

Israel slams ‘racist’ EU rights resolution on circumcision

Israel slammed as “racist” and “anti-religious” a resolution of the pan-European human rights body calling for regulation of religious circumcision practices.

Yahoo! News

Nigeria school killings condemned by Amnesty

The rights group Amnesty International says the killings of schoolchildren in Nigeria show an absolute disregard for the right to life and education.

BBC

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

Deadly sectarian violence hits Myanmar

Terrified Muslim families hid in forests in western Myanmar a day after fleeing renewed sectarian violence that killed at least five people even as the president toured the region.

Al Jazeera

Burma clashes: 5 killed as Thein Sein visits

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

WildCat robot gallops, bounds

Boston Dynamics, the same robotics company that brought us the humanoid robots Petman and Atlas as well as the Big Dog that can fling cinder blocks, has unveiled a machine that can bound and gallop like a horse or cheetah.

Discovery News

60 new species found in remote Suriname

Braving perilous river rapids in Suriname’s rainforest, international scientists found six frogs and 11 fish that are among 60 creatures that may be new species, a tropical ecologist with a U.S.-based conservation group said.

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Deborah Amos):

Do you know what the US government is up to in Syria?

(NPR)

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Lifting the ‘oil curse’ for resource-rich nations

Christian Science Monitor

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Federal government shutdown sequesters kids

(Seattle Times)

Opinion Northwest

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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

Bees’ foraging for flowers ‘hampered by diesel exhaust’

Honeybees’ ability to find flowers could be hampered by a chemical in diesel exhaust, say scientists. Tests showed that exhaust degraded some floral scent chemicals the bees “home in on” when they are foraging.

BBC

World’s biggest hornet: Insect behind deadly attacks

The world’s biggest hornet is wreaking havoc in northwestern China, where 42 people have died after being swarmed and stung in Shaanxi Province, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

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

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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