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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) parallels   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 South Sudan: Every aid dollar spent makes a difference Global support can help to build resilience to recurring shocks and stresses – and could relieve suffering for good. Guardian 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 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 Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa hits out at critics Sri Lanka‘s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has hit out at critics amid heightened scrutiny of his government’s human rights record on the eve of a Commonwealth summit hosted in Colombo. BBC Egypt‘s message to the US: We’ve got Russia Russian officials are in Cairo today, reportedly to negotiate an arms deal. The US suspended some of its annual military aid to Egypt last month. Christian Science Monitor   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Column (Susan Kieffer): Is there a point to disaster anniversaries? Time 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   Site edited by: Lynne Adams, Tanya Flowers, Amy Marie Phillips, Darling Gutierrez, Audrey Harry, Erkinaz Shuminov and Daniel Acosta.   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   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Raising the minimum wage: Whom does it help? Some states set their own minimum wages, above the federal rate of $7.25 an hour, and that rekindles an old debate over whether minimum wages make sense — especially at a time of high unemployment. NPR   Photo of the Day Icebergs that break away can float into international shipping routes. 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