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ISRAEL: PALESTINIANS REMEMBER THE ‘GREAT CATASTROPHE’ OF 64 YEARS PAST
LIFTA, Jerusalem, May 14, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - "There is the beginning of my life. My father would call for prayer, ‘Allahu Akbar’," says 72-year old Yacoub Odeh, pointing to a collapsed house perched high on the hill. "The whole village would hear him." Odeh was then eight years old: "I’m the son of yesterday."
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LIBYA: WEST AFRICAN REFUGEES ARE PRISONERS IN THE SAHARA
KUFRA, Libya, May 13, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers.
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U.S: NEW BOOK HIGHLIGHTS DANGERS OF DRONE WARFARE
NEW YORK, May 13, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Grasshoppers and other insects might become the next generation of drones, if researchers with the Israeli research centre Technion who are studying the movements of these insects succeed. Ultimately, they hope to be able to remotely control where the insects fly.
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ITALY: FINANCIAL MIDDLEMEN MUDDLE CLIMATE COMMITMENTS
ROME, May 13, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The European Union has been using all means necessary to fill the multi- billion-euro fund for climate change, including the controversial mobilisation of public resources through private financial intermediaries.
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JORDAN: RECOVERING FROM THE ARAB SPRING, AT A PRICE
AMMAN, May 12, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The Arab Spring sent scores of sick and injured Libyans, fleeing their war- torn country, straight to Jordan, where the influx of patients is putting a lot of pressure on Jordanian hospitals and disrupting the lives of Libyan and Jordanian patients alike.
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INDONESIA: COUNTRY IN THE PACIFIC GALVANISES YOUTH AHEAD OF RIO+20
JAKARTA, May 11, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Clutching a plastic bag containing a tree sapling in his right hand and a slim notebook in his left, 11-year-old Rizki Fauzi is the picture of a young climate change expert.
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DEVELOPMENT: UNRESOLVED ETHNIC ISSUES THREATEN MYANMAR REFORMS
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Discussion of economic reforms in Myanmar (Burma) should not overshadow the critical need for a political solution to the longstanding grievances of the country's ethnic minorities, observers in Washington warned on Friday.
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CHILE: COUNTRY’S NATIVE COMMUNITIES FIND ALLY IN SUPREME COURT
SANTIAGO, May 11, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Indigenous groups in Chile celebrated a recent court ruling that represented the latest victory in the struggle for respect for their right to be previously consulted about major projects which directly affect their communities.
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Q&A: WOMEN FARMERS ARE KEY TO A FOOD-SECURE AFRICA
BULAWAYO, May 11, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - While women constitute the majority of food producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and social barriers.
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LABOR: WAR WIDOWS TURN TO SEX WORK IN SRI LANKA
COLOMBO, May 11, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of their husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism.
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ISRAEL: HUNGER STRIKERS RISK DEATH TO HIGHLIGHT PRISON ABUSES
JERUSALEM, May 11, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - With more than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners, weeks into an open-ended hunger strike in protest against worsening conditions in Israeli jails, including two that have gone without food for 72 days, human rights groups say many lives are in danger and are calling for urgent intervention.
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OCCUPIED WEST BANK: PALESTINIAN CHILDREN WORK FOR PENNIES IN ISRAEL
AL-FASAYIL, Occupied West Bank, May 10, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - "It’s tiring," says 15-year-old Ibrahim*, deep lines running across his forehead. "But there is no alternative." Only a teenager, Ibrahim has been working full-time for three years already.
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DEVELOPMENT: STRUGGLES OVER LAND RIGHTS FALL UNDER THE RIO+20 RADAR
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 10, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Land is the missing element at next month's big U.N. sustainable development summit known as Rio+20, where nations of the world will meet Jun. 20-22 with the goal of setting a new course to ensure the survival and flourishing of humanity.
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RIGHTS: TRANS COMMUNITY CELEBRATES GROUNDBREAKING GENDER IDENTITY LAW
BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Under a new law that recognises a broad range of rights for transvestites, transsexuals and transgender persons in Argentina, they will have the right to modify their legal documents to match their gender identity.
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ENVIRONMENT: PLASTIC SEAS ALTERING MARINE ECOLOGY
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 10, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Plastic trash is altering the very ecology of the world's oceans. Insects called "sea skaters", a relative of pond water striders, are now laying their eggs on the abundant fingernail-sized pieces of plastic floating in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean instead of relying on a passing seabird feather or bit of driftwood.
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PHILLIPINES: TOURISM CAMPAIGN DOWNPLAYS REPRESSION OF MEDIA
MANILA, May 10, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the "It’s More Fun in the Philippines" tourism promotion campaign launched by the Liberal Party-led government of President Benigno Aquino III.
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GHANA: MAJOR EFFORT TO REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY FALLS SHORT
ACCRA, May 10, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Ghana has taken a major step towards reducing its under-five mortality rate by becoming the first African country to introduce two new vaccines for rotavirus and pneumococcal disease.
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TUNISIA: REVOLUTION IS JUST BEGINNING
GENEVA, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Lingering violence, intolerance and oppression in Tunisia, following the ousting of former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, tells the revolutionaries who sparked the Arab Spring that their work is just beginning.
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U.S: OBAMA COMES OUT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday declared his support for same-sex marriage, becoming the first sitting president to do so and thrusting the issue into the centre of his campaign for re-election.
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CHINA: KEY TO GREEN TECH INNOVATION?
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - With U.S. federal funding sources for renewable energy sources already drying up, coupled with a newfound antipathy towards "green" issues issue here in Washington, some are suggesting that China could offer an important opportunity for the future of renewables in the United States and around the world.
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ARGENTINA: SPAIN ACCUSED OF DENYING JUSTICE TO VICTIMS OF FRANCO-ERA ABUSES
BUENOS AIRES, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Global rights watchdog Amnesty International presented an Argentine court Wednesday with documents which show that Spanish courts are blocking lawsuits brought by the families of victims of human rights crimes committed during the 1936-1939 civil war and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
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SYRIA: BOMB HITS SYRIAN TRUCK ESCORTING U.N. CONVOY
DOHA, Qatar, May 9, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) - A roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck near Deraa, wounding six soldiers just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the U.N. observer mission passed by.
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U.N: PROTECTING OCEANS IS PROTECTING OUR PLANET
UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The U.N. Environment Program (UNEP), whose mandate includes the preservation and protection of the world's fast-degrading oceans, will play a pivotal role in Expo 2012, an international exhibition to be formally opened later this week in the coastal town of Yeosu in South Korea.
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ARGENTINA: PROGRAMS AIMS TO DOUBLE NUMBER OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES
BUENOS AIRES, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - An educational stimulus program launched in Argentina is aimed at doubling the number of engineering graduates by 2021, in an attempt to fulfill unmet growing demand from industry.
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U.N: MOTHER EARTH SHOULD NOT BE "OWNED, PRIVATIZED AND EXPLOITED"
UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long overdue acknowledgment of past exploitation and dedicated efforts by indigenous peoples have done little to end or prevent violations of the present, stated indigenous leaders in the Manaus Declaration of 2011.
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LIBERIA-MALAWI: AFRICA’S TWO FEMALE PRESIDENTS JOIN FORCES FOR WOMEN
MONROVIA, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent.
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SOUTH AFRICA: WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FALLS FAR SHORT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG, May 9, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The cost of maintaining and expanding water infrastructure in southern Africa is high. And while South Africa may be in a better economic position than the rest of the region, it also faces funding challenges that are similar to those of its neighbours.
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U.S: ETHNIC AND MINORITY YOUTH LEAD NEW WAVE OF STUDENT ACTIVISM
TUSCON, Arizona, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - In December 1985, The New York Times reported on what was believed to be the first anti-apartheid conference of U.S. high schools discussing divestment from corporations operating in South Africa.
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EGYPT: MUBARAK STILL HAS HIS BILLIONS
CAIRO, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - More than a year since president Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, the money he allegedly syphoned from Egypt during his 29-year rule remains beyond the reach of authorities attempting to recover it.
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AFRICA: A MOBILE PHONE IN EVERY POCKET ‘SOONER THAN WE THINK’
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - On a continent of over one billion people, where half the population has mobile phones, the use of mobile communication and internet technologies is crucial to boost development in Africa.
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COLOMBIA: SAVING THE RIVER BASIN, ONE SCHOOLCHILD AT A TIME
NEIVA, Colombia, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - "Out of love for the river, we reforest, recycle, and make this place beautiful," says a sign welcoming visitors to the Floragaita school, where a balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) tree with enormous white flowers guards the entrance to the lush green grounds on a hill in the heart of Colombia’s Andes mountains.
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BANGLADESH: PARAMILITARY KILLINGS THROUGH A CAMERA LENS
NEW YORK, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - What is a journalist to do when simply providing information is not enough to bring about the desired change? Why, turn to art, of course.
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BRAZIL: "WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IS KEY TO ENSURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The vital role of women in creating a green economy will be highlighted at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Brazil in June.
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CANADA: CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS CRUCIAL MARINE ALGAE
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean phytoplankton, the planet's most important organizm, a new study reports this week.
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ENVIRONMENT: MEXICO CITY - MORE GREY THAN GREEN
MEXICO CITY, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - In his book "La Ville Radieuse" (The Radiant City), architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887-1965), known worldwide as Le Corbusier, proposed a city filled with skyscrapers, wide streets, cement and cars, but decorated with gardens. The Mexican capital seems to be following these principles.
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CANADA: INDIGENOUS PERUVIAN COMMUNITY LOCKED IN DISPUTE WITH OIL COMPANY
TORONTO, May 8, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to commencing exploration operations.
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GREECE-FRANCE: GREEK, FRENCH ELECTIONS SOUND DEATH KNELL FOR AUSTERITY
BERLIN, May 7, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The voting out of conservative governments in France and Greece this weekend heralds the end of harsh European austerity programs and ushers in an era of new economic, investment, and social policies aimed at restoring growth and employment across the continent.
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NEPAL: CASTE LOCKS NEPAL'S SEX WORKERS INTO THEIR PROFESSION
MUDA, Nepal, May 7, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with entertainment and prostitution.
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BURKINA FASO: ACTION PLAN TO END BANISHING OF "WITCHES"
OUAGADOUGOU, May 7, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - It's called "the bearing of the body" in Burkina Faso: when a death is deemed suspicious and a group of men carry the corpse through the community, believing the deceased will guide them towards the person responsible for the death. The accused - almost always women – are then chased out of their homes.
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RIGHTS: ILLEGAL AND BRUTAL DETAINMENT LIVES ON IN YEMEN
NEW YORK, May 7, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - "They made me drink my own urine," said one former detainee, Addam Ayedh al-Shayef, describing his experiences in detainment in Yemen. "When I refused to drink it, they electrocuted me. After I came home, I would dream I was still being tortured and I'd wake up screaming."
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BRAZIL: FORGING STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH AFRICA
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The Brazilian government of Dilma Rousseff is taking firm steps towards stronger relations with Africa, such as the creation of a special fund to finance development projects together with multilateral lenders like the World Bank.
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BARBADOS: SMALL ISLAND STATES COMBINING FORCES IN PREPARATION FOR RIO+20
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados , May 7, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - By the time small island developing states (SIDS) arrive at the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in June, they will have worked hard to co-ordinate their message to the rest of the world about the importance of sustainable development for their countries.
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TAIWAN: AMERICAN BEEF ON THE POLITICAL GRILL
TAIPEI, May 6, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Taiwanese civic activists and opposition parties are persisting in efforts to block imports of high-risk American beef even though the ruling rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) legislative majority narrowly defeated a push by opposition legislators Apr. 27 to suspend imports of American beef products.
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SWITZERLAND: CORPORATIONS WIN BIG IN BATTLE AGAINST INVESTMENT REGULATION
GENEVA, May 6, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public health or social policies.
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SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENTS NEED HELP TO REACH DEVELOPMENT GOALS
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 5, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - African countries need more support from the private sector in order to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, which include important development targets like poverty reduction, and improved health and education.
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BRAZIL: MODERN OBSTETRICS AND MIDWIVES NEED TO JOIN FORCES
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 5, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - María dos Prazeres de Souza has lost count of the number of births "without a single death" she has attended as a midwife, an occupation that there is renewed interest in strengthening in traditional communities in Brazil where state services are not available or are not entirely acceptable for cultural reasons.
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GENDER: WITH ONE NOTABLE EXCEPTION, WOMEN REMAIN 'INVISIBLE' IN MYANMAR
YANGON, May 5, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - While Aung San Suu Kyi enjoys iconic status in Myanmar (also known as Burma), women remain invisible in this country steeped in Buddhist tradition and emerging from decades of military rule.
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MALI: CHILD SOLDIERS USED IN MALI CONFLICT
NIAMEY, May 4, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed groups, including militias and bandits, were operating in the region.
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KYRGYZSTAN: JUSTICE ELUSIVE FOR KIDNAPPED BRIDES
BISHKEK, May 4, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Even though she was kidnapped, pressured into marrying a man from a nearby village, and then abandoned without means to sustain herself and the couple's two young children, Totugul can't rely on Kyrgyzstan's courts for help.
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U.S: U.N. WRAPS UP CONTENTIOUS STUDY OF NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - A United Nations special envoy on Friday called on the U.S. government to step up efforts to address historical injustices that continue to affect the country's indigenous population.
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BELGIUM: U.S. CORPORATIONS SPONSOR CARBON SCAM IN EUROPE**
BRUSSELS, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Major publicly traded U.S. corporations, including Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Cabot Corporation, have secured multi-million-dollar dubious carbon credits to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, as revealed in this investigative report.
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CHINA: CHINESE DISSIDENT CHEN SEEKS U.S. EXILE DEAL
DOHA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he wants to leave for the U.S. rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and defuse an impasse that has strained China-U.S. ties.
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FINANCE: GREEKS GEAR UP TO CAST ‘PROTEST VOTES’ AGAINST AUSTERITY
ATHENS, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou (30) sits in a corner of the huge room that volunteers from the new party, Independent Greeks, are using as a headquarters for their pre-election campaign in the lead up to polling day on May 6.
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SRI LANKA: DREAMING OF RETURN, REFUGEES COME HOME TO A NIGHTMARE
COLOMBO, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India when she was just 16 years old in 1990.
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JAPAN: SMALL STEP FORWARD IN RESOLVING OKINAWA BASE IMPASSE
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - It's a deal that's been more than 15 years in the making and the unmaking. The United States and Japan have been struggling since the 1990s to transform the U.S. military presence on the island of Okinawa, the southernmost prefecture of Japan.
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GUATEMALA: CENTRAL AMERICA SEEKS TO BUFFER EFFECTS OF CRISIS IN EUROPE
GUATEMALA CITY, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The economic crisis plaguing many countries in the European Union has forced Central America to look at preventive measures to mitigate the effects in this region, which could include a decline in tourism, migrant remittances, exports and investment.
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SOCIAL ISSUES: U.S. SHOULD DOUBLE AID TO CURB VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AMERICA - REPORT
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The United States should double aid to Central America and focus it more on programs designed to strengthen the region's criminal justice institutions to help curb the skyrocketing violence in the region, according to a new report published by an influential foreign policy group.
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SOUTH SUDAN: DISARMAMENT SPARKS VIOLENCE IN SOUTH SUDAN
JUBA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Civil society groups are calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw support from a disarmament program they say could spark further violence in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei state.
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MOROCCO: COUNTRY IN AFRICA STILL DIVIDED OVER MARRIAGE OF MINORS
CASABLANCA, May 2, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The widespread practice of marrying minors continues to be one of the most incendiary legal and political issues in Morocco today, causing open confrontations between hard-line Islamists and moderates throughout the country.
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UN: REVIVING THE SPIRIT OF RIO+20
UNITED NATIONS, May 2, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - In the weeks and months leading up to the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development, groups spanning a wide spectrum of interests are doing everything in their power to ensure that the outcomes of the summit are actually carried out.
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AFGHANISTAN: U.S.-AFGHAN PACT WON'T END WAR – OR SOF NIGHT RAIDS
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration's "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war.
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BOLIVIA: FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES INCENTIVIZED TO INCREASE PRODUCTION
LA PAZ, May 2, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Almost six years after the nationalization of gas and oil reserves in Bolivia, foreign companies maintain an active presence in the sector, and the government is now offering them greater incentives to increase oil production.
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LABOR SAFETY: CHINESE MINERS DIG DEEP FOR DEATH
BEIJING, May 2, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - China is notorious for containing some of the world’s deadliest mines - a reputation that has been corroborated in recent months by a series of fatal accidents. China is the world’s largest consumer and producer of coal. But the mining industry is beset by illegal operations, dangerous working conditions, local corruption and cover-ups of fatalities.
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U.S: MARCHES AND MILITANCY AT OCCUPY OAKLAND'S MAY DAY
OAKLAND, California, May 2, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - It was May Day and Oakland was bathed in sunshine. Union workers staged militant actions; immigrants and allies marched for justice with brass bands and drummers; spontaneous street parties erupted.
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U.S: WORKERS, STUDENTS RECLAIM MAY DAY IN U.S.
NEW YORK, May 1, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets here and around the United States Tuesday calling for an end to what they described as the mounting and corrosive influence of money in politics.
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BANGLADESH: SCORES ON GIRLS’ SCHOOLING
DHAKA, May 1, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - Bangladesh continues to score good grades in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of gender parity in education by 2015, with the trend of more girls than boys attending primary school accelerating this year.
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ISRAEL: MEDIA FACES NEW CRACKDOWN
JERUSALEM, May 1, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - The Palestinian Authority’s arrest of journalists and activists critical of its policies are threatening freedom of expression and journalistic freedoms in the West Bank, according to local human rights groups.
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FRANCE: COUNTRY CAUGHT BETWEEN RIGHT AND LEFT
PARIS, May 1, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - French workers turned out in droves on May 1, International Workers’ Day, to back their political candidates ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections next Sunday. But France’s "working class" has largely turned to the Far Right, after a long tradition of voting Left.
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: CHARGING BETRAYAL, LABOR UNIONS TO FORM OWN PARTY
PORT OF SPAIN, May 1, 2012 (IPS/GIN) - It was a marriage designed to remove the ruling People's National Movement (PNM) from office in the May 24, 2010 general election.
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AFRICA
May 13
ALGERIA: HOPE DWINDLES AHEAD OF ELECTIONS IN ALGERIA
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May 11
ANGOLA: "NOT A FAMINE, BUT AN ISSUE OF FOOD INSECURITY"
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May 5
SENEGAL: ECOWAS TALKING SOFTER, BUT STILL HOLDING BIG STICK
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SENEGAL: CASHEW PRODUCERS' PAIN IS INTERMEDIARIES’ GAIN IN SENEGAL
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ASIA
May 14
SOUTH KOREA: MILLIONS EXPECTED AT THE ‘LIVING OCEAN’ EXPO
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May 9
INDONESIA: ISLAMISTS STALL GENDER EQUALITY BILL
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May 7
PHILIPPINES: UNIONS URGE DEVELOPMENT BANK TO "WALK THE TALK" ON LABOR RIGHTS
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May 7
VIETNAM: CLIMATE WOES IGNITE NATIONAL STRATEGY IN VIETNAM
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May 3
MYANMAER: OVER-INVESTMENT FEARS LOOM IN MYANMAR
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INDIA: SMUGGLERS DEVASTATE GULF OF MANNAR MARINE RESERVE
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May 1
PHILIPPINES: FILIPINOS REBUFF NEW U.S. MILITARY AGREEMENT
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MIDDLE EAST
May 11
ISRAEL: DOUBLE U-TURN IN ‘THEATRE OF THE ABSURD’
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IRAN: THE STRANGE CASE OF SAEED MORTAZAVI
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May 7
ISRAEL: U.S. SETS ISRAEL IN THE ELECTION MOOD
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LEBANON: LEBANESE GROUPS ARMING SYRIAN UNREST
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May 2
AZERBARIJIAN: SEX AND CENSORSHIP IN AZERBAIJAN
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LATIN AMERICA
May 11
CHILE: NEW REPORT CRITIQUES THE WORLD’S MOST UNEQUAL REGION
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May 10
DEVELOPMENT: AN ARGENTINE PERSPECTIVE ON ‘DEGROWTH’
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May 9
BRAZIL: RENEWABLE ENERGIES NEED NEW INCENTIVES
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May 7
BRAZIL: U.N. FAILS TO FINALIZE RIO+20 PLAN ON SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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ARGENTINA: RENATIONALISED YPF AIMS TO BRING SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN OIL AND GAS
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BRAZIL: URBAN FARMING TAKES ROOT IN BRAZIL’S FAVELAS
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CARIBBEAN
May 11
JAMAICA: COUNTRY'S RICH BIODIVERSITY FACES MULTIPLE THREATS
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May 8
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: WOMEN AND CHILDREN LOOK TO COMMUNITY JUSTICE
(#80338)
May 8
JAMAICA: IMF POLICIES CRIPPLING JAMAICAN ECONOMY
(#80333)
May 8
CUBA: CUBANS WANT FASTER ECONOMIC REFORMS
(#80339)
May 3
CUBA: SPREADING CLIMATE LITERACY IN CUBA
(#80272)
May 2
GUATEMALA: IN ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE,"THE TWO GUATEMALAS" MEET
(#80261)
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US & CANADA
May 10
POLITICS: TANGLED WEB OF CORRUPTION DEBILITATES MEXICO
(#80365)
May 10
U.S.: TREASURY CLAIM OF IRAN-AL-QAEDA "SECRET DEAL" IS DISCREDITED
(#80342)
May 9
U.S: WATER CONFLICTS MOVE UP ON U.S. SECURITY AGENDA
(#80346)
May 9
U.S: WAITING FOR COPERNICUS
(#80351)
May 8
U.S: CLEARER TARGETS URGED FOR U.S. FOREIGN AID
(#80332)
May 8
SECURITY: U.S. SHOULD FORGE "NEW PARTNERSHIP" WITH TURKEY, REPORT SAYS
(#80316)
May 7
U.S: NEXT ROUND OF PACIFIC TRADE PACT TALKS TO BE LENGTHY, SECRETIVE
(#80319)
May 4
GUATEMALA: RETIRED GENERAL LEADS ANTI-CRIME MILITIA
(#80301)
May 4
CANADA: STANDING UP FOR THE PLANET AND THE FUTURE
(#80299)
May 4
U.S: MORALITY VERSUS STRATEGY IN U.S. TIBET POLICY
(#80293)
May 3
U.S: NOBEL LAUREATES AND STUDENTS DISCUSS ROLE OF WOMEN IN HUMAN RIGHTS
(#80311)
May 3
U.S: EPIDEMIC OF PREMATURE BIRTHS IN RICH AND POOR NATIONS ALIKE
(#80312)
May 3
CANADA: NEW PROJECTS DISPEL MYTHS AND SPREAD THE TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES
(#80303)
May 1
U.S: RESTRUCTURING THE PLANET'S FOOD SYSTEM
(#80266)
May 1
U.S: ISRAELI DISSENT MAY CREATE MORE SPACE FOR IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
(#80250)
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EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
May 14
ENERGY: ANTI-NUKE ACTIVISTS SEEK PUBLIC DEBATE ON NATION’S ENERGY POLICY
(#80369)
May 12
GREECE: ONE WIN BY THE RADICAL LEFT, WHAT WILL THE SECOND ROUND BRING?
(#80374)
May 11
SPAIN: COUNTRY’S "INDIGNADOS" RE-TAKE THE STREETS
(#80377)
May 10
FINANCE: U.N. WARNS OF SOCIAL FALL-OUT FROM SPAIN'S AUSTERITY PLAN
(#80363)
May 7
FRANCE: WITH HOLLANDE, DREAMS OF EQUALITY RISE AGAIN
(#80282)
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GLOBAL / UNITED NATIONS
May 8
U.N: NATIVE PEOPLES PRESS GLOBAL POWERS ON HISTORIC AND CURRENT INJUSTICES
(#80329)
May 4
U.N: EXPO 2012 AIMS TO PROTECT WORLD'S ENDANGERED OCEANS
(#80297)
May 4
U.N: PUTTING RESILIENCE AT THE HEART OF DEVELOPMENT
(#80292)
May 3
U.N: JOURNALISTS AND NETIZENS IN GOVT CROSSHAIRS
(#80306)
May 1
EARTH SUMMIT: U.S. LIFESTYLE IS NOT UP FOR NEGOTIATION
(#80267)
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