News headlines in February 2010, page 6

  1. LATIN AMERICA: Mexico Dusts Off Leadership Role

    - Inter Press Service

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    Below the surface, discussions about the international aid effort for Haiti hide undercover jockeying for position between Latin American countries wishing to consolidate or attain dominance in the Caribbean region.

  2. MALAWI: Catapults Against Cholera

    - Inter Press Service

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    By this time last year, Mkanda had recorded 14 cholera cases as rainy season descended on central Malawi. This year, the area has not been a single report of cholera.

  3. JAMAICA: Young Offenders Caught Up in Adult System

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    For years, Jamaica's correctional system has been under the glare of the international spotlight.

  4. U.S.: Hispanic Farmers Seek Redress for Years of Bias

    - Inter Press Service

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    When the Barack Obama administration urged Congress to settle a protracted anti-discrimination lawsuit for 1.25 billion dollars on behalf of African American farmers last week, Lupe Garcia of Las Cruces, New Mexico was paying close attention.

  5. AFGHANISTAN: Marja Offensive Aimed to Shape U.S. Opinion on War

    - Inter Press Service

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    Senior military officials decided to launch the current U.S.-British military campaign to seize Marja in large part to influence domestic U.S. opinion on the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday.

  6. POLITICS: What Will China Do With Its Veto?

    - Inter Press Service

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    With relations between China and the U.S. taking some bitter turns in recent months, how China responds to mounting pressure from the U.S. and its European allies for tougher sanctions on Iran is being viewed as a major test of the current relations and a determinant of the future shape of bilateral ties between Washington and Beijing.

  7. U.S.: CIA Briefed Congress on Renditions

    - Inter Press Service

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    The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed members of Congress from both political parties numerous times about the agency's interrogation and detention programmes, several prominent human rights groups said Monday.

  8. EUROPE: Tax Evasion Rampant Despite Treaties With Tax Havens

    - Inter Press Service

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    New cases of tax evasion in several European countries are showing the limits of the informal agreements reached between the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and tax havens such as Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

  9. THAILAND: Temple Grounds A Venue for Curbing Domestic Violence

    - Inter Press Service

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    When the conversation here shifts to domestic violence, even the way a woman got pregnant becomes an issue of concern, particularly if the price for bearing a child means getting infected with HIV.

  10. EAST AFRICA: Improving Local Access to Family Planning

    - Inter Press Service

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    A severe shortage of highly-trained medical personnel is one of the many challenges to providing health care at a local level across Africa. Task shifting - permitting less-specialised people to carry out certain functions - is one proposal to over come this, but it is meeting resistance.

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