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Brazil Drives Energy Integration In South America

Friday, May 18, 2012

Energy integration in South America will be a reality 'in the medium to long term,' driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.

U.S. Calls On Mali Junta To Withdraw From Politics

Friday, May 18, 2012

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the strength to deal with humanitarian and security challenges facing the West African country.

Caught Between Diarrhoea Bugs And Arsenic

Friday, May 18, 2012

Caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and rivers, achieving the millennium development goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh.

Bracing For A Massive Influx Of Returnees

Friday, May 18, 2012

In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning home in the midst of an economic crisis that has the U.N. warning it may appeal for more funding to scale up humanitarian operations.

‘Leave Nothing But Footprints’ On Philippine Beaches

Friday, May 18, 2012

Seashells and corals are competing with styrofoam packs, food wrappers, cigarette butts, and plastic bottles for space on some of the Philippines’ most scenic beaches. Graffiti mars tourist spots like lighthouses and caves, proclaiming the names of recent visitors.

Autism 'relegated To The Sidelines'

Thursday, May 17, 2012

At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If you spend a little time with him, though, you soon realise that something is different.

Over Objections, U.S. Lifts Myanmar Investment Ban

Thursday, May 17, 2012

In a highly anticipated confirmation, the United States on Thursday announced that it would be significantly rolling back bilateral economic restrictions that have been in place on Myanmar (Burma) for a decade and a half.

Hopes To Heal Economy Through Devaluation, Which Has Hit Poor Hard

Thursday, May 17, 2012

As Malawi’s poor struggle to afford food and other staple items since the 48 percent devaluation of the local currency against the dollar, economic commentators are optimistic that the move will provide an opportunity to boost the country’s export market.

Activists Brace For Long War Against Nuclear Power

Thursday, May 17, 2012

For the past two decades Masao Ishiji (59), has been fighting tooth and nail to ban the operation of four nuclear reactors that dot the western coastline of Oi in the Fukui prefecture facing the Japan Sea.

Nato's Twin Crises

Thursday, May 17, 2012

It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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