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Czech Republic: Castration for Sex Offenders Triumphs

Sunday, January 22, 2012

The Czech government has defied calls from international human rights groups to stop the 'degrading' practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.

India: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea.

Germany: While Some Waste, Others Feast

Friday, January 20, 2012

Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers.

Europe: Unrest Spread Eastwards

Friday, January 20, 2012

Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both countries indicate dissatisfaction with their governments’ authoritarian turn, their origins differ, as does the European Union’s reaction to them.

Pakistan: Taliban Bombs Get Deadlier

Friday, January 20, 2012

In their efforts to kill and injure more people as part of a terror campaign in northern Pakistan, the Taliban militia have resorted to lacing bombs with toxic chemicals that leave survivors with complicated wounds.

Balkans: The Dark Side of Serbia's Oil Shale Fairy Tale

Thursday, January 19, 2012

According to an old Serbian fairy tale, God tells a poor man who enters a gold mine that no matter what he chooses to do inside, he'll be sorry when he leaves. If he takes some gold, he'll be sorry for not taking more; if he doesn't, he'll be sorry for not taking any at all.

Half Of All Abortions Now Unsafe, Study Finds

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a new study released Thursday.

Japan: Pushing Nuclear Exports After Fukushima

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11, last year.

Haiti: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday

Thursday, January 12, 2012

For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated 230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little has changed for Dieulia St. Juste.

El Salvador: Pesticides Fill Graveyards in Rural Villages

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sitting in the shade under a tree at a careful distance, Francisco Sosa watches his son prepare the land for planting by spraying the weeds with an herbicide from a tank carried on his back.

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