News headlines in May 2009

  1. /UPDATE*/TRADE: ‘‘You can’t smoke cigars in Brussels and bulldoze us’’

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Namibia will sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) when the outstanding contentious issues have been resolved through new wording in the texts of the interim EPA, says the country’s trade and industry minister Hage Geingob.

  2. Q&A: 'Climate Change Will Soon Make Millions Homeless'

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Millions of people will soon have to leave their homeland as a result of global warming, says a report on environmental refugees by the Italian environmental association Legambiente. Half of them will move due to natural catastrophes, the rest will be hit by desertification and rising sea levels.

  3. MIDEAST: Bloody New Battles Suit Israel

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    The inevitable has happened. Simmering tensions between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have left six Palestinians dead, in the bloodiest confrontation between the two groups since Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza in June 2007.

  4. TRADE: Russia Joining, Joining

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    After years of negotiations on joining the WTO, Russia is still far from meeting the requirements set forth by the organisation.

  5. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Tourism Threatens Natural Treasure

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Jaragua National Park, famous for housing the world’s tiniest reptile, will itself be in danger if the green light is given to mega-hotel projects instead of ecotourism and sustainable development initiatives, say Dominican ecologists.

  6. DEVELOPMENT: Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    In the face of an economic system which seems to be premised on environmental harm and profit-driven growth, a handful of communities across the U.S. and the globe have begun experimenting with alternative forms of local currency as a pathway to sustainability.

  7. RIGHTS-SLOVAKIA: Getting Worse for Minorities

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    The Council of Europe has warned in a report that attacks and political racism directed against Jews, Roma and Hungarian minorities have increased since the far-right Slovak National Party joined the government in 2006.

  8. EGYPT: ‘They Ogle, Touch, Use the Filthiest Language Imaginable’

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    As night falls over Egypt’s capital, youth gather along the banks of the Nile where a carnivalesque atmosphere prevails.

  9. US-CANADA: Shared Border, Unilateral Policy?

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Canada and the United States are on different wavelengths when it comes to a shared and increasingly hardening of what had been a sleepy border within North America.

  10. COLOMBIA: Moving Towards a Paramilitary State?

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Visibly indignant, former Colombian president César Gaviria (1990-1994) denounced this week what he called an 'appalling' article in a draft political reform law currently under debate in Congress.

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