News headlines in 2009, page 153

  1. TRADE: France Is Breaking the EU’s Controversial Subsidies Rules

    - Inter Press Service

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    The European Commission is demanding that the French government pays back 500 million euros spent on aid to French farmers. The scheme is in breach of European competition law as it financed competition with France’s neighbours by providing vegetable and fruit producers with hefty subsidies for more than a decade.

  2. EGYPT: Differences 'Narrowing' Over Nile Waters

    - Inter Press Service

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    Signs are emerging of some narrowing of differences over the sharing of Nile waters.

  3. BRAZIL: Former Environment Minister Shakes Up Political Scene

    - Inter Press Service

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    A likely presidential bid by former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva, who quit the ruling Workers Party (PT) this week, has shaken up the political scene ahead of the 2010 elections.

  4. RIGHTS-NAMIBIA: Updating Child Protection

    - Inter Press Service

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    A mammoth draft bill on child care and protection is nearing completion in Namibia. A gaggle of experts has made recommendations; a muster of officials will decide what goes in and what stays out. And all worry what the politicians will say.

  5. POLITICS-US: Court Reins in Terror Finance Policy

    - Inter Press Service

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    A federal court this week ruled for the first time that the U.S. government cannot freeze an organisation's assets under a terror financing law without a warrant based upon probable cause and without telling the organisation the basis for its action and a meaningful opportunity to defend itself.

  6. DEVELOPMENT: Political Power Dictates Transboundary Waters

    - Inter Press Service

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    A longstanding quote attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the legendary author and humourist Mark Twain has been reverberating in the conference rooms of the Swedish capital: 'Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over.'

  7. HAITI: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist

    - Inter Press Service

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    Government authorities in Haiti face recent criticism over allegations that they continue to jail political dissidents.

  8. RIGHTS-CHILE: Personal Stories Bring the 'Disappeared' to Life

    - Inter Press Service

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    Two Chilean women living in the United States were so moved by the plight of people who were detained and disappeared during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that they overcame the problems of distance, and wrote a book reconstructing the personal lives of eight victims through the accounts given by their closest relatives.

  9. INDONESIA: Women Activists Draw Lessons from Failed Election Bids

    - Inter Press Service

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    Four months since Indonesia’s legislative elections, Ditah Indah Sari still grapples with her unsuccessful foray into electoral politics. 'We are curious why we did not get elected,' she said.

  10. Q&A: ‘Young People Should Not Be Sitting in Classrooms’

    - Inter Press Service

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    Having shaken up the conventions of banking by arguing that credit is a fundamental right to help the poor in his native Bangladesh get loans for small business ventures, Muhammad Yunus has set his sights on another shake-up: university education.

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