News headlines in 2010, page 3
ARGENTINA: On-Board Cameras to Monitor Hake Fishing in South Atlantic
- Inter Press Service
A video monitoring system will begin operating Jan. 1 on fishing vessels in the South Atlantic in a bid to halt the collapse of the Argentine hake population in one of the world's largest fisheries supplying the white fish market.
GAMBIA: Families Left Homeless by Floods
- Inter Press Service
Amie Manneh and her family lived securely in their single-bedroom home in Bundung, 15 kilometers from the capital, Banjul. Then their home was destroyed by heavy rainfall in September. Since then Amie, her husband and six children have been living in the damaged house.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Threats Churn in the San Juan River
- Inter Press Service
The San Juan River, centre of discord and diplomatic conflicts between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, is seeing its riverbanks fill up with economic projects that scientists and environmentalists say will irreversibly alter its course.
'Green' Schools Flourish in Porto Alegre
- Inter Press Service
Living sustainably can be learned. That is the idea championed by two schools in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where students are learning to become environmental citizens of the new millennium.
Life Sentence for Videla Culminates 'Year of Trials'
- Inter Press Service
The life sentence handed down to former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla Wednesday was the culmination of a year marked by faster progress in trials of members of the armed forces accused of human rights violations committed during the country's 1976-1983 military regime.
JAPAN: Economic Woes Hover Over Yearend Revelry
- Inter Press Service
Japanese employees are marking the countdown to the new year with the usual parties that they traditionally indulge in to 'forget the past and start afresh’. But how they celebrate — and how much they spend on these ‘bonen-kai’ celebrations — are a harbinger of the state of the economy.
MALAWI: Women Claim Equal Share of Family Property
- Inter Press Service
Seated on a wooden bench at her Katoto township house in Mzuzu, Grace Mkandawire’s face reflects the traumatic experiences she has endured since her husband’s death in 1998. She looks lost and confused and as she narrates her story there is fear, hatred and resignation that Malawi’s Marital Property Law of (1882) disenfranchises poor women like her.
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA:: Less Water, But More Rice
- Inter Press Service
When French Jesuit priest and passionate agriculturist Henri de Laulanie developed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of cultivation for Madagascar’s poor farmers in the 1980s, he probably had no idea that millions of farmers elsewhere in the world would one day benefit from it as well.
PERU: Army's Version of Civil War Events Questioned
- Inter Press Service
A decade after the end of Peru's 20-year counterinsurgency war was officially declared, the army broke its silence, to give its own version of events.
CUBA: Opposition 'Needs to Reflect' on U.S. Criticisms Revealed by Wikileaks
- Inter Press Service
The internal dissident movement in Cuba faces some big challenges in 2011, after ending the year with low marks from the top U.S. diplomat in Havana, according to confidential cables made public by Wikileaks, some of which were published on the official government website cubadebate.cu.