ADDIS ABABA, Dic 06 (IPS) - Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation is once again stirring debate in this Horn of Africa nation as lawyer Temam Ababulga challenges the 2009 law in the highly-publicised "Muslim terrorism" case.

WASHINGTON, Dic 06 (IPS) - Increasingly distressed over the possible consequences of Israel's recent steps to punish the Palestinian Authority (PA) and consolidate its hold on the West Bank, a number of prominent voices here are urging President Barack Obama to exert real pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse course.

WASHINGTON, Dic 06 (IPS) - Economists and development experts are applauding a new policy by the International Monetary Fund supporting government attempts to control the cross-border flow of money, a major ideological shift for the institution.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 05 (IPS) - Human rights activists in Brazil mobilised Wednesday to draw attention to the fact that half a million people have been murdered in this South American country in the past 10 years.

WASHINGTON, Dic 05 (IPS) - The bad news about Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's expanding constitutional powers is the threat of another dictatorship in Egypt. The good news is that normal politics is returning to Egypt after decades of brutal authoritarian regimes.

DOHA, Qatar, Dic 05 (IPS) - While the Philippines copes with the aftermath of powerful super-typhoon Bopha, which killed more than 300 people this week, tempers flared at the U.N. climate summit here.

BUENOS AIRES, Dic 05 (IPS) - "This isn't like a tsunami, which appears all of a sudden, but a silent enemy that kills you slowly, as you breathe and drink the water," says Hugo Ozores, who lives in González Catán, a working-class district in Greater Buenos Aires.

, Dic 05 (IPS) - People in the streets and squares of the Colombian capital are breathing easier. The air is fresh with hope, in contrast to the former leaden and fearful atmosphere of eternal violence and interminable conflict.

GÖTEBORG, Dic 05 (IPS) - Leaders of the European Union (EU) will gather in Oslo this Monday to receive an increasingly controversial Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist, established the five prizes by his will in 1895 and there is a growing international awareness that his prize "for the champions of peace" does not go to the recipients Nobel had in mind.

SRINAGAR, Dic 05 (IPS) - Nestled in a valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range, Kashmir is an idyllic and culturally rich region, a cradle of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist religious relics and architectural sites.