News headlines in 2013, page 126

GUATEMALA CITY, Jun 11 (IPS) - Fear and mistrust reign in Santa María Nebaj. The people of this Maya Ixil indigenous town in the highlands of northwestern Guatemala are worried about intimidation attempts to keep them from testifying again in a retrial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.

KOLKATA, India, Jun 11 (IPS) - When 30-year-old Rita Datta (not her real name) decided on a whim to take a computer literacy course, she fell through the metaphoric looking glass into a virtual reality where the most taboo subject in India was transformed into the most simple and natural topic of conversation: sex.

WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday.

NAIROBI, Jun 11 (IPS) - When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.

DAKAR/BISSAU, Jun 11 (IPS) - In Dakar, urban commuters are familiar with kids as young as five years old begging on street corners at all hours of the day or the night, with torn, dirty clothes, collecting donations in an empty tin can.

WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - Latin American governments have increasingly been working to lessen inequality in the region, but new data suggests their efforts vary widely in quality and impact.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 10 (IPS) - Africa is the main target for "land grabs" by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released Monday.

HAVANA, Jun 10 (IPS) - The new cyclone season in Cuba is forecast to be highly active, and it announced its arrival with intense rains that caused rivers to burst their banks and flooded extensive areas in the western province of Pinar del Río.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the country in search of a safe haven.

TRIPOLI, Jun 10 (IPS) - All eyes have turned to Libya since Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou's statement claiming that recent attacks in north Niger were perpetrated by Malian terrorists based in south Libya.