News headlines in 2013, page 42

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Press freedom advocates here charge that the administration of President Barack Obama is engaged in a war on "leaks" of secret information that is without parallel in this country.

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - Four hundred million children under 13 years of age are living in extreme poverty worldwide, according to a new study released by the World Bank here Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - South Africa's Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace prize laureate, has launched a global campaign to stop African nations from abandoning the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10 (IPS) - Half of Argentina is supplied with water by invisible underground aquifers, which are crucial in the country's arid and semi-arid regions, experts say. But Tierramérica discovered that nobody – not even the government – has any accurate scientific data on these groundwater reserves.

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending "credible progress" toward a return to democratic rule.

TOV PROVINCE, Mongolia, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mongolia, 90 percent dependent on fuel imports from Russia and vulnerable to price hikes, is seeking to develop its oil shale deposits of at least 800 billion tons.

NAIROBI, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mary K. loved to study and wanted to be an accountant. However, when she was 16 and in class six (grade eight), her father forced her to leave school to marry a 50-year-old man who paid him 60 cows.

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 10 (IPS) - The refusal by the Ethiopian government to redress grievances harboured by the Muslim community here, which comprises about 34 percent of the country's 91 million people makes this Horn of African nation vulnerable to extremism.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 (IPS) - A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world's tropical regions.