News headlines in 2013, page 45

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, U.S., Oct 05 (IPS) - What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines?

NANTES, France, Oct 05 (IPS) - With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level.

KOH KONG PROVINCE, Cambodia, Oct 05 (IPS) - The quiet Cambodian village of Chouk, set in the beautiful forests of the Cardamom Mountains near the Thai border, seems peaceful. But things are difficult in this largely empty village of simple wooden houses, populated mainly by children and the elderly.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 04 (IPS) - A police cordon kept everyone out of the Buenaventura "corrala" on Thursday after the police evicted 13 families living in the occupied building in the centre of this southern Spanish city early in the morning.

WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Frustration is mounting with elected representatives here on the fourth day of a U.S. government shutdown that has left nearly 800,000 federal workers temporarily out of work, and advocates across the political spectrum are working to get their voices heard.

WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - The lengthy prison sentences handed down to 50 Shia activists last week and the refusal of Bahraini courts to hear their allegations of torture once again confirm the regime's continued repression of the opposition.

NEW YORK, Oct 04 (IPS) - When author Deni Béchard discovered bonobos shared almost 99 percent of human DNA, and based their relationships on cooperation and collaboration, he knew he had to write about them.

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 04 (IPS) - Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, a young woman named Bosena, 25, sits on the side of a busy road with a baby in her arms.

NEW DELHI, Oct 04 (IPS) - As India grapples with rising prices and a rapidly sinking rupee, attention has turned to the country's massive parallel economy that siphons wealth away from development programmes and into the pockets of a corrupt ruling elite.