News headlines in 2013, page 92

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 22 (IPS) - The United Nations children's agency UNICEF released a report Monday that gives the most complete picture of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) ever published.

BUCHAREST, Jul 22 (IPS) - Future studies, like peace-development-environment studies, is an interdisciplinary, international effort to get a grip on key issues, divided into ‘preferred futures' – utopias – whose?; ‘predicted futures' – forecasting – who does it, for whom?; and ‘future practice' – scenarios bending the predicted toward the preferred – by and for whom?

NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) - Ataur was 18 when he left Bangladesh and arrived in the United States in 1991 as an undocumented migrant. He took two jobs at the same time, earning about 35 dollars a day in total.

, Jul 22 (IPS) - Nine of the 47 tuition-free public universities in Argentina were created in the last decade, with the aim of improving access to higher education in low-income areas. But despite the expansion and strategies to provide support for students, the drop-out rate has proven difficult to combat.

SRINAGAR, India, Jul 22 (IPS) - Twenty-three-year-old Haleema (not her real name) was not the first female patient at Srinagar's Chest Diseases Hospital in the Indian state of Kashmir to try to run away.

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, U.S., Jul 22 (IPS) - The transition team of Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani was busy last week lowering expectations for a quick economic recovery, saying that things are far worse than they had thought.

TORONTO, Jul 22 (IPS) - NATO member countries like Canada will be continue to be asked to shoulder the burden of a military mission stuck in Afghanistan because of the continued vulnerability of the Kabul-based government.

QATAR, Jul 22 (IPS) - A manhunt is under way for hundreds of inmates, including several high-ranking al-Qaeda members, who escaped two Iraqi prisons following deadly attacks.

, Jul 22 (IPS) - At the Garoua Regional Hospital's Paediatric Feeding Centre in northern Cameroon, Aicha Ahidjo* is relieved to hear that her one-year-old son will survive. The child was suffering from chronic malnutrition, and other children have died of it.

CAIRO, Jul 21 (IPS) - The events of Jun. 30 have split Egyptians into two categories. For those in the first, what happened that day was an army-supported public uprising to fulfill the objectives of the revolution of Jan. 25, 2011 and topple a president who broke promises and worked only to benefit his own group, the Muslim Brotherhood.