News headlines in 2013, page 99

WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (IPS) - No doubt the administration of President Barack Obama had hoped that this week's foreign policy news would be dominated by the high-level U.S.-China Strategic and Economic and Dialogue (S&ED) that just ended here Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Qasim have a lot in common.

TEGUCIGALPA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Honduran society remains shocked at the tragic fate of Aníbal Barrow, a journalist and university professor whose body was dismembered and scattered around a lake in Villanueva, in the northern province of Cortés.

PROGRESO, Mexico, Jul 12 (IPS) - Towns on Mexico's Caribbean coast are behind schedule on the design and implementation of plans to face the challenges of climate change, in spite of the urgency of measures to reduce vulnerability.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) - Apart from being an actress, film producer and writer, Geena Davis is a leading advocate of equal gender portrayal in the entertainment media.

KATHMANDU, Jul 12 (IPS) - As the chief of building codes and earthquake safety of the Lalitpur Municipality, located about 10 km from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, Sainik Raj Singh has the tough job of cracking down on builders who fail to comply with the government's construction regulations.

PARIS, Jul 12 (IPS) - We were afraid this would happen. We had been warned by books (George Orwell's "1984") and films (Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report") that with the progress being made in communication technology, we would all end up under surveillance.

BRUSSELS, Jul 12 (IPS) - In an unexpected move, European parliamentarians have approved a new biofuel regulation that will take emissions from indirect land use change into account. The new text allows the biofuel sector to expand, sending a clear signal to world food markets and jeopardising food security for the world's poorest.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Jul 12 (IPS) - A "virus" of restrictive abortion legislation is spreading from Eastern Europe, health experts and rights campaigners have said, amid Church pressure and misguided government attempts to stop falling birth rates.

WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - "Bleeding", "vomiting", "a quarter or even a third" of bodyweight lost, "torture". These are characteristic descriptions from testimony by hunger strikers at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay of their experience being force-fed at the hands of U.S. officials, published in a report released Thursday.