News headlines in 2014, page 124

, Apr 01 (IPS) - Russia's state-run oil giant Rosneft wants to purchase a majority stake in the state-controlled company that owns all of Kyrgyzstan's civilian airports.

ALFAZ, Spain, Apr 01 (IPS) - History, not only law, matters: like how Crimea and Abkhazia-South Ossetia - basically Russian-Orthodox – became Ukrainian and Georgian, respectively.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Apr 01 (IPS) - Guyana is shaping up to set a gold standard for the Caribbean in implementing a national energy efficiency strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

BRUSSELS, Apr 01 (IPS) - As African and European leaders meet in Brussels this week under the theme of "Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace", it is clear Africa's greatest natural resource, its children, must be centre stage. 

KATHMANDU, Apr 01 (IPS) - Water is a critical resource in Nepal's economic development as agriculture, industry, household use and even power generation depends on it. The good news is the Himalayan nation has plenty of water. The bad news - water abundance is seasonal, related to the monsoon months from June to September.

HAVANA, Apr 01 (IPS) - A new law opening Cuba up to foreign investment and a shift in the country's relations with the European Union are aimed at seeking outside support to overcome the chronic crisis plaguing the country since the early 1990s.

KAMPALA, Mar 31 (IPS) - On a Friday afternoon men wearing long kamis — long white traditional robes — climb the steps to Somcity Travel, a small family business and travel agency in Kisenyi slum, in Uganda's capital, Kampala. The agency boasts that they "fly all over the world" but to one destination in particular — Somalia.

WASHINGTON, Mar 31 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons programme as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Mar 31 (IPS) - As they fine-tune preparations for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference in Samoa and the United Nations post-2015 development framework meeting in September, Commonwealth states are focusing on getting the international community to pay more attention to the challenges they face.