News headlines in 2014, page 150

SAN JOSÉ, Feb 05 (IPS) - Meeting Costa Rica's self-imposed goal of being the first country in the world to achieve carbon neutrality by 2021 will depend on the priority given this aim by the winner of the second round of the presidential elections in April.

SANCHEZ, Petite Martinique, Feb 05 (IPS) - Sanchez is a small central business district in Petite Martinique, the tiny island that forms part of the tri-nation state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

WASHINGTON, Feb 04 (IPS) - Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is set to run for president and is expected to win handily. The ruling junta and the interim government have taken several steps to make this happen.

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 04 (IPS) - There are growing concerns that the massive funding crisis for peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) will jeopardise any prospect of restoring stability to the country. 

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 04 (IPS) - Whether to make war or peace with the Taliban has become a dilemma for the Pakistani government.

WASHINGTON, Feb 04 (IPS) - Pro-immigration reform advocates here are seeking to capitalise on new federal momentum on the issue after conservative lawmakers ended months of dithering late last week and released an initial set of principles that they would be interested in pursuing in broader negotiations.

WASHINGTON, Feb 03 (IPS) - The U.S. government is being urged to conclude a review of national policy on landmines that has dragged on for more than four years, a lag that some say has indirectly led to the injury or death of more than 16,000 people.

SPOKANE, Washington, Feb 03 (IPS) - Moral Monday, the populist movement in North Carolina that saw a diverse coalition of thousands of progressive activists descend upon the state legislature, is now spreading throughout the U.S. South.

LIMA, Feb 03 (IPS) - Shelving the case of the forced sterilisation of more than 2,000 women in Peru during the Alberto Fujimori regime was a surprise move by the prosecutor in charge. What happened? An IPS investigation found that legal avenues to pursue justice have not been exhausted.

BELGRADE, Feb 03 (IPS) - One of the best kept secrets of former Yugoslavia is out in the open after the online release of the names of 16,101 inmates of Goli Otok, or the Naked Island, the country's only gulag – a Soviet system of forced labour camps – created 65 years ago.