News headlines in 2014, page 84

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 (IPS) - When the United Nations reaches out to resolve a water or sanitation crisis, it is largely across urban slums and remote villages in Asia, Africa or Latin America and the Caribbean.

WASHINGTON, Jun 19 (IPS) - A first-time U.S.-hosted summit on protecting the oceans has resulted in pledges worth some 800 million dollars to be used for conservation efforts.

BUENOS AIRES, Jun 18 (IPS) - As Argentina starts to mend fences with the international financial markets, the emerging powers that make up the BRICS bloc invited it to their next summit. This could be a step towards this country's reinsertion in the global map, after its ostracism from the credit markets since the late 2001 debt default.

KUTCH, India, Jun 18 (IPS) - When Sangan Bhai, a humble man in the Kutch region of India's western state of Gujarat, was offered a position as an executive member of the local camel breeder's association, he made a decision that surprised his community: instead of accepting the prestigious post he offered his wife's name instead.

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jun 18 (IPS) - Inside a dark, cramped, music studio on Arusha's hillside slum of Kijenge Juu, a thumping hip hop beat rattles the window-less room.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) - Try to imagine an expanse of barren land, stretching for miles, with no trace of greenery, not a single bough to cast a sliver of shade, or a trickle of water to moisten the parched earth. Now imagine that desert expanding by 12 million hectares a year. Why? Because it's already happening.

NEW YORK, Jun 17 (IPS) - Two major injustices – inequality and climate change – are threatening to undermine the efforts of millions of people to escape poverty and hunger.

KARACHI, Jun 17 (IPS) - The word on the street was that if there were one place on earth that could treat Mohammad Lalu's wife, it would be the Koohi Goth Women's Hospital in Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

, Jun 17 (IPS) - While South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar agreed last week to end the country's devastating six-month conflict by forming a transitional government within the next two months, it may come too late for this country's wildlife as conservation officials accuse fighters on both sides of engaging in killing wild animals to feed their forces.  

, Jun 17 (IPS) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject an appeal by the Argentine government will embolden aggressive "holdout" creditors, anti-poverty groups say, and make it far more difficult to arrive at debt-relief agreements for poor countries.