News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 49

KINGSTON, Dic 13 (IPS) - The dismissal of a case of a Jamaican convict by the United Kingdom Privy Council has paved the way for this northern Caribbean island to resume hanging which has been suspended for the last six years.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 13 (IPS) - The Brazilian Senate authorised funds to resume work that was suspended seven years ago on the country's second nuclear power-plant, the state-run Furnas Electric Power Stations company announced on Tuesday.

SANTIAGO, Dic 13 (IPS) - Chilean exports to other Latin American countries increased 26.7 percent between Jan. and Oct. this yearmaking it the nation's most rapidly growing trade areaaccording to official figures released on Tuesday.

QUITO, Dic 13 (IPS) - Ecuador must develop and learn to compete in large markets by the year 2005when the hemispheric free trade zone called for at the recent Americas Summit is to be introducedwarned business leader Gustavo Pinto.

CAIRO, Dic 13 (IPS) - The seventh summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) began in Morocco Tuesday amid calls from member states to unify around the Muslim government in war-torn Bosnia.

ADDIS ABABA, Dic 13 (IPS) - ETHIOPIA, BATHING IN POLITICAL TURMOIL AND BLOODSHED, HAS PASSED A NEW CONSTITUTION WHICH IS EXPECTED TO GIVE THE HORN OF AFRICA COUNTRY A NEW LEASE OF LIFE BY UPHOLDING HUMAN RIGHTS.

BRUSSELS, Dic 13 (IPS) - A senior European Union (EU) official said Tuesday that the European Commission is prepared to consider giving compensation to third countries whose exports will be squeezed when Austria, Sweden and Finland join the EU next year.

BOGOTA, Dic 13 (IPS) - A farmers' protest against fumigation of drug-related crops and an attack on an anti-drug squad have elevated tension in the Guaviare department in eastern Colombia, reviving the issue of presumed guerrilla-drug links.

BHOPAL, Dic 09 (IPS) - TEN YEARS AFTER BEING HIT BY THE WORLD'S WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER, THIS CENTRAL INDIAN CITY SEEMS TO BE HEADING FOR A SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS, IRONICALLY FUELLED BY MONETARY RELIEF FOR THE SURVIVORS.

NEW YORK, Dic 09 (IPS) - Human rights violations persist in Latin America, despite the consolidation of democratically elected governments in the region, according to a global report issued Thursday by the non-governmental Human Rights Watch.