News stories by Kanya DAlmeida, page 7

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (IPS) - There was a time when images from war zones featured only battlefields and barracks. As warfare moved into the 20^th century, pictures of embattled urban centres and rural guerilla outposts began to make the rounds.

NEW YORK, Feb 26 (IPS) - A nurse helps an old man up from his chair. Holding onto her arms, he steps blindly forward, trusting her to lead him to his spot at the lunch table.

PHILADELPHIA, U.S., Dic 07 (IPS) - Seated at a table in the dimly lit café in Philadelphia's public library, Carolyn Hill looks no different from her fellow diners. A few minutes of conversation, though, are enough to reveal the extent of her distress.

PHILADELPHIA, U.S., Dic 06 (IPS) - It is nearly impossible in this day and age to turn on the news without hearing about systemic racial discrimination in the United States.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, U.S., Oct 05 (IPS) - What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines?

ALFAZ, Spain, Jul 01 (IPS) - The atrocious Second World War left behind lasting damage by lowering our standards for what is marginally acceptable.

NEW YORK, Feb 19 (IPS) - It was almost four o'clock in the morning on Feb. 18, 1990, when Dr. Manorani Saravanamuththu pulled into the driveway of No. 42 Castle Street, an old Portuguese-style home located in a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.

LISBON, Feb 19 (IPS) - Thousands of people marched through the streets of cities across Portugal "against exploitation and impoverishment" caused by the government's austerity cuts, in a protest organised by the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), the country's largest trade union.

LONDON, Dic 12 (IPS) - Twenty-five years ago, on Dec. 8, presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. This historic agreement eliminated a modern class of land-based "theatre" weapons - the SS20s, cruise and Pershing missiles - that had been brought into Europe in the early 1980s.

, Dic 04 (IPS) - A growing number of international lawsuits has highlighted an emerging global crisis: the nature and effects of investment treaties signed between governments, which are allowing private companies and investors to sue countries for millions or even billions of dollars.