News stories by Mauro Teodori, page 3

GENEVA, Nov 04 (IPS) - When the world's most powerful ambassadors gathered in New York last week to celebrate the United Nations' 70th anniversary, it would have been undiplomatic to mention the looming crisis facing the UN's proudest achievement - its humanitarian aid programmes.

LAGOS, Nigeria, Nov 02 (IPS) - Sometimes the best solutions can appear to be so simple that it's hard to imagine why they weren't invented centuries ago.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Oct 23 (IPS) - Sixty-five years after a major international summit here on malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains a scourge and its incidence may even be rising in parts of sub-Saharan Africa due to the combined effects of climate change, agricultural practices and population displacement.

MEXICO CITY, Oct 19 (IPS) - Nearly a month since Pope Francis ended his historic visit to Cuba, any hope that authorities would loosen control on free expression in the country is fading as fast as the chants that welcomed him.

NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (IPS) - After Adam Smith and Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton, this year's Nobel laureate in economics, has contributed most to broaden and enrich our understanding of human well-being. His brilliant and path-breaking contributions to the theory and measurement of consumption, poverty, inequality, nutrition – and, more recently, aging, morbidity and suicides – have inspired a generation of economists to carry out reformulations, refinements and extensions.

WASHINGTON DC, Oct 15 (IPS) - It's auniversally acknowledged truth that no nation can sustain open borders. Even the wealthiest, most popular "nations of immigrants" like the US cannot possibly accept everyone who wants to immigrate here or even qualifies to do so.

TEGUCIGALPA, Sep 24 (IPS) - For Honduran farmer Salomón Lorenzo Vázquez, Tuesday has become the most important day of the week. As he tends his lettuce, cauliflower, and broccoli on the farm he has maintained for 20 years, he waits for his weekly visit from the USAID-ACCESO field officer, the man who has helped double his income.

, Sep 14 (IPS) - "Many of them have died waiting for justice. Many have died in silence. We've had enough of painful waiting and unjustified silences. This is the time to join together in the search for truth." With these words, one year ago, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet marked the 41st anniversary of the 1973 coup d'etat in which a defiant general Augusto Pinochet took power by force.