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TAIWAN: Polls Harken End of Nuclear Power
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Jan 13 (IPS) - Taiwan may soon be the first nation in Asia to resolve to become a nuclear free nation after four decades of reliance on nuclear power.
Jamaica’s Drought Tool Could Turn the Table on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan 13 (IPS) - On a very dry November 2013, Jamaica's Meteorological Service made its first official drought forecast when the newly developed Climate Predictability Tool (CPT) was used to predict a high probability of below average rainfall in the coming three months.
Syria: Minding the Minds II
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Jan 12 (IPS) - Baher Kamal, in … And All of a Sudden Syria!: "The "big five," the United Nations veto powers, have just agreed United Nations Resolution 2254 of 18-12-2015, time to end the Syrian five-year long human tragedy; they waited until 300,000 innocent civilians were killed and 4.5 million humans lost as refugees and homeless at home, hundreds of field testing of state-of-the-art drones made, and daily U.S., British, French and Russian bombing carried out." No Chinese bombing.
Once Auctioned, What to Do with Syrian Refugees?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jan 12 (IPS) - Few months ago, an unprecedented "humanitarian auction" was opened in Brussels at the European Commission, shortly after watching the image of the three-year old Syrian child that the sea threw up on the Turkish shores. The "auction" was about deciding upon the number of Syrian refugees to be hosted by each EU country. Germany won the largest batch.
2016 Potential Landmark Year for Women Leaders in US and UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 12 (IPS) - The United Nations is hoping 2016 will be a landmark year for gender empowerment – not only for the world body but also for the United States.
Zimbabwe: Poverty Stunting Minds and Growth
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jan 12 (IPS) - Mildren Ndlovu* knows the mental toll of Zimbabwe's long-drawn economic hardships in a country where a long rehashed statistic by labour unions puts unemployment at 90 per cent.
Drought Boosts Science in Dominican Republic
- Inter Press Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Jan 11 (IPS) - The recent lengthy drought in the Dominican Republic, which began to ease in late 2015, caused serious losses in agriculture and prompted national water rationing measures and educational campaigns.
Agroecology in Africa: Mitigation the Old New Way
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Jan 11 (IPS) - Millions of African farmers don't need to adapt to climate change. They have done that already.
Despite its History and Reputation, Finland Has to Guard Press Freedom
- Inter Press Service
, Jan 11 (IPS) - The year 2015 was a sad one for journalists around the world, with approximately 60 journalists killed, more than 200 imprisoned and more than 400 exiled.
Loneliness and Memories, Syrian Refugees Struggle in Safe Spaces
- Inter Press Service
ZARQa, Jordan, Jan 11 (IPS) - Emelline Mahmoud Ilyas is an outgoing 35-year-old mother of three from Syria. Sitting in a community centre in Zarqa, Jordan, where she just held a meeting with Jordanian and Syrian parents on the subject of childcare, she remembers the 'journey of death' that led her family to the Hashemite Kingdom.
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