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Q&A: Mexico and the Rediscovery of South America
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 15 (IPS) - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, known as the ‘moral leader' of the Mexican left, said that his country and Central America "focus very much on the North" and should make a shift towards South America and its integration processes, in order to achieve less-dependent, alternative development conditions.
Giant Companies Pinpricked by 'Direct Democracy'
- Inter Press Service
ZUG, Switzerland, Oct 15 (IPS) - A Swiss village has decided to reject tax money from the firm Glencore and to instead donate it to charities. Other towns may follow, sending a strong signal to the government to follow the U.S. and the EU and introduce transparency rules for the extractive industry.
Sicilian Town Opposes U.S. Transmitters
- Inter Press Service
LUCCA, Italy, Oct 15 (IPS) - Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands out not only for its ancient cork forest, but also for the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility located within the protected forest itself.
Not Fukushima Again
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 15 (IPS) - Two and a half years ago, Ayako Oga, now 30, found herself helpless as an earthquake and the tsunami it triggered hit Japan and crippled four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. She and her husband were forced to abandon their village Ookuma Machi, barely five kilometres away.
U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered Species
- Inter Press Service
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Oct 15 (IPS) - The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer.
Climate Change a Mixed Blessing for Cococut Farmers
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Oct 14 (IPS) - Climbing up the coconut industry has been anything but easy for Rosamund Benn, who has dedicated the past 32 years of her life working on a 50-acre coconut farm in The Pomeroon, a farming region of Guyana.
BOOKS: Containing Iran Is the "Least Bad Policy" for U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (IPS) - The day that a much-heralded new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 Western powers opens on Iran's nuclear programme might seem the wrong day to pick up Unthinkable, Ken Pollack's new exploration of what to do if talks fail.
India Beats a Cyclone
- Inter Press Service
GOPALPUR, India, Oct 14 (IPS) - "No casualties have been reported till now," India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) declared at 9:30 am the morning after the near Super Cyclone ‘Phailin' made landfall in India's east.
Tamils Get Some Symbolic Power
- Inter Press Service
DHARMAPURAM, Sri Lanka, Oct 14 (IPS) - True democracy at last or a toothless tiger propped up to appease unfavourable international opinion? As Sri Lanka's Northern Province got its first council after an election last month, many in this South Asian island nation were mulling this conundrum.
Iran Talks to Resume Amid Guarded Optimism
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 13 (IPS) - Almost exactly four months after the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, talks over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear programme will resume here on Tuesday.
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