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Nobel Laureate Fights African Pullout from Global Court
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - South Africa's Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace prize laureate, has launched a global campaign to stop African nations from abandoning the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).
Conserve Water or Perish, Warns U.N. Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.
Argentina Blindly Exploiting Groundwater, Scientists Warn
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10 (IPS) - Half of Argentina is supplied with water by invisible underground aquifers, which are crucial in the country's arid and semi-arid regions, experts say. But Tierramérica discovered that nobody – not even the government – has any accurate scientific data on these groundwater reserves.
U.S. Suspends More Military Aid to Egypt, Arousing Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending "credible progress" toward a return to democratic rule.
Energy Hits New Rocks in Mongolia
- Inter Press Service
TOV PROVINCE, Mongolia, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mongolia, 90 percent dependent on fuel imports from Russia and vulnerable to price hikes, is seeking to develop its oil shale deposits of at least 800 billion tons.
OP-ED: Why Keeping Girls in School Can Help South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mary K. loved to study and wanted to be an accountant. However, when she was 16 and in class six (grade eight), her father forced her to leave school to marry a 50-year-old man who paid him 60 cows.
Ethiopian Government Choking Muslim Unrest
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 10 (IPS) - The refusal by the Ethiopian government to redress grievances harboured by the Muslim community here, which comprises about 34 percent of the country's 91 million people makes this Horn of African nation vulnerable to extremism.
The Coming Plague
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 (IPS) - A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world's tropical regions.
World Bank Mulls First Strategic Overhaul in Two Decades
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - World Bank President Jim Kim has formally put forward a major new proposal to refocus both the bank's priorities and how it pursues those aims.
Texas, Pharmacies Clash over Execution Drugs
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 09 (IPS) - Authorities in the southern state of Texas are refusing to return lethal injection drugs purchased from two compounding pharmacies, despite calls from the firms not to use their substances for executions.
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