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Risk Management Can Ease Poverty, World Bank Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - Successful risk management can be a powerful tool for development, the World Bank said Monday in its annual World Development Report (WDR).
Treaty Poised to Cut Toxic Mercury Pollution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - A new international convention opening for signatures this week will for the first time offer an agreed-upon roadmap by which to significantly decrease the global use of mercury while offering stronger safeguards for both human health and the environment.
In Trinidad, Sports Complex Targets a Key Watershed
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 07 (IPS) - Trinidad's Orange Grove Savannah sits at the foothills of the Northern Range, whose watersheds provide copious volumes of fresh water into the aquifers - natural underground water storage areas - lying below these green spaces.
Small Island Economies Battered by Erratic Weather
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Oct 07 (IPS) - Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered.
European Union at the Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 07 (IPS) - "One of the fundamental contradictions is this: that whereas economic life has internationalism, or better still cosmopolitanism, as a necessary premise, state life has developed ever more in the direction of 'nationalism,' of 'self-sufficiency' and so on."
Seeding Ethiopia's Future Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 07 (IPS) - Datta Dudettu and his seven children know what is like to go hungry. They live in Woliyta, a drought-prone area in southern Ethiopia that has experienced chronic food shortages. But hopefully, thanks to the successful use of hybrid seed, that is now firmly in the past.
Little Girls Killed, Who Cares
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct 07 (IPS) - Twenty-eight-year-old Omar Zaib, a taxi driver in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, confessed in court last month to drowning his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter because he wanted a son. A few days later, the media reported that two newborn girls had been found abandoned at a railway station.
Egyptians Clash on Streets and over Constitution
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) - Bloody clashes erupted in Cairo on Sunday Oct. 6 between supporters of the military and followers of ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi as the latter protested against the July military coup that deposed their leader. But as clashes occurred on the streets, a clash of ideologies has been occurring on the country's 50-member committee as it amends Egypt's constitution.
How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times
- Inter Press Service
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?
Mayors Leading an Urban Revolution
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Oct 05 (IPS) - With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level.
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