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Some Rice, Served With Rainwater
- Inter Press Service
KOH KONG PROVINCE, Cambodia, Oct 05 (IPS) - The quiet Cambodian village of Chouk, set in the beautiful forests of the Cardamom Mountains near the Thai border, seems peaceful. But things are difficult in this largely empty village of simple wooden houses, populated mainly by children and the elderly.
Homeless Again
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 04 (IPS) - A police cordon kept everyone out of the Buenaventura "corrala" on Thursday after the police evicted 13 families living in the occupied building in the centre of this southern Spanish city early in the morning.
Amid Shutdown, Cutting Through the “Noise of Democracy”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Frustration is mounting with elected representatives here on the fourth day of a U.S. government shutdown that has left nearly 800,000 federal workers temporarily out of work, and advocates across the political spectrum are working to get their voices heard.
OP-ED: Bahrain Repression Continues Amid Sham Trials and Imprisonment
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - The lengthy prison sentences handed down to 50 Shia activists last week and the refusal of Bahraini courts to hear their allegations of torture once again confirm the regime's continued repression of the opposition.
Q&A: You Are One Percent Away from Being a Bonobo
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 04 (IPS) - When author Deni Béchard discovered bonobos shared almost 99 percent of human DNA, and based their relationships on cooperation and collaboration, he knew he had to write about them.
FAO: Modernisation or Irrelevance
- Inter Press Service
Africa's Growth Story Brightens
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 04 (IPS) - Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, a young woman named Bosena, 25, sits on the side of a busy road with a baby in her arms.
Parallel Economy Keeps Indians Poor
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 04 (IPS) - As India grapples with rising prices and a rapidly sinking rupee, attention has turned to the country's massive parallel economy that siphons wealth away from development programmes and into the pockets of a corrupt ruling elite.
Somalia Takes Teaching to the Extreme
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Oct 04 (IPS) - Mukhatar Jama has been teaching at a secondary school in Mogadishu for the past decade. Religious education is part and parcel of the curriculum of all schools in Somalia, but he says most parents are unaware of exactly what their children are being taught – a radical form of Islam.
Hope and Pessimism as Israelis and Palestinians Resume Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators returned to the negotiating table on Thursday, ready to put claims by the United States that it will engage more forcefully in the negotiating process to the test.
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