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Schools in Mexico: Funding but not for Phys Ed or Desks
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 12 (IPS) - On his first day of fourth grade, Efraín found there were no desks or benches in the classroom in his Mexico City school. His parents had to help the teacher haul in furniture from other rooms so the children wouldn't have to start the new school year sitting on the floor.
Sliding Back to the Victorian Age
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 12 (IPS) - A recent report by the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics called attention to the fact that, at the present rate of inequality, by the year 2025, the United Kingdom will have returned to the unequal society of the end of the 19th century. In other words, we are going back to the times of Queen Victoria!
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/Somali President Rides Through a Bumpy Year
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Sep 12 (IPS) - After his first year as president of the world's most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life.
Europe Failing Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
LUCERNE, Switzerland, Sep 12 (IPS) - Refugee rights organisations are demanding an EU-wide temporary protection regime for Syrian refugees. The announcement by some countries that they can take a few thousand refugees is not enough, the groups say.
Europe Failing Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Israelis Prepare Themselves Regardless
- Inter Press Service
RAMAT GAN, Israel, Sep 12 (IPS) - Unmindful of news of the U.S. delaying its military action on Syria to pursue the Russian plan for international monitors to take control and destroy Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons, Israelis continue to collect their gas mask kits at Home Front Command distribution centres.
Mixed Reactions to Obama’s Embrace of Russian Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's decision to put off a vote by Congress on the use of military force against Syria in order to pursue a Russian proposal to place Damascus' chemical-weapons arsenal under international control has evoked both cheers and jeers from across the political spectrum here Wednesday.
Preoccupied with Syria, U.S. Still Saddled with Egypt
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - The United States, which is preoccupied with the ongoing political and military developments in Syria, is still saddled with an unresolved problem elsewhere in the Middle East: the military takeover of Egypt's first democratically-elected government.
Q&A: "The Last Great Exploration Is to Survive on Earth”
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sep 11 (IPS) - Newly arrived from London, Robert Swan is facing a promise he made to famed marine researcher and conservationist Jacques Cousteau decades ago.
Despite Recession, Global Migration Still Rising
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - New international migration figures released by the United Nations Wednesday show that more people than ever are living abroad. Around 232 million of the global population of seven billion are considered international migrants, simply defined as persons living outside their country of birth.
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