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Pashmina Withers on the Roof of the World
- Inter Press Service
CHANGTHANG, India, Sep 05 (IPS) - The famed pashmina shawl that keeps the cold away – in style and at a price – could itself have become the victim of winter. Thousands of goats whose fine wool is weaved into pashmina have perished in extreme cold being associated with climate change.
Iran Looms over Syria Debate for Pro-Israel Groups
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - With Congress still deliberating over Barack Obama's request for authorisation to take military action against Syria, the powerful Israel lobby here has taken the lead in pressing the president's case.
Ex-World Leaders Urge U.S. to Forego Military Attack on Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - The United States, which is preparing to launch a military strike on Syria, is being cautioned by several former world leaders and Nobel Peace laureates to seek a political solution to the ongoing crisis - and forego armed intervention in the beleaguered Middle Eastern nation.
Domestic Workers Emerge from the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international convention enters into effect on Thursday that could eventually extend labour rights to as many as 100 million domestic workers across the globe, a constituency that has historically been bypassed by national laws.
Newspapers Are Becoming the Toys of Billionaires
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 04 (IPS) - Few people today know that when the first news agencies were created in the 19th century, the French Havas and the British Reuters divided the world between themselves.
Military Given Full Powers to Fight Crime in Honduras
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Sep 04 (IPS) - Human rights defenders and members of the opposition in Honduras see a new elite military unit created to engage in policing as a drastic setback for the demilitarisation efforts that began two decades ago.
Cash Transfers a Strong Tool Against Inequality
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 04 (IPS) - Latin America's cash transfer programmes are a more effective weapon against poverty and social inequality than economic growth alone, according to a study by two Argentine economists.
Squatting on Kenya’s Mineral Wealth
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 04 (IPS) - Zeinab Mohamed is a 70-year-old squatter in Kwale County, in Kenya's Coast Province. Like many other Coast Province residents, for decades, Mohamed has lived in what squatters call "floating houses".
Mobile Phones Big Hit in Rural Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 04 (IPS) - Prosper Muripo rents a small space in a general dealer's shop at the Gotora shopping centre in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province. He is one of the many people in rural Zimbabwe who earn a living selling recharge vouchers and charging mobile phone batteries on solar-powered chargers.
‘Paradise’ Calls the Poor
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 04 (IPS) - "I consider myself lucky after finding my son," says Muhammad Jabeen, a juice vendor in Bannu, one of the 25 districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan. The Taliban had taken his son, Mateen Shah, away from a madrassa to join their ranks.
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