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Sharks, Victims or Perpetrators?
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Sep 04 (IPS) - Recent fatal attacks off Réunion have re-ignited demands for sharks to be hunted. But when it comes to humans and sharks, who is predator and who is prey? And what lessons need to be learned when people venture into environments where they are exposed to dangers posed by wildlife?
Broad Coalition Pledges to Cut "Super Greenhouse Gases"
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international coalition has agreed to begin working towards domestic regulation aimed at reducing the use of HFCs, compounds commonly used as refrigerants but referred to as "super greenhouse gases" for their particularly negative impact on global warming.
Top Republicans, Israel Lobby Weigh for Obama’s Syria Strike
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Chief Dodges Question on "Illegal" Attack on Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (IPS) - When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was South Korea's foreign minister during 2004-2006, his answers to reporters were so predictably evasive the press corps in Seoul affectionately dubbed him "the slippery eel".
Spanish Baby Theft Case Crosses Atlantic
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 03 (IPS) - The mystery still surrounding the massive business of stealing and buying babies, practised for decades in Spain by the regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975), could start to be clarified in courtrooms in Argentina.
Q&A: "We Need a Decisive Win Against Polio"
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 03 (IPS) - Siddharth Chatterjee has served as the chief diplomat, head of strategic partnerships and international relations at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world's largest humanitarian network, since June 2011.
Brazilian Hydroelectricity Giant Promotes Biogas
- Inter Press Service
FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil, Sep 03 (IPS) - The massive Itaipú hydroelectric dam, shared by Brazil and Paraguay, has now become a model for the micro-scale production of an energy source that is not only clean, but also helps to reduce pollution and promote local development: biogas.
Sri Lanka Cornered Over Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 03 (IPS) - That it would be a visit fraught with diplomatic tension was undoubted. Navanetham ‘Navi' Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was into the third day of her week-long visit from Aug. 25 to Aug. 31 to Sri Lanka when her entourage broke into animated discussion.
Splintered Damascus Holds Its Breath
- Inter Press Service
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sep 03 (IPS) - "Life is almost normal in the centre of Damascus," local resident Hisham says from the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Bab Touma. "Only the occasional noise of artillery on the outskirts reminds me that we are at war."
Survivors of Peru’s Armed Conflict Still Waiting
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Sep 02 (IPS) - Venicia Ávalos, a 65-year-old indigenous woman from Peru's highlands region of Ayacucho, looks for her son's name among a labyrinth formed by thousands of small grey stones.
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