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Senegal's Leader Urged to Save Sardinella
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 15 (IPS) - Hours after President Macky Sall of Senegal met in Washington with President Barack Obama late last month, he stepped into a brightly lit hotel meeting room to accept the Peter Benchley Award for National Stewardship of the Ocean, the only prize for ocean conservation given to heads of state.
As West Falters, Arms Spending Rises in Developing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 15 (IPS) - The spreading economic crisis is taking a bite out of Western military spending - even as the world's developing nations, along with Russia and China, boosted their arms expenditures last year.
Q&A: Innovation Key to Sustainable Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 15 (IPS) - Innovation, as the fruit of science and technology, will play a fundamental role in the Sustainable Development Goals that could go into effect in 2015, says Néstor Osorio, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Defusing the "Three Against Two" Nuclear Pentagon
- Inter Press Service
KYOTO, Apr 15 (IPS) - It has not been this bad since the 1950-53 Korean War.
October 1962, the Cuba-USSR-U.S. crisis, comes to mind. There were horror visions of mushroom clouds. A proud Cuba, with a strong leader-dictatorship, a social revolution in the near past, was denied a normal place in the state system, bullied by the U.S. and some allies with sanctions and boycotts into isolation, which has lasted more than 50 years.
Pakistan Poll Campaign Advances by Degrees
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Apr 15 (IPS) - Former parliamentarian Jamshed Dasti, known in his hometown of Muzaffargarh as Rescue 1122, Pakistan's equivalent of an emergency number, is now a dubious hero. On Apr. 4, a district court served him a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 rupees (50 dollars) for presenting a fake degree to become eligible for a seat in parliament. He filed an appeal in the Lahore High Court which has overturned his conviction and acquitted him.
Storm in a Teacup Between the EU and South Africa?
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 15 (IPS) - A trademark system which is used to protect Europe's finest wines, cheeses and hams could soon brew up benefits for a humble tea from a remote region of South Africa.
Commodities Trade Haven Faces Protests
- Inter Press Service
ZUG, Switzerland, Apr 14 (IPS) - The powerful Swiss commodity sector is under fire here, as citizens fed up with government inaction on charges of corporate corruption, tax evasion and lack of transparency gear up for major protests.
Culture Is the New Resistance
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 14 (IPS) - Ela, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom "to no avail". On the other side of the capital Tunis, a group of students decked out in djellabas and keffiyehs (traditional Tunisian costumes) with the Tunisian flag wrapped around their shoulders, perform the Harlem Shake: a dance form that originated in the United States in the early 1980s but has recently gone viral online as a popular meme.
U.S.: Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Consumer Debt
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Apr 14 (IPS) - Strike Debt, an affiliate of the Occupy movement, has devised a legal and what some consider ingenious way to abolish millions of dollars in consumer debt.
Give a Teenager a Camera, Watch the World Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 13 (IPS) - Today's youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say "go".
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