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Freedom Pushes Past Snags in Tunisia
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Feb 28 (IPS) - The extent to which Tunisians are able to express themselves freely is an ever-changing phenomenon. While the country is still in the grips of turmoil after the recent killing of left-wing politician Chokri Belaid, which sparked some of the largest protests since the initial revolution in 2011 that toppled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the airing of dissent has become second nature for many.
New Development Bank to be Key BRICS Building Block
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 28 (IPS) - Emerging market leaders want their Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa club to be taken seriously, and next month they are expected to make a decisive move towards setting up a development bank to give it real substance and credibility.
Aid Groups Applaud Potential Reforms to U.S. Food Aid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (IPS) - Advocacy groups working on global hunger and poverty are hailing rumoured proposals that would change the way the United States distributes its international food aid.
Alliance Aims to Get Past Intolerance
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Feb 27 (IPS) - A UN summit designed to promote tolerance, plurality and global inclusiveness of civilisations has opened with dire warnings of the threat of religious and ethnic intolerance – at the same time as many states that have ostensibly signed up to the UN's ideals continue to enforce laws and practices restricting religious freedom, and implicitly marginalising communities.
U.S. Security Establishment Increasingly Worried about Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (IPS) - More than three dozen national security officials, members of Congress and military leaders are warning of the threat climate change poses to U.S. national security, the latest in an indicator that U.S. intelligence and national security circles are increasingly worried about a warming planet.
Q&A: Climate Change Front and Centre in Cuban Development Model
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Feb 27 (IPS) - Each of Cuba's 168 municipalities faces the challenge of designing its own strategic development which, as well as economic and social progress, minimises the impact of extreme weather and other problems caused by global warming.
ALEC-Backed Laws Promote Controversial Charter Schools
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 27 (IPS) - The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and private education management firms are pushing for new "parent trigger" laws in states across the U.S. by lobbying many Republican and some Democratic legislators to make it easier to convert more traditional public schools to charter schools.
24 Nails Dug Into Body, Luckily
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 27 (IPS) - Lahandapurege Ariyawathie feels she got off lightly - if returning home with 24 nails embedded in your body is lucky.
Lake Malawi Dispute Instils Fear in Fisherfolk
- Inter Press Service
KARONGA, Malawi, Feb 27 (IPS) - Since he was nine years old, Martin Mhango from Karonga village in northern Malawi has known no other livelihood than fishing. And for the last 33 years he has been fishing freely on Lake Malawi – that is, until last October when he was detained and beaten by Tanzanian security forces.??
Kenya’s Electoral Opinion Polling Marred by Suspicion
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Feb 27 (IPS) - When Kenya's only female presidential candidate, Martha Karua, dismissed electoral opinion pollsters who claimed that she stood a mere one percent chance of being elected to office, many said she did so because the results had not favoured her.
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