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Cuba, an Island of Questions
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Feb 27 (IPS) - The Cuban National Assembly, the parliament, has just passed a historic milestone: the visible turning point when one momentous and complex phase in the life of the country begins to come to a close, and a door opens on a future that, however hard to predict, will in many ways be different.
Killer Heat Waves and Floods Linked to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 27 (IPS) - Killer heat waves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals.
After Unprecedented Fight, Hagel Confirmed as Obama’s Pentagon Chief
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (IPS) - Ending a long and controversial battle, the U.S. Senate Tuesday voted 58-41 to confirm former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama's new secretary of defence.
Modern Slavery Rears its Ugly Head in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 27 (IPS) - In recent years, Chile has become a source, transit, and destination hub for human trafficking victims, experts say. According to judicial authorities, forced labour and sexual exploitation are the crimes most frequently associated with this "modern form of slavery".
Activists Converge on High Court for Challenge to Voting Rights
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 26 (IPS) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the constitutionality of key sections of the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965.
U.S. Cuts to Global Health Budget “Mass-scale Malpractice”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (IPS) - Public health workers, activists and policymakers are stepping up a last-minute campaign to highlight the global health impact of historic, sweeping cuts to the U.S. federal budget due to go into effect Friday if Congress doesn't act.
Q&A: South Korean Brands Invade Global Markets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former foreign minister of South Korea, met with Psy last October, he jokingly told the wildly popular rapper that he was "a bit jealous" of him.
All Eyes in Haiti on Duvalier Hearing
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 26 (IPS) - Angry and frustrated, but also cautiously hopeful, victims, human rights advocates and the Haitian population are waiting for Thursday, Feb. 28, the day former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has been ordered to appear at a hearing to determine whether or not he will face charges for human rights abuses committed during his brutal 15-year regime (1971-1986).
Profits Before Safety in Pakistan's Factories
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Feb 26 (IPS) - Twenty-seven-year-old Muhammad Arif works at a steel re-rolling mill in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's northeastern Punjab province, producing steel ingots from scrap.
Peace and Dead Sea at a New Low
- Inter Press Service
EIN FESHKA, Occupied West Bank, Feb 26 (IPS) - Two of the three main objectives of the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project grapple with how to "save the Dead Sea" and "build a symbol of peace in the region." With Israeli-Palestinians relations and the Dead Sea at an all time low, questions arise whether the ‘Red-Dead Canal' (as it is known in environmental jargon) could save not only the hyper-saline desert lake but peace itself.
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