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Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Feb 23 (IPS) - When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the French army in the West African nation, few of the 50,000 Niger-based refugees are ready to leave for home just yet.
Stopping Uranium to Fight Off Nuclear
- Inter Press Service
KOSICE, Slovakia, Feb 23 (IPS) - Local activists have begun protests in Slovakia after a government ministry appeared to give its backing to a controversial uranium mining project despite reassurances to people living near the proposed site that no mining would be allowed to take place.
Five Hungry Men Feed Palestinian Resolve
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Feb 23 (IPS) - A few stoic lines from Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi, 33, transmitted to his sister Shireen have given new strength to Palestinian resolve to fight Israeli occupation and its prison policies. As has the hunger strike of four others in Israeli prisons along with Issawi.
Israeli Licence to Cheney-Linke Energy Firm on Golan Heights Raises Eyebrows
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (IPS) - In a potential new source of contention between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has reportedly granted a U.S. energy firm with heavyweight political connections to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights.
Biofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust Bowl Rates
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (IPS) - The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States' prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates not seen here since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Argentina Strikes Deal with Iran to Probe AMIA Bombing Suspects
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 22 (IPS) - An agreement between Argentina and Iran to dig deeper into a 1994 bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in this city will test the solidity of the evidence garnered by a judicial investigation that has ground to a halt because of lack of cooperation from Tehran.
Abrupt U.S. Cuts Could “Devastate” Overseas Development Programmes
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (IPS) - With just a week to go before massive, indiscriminate spending cuts kick in across the U.S. government, policymakers and humanitarian groups are becoming increasingly anxious about the enduring impact the cuts would have on the communities across the globe assisted by U.S.-funded development and aid programmes.
U.N. Lambasted for Denying Compensation to Haiti's Cholera Victims
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (IPS) - The United Nations has come under heavy political fire for its decision to deny compensation for thousands of victims of cholera in Haiti - a deadly disease spread by U.N. peacekeepers in the troubled Caribbean nation.
Egypt Tilts Against Assad
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Feb 22 (IPS) - Egypt has recently stepped up its support for Syria's armed insurgency, with President Mohamed Morsi urging disparate anti-Assad factions to "coordinate" with a leading Syrian opposition coalition that has taken Cairo as its headquarters.
New Order Drags Back Released Prisoners
- Inter Press Service
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Feb 22 (IPS) - The release of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in late 2011 set off scenes of jubilation throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, as families joyously welcomed their loved ones homes after months and years apart. But for many of these same families, an Israeli military order – that allows Israel to re-arrest released Palestinian prisoners based on secret evidence – has now shattered those happy reunions.
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