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OP-ED: Obama and Bahrain: How to Save Al-Khalifa Rule
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (IPS) - Despite the start of a government-inspired dialogue with the opposition Sunday, the Bahraini government continues to jail dissidents, arrest demonstrators, and use a rigged judicial system to convict them.
U.S. Environment Agency Releases First Climate Adaptation Plan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (IPS) - For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publicly released a draft plan on how the department's programmes will adapt to global warming, in a move that could lay additional groundwork for important new emissions rulemaking the agency may announce in coming months.
U.N.'s Water Agenda at Risk of Being Hijacked by Big Business
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - Amidst growing new threats of potential conflicts over fast-dwindling water resources in the world's arid regions, the United Nations will commemorate 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC).
Retooling New York for Apocalyptic Storms
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 11 (IPS) - During World War II, a German U-boat made its way into New York Harbour. It fired two torpedoes at a British tanker, splitting the hull in three places and igniting it in flames. The captain and 35 members of his crew burned to death.
U.S. Arms Fuel Asian Tension
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Feb 11 (IPS) - After a year of intense diplomatic standoff and territorial brinkmanship among disputing states in the South and East China Seas, the U.S. military ‘pivot' to the region appears to be in full swing - a move that could further aggravate an already combustible regional dynamic.
Christian or Muslim - ‘We are All Victims of Those Terrorists’
- Inter Press Service
MOPTI, Mali, Feb 11 (IPS) - At the entrance to the Evangelical church in Mopti, central Mali, military soldiers stood on either side of the door as Pastor Luc Sagara greeted his parishioners for Sunday mass.
Execution Sparks Unrest in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Feb 11 (IPS) - "Give us his body; we want to give him a respectable burial…" this is the overwhelming demand across Kashmir following the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru who was convicted for his role in the attack on the Indian parliament on Dec. 13. 2001. Nine people died in the attack.
Israel Goods Boycott Movement Rises
- Inter Press Service
ZEITOUN, Gaza, Feb 10 (IPS) - Tawfiq Mandil, 45, stands amongst hundreds of Palestinian farmers, activists, and international supporters in the Gaza Strip's eastern Zeitoun district, about half a kilometre from the border with Israel. They are renewing a call for the boycott of Israeli goods.
Argentina Pins Hopes on Bumper Grain Harvest
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 09 (IPS) - Argentina has better prospects in 2013 after modest growth in 2012, thanks to an excellent grain harvest and the recovery of Brazil, its main market.
Saving a Shrinking Lake
- Inter Press Service
GULFE, Cameroon, Feb 09 (IPS) - Approaching the Lake Chad basin from Gulfe, a small locality 45 kilometres from Cameroon's Far North Regional capital Maroua, the atmosphere of despair is palpable: dusty air, fierce and unrelenting winds, wilting plants and sand dunes suggest that this once lush area is undergoing a terrible change.
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