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Official Failure Kills Hundreds of Children
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jan 12 (IPS) - It came as no surprise to Dr Zulfikar Ahmad Bhutta, a leading child expert at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, that an outbreak of measles has claimed the lives of more than 300 children in Pakistan. "The tragedy was in the offing," he said, putting the blame squarely on the abysmally low coverage of routine immunisation against childhood diseases.
Obama to Accelerate Handover to Afghan Army
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama announced Friday that U.S. forces will accelerate the transfer of primary security responsibilities to their Afghan counterparts and take on an exclusively support and training role beginning this spring.
U.S. Urged to Stem Broader Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (IPS) - Worried over the possibility of further escalation of armed conflict in Myanmar, activists here are calling on Washington to take stronger action to condemn state forces for aerial bombardment of ethnic Kachin rebels and civilians in the country's north, which some say constitutes crimes against humanity.
Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 11 (IPS) - Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems.
Water Summit to Focus on Resolving Scarcities in Mideast
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (IPS) - Amidst a growing water crisis in the predominantly arid Middle East and North Africa (MENA), some of the world's most influential water experts will meet next week at the International Water Summit (IWS) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to look for sustainable solutions.
Fighting for a Future in Brazil's Poorest Neighbourhoods
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 11 (IPS) - Teachers at a local primary school here, the Escola Municipal IV Centenário, are trained to help their pupils find cover in case of gun battles.
Netanyahu Suffers for Being Too Popular
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jan 11 (IPS) - "We feel like we finally live a normal life in a normal country," marvelled a popular radio host. Normalcy – this rare appreciation by Israelis of the privilege to indulge in small talk about the stormy weather that's wreaked the whole region – is so abnormal here.
Morphine Kills Pain but its Price Kills Patients
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Jan 11 (IPS) - It took Gily Ncube's daughters two weeks to sell enough chickens to raise the 18 dollars needed to buy the morphine tablets their mother takes every four hours.
People Pay for Research Against Migrants
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS/WARSAW, Jan 11 (IPS) - Publicly funded research is paying towards security systems that the EU is inviting major multinationals to put together to keep unwanted migrants out.
Mexico's Gun Problems Go Beyond Drug Wars
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jan 11 (IPS) - A lot of attention goes to the U.S.-made weapons in the hands of criminal groups in this Latin American country. But there is little talk of another problem: the large number of light weapons in the hands of civilians.
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