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The Race for a Peaceful Election
- Inter Press Service
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Dic 21 (IPS) - Runners Hosea Nailel and Julius Muriuki, who are from Kenya's rival ethnic Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities respectively, met during a half marathon when they broke away from the pack and remained in the leading group.
Forests, Fruit and Fish Could Save Coastal Communities
- Inter Press Service
BARGUNA, Bangladesh, Dic 21 (IPS) - Scientists predict that in the coming years, Bangladesh will be battered by even more climate disasters than it has already endured. Global warming has caused devastating damage in this lower Himalayan delta country of 150 million people, where seawater intrusion, increasingly intense cyclones, dried up rivers and extreme weather events have become the norm.
Anti-Prostitution Campaign Picks Up Speed
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, Dic 21 (IPS) - In a small dingy room on the edge of a brothel in west Kolkata, capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a 42-year-old former sex worker is trying to eke out a living selling cooked food in her neighbourhood, while tending to her sick husband and a paralysed son.
Internal Audit Warns of IMF Politicisation by the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s internal auditor has criticised the Fund's recent policy on foreign currency reserves, and has offered an implicit warning that the United States' outsized influence within the institution has resulted in policy that was insufficiently evidence-based.
Colombian Landowners, Peasants Listen to Each Other
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Dic 20 (IPS) - Colombia's large-scale agricultural producers and peasant farmers managed to listen to each other for the first time about the core cause of the decades-long armed conflict: the concentration of rural land ownership and the social and economic development of the countryside.
Marching Toward a Third Uprising?
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Dic 20 (IPS) - While the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hasn't been so quiet for the past two decades, it's now the turn of the occupied West Bank to show signs of eruption.
Q&A: Mutant Fruit Trees to Grow in Saline Soils in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Dic 20 (IPS) - During some parts of the year, a layer of salt can be seen on the ground in eastern Cuba, which makes it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to farm. Since agronomist Orlando Coto saw this with his own eyes, he has been searching for salt-tolerant fruit trees.
First Strike in Quarter Century Exposes Treatment of Migrant Labour in Singapore
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Dic 20 (IPS) - The first workers strike in 26 years in this affluent Southeast Asian city-state has triggered some soul-searching about the treatment of migrant labour and the low wages they are paid.
Drug-Resistant Malaria Pushes Rural Thailand to Shoulder Global Role
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Dic 20 (IPS) - As Thailand braces itself to combat drug-resistant malaria, a spread of small, nondescript buildings scattered close to corn and rice fields along its hilly, western border are being cast into a bigger, international role.
Funding Restored for U.S. Military Biofuels Programme
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 19 (IPS) - Reversing attempts to eliminate the U.S. military's advanced biofuels programme, both houses of Congress on Tuesday approved major legislation that now presents no obstacles to broad-reaching Defence Department plans to mainstream and spread the use of alternative fuels throughout its operations.
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