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Diamonds Are Israel’s Best Friend
- Inter Press Service
ACRE, Northern Israel, Dic 09 (IPS) - While Israelis aren't new to the diamond trade, they're fairly novice in diamond mining. Inspired by the words of a revered Rabbi who prophesied that gems are buried in the Promised Land, Shefa Yamim, the country's first exploration and mining company, hopes to unearth huge diamonds deposits.
Farming in the Sky in Singapore
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Dic 08 (IPS) - With a population of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometres, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to house the country's many inhabitants.
Swiss Battery May Lose Power
- Inter Press Service
MEIRINGEN, Dic 08 (IPS) - Swiss energy companies are determined to turn the country into a 'battery for Europe'. Vast investments are made in big-scale water power projects. But it is not certain they will eventually pay off.
New Attack Brings Renewed Strength for Hamas
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Dic 08 (IPS) - The Islamist party Hamas had been losing support as a result of economic difficulties and factional fighting. Today Hamas is popular again, heralded for its retaliation in Israel's latest military assault on the Gaza Strip.
Reforms Could Weaken Pan-American Rights Body
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 08 (IPS) - The pan-regional Organisation of American States (OAS) on Friday received a petition signed by more than 3,000 signatories from throughout the Americas, including four past presidents, expressing a host of concerns over current attempts to reform the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Reaching Bolivia’s Native People on the Airwaves
- Inter Press Service
EL ALTO, Bolivia, Dic 07 (IPS) - Every morning from 6:00 to 8:00 AM, native people in this sprawling working-class suburb of La Paz, Bolivia listen to the programme broadcast by former education minister Donato Ayma in the Aymara language.
Drones Come Home, to U.S. Privacy Activists' Dismay
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Dic 07 (IPS) - Better known as drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles piloted by military in the U.S. hunt and kill suspected enemy combatants abroad. Now the drones are coming home to beef up local law enforcement.
Environmentalist Ends Hunger Strike Over Trinidad Highway
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dic 07 (IPS) - For 21 days Wayne Kublalsingh sat in the scorching sun outside the office of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar. He sat in support of his belief that constructing a highway in southern Trinidad would damage the environment and affect hundreds of lives in the surrounding area.
A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Dic 07 (IPS) - Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say.
Small Rural Businesses in Brazil Set Sights on Domestic Market
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 07 (IPS) - "Canjinjin has special powers," said Deize Coelho de Barros. The recipe for this local liquor, made from a mixture of herbs, was handed down from her African ancestors, and is seen as a sort of traditional "Viagra" in her homeland, the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
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