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Soup Kitchens Overwhelmed in Crisis-Ridden Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Nov 14 (IPS) - A huge pot of rice steams on the stove at the soup kitchen run by Emaús in the municipality of Torremolinos, on the outskirts of this southern Spanish city. This morning, like every other, Pepi, Adriana and Diego are cooking for over a hundred people who can no longer afford to feed themselves.
Racism Is Bad for Health
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 14 (IPS) - If a black woman and a white woman both need emergency obstetric care, a Brazilian doctor will assist the white woman because of the stereotype that black women are better at handling pain and are used to giving birth.
Lead Funder on AIDS, Malaria, TB Gets a Reboot
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (IPS) - After weathering the departure of its executive director amidst a misallocation scandal earlier this year, the world's largest funder of programmes to address HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is poised to announce a new leader Thursday.
No Contraceptives Means More Illegal Abortions in Uganda
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 14 (IPS) - Every day at least five women are brought to the gynaecological ward of Uganda's Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala for treatment for complications caused by crude attempts to terminate their pregnancies.
Nanotechnology Could Lighten Venezuela’s Oil Footprint
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Nov 14 (IPS) - Venezuela is studying the use of nanotechnology as a means of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases caused by the oil industry.
Israel Throttles Palestinian Television
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Nov 14 (IPS) - George Sahhar opens the door to a closet-sized control room, where a cacophony of wires, routers, papers, and computer screens are messily strewn across a desk.
Radical Clerics Seek to Legalise Child Brides
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 14 (IPS) - An ultraconservative Salafi cleric recently sparked outrage among Egypt's liberal circles when he attempted to justify his opposition to a proposed constitutional article that would outlaw the trafficking of women for sex.
Israel Ranked as World’s Most Militarised Nation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (IPS) - Israel tops the list of the world's most militarised nations, according to the latest Global Militarisation Index released Tuesday by the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC).
Faces of the Crisis in a Protesting Europe*
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Nov 13 (IPS) - Out-of-work engineers, family businesses that are falling apart, people working in precarious conditions in an ailing labour market – it's a description of Spain, but it could just as easily be Portugal, Greece or Italy…
Latin American Middle Class Booming but Fragile
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (IPS) - New data from the World Bank shows that the middle class in Latin America has expanded substantially, growing by 50 percent over the past 10 years despite decades of sluggish poverty reduction.
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