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Obama’s Historic Cuban-American Vote Opens Window for Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (IPS) - While political and media attention remains focused on the unprecedented support President Barack Obama received in Tuesday's election from Latinos, one particular subset of those voters - one with potential foreign policy clout - is drawing intense interest.
Creditors' Stalemate Brings Greece to Knife Edge
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Nov 09 (IPS) - Ignoring the thousands of protestors gathered outside the Greek parliament on Wednesday, the government voted in public spending cuts amounting to 17 billion dollars in an economy already on its knees from a lacerated budget.
Major Malaria Vaccine Less Effective than Hoped
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 09 (IPS) - Researchers unveiling critical trial results of a potentially major anti-malaria vaccine are expressing disappointment that the drug's efficacy levels have proved lower than they had anticipated.
People's Tribunal Defends Native Villages from Dams
- Inter Press Service
TEMACAPULÍN, Mexico, Nov 09 (IPS) - "What do we stand to lose because of the dam? We will lose everything!" said Maria Abigail Agredani, a member of the committee for this indigenous community in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, reporting the damage that will be caused by the hydroelectric complex being built nearby.
Bankers, Swindlers
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Nov 09 (IPS) - For anyone who might not have realised it yet, the current crisis is demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that the financial markets are the lead players in the current economic situation in Europe. Power has passed from the politicians to speculators and crooked bankers. This is a fundamental change.
Q&A: "The Main Challenge for Ecofeminism Is Its Own Contradictions"
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 09 (IPS) - We must work "for all of the human rights of women," not just sexual and reproductive rights, said Coca Trillini, describing the challenges facing the ecofeminist movement that she has embraced since becoming an activist in Católicas por el Derecho de Decidir (CDD - Catholics for Choice).
Dark Days Loom for Malawi Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Nov 09 (IPS) - The latest proposals by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to stop farming of the crop could potentially affect about two million livelihoods in Malawi and decide the fate of an entire nation struggling with a sputtering economy.
No Social Protection for India’s Elderly
- Inter Press Service
NEW/DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Nov 09 (IPS) - At midnight on Oct. 12, 91-year-old George Puthenveettil, a widower living in Kalanjur village in the Pathanamthita district of the southern Indian state of Kerala, was brutally tortured and ousted from his own house by his only son for "not earning any money".
It Was the Demography, Stupid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 09 (IPS) - Twenty years ago, Democratic pol James Carville immortalised the phrase "It's the economy, stupid" in explaining how former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton would unseat President George H. W. Bush, who was riding high off his smashing military victory in the first Gulf War.
Legalisation in U.S. States May Prompt Changes in Mexico’s Anti-Drug Policy
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 08 (IPS) - The legalisation of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, which will allow the drug to be taxed and regulated, in two U.S. states will prompt debate on anti-drug policies in Mexico as well, and on the coordination of strategies between the two countries, experts say.
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