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Q&A: “Cuba Needs to Be Bold and Creative" Break with Many Dogmas”
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 11 (IPS) - Cuba has been steeped in a profound economic crisis over the last 20 years, and no short-term solution to the accumulated problems can be expected, says Cuban professor and researcher Ricardo Torres.
Report Says Forced Evictions on the Rise in China
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Oct 11 (IPS) - A rapid construction boom in China has led to a rise in people being forcibly removed from their homes and land, according to a leading rights group.
Child Marriage Defies Laws in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Oct 11 (IPS) - Social activists in Nepal agree that the one reason why this impoverished country will miss the gender-linked Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations is the persistence of child marriage.
Tribal War Simmers in Libya’s Desert
- Inter Press Service
ZWEILA, Southern Libya, Oct 11 (IPS) - A group of Tabu fighters with mud-splattered trucks rest on the outskirts of Zweila, a small historic slave-trade stop in Libya’s southwest Sahara.
Death Penalty Campaigners Worry About the Steps Back
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 11 (IPS) - Ten years of campaigning by the World Coalition against the Death Penalty have brought fruit: the number of countries that have abolished capital punishment in law or practice has gone up to 140. But some countries have resumed executions this year.
Africa Seeks to Grow More, Buy Less
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 11 (IPS) - Africa can ensure food security by producing wheat. New research presented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week shows that the continent has the potential to be self-sufficient.
High U.S. Corn Prices Spread Global Hunger and Instability
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Rising corn prices in the United States brought about by biofuel mandates have cost developing countries 6.6 billion dollars over the past six years, according to new research released here on Wednesday.
Clock Running Out on Afghan Political Solution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - After more than a decade of international military intervention in Afghanistan, U.S. policymakers have come to accept that a political solution is the way forward in Afghanistan, analysts here are suggesting.
South-South Cooperation Transcends Sharing Technical Knowhow
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorated the Day of South-South Cooperation last month, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon singled out a new development that transcends sharing technical know-how: coordination of government policy among developing nations.
Anti-Iran Hawks Maintain P.R. Offensive
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly last month that Iran’s nuclear programme was unlikely to breach his “red line” for presumed military action until next spring or summer, many observers here looked forward to some relief from the nearly incessant drumbeat for war by U.S. neo-conservatives and other hawks.
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