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Smuggling Freely Across the Colombia-Venezuela Border
- Inter Press Service
SAN CRISTÓBAL, Venezuela, Sep 26 (IPS) - It's a straightforward calculation: a litre of gasoline costs 62 times more in Colombia than in Venezuela, a difference that fuels smuggling and crime along the border.
Stevia, a Flourishing Business in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Sep 26 (IPS) - On a parcel of land a few kilometres outside the southern Spanish city of Málaga, unemployed activists are growing 2,000 seedlings of stevia, a plant used by the Guaraní indigenous people for centuries as a natural sweetener that is awakening ever greater interest in Spain.
Keeping Girls in School in Uganda
- Inter Press Service
KAMULI, Uganda, Sep 26 (IPS) - Three years ago, after Irene Kamyuka finished her sixth year of primary school in Uganda, her father ran short of money. With four siblings ahead of her in school, Kamyuka’s father told her she would have to drop out until his finances turned around.
Caribbean Islands Brace for Challenges of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sep 26 (IPS) - Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas remembers how quiet - even uneventful – this tiny twin-island federation was for the first four decades of his life.
OP-ED: Small Justice for a Small State
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 26 (IPS) - Rule of law is the foundation of governance. Societies, from their inception, have had their own set of rules, norms and boundaries, to govern their lives for themselves and their relationship with others. Applied by the governors unto the governed, this universal tenet applies to all of us in the family of humanity. The fundamental application of laws creates societies and paves the way for civilisation, making it the litmus test between barbarism and civilisation.
Vaccines Get Past Taliban, Finally
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 26 (IPS) - Over thirty thousand children in the remote Tirah area of the Khyber Agency, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Northern Pakistan, have waited four years for protection from polio, a viral disease that is sometimes referred to as ‘infantile paralysis’ due to its crippling effects on children.
Ivorians Deal With European Stink
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Sep 26 (IPS) - Nouma Camara, a 40-year-old tailor, remembers waking up on Aug. 20, 2006 to a smell he described as “something catastrophic.” His home in Akouedo village, in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital city of Abidjan, lies adjacent to a large, open-air dumpsite where toxic waste had been dumped the night before.
U.N. Women Demands End to Impunity for Wartime Rape and Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - At a high-level event at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, U.N. Women, the United Nations body for female empowerment and gender equality, called for stronger action from world leaders to prevent and punish sexual violence in conflict.
U.S.: Gloomy News, Prognosis Out of Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 26 (IPS) - With all foreign troops due to leave Afghanistan just two years from now, the news out of the Central Asian nation is becoming increasingly gloomy.
Changing Demographics Likely to Tip Scales for Obama Re-election
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) - With just six weeks left before the U.S. presidential polls, analysts on Tuesday suggested that recent demographic changes in the United States, particularly through immigration, have made it more difficult than ever for a Republican candidate to vie for president.
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