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Pakistan Factory Blaze Points to Poor Safety Standards, Corruption
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Sep 14 (IPS) - The inferno that killed over 250 people at a garments factory in Karachi’s Baldia Town on Sept. 11 has raised questions over not just poor workplace safety standards in industry but massive corruption in government which leads to the flouting of building laws.
Without Medals, With Pride
- Inter Press Service
RAFAH, Gaza, Sep 14 (IPS) - The car's engine revs, wheels spinning in vain, as it sinks deeper into the sandy lane near Rafah, southern Gaza. Members of the Palestinian Paralympic Committee (PPC) are en route to welcome Palestine's two Paralympic contenders, Mohammed Fanouna and Khamis Zaqut, home from the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
Small Islands Push for New Energy
- Inter Press Service
ST. JULIAN’S, Malta, Sep 14 (IPS) - Most islands are well endowed with one or more renewable energy source – rivers, waterfalls, wind, sunshine, biomass, wave power, geothermal deposits - yet virtually all remain heavily or entirely reliant on imported fossil fuels to produce electricity and power transport.
Cuba Faces Challenge of Aging Population
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 14 (IPS) - “We age much more quickly than we learn how to,” says Juan Carlos Alfonso, director of the Population and Housing Census that begins to be carried out on Saturday, Sept. 15 in Cuba. The question of aging is on many minds in this country, where important social progress has been made but acute economic problems persist.
Unseen Dangers Lurk in Libya
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Sep 14 (IPS) - The revolution might officially be over in Libya but the ground war continues. But one enemy is motionless and often hidden, and Libyans are continuing to pay the price with hundreds maimed and killed.
Rio Summit's Legacy Still a Question Mark
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 14 (IPS) - Academics gathered in Washington on Wednesday suggested that the mixed experience at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June, has increased the importance of citizen engagement and consumer accountability in issues of environment, renewable energy and sustainability.
Q&A: Harnessing the Power of the Press to Build Peace
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 14 (IPS) - Conflicts of interest can be viewed as drivers of societies and human development, although recourse to violence has destroyed millions of people’s lives and leaves generations wounded for decades and even centuries.
U.S., Israeli Attacks Unlikely to Destroy Iran's Nuclear Programme
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 13 (IPS) - While U.S. or Israeli air strikes may delay the building by Iran of a nuclear weapon, they are unlikely to prevent it altogether and could well prove counter-productive, according to a major new report signed by nearly three dozen former top U.S. foreign-policy makers, military officers, and independent experts.
General’s Defence on Afghan Scandal Ducks Key Evidence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 13 (IPS) - Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, the former commander of NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan, denied to a U.S. Congressional panel Wednesday that he had cited the impact on Congressional elections in opposing the timing of a request for an investigation of high-level Afghan military corruption and its impact on neglect of patients at the Afghan National Military Hospital (NMH) two years ago.
U.N. Doubles Down on Slashing Child Mortality by 2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - While the global community made progress in reducing under-five child mortality to below seven million per year, it risks failing to reach the global targets set for 2015 if action is not scaled up, according to a new report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF.
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