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U.S. Guns Equal Mexican Casualties
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - Mexican activists winding down a two-month U.S. tour warned Tuesday that guns licensed in the United States were playing a massive part in gang- and drug cartel-related violence in Mexico.
U.S. Envoy Dies in Benghazi Consulate Attack
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Sep 12 (IPS) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the country's interior ministry and security sources have said.
Ecotourism Helps Amazon Jungle Communities Survive
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCIÓN DEL QUIQUIVEY, Bolivia, Sep 12 (IPS) - The Tsimane Mosetene people in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region have found a tool to preserve their habitat and way of life: a community ecotourism project that won a United Nations-sponsored international award.
"Two Children May Have Died for You to Have Your Mobile Phone”
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Sep 12 (IPS) - "It’s possible that two children died so that you could have that mobile phone,” says Jean-Bertin, a 34-year-old Congolese activist who wants to end the “absolute silence” around the crimes committed in his country to exploit strategic raw materials like coltan.
Auto Production Roars to New Records
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - Following a plunge in output triggered by the global economic crisis, world auto production is roaring back to new peaks.
UNESCO Meet Boosts Traditional Medicine
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Sep 12 (IPS) - Jean-Pierre Georges Foucault is a former scientist who is used to dealing with fact and evidence. But when a friend became ill and had excruciating pain, he accompanied her to a traditional healer who, with the placing of his hands, managed to effect a reduction in the pain.
IUCN Puts the Accent on Business
- Inter Press Service
JEJU, South Korea, Sep 12 (IPS) - The outcome of the June Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development was the undisputed inability of governments to come to an agreement on moving ahead to protect the planet. Three months later, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is proposing what can be done as a collective.
Palestinians Now Face Killing Prices
- Inter Press Service
BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank, Sep 12 (IPS) - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank over the past week in protest against increasingly high living costs, and demanding major changes from the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership.
Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal
- Inter Press Service
Malian Farmers Want Their Land Back
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Sep 12 (IPS) - A group of smallholder farmers in Mali have turned to the courts to try to recover land they say they have lost to big private investors. The legal action comes as foreign investors are losing interest in Mali due to political instability and an armed rebellion in the north.
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