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In Uruguay, the Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 28 (IPS) - Uruguay needs to reinforce and expand its electric power grid to absorb the 1,200 megawatts of wind energy that it plans to generate by 2015.
Palestinians Find Refuge Across the Atlantic
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 28 (IPS) - Issam Ali Hassan spent more than four years in an isolated desert camp in Jordan before he was taken in by Brazil. The son of Palestinians had been living as a refugee in Baghdad when he had to escape after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
Filling the Granaries in Burkina Faso
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 28 (IPS) - The seeds were sown, and the harvest is beginning to come in. Burkina Faso farmers are reaping the benefits of their government’s programme to develop and popularise improved varieties of maize.
Study Damns Mekong Dams
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Aug 28 (IPS) - Impoverished Laos is unlikely to cancel a Thai project to build a mega dam across the Mekong River at Xayaburi, despite warnings from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that it could devastate the region’s rich biodiversity.
Feed Europe, Feed the World
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Aug 28 (IPS) - A huge moment for reform of the industrial farming system in Europe has many stakeholders on edge. Farmers who are feeling the crunch of rising input costs – from fertilisers to fuel – believe they can benefit greatly from a transition to more traditional and sustainable farming methods.
Detention in Italy Better Than Home in Tunisia
- Inter Press Service
GAFSA, Tunisia, Aug 28 (IPS) - A year ago Salim, a 23-year-old from the ancient Tunisian city Gafsa decided to leave his country using a smugglers’ network notorious for transporting desperate Tunisian citizens to Europe by boat.
Filling the Granaries in Burkina Faso
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 28 (IPS) - The seeds were sown, and the harvest is beginning to come in. Burkina Faso farmers are reaping the benefits of their government's programme to develop and popularise improved varieties of maize.
Small Arms Trade Bigger Than Ever, Report Says
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) - The goal of curbing small arms proliferation appears more elusive than ever, according to a report released this morning by the independent research project Small Arms Survey.
U.S. Foreign Weapons Sales Triple, Setting Record
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (IPS) - U.S. weapons sales around the world have massively expanded over the past year, setting several records. Agreements for foreign arms sales in 2011 totalled around 66.3 billion dollars – three times higher than the previous year and constituting an "extraordinary increase", according to the Congressional Research Service.
Feminine Creativity in the Face of Natural Disasters in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 27 (IPS) - Blanca Lima raises all her appliances above flood level, puts boxes of clothes on top of wardrobes, and fills the shelves she installed near the ceiling with all kinds of objects. In less than an hour, she is ready to evacuate her home in case of a flood in the Cuban capital.
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