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Crocs and Humans Clash in Shrinking Space
- Inter Press Service
PORT BLAIR, Aug 15 (IPS) - Twenty two-year-old Ajay Kallu, hailing from the Bakultala village in northern Andamans, was devoured by an estuarine crocodile when he waded waist deep into a creek to fish on the morning of Aug. 1, marking the fifth fatal crocodile attack in 28 months in the remote Islands that lie at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
Civil Society Squeezed on All Sides
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) - A year and a half after the international wake-up call of the Arab Spring uprisings, the room for civil society organisations is being increasingly constricted across the globe, experts in Washington warned on Tuesday.
Drug War Threatens Democracy, Mexican Peace Caravan Warns in US
- Inter Press Service
LOS ANGELES, California, Aug 14 (IPS) - "The war on drugs is endangering the best thing that the United States has given the world: democracy,” Javier Sicilia, the Mexican poet who heads the movement of victims of the violence unleashed by the war on drugs in his country, said upon reaching the United States this week.
Gaddafi Loyalists Up In Arms
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Aug 14 (IPS) - The security situation in Libya remains tense as violence by way of car bombings, political assassinations of high-ranking government and military officials, attacks on foreign diplomatic staff and NGOs, and young men sorting out minor disputes with AK-47s continues unabated.
Lean Times Get Leaner in Northern Cote d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
KORHOGO, Cote d’Ivoire, Aug 14 (IPS) - Salimata Coulibaly, director of a medical centre in the town of Korhogo in the northern Cote d’Ivoire region of Savanes, stood before a chart displaying before-and-after photos of local children – one taken when each child arrived at the centre, and one after he or she responded to treatment for malnutrition.
Drug War Threatens Democracy, Mexican Peace Caravan Warns in US
- Inter Press Service
LOS ANGELES, California, Aug 14 (IPS) - “The war on drugs is endangering the best thing that the United States has given the world: democracy,” Javier Sicilia, the Mexican poet who heads the movement of victims of the violence unleashed by the war on drugs in his country, said upon reaching the United States this week.
Biopolymers and the Dream of a Green Petrochemical Industry
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 14 (IPS) - Brazil leads global production of biopolymers, an industry that generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuel-based plastic manufacture. But “green plastics” made from sugarcane have a sour aftertaste.
Reining in Private Security Faces Regulatory Thicket
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 (IPS) - Alleged human rights violations and other challenges involving the use of Private Military Security Contractors (PMSCs) have sparked a series of international efforts to create systems of accountability for an increasingly complex transnational industry.
U.S.: Republican Ticket Shrugs Off Foreign Policy Experience
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) - With less than three months to go before the U.S. presidential election, over the weekend Barack Obama’s Republican challenger for the presidency, Mitt Romney, finally announced his vice-presidential running mate, a young member of Congress named Paul Ryan.
Plant Diseases Threaten Food Security in Kivu, DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, DR Congo, Aug 14 (IPS) - Plant diseases affecting bananas and cassava are gaining ground in two provinces in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to South Kivu's provincial minister for agriculture, Gisèle Batembo.
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