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BOOKS: "Original Sins" Fuelled U.S.-Iran Enmity
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 26 (IPS) - I have never read a book quite like this. "Becoming Enemies" is the latest product of the indispensable National Security Archive, the Washington non-profit that has given new meaning to the Freedom of Information Act.
Guyana Seeks to Shield Gold Miners from Mercury Ban
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 26 (IPS) - As regional delegates meet to discuss a legally binding ban on the use of mercury this week, Guyanese officials are arguing that an exception should be made for the South American country's lucrative gold mining sector until an acceptable alternative is found.
Building More Democratic Families in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 26 (IPS) - A wide-ranging reform of Argentina's civil code is looking to replace traditional concepts of parental authority and control with one of parental responsibility, while expressly prohibiting corporal punishment for children and adolescents.
The Planet’s Thermostat Moves to Doha
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Nov 26 (IPS) - The upcoming United Nations climate talks may have a renewed sense of urgency with a new World Bank report warning that the planet is on a dangerous path to four degrees Celsius of global warming by 2100.
Deep Emissions Cuts Urged at Climate Summit
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Nov 26 (IPS) - Extreme weather disasters, including floods and droughts intensified by climate change, have totalled many billions of dollars in damages this year.
'The Children Could Die' in Eastern DRC Fighting
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, DR Congo, Nov 26 (IPS) - Humanitarian agencies working in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been overwhelmed following a massive displacement triggered by fighting between the Congolese army (FARDC) and rebel movement M23 in North Kivu.
Execution Met With Silence in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Nov 26 (IPS) - Wednesday, Nov. 21, dawned like any other in the sleepy town of Faridkot, located some 150 kilometres from the Punjab capital of Lahore in Pakistan. But as the town's 3000 residents went about their daily routines the air grew thick with apprehension, for a reason none wanted to mention.
East European War on Drugs Fails
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 26 (IPS) - When the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which advocates an end to what it says has been a failed ‘war on drugs', held its latest working meeting in Warsaw last month, the choice of venue was apt.
The Secular Fret in New Tunisia
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Nov 26 (IPS) - A year has passed since the provisional government assumed power in Tunisia. Following in the wake of the revolutionary changes brought on by the Arab Spring, the moderate Islamic Ennahda party won the majority and formed a coalition with the two secular parties Congress for the Republic (CPR) and Ettakatol in October last year.
Developing Senegal's Urban Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Nov 26 (IPS) - Watering cans in hand, men and women move back and forth between the wells and water storage tanks and the crops they're watering: carrots, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, and potatoes, as well as fruit trees like palm, coconut, papaya and banana trees.
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