News headlines
Keeping the Veil on Women’s Electoral Participation
- Inter Press Service
MORA, Cameroon, Nov 07 (IPS) - Cameroon's new biometric registration of voters may end up disenfranchising many potential voters, especially women in the country's predominantly Muslim north where cultural practices may prevent them from having their photos taken.
U.S. President Obama Wins Second Term in Close Contest
- Inter Press Service
Farm Holds Out Hope for Peace and Development in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Nov 07 (IPS) - Dairy cattle are again grazing on the rolling green hills of North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty years ago, an explosion of ethnic violence tore through this region, and the restoration of the Lushebere farm can be seen as both a sign and a guarantee of a fragile peace.
U.S. Concerned over Lao Approval for Huge Mekong Dam
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 07 (IPS) - The U.S. government is directly cautioning the Laotian government following Monday's announcement that the latter will move forward with contentious construction plans for a massive hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River.
Mankind Approaching 'Carbon Cliff', Report Warns
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 07 (IPS) - A new international business report warns fossil fuel use is pushing humanity towards a catastrophic overheating of the planet, with temperature increases of four or even six degrees Celsius. No major developed or developing country is doing anything close to what's needed to prevent large parts of the planet from becoming uninhabitable, the report found.
Netanyahu's 2010 Order Was Not a Move to War on Iran
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 06 (IPS) - A new twist was added to the longrunning media theme of a threat by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to war with Iran when news stories seemed to suggest Monday that Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to prepare for an imminent attack on Iranian nuclear sites in 2010.
U.N. Warns Syria Heading Towards Destruction
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 06 (IPS) - Following its failed efforts to contain the 19-month-old insurrection in battle-torn Syria, the United Nations has issued a new warning: the besieged country is heading towards "destruction".
Low Wages, No Labour Rights the Norm in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 06 (IPS) - Miguel* is one of millions of Mexicans scraping by on a meagre income – he earns 60 dollars a week working 11 hours a day in an electronic products store in the northern city of Mexicali.
Brazil Embarks on Cloning of Wild Animals
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 06 (IPS) - Brazilian scientists are attempting to clone animals in danger of extinction, like the jaguar and maned wolf, although the potential impact on the conservation of these threatened species is still not clear.
Little Support for Military Offensive on Af-Pak Border
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Nov 06 (IPS) - As shock and outrage over the Taliban's shooting of young Malala Yousafzai - a female activist - subsides, a new question has begun to make its rounds among political commentators in Pakistan: whether or not the government should launch an offensive against militants along the country's border with Afghanistan.
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