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Native Peoples Take on Threadbare Stereotypes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 06 (IPS) - With the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples coming up on Thursday, native communities are increasingly using media to challenge a legacy of stereotypes.
High-Level Defections, Escalating Violence Mark New Phase of Syrian Uprising
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 06 (IPS) - As government security forces continue a week-long siege of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, high-ranking Syrian officials have begun to defect from the regime in record numbers.
DRC Farmers Reap Benefits of Soil Fertility
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, RD Congo, Aug 06 (IPS) - Just two years ago, rice farmers on the Ruzizi plain in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo were content to harvest 2.5 tonnes of rice per hectare. The adoption of new techniques has seen their output rise to between six and eight tonnes, with smallholder farmers also increasing their local market share.
Ahmadis Lose Hope This Ramadan
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Aug 06 (IPS) - As millions around the world enter the third week of the Ramadan fast, the fraternity that typically unites Muslims during the holy month does not extend to Pakistan’s Ahmadi community, which is facing worse persecution than ever before.
Droughts Bring Climate Change Home to Nepali Farmers
- Inter Press Service
CHITWAN, Nepal, Aug 06 (IPS) - Farmers in this fertile central district of south Nepal are convinced that an intense drought between May and early July that destroyed their maize crops is the result of climate change.
DRC Farmers Reap Benefits of Soil Fertility
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, RD Congo, Aug 06 (IPS) - Just two years ago, rice farmers on the Ruzizi plain in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo were content to harvest 2.5 tonnes of rice per hectare. The adoption of new techniques has seen their output rise to between six and eight tonnes, with smallholder farmers also increasing their local market share.
OPED: Mayor a Demonized Hate Figure of British Conservative Press
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 06 (IPS) - The London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the “East End,” is the historic core of England, the home of the Tower of London, and now it is a Gateway borough to the Olympics. It is also the site of St Mary Le Bow church - real Cockneys should be born within the sound of its bells- but nowadays, there are probably more mosques than churches, which helps explain why Lutfur Rahman, the first directly Mayor of the borough, is also the country’s first, and so far only, Muslim to hold the office.
Holy Sites Hold Fast to Status Quo
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Aug 06 (IPS) - “With our spirit, with our blood, we’ll redeem you, O Noble Sanctuary!” the veiled teenagers fervently sing in unison in honour of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan. Israeli police officers in uniform and full battle gear sit unimpressed under pine trees; others patrol the compound.
Palestinian Bubble Set to Burst
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 05 (IPS) - “It will collapse, and the collapse will be harder when it happens later,” says Tareq Sadeq, Palestinian economist and professor at Birzeit University, about the financial bubble building up in the Palestinian Authority government.
TURKEY: Caught Between Syria’s Kurds and a Hard Spot
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Aug 04 (IPS) - In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military exercises on the Syrian border, just a few kilometres away from towns that Syrian Kurds had seized from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
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