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Climate Adaptation Daunts Karachi’s Planners
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Sep 06 (IPS) - Climate proofing this bustling port city is a daunting task for planners who must consider factors ranging from proneness to flooding and administrative malaise to the fact that 60 percent of its 18 million people live in slums.
Tibet Burns, On the Backburner
- Inter Press Service
DHARAMSALA, India, Sep 06 (IPS) - Two Tibetan teenagers set themselves on fire and took to the streets of Aba in southwestern China last week, managing to walk only a short distance before collapsing. They both died the following day.
U.S.: Rights Activists Call on U.S. to Revise Bahrain Policy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 06 (IPS) - Human rights activists are calling on the administration of President Barack Obama to radically revise its policy toward Bahrain in light of the decision by an appeals court in the kingdom this week to confirm harsh prison sentences against 13 opposition activists.
U.S. Company Accused of Greenwashing Cameroon ‘Land-Grab’
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 06 (IPS) - Environment groups are accusing a New York-based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, of going forward with plans for a 73,000-hectare palm-oil plantation and refinery in southwest Cameroon despite a lack of government authorisation, two court injunctions, and in the face of significant community opposition.
Auntie Hillary Visits Cook Islands Hoping to Put China on Sidelines
- Inter Press Service
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, Sep 06 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was greeted as celebrity-royalty by Cook Islanders during an unprecedented visit at the end of last week to attend a regional meeting of Pacific island nations here.
Colombia’s Rebels Insist Peace Is Only Possible with Reforms
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA/BOGOTA, Sep 05 (IPS) - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are taking a pragmatic, reformist stance in the new attempt to negotiate a peace agreement with the Colombian government, to put an end to nearly half a century of civil war.
U.S. Points to 'Gross Negligence' by BP
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Sep 05 (IPS) - The U.S. justice department is blaming BP PLC for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it calls "gross negligence and willful misconduct".
Water in DRC More Often Cause of Death than Source of Life
- Inter Press Service
MBUJI MAYI, DR Congo, Sep 05 (IPS) - Despite the desperate lack of access to water for domestic use in Mwene Ditu, in the central Democratic Republic of Congo, Dieudonné Ilunga spent a good part of July blocking up residents' wells.
After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - President Barack Obama’s explicit warning that he will not accept a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran may force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from his ostensible threat of war.
Indigenous Consultations in Peru to Debut in Amazon Oil Region
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 05 (IPS) - Peru will debut a new mechanism for prior consultation with indigenous peoples by seeking their approval for a new stage of oil drilling operations in the infamous Lot 1AB in the northeastern Amazon region of Loreto.
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