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Pouring Edible Oil on Pakistan’s Troubled Areas
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) -
A makeshift girls' school in Bajaur. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSPESHAWAR, Jul 28 2012 (IPS) -Taking turns to lug a heavy can of edible oil, Mushtari and Sheema Gul, twin sisters aged nine, trip home happily from their school in Ghareebabad village in Pakistan’s troubled Bajaur Agency.
U.N. Chief Recounts Poverty and Plenty in South Korea
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 28 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former foreign minister of South Korea, is visibly emotional whenever he speaks about the striking political and economic achievements in his home country.
Schoolgirls Beat Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) - Far from fears that female education is on the decline after the Taliban campaign against girls’ schools, female students outclassed their male counterparts in the secondary school examination for 2012.
AIDS Meet Ends with Talk of Cure, But Realities of Scourge Persist
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 28 (IPS) - As the International AIDS Conference ended in Washington on Friday, organisers unveiled groundbreaking new research on the promise of early anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy.
Hezbollah Losing its Grip
- Inter Press Service
DAHIEH, Jul 27 (IPS) - Since its inception, Hezbollah’s clout within its community has been solid. However, in recent weeks, the Party of God has been facing increasing difficulties controlling its support base and stymieing discontent. These developments have led analysts to question whether or not Hezbollah is losing its grip on its followers.
Children Injured in Police Crackdown on Chile’s Mapuche Indians
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jul 27 (IPS) - “We have been trampled by this racist Chilean state, which oppresses us. The police force represses all Mapuche people…they shoot at us in cold blood.”
Paraguay Opens Doors to Unregulated Foreign Investment
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Jul 27 (IPS) - In his first month as president of Paraguay, Federico Franco has thrown open the doors of his country to foreign investments that have raised questions about environmental safety.
Govts Boost Nukes While Cutting Aid, Social Services
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 (IPS) - As U.N.-led talks on disarmament resume in Geneva Monday, calls are growing for nuclear-armed nations to cut spending on their stockpiles and instead divert resources to development.
Military Service Leaves Culture of War Behind in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Jul 27 (IPS) - “I feel proud to be a part of this change. Malnutrition cannot be wiped out in just two or three years, but this is the beginning and I want to be a part of it,” says Isabela Tzoc, a civic service volunteer involved in a youth programme aimed at fighting extreme poverty in Guatemala.
Punish Those Carrying Out FGM, Say Côte d'Ivoire Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 27 (IPS) - Nine women in the northern Côte d'Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.
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