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Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 20 (IPS) - The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change.
U.N. Urged to Take Lead in Aiding Cholera-Stricken Haiti
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - U.S. legislators are appealing to the United Nations to take a greater role in addressing Haiti's cholera outbreak, now in its third year and which has has left thousands dead.
KYRGYZSTAN: Rape Trial Spotlights Women’s Plight
- Inter Press Service
BISHKEK, Jul 20 (IPS) - Allegations that a member of Kyrgyzstan’s KGB-successor agency organised the brutal rape of his wife have outraged women’s rights activists in Bishkek. But what rights defenders call an ordinary crime is having an extraordinary effect because of the victim’s response: she pressed charges.
“Famine May Have Ended, But For Us Hunger Has Not”
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Jul 20 (IPS) - One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa nation a year ago on Jul. 20, Miriam has known no other life than the one in the Badbaado refugee camp, situated 10 kilometres outside the country’s capital, Mogadishu.
Israel Walls Itself In
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jul 20 (IPS) - As Israel continues to build walls and fences along virtually each of its borders, analysts say the country’s isolationistpolicies and unwillingness to deal with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbours through anything other than forceful means spells disaster.
Athletes Wither Under Government Apathy
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Jul 20 (IPS) - He dreamed of one day running on international athletic tracks and worked hard for seven long years to make this a reality.
U.S.: Right-Wing Hawks, Arms Industry Rally Against Pentagon Cuts
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - While Iran, Russia, and China are all pretty scary, the ominous word "sequestration" is what is keeping right-wing hawks and their friends in the defence industry up at night.
Officials Decry "Appalling Gaps" in Global Data on Women
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - The World Bank and U.S. government on Thursday each announced major new initiatives aimed at expanding knowledge on the experience of women around the world, while acknowledging that much remains to be done on filling the global “data gap” on women.
Guyana's Gold Boom Brings Pollution and Conflict
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 19 (IPS) - Pedro Melville, 62, a father of nine from Guyana's northwestern gold and manganese mining district of Matthew’s Ridge, sees the impacts of unchecked prospecting on the local environment every day.
U.S.: Police Treat Condoms as Contraband, Rights Group Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - How many condoms is it legal to carry around in your pocket? That’s the question sex workers in the United States are asking after being routinely targeted by police for having prophylactics – not in itself a crime.
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