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Families of the ‘Disappeared’ Go after DINA Secret Police in Chile
- Inter Press Service
A criminal lawsuit against 1,500 former members of DINA, the secret police of Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, is seeking to shed light on the most active player in the repression, which stretched outside the country’s borders.
Truce Between Salvadoran Gangs Brings Fragile Hope
- Inter Press Service
A truce negotiated between El Salvador's main gangs has drastically reduced murders and encouraged hope that this country may have found a way out of the labyrinth of violence in which it seemed lost. But the deal is fragile, causing uncertainty.
World Bank Overseeing Global Land Grab
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank continues to facilitate land-grabbing in poor and developing countries around the world, according to new research released here on Monday.
Cloning - Lifeline for Cashmere Shawl Industry
- Inter Press Service
After scientists in Kashmir successfully cloned the pashmina goat, that produces the famous ‘cashmere’ wool, hopes are running high for the revival of the traditional shawl-making industry in this Indian state.
Massive Theft of Developing World's Farmland
- Inter Press Service
The mass acquisition or lease of arable land in developing countries, especially in Africa, by foreign investors — a practice aggravated by the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007 — has reached record highs, according to several new studies.
Cameroonian Farmer Won’t Let Low Rainfall Defeat Him
- Inter Press Service
Olivier Forgha Koumbou washes some freshly picked carrots in a small brook and eats them with relish. His thriving farm in Santa, in Cameroon’s North West region, looks like a miracle in the midst of surrounding farms where carrots, lettuce, potatoes and leeks have withered and died.
OP-ED: History in the Making, as Written by the Youth
- Inter Press Service
It might be a cliché and often an elaborate exaggeration to term a particular event 'historic'. However, few can doubt that along with the Civil Rights movements, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that have swept through the Arab world are no less momentous or historic.
U.S.: Occupy Earth Day Targets Chevron
- Inter Press Service
This year, Earth Day in Richmond, California was more than planting organic gardens or exploring solar panels.
Suu Kyi's Party 'Boycotts' Assembly Over Oath
- Inter Press Service
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, and newly elected MPs from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party have refused to attend the opening session of parliament over a dispute regarding the wording of the parliamentary oath.
Sudan's President Rules Out Talks with South
- Inter Press Service
Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has pledged not to negotiate with South Sudan amid reports of fresh air attacks on his country's southern neighbour.
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