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Pakistani Jazz Touches New Chords
- Inter Press Service
The silencing of music in the name of Islam led Pappu to give up the cello and set up a tea stall. But Pappu and other musicians survived the Islamist regime for former dictator Zia ul-Haq and the recent ways of the Taliban to return to the most surprising group of musicians to have emerged over years — on a dusty little street in the Pakistani city Lahore.
Cubans Meditate for a Culture of Peace
- Inter Press Service
In response to the pressures of everyday life, some people in Cuba are promoting meditation as a way to protect the mind and body and foster a culture of peace.
Brazil, U.S. Deepen Ties Ahead of Obama's Latin America Week
- Inter Press Service
Kicking off what some here have called President Barack Obama's 'Latin America Week', the president and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, touted a deepening of bilateral ties in her first visit to the White House as president of South America's superpower.
Institutionalised Homophobia Encourages Hate Crimes
- Inter Press Service
Agnes Torres, a transsexual psychologist and gay rights activist, left her home in the central Mexican state of Puebla on her way to a party. The next day, her body was found in a gully, naked from the waist down. Her throat had been slit.
Austerity Plan Decapitates Greek Cultural Heritage
- Inter Press Service
The broken display cases at Greece’s Museum of Olympia, the site where the first Olympic Games were held thousand of years ago, have stunned members of the Archaeological Service who have been registering a stream of missing cultural artefacts.
Gunfire from Syria Hits Border Camp in Turkey
- Inter Press Service
Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border has hit a refugee camp inside Turkey, wounding at least three people.
Sorcery-Related Violence on the Rise in Papua New Guinea
- Inter Press Service
An increase in sorcery-related violence and fatalities over the last decade in Papua New Guinea is generating awareness about the lack of development, economic opportunities, inequality and under-resourced health services in rural areas.
OP-ED: Indonesian Youth in the Post-1998 Era of Democratisation
- Inter Press Service
May 1998 was a terrible and magical moment in the history of Indonesia's youth movement.
Israel-Iran Matters Get Worse in Verse
- Inter Press Service
A lyrical attack by Germany’s acclaimed novelist and essayist Günter Grass in which he labelled Israel’s alleged atomic arsenal and looming pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear installations a threat to world peace has triggered fury and controversy amongst Israelis.
Radioactive Mushrooms Cloud Compensation Plans
- Inter Press Service
The discovery of radioactive contamination in ‘shiitake’ mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 300 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has raised public clamour for compensation.
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