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China Puts Middle East Differences on Ice
- Inter Press Service
In a first in years, snow blessed the Holy City last month. For a moment, hail metamorphosed into a paltry three-millimetre layer of white, liquid, light. Children and parents and snowmen relished the wonders of an almost real, though usually ephemeral, winter. But then, the Ice Age befell Jerusalem...
Caribbean Private Sector Lags in Exploiting EU Trade Pact
- Inter Press Service
When Europe signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Caribbean Forum countries in 2008, the intention was to boost trade and services between the two regions.
Memories of Osh Violence Continue to Haunt Kyrgyz Children
- Inter Press Service
(IPS/EurasiaNet) - The physical damage done to Osh, the city in southern Kyrgyzstan that was engulfed in interethnic violence almost two years ago, is steadily being repaired. The psychological scars, on the other hand, may take generations to heal.
Breastfeeding, Not Formula, for South Africa's HIV-Positive Mothers
- Inter Press Service
South Africa's nine provinces will begin phasing out provision of free formula to HIV-positive mothers and implement a new policy on breast-feeding from Sunday. But despite the clarity of the policy and its supporting data, vocal critics, including respected individuals from leading medical and academic institutions, have decried the choice.
Women Pay for Kashmir's Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean water from the mountain springs around her village of Bonpora, in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, are getting longer. She is already doing more than seven km every day.
Mubarak Cronies Find Comfort in Exile
- Inter Press Service
Wanted members of the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak remain at large more than a year since he was ousted, and their illicit wealth lies safely beyond the reach of prosecutors.
Rebels March Into New Libya With a Hangover
- Inter Press Service
A few hundred police cadets in ad hoc camouflage uniforms march up and down the grounds at a training centre in the coastal town Zawiyah. 'You are the people protecting the revolution and symbol of our pride,' proclaims the scrawled writing on the wall behind them.
Caribbean Private Sector Lags in Exploiting EU Trade Pact
- Inter Press Service
When Europe signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Caribbean Forum countries in 2008, the intention was to boost trade and services between the two regions.
New Generation Protests Crimes of Brazil's Dictatorship
- Inter Press Service
Outside the Military Club in Rio de Janeiro, where a commemoration of the anniversary of the 1964 coup d'état was being held, hundreds of demonstrators, many of them teenagers, shouted slogans and threw eggs at arriving members in protest.
U.S.: Forming Coalitions, Tea Party Continues to Brew
- Inter Press Service
In the three years since its inception, the Tea Party has cemented its place in U.S. politics, routinely making waves in political races of national interest. But some local Tea Party groups are beginning to run counter to the movement's narrative, building post-partisan coalitions that are both surprising and counterintuitive.
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