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  1. OPINION: Russia's Friendship University, Educating the Developing World for 55 Years

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    NEW YORK, Jan 28 (IPS) - People's Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), which celebrates its 55th anniversary on Feb. 5, is known worldwide as a major academic and research centre. During the last five decades, PFUR has educated 80,000 students from 145 countries.

  2. Antiguan Shanty Dwellers Ask if Poverty Will Be the Death of Them

    - Inter Press Service

    GREEN BAY, Antigua, Jan 28 (IPS) - It was early on a Saturday morning and there was no sign of life in the community. The shacks erected on both sides of the old, narrow road that winds through the area are all surrounded by zinc sheets which rise so high, it's impossible to see what lies on the other side.

  3. Marginalised Groups Struggle to Access Healthcare in Conflict-Torn East Ukraine

    - Inter Press Service

    KIEV, Jan 28 (IPS) - With international organisations warning that East Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as its health system collapses, marginalised groups are among those facing the greatest struggle to access even basic health care in the war-torn region.

  4. When Ignorance Is Deadly: Pacific Women Dying From Lack of Breast Cancer Awareness

    - Inter Press Service

    SYDNEY, Jan 28 (IPS) - Women now face a better chance of surviving breast cancer in the Solomon Islands, a developing island state in the southwest Pacific Ocean, following the recent acquisition of the country's first mammogram machine.

  5. U.S. Ally Yemen in Danger of Splitting into Two - Again

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (IPS) - When North and South Yemen merged into a single country under the banner Yemen Arab Republic back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: "Two poor countries have now become one poor country."

  6. U.S.-India Partnership a Step Forward for Low-Carbon Growth

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (IPS) - India garnered international attention this week for its climate action.

  7. Young People in Latin America Face Stigma and Inequality

    - Inter Press Service

    SANTIAGO, Jan 27 (IPS) - Young people in Latin America now enjoy greater access to education. But in many cases their future is dim due to the lack of opportunities and the siren call of crime in a region where 167 million people are poor, and 71 million live in extreme poverty.

  8. Developing Nations Write Hopeful New Chapters in a Toxic Legacy

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jan 27 (IPS) - The village of Dong Mai in Vietnam's agricultural heartland had a serious problem.

  9. OPINION: The Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    OAKLAND, United States, Jan 27 (IPS) - At the same time as the United States, Canada and the European Union announced a set of new sanctions against Russia in mid-December last year, Ukraine received 350 million dollars in U.S. military aid, coming on top of a one billion dollar aid package approved by the U.S. Congress in March 2014. 

  10. Zimbabwe Battles with Energy Poverty

    - Inter Press Service

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