Global Issues
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Conservatives and Nationalists At Centre Stage in Poland
- Inter Press Service
WAESAW, Jul 08 (IPS) - A mix of conservative Catholicism and nationalism has become the predominant view in Polish public debate, with some worrying effects.
Macau Gambling Away Its Future
- Inter Press Service
Liberated Homs Residents Challenge Notion of “Revolution”
- Inter Press Service
HOMS, Syria, Jul 08 (IPS) - Al-Waer, Homs's most populated area and the city's last insurgent holdout, might soon achieve the truce that Hom's Old City saw in May this year when, in an exchange deal, the insurgents left their strongholds.
U.S. Overseas Coal Financing May Be Restarting
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 07 (IPS) - Landmark new policies that have sharply curtailed U.S. financing for international coal projects may be rolled back, the result of a sudden, polarised fight over a little-known government agency here.
Amid Scepticism, U.N. Trumpets Successes in Cutting Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - With 17 months before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their targets by the December 2015 deadline, the United Nations is trumpeting its limited successes - but with guarded optimism.
Child Migrants Flee Central American Crisis
- Inter Press Service
IRAPUATO, Mexico, Jul 07 (IPS) - In early May, the Irapuato Migrants' House, in the centre-west Mexican state of Guanajuato, took in a group of 152 Garifuna Afro-Caribbean people from Honduras. Sixty of them were children.
India's Unholy Mess
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jul 07 (IPS) - One of the first things that Narendra Damodardas Modi did after being anointed as the Indian prime minister on May 26 was to set up an exclusive ministry (Ganga Rejuvenation) under Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti to clean up the country's national river, the Ganges.
At the Crucial Nexus of Water and Energy
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 07 (IPS) - Global institutions are still in the learning phase when it comes to successfully managing water and energy in an integrated manner as part of the quest for sustainable development.
OPINION: Fighting Killer Diseases Is Essential in the Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 07 (IPS) - Undeniably, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) helped lift specific health concerns onto the global agenda.
Cuba-United States – Something Is Moving
- Inter Press Service
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