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  1. After Losing Vote, U.S.-EU Threaten to Undermine Treaty

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 28 (IPS) - The United States and the 28-member European Union (EU) have assiduously promoted - and vigourously preached - one of the basic tenets of Western multi-party democracy: majority rules.

  2. Violence Casts Shadow Over ‘Himalayan Viagra’ Harvest in Nepal

    - Inter Press Service

    KATHMANDU, Jun 27 (IPS) - Intense competition during harvest season for a fungus dubbed ‘Himalayan Viagra' – coveted for its legendary aphrodisiac qualities – has sparked violence in Nepal's remote western mountains, causing concern among security officials here about the safety of more than 100,000 harvesters.

  3. IMF Issues “Revolutionary” Warning on Corporate Tax Avoidance

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - The staff at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued an unusually stark warning over the lack of harmonised global tax policies, pointing out that these gaps are allowing for widespread tax gaming by corporations with particularly negative impacts for developing countries.

  4. Moscow Protest Highlights Litany of Abuses Suffered by Russia’s Drug Users

    - Inter Press Service

    MOSCOW, Jun 26 (IPS) - A protest in Moscow Thursday marking the U.N. International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking has highlighted the ‘torture' drug users are put through in the Russian criminal justice system.

  5. Adapting to a Dry Season That Never Seems to End

    - Inter Press Service

    ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Jun 26 (IPS) - The Caribbean region's bid to become food secure is in peril as farmers struggle to produce staple crops under harsh drought conditions brought about by climate change.

  6. Bolivia Charts Its Own Path on Coca

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - This week, the U.N. reported that coca cultivation in Bolivia fell nine percent last year, and a massive 26 percent in the past three years.

  7. Community Resilience Tops U.N.’s Disaster Relief Agenda

    - Inter Press Service

    BANGKOK, Jun 26 (IPS) - The Bangkok Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific adopted at the close of the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference On Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) here today emphasised community-based solutions, and reflects a growing global desire to focus more on grassroots actions in the face of catastrophic climate change.

  8. Battle Stations: Civil Society Fights Radio and TV Spectrum Auctions

    - Inter Press Service

    SAN SALVADOR, Jun 26 (IPS) - Pressure from social organisations has temporarily halted concessions of television broadcasting frequencies in El Salvador, a country where the struggle for spectrum ownership has political and ideological overtones, as well as economic ones.

  9. In Latest Republican Split, Tea Party Takes on Export-Import Bank

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - U.S. Big Business is going all out to protect a favoured government agency, the 80-year-old Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), from a full-fledged assault by the populist "Tea Party" wing of the Republican Party.

  10. Zimbabwe’s Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster - We Visit the 18,000 Forcibly Relocated to Ruling Party Farm

    - Inter Press Service

    MASVINGO, Zimbabwe, Jun 25 (IPS) - As the villagers sit around the flickering fire on a pitch-black night lit only by the blurry moon, they speak, recounting how it all began.

    They take turns, sometimes talking over each other to have their own experiences heard. When the old man speaks, everyone listens. "It was my first time riding a helicopter," John Moyo* remembers.

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