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U.S. Oil Firm Creates Tension over Western Sahara
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and Moroccan executives meet to discuss strengthening private sector ties between the two countries, advocacy groups are raising concerns about plans by a U.S. energy firm to explore for oil in the contested territory known as Western Sahara.
Bachelet to Recalibrate Chile’s Foreign Policy
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 11 (IPS) - For the past four years, the foreign policy of Chile, South America's "miracle", has focused more on economic than political issues.
Russian Arms to Egypt Threaten to Undermine U.S. in Mideast
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - Russia, which is at loggerheads with Washington over the spreading political crisis in Ukraine, is threatening to undermine a longstanding military relationship between the United States and one of its traditional allies in the Middle East: Egypt.
The Rich Complain That we do not Love Them
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 11 (IPS) - F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said "The rich are different from you or me", yet in his days, in the early years of the 20th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were generally an object of envy, not resentment.
Justice Breakdown Blamed for South Africa's Rising Mob Justice
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 11 (IPS) - Margaret Feke* got off a taxi in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, carrying a package of new clothes for her son who was due to leave for his traditional initiation into manhood in the Transkei the following day.
Italy Closes Its Eyes to Sealed Mouths
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 11 (IPS) - "We walk inside an area that is 128 steps long and seven-and-a-half steps wide. This is the path they made for us: two metres of bars over our heads, and upon the bars, two metres of plexiglas. We are like canaries in a cage, like birds of different races all in one cage."
Sea Swallows the Stories of Africans Drowned at Ceuta
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 10 (IPS) - "Who will speak for them now? Who will tell their stories to their families in Cameroon or Ivory Coast?" asked Edmund Okeke, a Nigerian, about the 16 migrants who died while trying to swim to the shore of the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco.
What We Can Learn from Child Soldiers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - In 2003, Moses Otiti, a 15-year-old from Uganda, was walking in a group with his father when members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed them.
Stateless in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Mar 10 (IPS) - Around 4.3 million of Nepal's 27 million population lack citizenship documents, rendering them stateless, says a report by the Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD), which works to promote and protect the interests of Nepali women.
A Matter of Life and Death
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) - If you or some family members or friends suffer from cancer, hepatitis, AIDS, asthma or other serious ailments, it's worth your while to follow the negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and other similar bilateral trade agreements.
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