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BOLIVIA: Dam Spells Hope and Fear for Small Jungle Town
- Inter Press Service
Arturo Sánchez, 72 years old and nearly blind, dreams of bringing ecotourism to Cachuela Esperanza, a Bolivian town of 1,336 people on the Beni river, and hopes the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam will give a boost to his dreams.
Libyan Rebels Feel the Heat of NATO's Swan Song
- Inter Press Service
A week after U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 sanctioned air strikes against the regime of Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi in Libya, U.S. President Barack Obama made clear that it would not be U.S. planes maintaining the No-Fly Zone (NFZ). Rather, the effort to safeguard Libyan civilians would be led primarily by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
BRAZIL: Handing in Guns Stashed at Home
- Inter Press Service
An estimated 16 million firearms are in circulation in Brazil, 80 percent of them in civilian hands. Most of the guns are unregistered and illegally owned, and the government and civil society are planning a fresh campaign to reduce the number of guns and curb the thousands of shooting deaths in the country.
CUBA: Month-Long Offensive Against Homophobia
- Inter Press Service
LGBT social networks and experts with Cuba's National Sex Education Centre (CENESEX) announced Tuesday that events surrounding the Day Against Homophobia will last a month this year in this Caribbean island nation.
U.N. Predicts 9.3 Billion Population by 2050
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations is predicting that come Oct. 31, the world population will hit the seven billion mark - and keep expanding till it reaches 9.3 billion by the year 2050.
AFRICA: Childhood Blindness - Catch Them Young
- Inter Press Service
Every minute, somewhere in the world, a child goes blind according to the World Health Organization. Three in five poor children who go blind are likely to die within two years of losing their site - yet half of cases of childhood blindness are avoidable.
AFRICA: Coalition Against the High Cost of Living
- Inter Press Service
In Burkina Faso, Niger, Kenya, Uganda: governments are worried by soaring prices - and by newly confident and enraged civil society. Governments are being challenged to take decisive action, despite lacking the tools to address rising global oil prices. Their responses could have important consequences for their legitimacy and survival.
ENVIRONMENT: Endosulfan Ban Highlights Need for Alternatives
- Inter Press Service
The upsurge in the use of the toxic pesticide endosulfan, targeted for prohibition by the international community, illustrates one of the dilemmas of intensive agriculture in Argentina and Latin America in general.
INDIA-PAKISTAN: Osama’s Death Changes Little
- Inter Press Service
Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. troops, in a safe house adjacent to a Pakistani military academy in Abbottabad, may vindicate India’s charges that its neighbour is a haven for jihadist groups, but it will do little to change that reality.
EU-PAKISTAN: Bin Laden’s Death May Sour Relations
- Inter Press Service
In a surprise address late Sunday night, U.S. President Barack Obama declared Osama bin Laden - leader of the terrorist organisation al Qaeda and the world’s most wanted fugitive - dead. According to Obama, bin Laden was captured and shot in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city, just north of Islamabad. Within minutes of the announcement, leaders across the globe began to issue statements expressing their views on bin Laden’s death.
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