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EGYPT: Labour Anger Does Not End With Mubarak
- Inter Press Service
Before his ouster on Friday, toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had made one of the biggest mistakes of his reign; not learning from the lessons of hundreds of small labour and professional strikes that littered the country since 2005. These were the actual precursors to the Jan. 25 Revolution that end his 30-year autocratic rule.
Wild Seismic Predictions Disputed
- Inter Press Service
Without in-depth scientific documentation of marine mammal strandings, natural history and animal behaviour, the prediction of seismic events based on behaviour of marine mammals is not widely accepted. Sceptics often dismiss such predictions as conjecture.
Kenyan Pastoralists Look Back to Secure Their Future
- Inter Press Service
David Lenamira, watching as usual from a seat outside his compound, has no trouble picking out his sheep as the herd boys drive them home every evening. The red-brown animals are smaller than those in his neighbours' herds, but he's proud of them just the same.
Efforts to Demobilise Uganda's LRA Not Enough, Says Report
- Inter Press Service
The rebel group that terrorised Ugandan civilians for more than two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), could continue to haunt the people of Central Africa if the Ugandan government fails to properly support demobilisation efforts, according to a new report released Monday.
United Nations, an Organisation on Life-Support?
- Inter Press Service
While a mass uprising was toppling a dictatorship in Egypt and tens of thousands were marching for radical change at the World Social Forum in Dakar, a high-level group of ambassadors and experts came together at the United Nations late last week to discuss the future of global governance.
PHILIPPINES: Island Kids Get Connected
- Inter Press Service
In a remote island community where fishing is the main source of living, one would expect children to be surfing the waves and not surfing the net.
Q&A: Tunis and Cairo Reveal a New Popular Militancy
- Inter Press Service
More than 200 years ago, one of the United States' founding presidents, Thomas Jefferson, famously remarked: 'Every generation needs a new revolution.' Today, his words are more relevant than ever, as young people across the world mark 2011 as a year of change.
INDIA: Stemming Experiments in Stem Cells
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of patients are now streaming into stem cell therapy clinics all over India, despite the controversy surrounding stem cell research and even though, doctors say, no one has yet been cured by this technology.
TRADE: 'Poor Countries Have Already Given Enough in Doha Round'
- Inter Press Service
South Africa has expressed sharp concern over concerted attempts by leading industrialised countries, particularly the U.S. and the European Union (EU), to extract onerous commitments from developing countries as a condition to concluding the stalled Doha Round trade negotiations.
CORRUPTION: Egyptians Can Claim Mubarak’s Stolen Billions
- Inter Press Service
For decades, European bank accounts and trusts and the real estate market were havens for dictators seeking safe places to deposit billions of dollars they were stealing from their countries of origin.
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