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Haitian Group Honoured for AIDS Work, Earthquake Aid
- Inter Press Service
A non-profit group founded in Haiti nearly three decades ago to fight what was then a mysterious killer disease later identified as AIDS has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Gates Award for Global Health.
Fight Over Arizona's Migrant Law Heads to the Courts
- Inter Press Service
The controversy over Arizona's new immigration law heated up further Monday when a powerful coalition of civil rights and immigration advocates asked a U.S. federal court to find the new law unconstitutional and issue an injunction against its taking effect.
Malawi Gay Couple Found Guilty of Love
- Inter Press Service
On May 18, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, the two men arrested in December after their traditional engagement party, were convicted of 'unnatural acts' and 'gross indecency' under colonial-era laws that remain in Malawi's penal code.
Iranian Nuclear Threat Spurs Mideast Arms Sales
- Inter Press Service
The United States, and most of the Western world, have transformed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into a virtual bogeyman, thereby spreading fear throughout the neighbouring countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
More Faiths, Greater Religious Fluidity in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
Interest in religion is on the upsurge in Cuba, indicated by the growth and variety of the faiths being practised as well as by the ease with which people participate in more than one spiritual community at a time.
JAPAN: Gloom Grips the Land of the Rising Sun
- Inter Press Service
Mitsuko and Koji Iwatsuki, both in their senior years, spend their days taking walks, playing golf occasionally and going on foreign trips once a year.
U.S.: Momentum Builds to Ratify Land Mine Treaty
- Inter Press Service
More than two-thirds of U.S. senators have signed a letter calling on President Barack Obama to develop a plan to join a 17-year-old international treaty banning the production, transfer, and use of anti-personnel land mines.
ECONOMY-BALKANS: 'How Did We Become So Poor?'
- Inter Press Service
Almost two decades after Yugoslavia fell apart, the majority of the defunct socialist country’s people are insecure and uncertain for their future with the booming economy and rapid development that capitalism promised remaining a pipe dream.
Advantage GM in Europe
- Inter Press Service
Leading biotechnology companies have been granted privileged access to the European Union's policy makers as part of their efforts to speed up the approval of new genetically modified (GM) crops.
MIDEAST: Chomsky - Latest Jewish Thinker Savaged by Israel
- Inter Press Service
When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the West Bank, he joined a chorus of Jewish intellectuals savaged by the Israeli government for outspoken criticism.
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