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SOUTH ASIA: Disunity Hovers over a Region Battling Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
As the Copenhagen Conference on climate change draws nearer, South Asia, which appears poised for severe threats from the impacts of climate change, faces a stiff challenge on two fronts.
G20: Cementing a Southern Alliance
- Inter Press Service
Major developing countries are again preparing to stand together on critical issues at the G20 heads of government meeting in Pittsburgh Sep 24-25. But Southern solidarity may need to move beyond the strategic common front presented at such summits to include a strengthening of continuing ties.
ZIMBABWE: Warm Words For Investors at Mines Summit
- Inter Press Service
Desperate for investment to lift its moribund economy, the Zimbabwe government welcomed hundreds of prospective mining investors to a conference in Harare this week.
POLITICS: Nuclear Agency Demanding Iranian Missile Blueprints
- Inter Press Service
Iran stopped meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency last year over Western allegations of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work because the nuclear agency was demanding access to the designs for its Shahab-3 missile and other secret military data, according to both Iranian and IAEA officials.
ZIMBABWE: Football Fails to Feed Families
- Inter Press Service
Football was never a ticket to fabulous wealth in Zimbabwe, at least not for players who stayed in the country. But the economic situation has made it ever harder to play simply for the pride and pleasure of pulling on local team colours.
Q&A: Regional Prescriptions for Water Management
- Inter Press Service
The Orange-Senqu River has a one million square kilometre basin that covers Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The water it provides is crucial to industry in South Africa, but is also relied on by farmers and domestic users.
MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert
- Inter Press Service
On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil's 'genetic and cultural' connection to 'Mother Africa,' to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford - symbolic of the country's 'veiled racism' at an international festival organised to combat it.
POLITICS: Libya's Mercurial Leader Keeps U.N. Guessing
- Inter Press Service
Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, who will be making his maiden appearance before the United Nations next week, has been described as a gadfly with a penchant for stirring up controversies.
DRC: Electricity Lines Overhead But Never Seen a Light Bulb
- Inter Press Service
'We produce electricity but we manage darkness. We have big energy sources of electricity but only 20 percent of the population has access to electricity because most of the energy is sold to foreign countries.'
HEALTH-US: State's 'Model' Reforms May Be Anything But
- Inter Press Service
As all factions of the U.S. Congress continue a bruising debate about how to change the U.S. health system, one state, Massachusetts, seems to point the way clear, but activists say the Massachusetts plan is already troubled and doomed by skyrocketing costs.
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