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  1. Smuggled Medicines Save Lives

    - Inter Press Service

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 26 (IPS) - They are contraband, yet a large number of Pakistanis have come to depend on drugs made in India and smuggled into Pakistan. Patients as well as doctors say these are cheap and effective, even as law enforcers look the other way.

  2. An Environment-Wrecking Pipeline Hangs in Limbo

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Feb 26 (IPS) - The Pine Ridge Reservation of the Lakota Nation, in the midwest of the United States, is one of the most abandoned places in the country and in the world.

  3. Cartel Boss Captured, Mexican Drug Trade Marches On

    - Inter Press Service

    MEXICO CITY, Feb 25 (IPS) - The arrest of the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, will not affect drug trafficking in Mexico, but it presents an opportunity to change the country's drug policy, experts told IPS.

  4. Gbagbo’s Party Recovers Political Might Ahead of Ivorian Elections

    - Inter Press Service

    ABIDJAN, Feb 25 (IPS) - Armand Konan stood in front of the Palais des Sports, a stadium in Abidjan's popular neighbourhood, Treichville, selling videos and speeches of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. "People need to remember what our president said...He is our president. And we want him back," Konan told IPS.

  5. Uganda’s Human Rights Record Plunges With Signing of Anti-Gay Law

    - Inter Press Service

    KAMPALA, Feb 25 (IPS) - Uganda's gays are bracing themselves for a spate of arrests and harassment as the country's draconian anti-gay bill was signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, Feb. 24.

  6. EU No Instant Saviour for Ukraine

    - Inter Press Service

    KIEV, Feb 25 (IPS) - Ukrainians are facing years of pain and upheaval if the country moves towards closer EU integration – or the prospect of the country being left to "rot" if they do not, experts say following the weekend's revolution.

  7. Hagel Urges Less Money for U.S. Army, More for Special Forces

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - Signalling a somewhat more modest global U.S. military posture, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel Monday called for sharp reductions in the size of the U.S. Army, the service that has borne the brunt of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan over the past dozen years.

  8. G20 Urges U.S. Action on IMF Reforms by April

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - The Group of 20 (G20) industrialised and emerging economies on Sunday formally expressed frustration with the ongoing inability of the United States to approve a major reform package that would see governance at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shift more towards developing countries.

  9. Door Closing on Universal Justice in Spain

    - Inter Press Service

    MALAGA, Spain, Feb 24 (IPS) - The pursuit of universal jurisdiction in Spain is drawing to a close because of a bill that will entail the dismissal of over a dozen criminal investigations in the country's courts and will make it very difficult to open new cases of crimes against humanity.

  10. Somalis Caught in Crossfire as Al-Shabaab ‘Plays to Survive’

    - Inter Press Service

    , Feb 24 (IPS) - As the Somali government plans to launch a new military campaign to wipe out the Islamic extremist group, Al-Shabaab, from its strongholds in this Horn of Africa nation, experts say that its Somalia's innocent who live in areas controlled by the group who will suffer the most.

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