Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1105
“Peanut Oil” Endangers Health of Young Bodybuilders
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 09 (IPS) - You can't buy it in a store or get it in Cuba's public health clinics. But young men who frequent gyms know who sells it and secretly inject themselves with "peanut oil," as people in this country refer to synthol and other products that increase muscle mass.
Syrians Struggle with a Life of Sorts
- Inter Press Service
IDLIB/ALEPPO Provinces, Syria, Oct 09 (IPS) - Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard over the state cable company premises to avoid looting in Khan Al-Assal, a district 14 kilometres west of Aleppo. Much of the rest of the place seems a nightmarish ghost town.
Building a Better World, One Block at a Time
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Oct 08 (IPS) - One evening in the small village of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, England, someone started a conversation about climate change and energy at the local pub. It was 2005. Two years later, residents had cut their carbon dioxide emissions and energy costs by 20 percent.
Chile’s Mining Industry Turns to Sunlight to Ease Energy Shortage
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Oct 08 (IPS) - The mining industry in the north of Chile, the world's leading producer of copper, is trying to partially satisfy its insatiable appetite for energy with a renewable, ever-available source: the sun.
Somalis Caught Between Terrorism and a Border Dispute
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 08 (IPS) - Somali militia groups are beginning to operate in Kenya's remote and arid North Eastern Province, an area that borders southern Somalia – a former stronghold of the extremist group Al-Shabaab.
Pakistan Government Failing to Go Local
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Oct 08 (IPS) - Had the provincial governments of Pakistan heeded their apex court, the country's four provinces - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - would have had local governments in place by now. The Supreme Court of Pakistan had in July this year directed that local government elections be held by Sep. 15.
Pacific Pact – a Minefield for Health Care
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 08 (IPS) - The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the negotiation of which is set to conclude this year, could drive research into new drugs and improve access to medicines. Except – it won't.
Risk Management Can Ease Poverty, World Bank Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - Successful risk management can be a powerful tool for development, the World Bank said Monday in its annual World Development Report (WDR).
Treaty Poised to Cut Toxic Mercury Pollution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - A new international convention opening for signatures this week will for the first time offer an agreed-upon roadmap by which to significantly decrease the global use of mercury while offering stronger safeguards for both human health and the environment.
In Trinidad, Sports Complex Targets a Key Watershed
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 07 (IPS) - Trinidad's Orange Grove Savannah sits at the foothills of the Northern Range, whose watersheds provide copious volumes of fresh water into the aquifers - natural underground water storage areas - lying below these green spaces.
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