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INDIA/CHINA: Dalai Lama’s Border State Visit: Purely Spiritual?
- Inter Press Service
It is hard to say whether the Dalai Lama’s sojourn this week in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state—which China claims as southern Tibet—is a purely spiritual exercise or a trip with a deep political mission.
Q&A: No 'One-Size-Fits-All' for Surging South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
A major international conference on South-South cooperation is scheduled to take place early December in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi against the backdrop of a rising trend in regional economic integration in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
ENVIRONMENT: 'Temperature Rise Guaranteed, Thanks to Brown Clouds'
- Inter Press Service
Regardless of success at the upcoming climate talks at Copenhagen this December, there will still be a 2.5 degree rise in temperatures.
MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
- Inter Press Service
Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.
Q&A: ‘ODA Is What Governments Want to Do at Their Whim’
- Inter Press Service
Think of a world where rich nations did not fund what was popular but instead collaborated to solve the developing world’s most pressing health needs.
GUATEMALA: (Barely) Surviving on Beans and Tortillas
- Inter Press Service
Juan Manuel Ardón's bones jut out and his hair is dull and thin: signs of severe malnutrition. He is so weak that he can hardly walk or talk, and the doctors say his weight and stature are those of a six-year-old, rather than 15-year-old, boy.
US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
- Inter Press Service
As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that 'European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation'.
RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
- Inter Press Service
An ascendant China that ignores human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang, poses a danger to world peace, say Nobel laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams.
RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
- Inter Press Service
An ascendant China that ignores human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang, poses a danger to world peace, say Nobel laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams.
CUBA: Food Security Focus of New UN Programmes
- Inter Press Service
Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.
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