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SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Coming Together to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for development was signed by the leaders who met over the weekend in the second South America-Africa summit, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita.
SRI LANKA: Coastal Village Rises Up from Ravages of War, Disaster
- Inter Press Service
Vakarai is a dust bowl of a village, right at the edge of the coast in Sri Lanka’s east. The last three decades have not been too good for this fishing village -- located about 300 kilometres east of the capital Colombo -- and its inhabitants, mostly from the minority Tamil community.
ENVIRONMENT: China Backpedals on Emissions But Still Noncommittal
- Inter Press Service
Although pledging to break away from its highly polluting economic path, China has managed to stick to its guns and not compromise on what it believes is its national agenda.
SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: New Summit to Strengthen Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
Heads of state and other officials from 54 African and 12 South American nations will meet for the Second Africa-South America Summit this Saturday and Sunday on Isla Margarita, Venezuela, to boost cooperation in a score of areas with potential for greater bi-regional exchange.
INDIA/CHINA: Dalai’s Planned Visit to Border State Sparks Rows
- Inter Press Service
The Dalai Lama’s planned visit to Arunachal Pradesh appears to be a simple, pastoral response to Buddhist flocks in that north-eastern Indian state.
SPAIN: Debt Write-Off, Development Funds for Bolivia
- Inter Press Service
Bolivian President Evo Morales wound up a three-day official visit to Spain Tuesday with a financial aid commitment from the Spanish government - in the form of a debt-for-development swap - and a reciprocal agreement to allow Bolivians and Spaniards resident in each other's countries to vote in local elections.
BRAZIL: Art is the Best Education
- Inter Press Service
A broad range of projects in Brazil are using ballet and folk dances, classical and popular music, theatre, circus arts, capoeira - an Afro-Brazilian combination of dance and martial arts - fashion, visual arts and the audiovisual media to reach disadvantaged and at-risk children.
GUYANA: Govt Complicity With Drug Ring Aired in New York
- Inter Press Service
This small English-speaking nation, home to the Caribbean trade bloc (CARICOM), has been in the news recently due to revelations in a New York court that the government here willingly and knowingly gave surveillance equipment to a private death squad so that it could hunt down and execute more than 200 criminal suspects and opposition activists it wanted off the scene - as far back as 2002.
POLITICS: How Far Should U.N. Go to Protect Civilians?
- Inter Press Service
In what one U.N. official characterised as 'a historical development', the General Assembly spent much of this week debating the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), which calls for the international community to intervene with diplomatic and, if necessary, military action, in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
SRI LANKA: Clinching a Crucial IMF Lifeline
- Inter Press Service
After months of being at the receiving end of international criticism for human rights violations, Sri Lanka finally clinched a crucial agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday for a standby credit facility of $2.5 billion, which will help bolster the country’s foreign exchange reserves depleted by the sharp impacts of the global economic downturn and an expensive war.
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