News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 366
Fighting Now Brings Disease
- Inter Press Service
DAMASCUS, Mar 29 (IPS) - For just that moment, the refugees in Yarmouk camp in Damascus made news. After months of facing starvation and death in the shadows of the Syrian civil war came packets of food and aid in January - with cameras in tow.
Sahel Food Crisis Overshadowed by Regional Conflict
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Mar 28 (IPS) - Still not enough is being done to improve the food emergency in Africa's Sahel Region as conflict and instability continue to exacerbate any response towards improving the situation where one in eight people suffer from food insecurity.
OP-ED: Egypt’s Death Sentences Test U.S. Resolve
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 28 (IPS) - The summary mass trial and sentencing of 529 Egyptians to death this week is yet another example of Egypt's descent into lawlessness and blatant miscarriage of justice.
To Spy To Live
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 28 (IPS) - "If you want to live and receive medical treatment, you have my number, so you can call me and agree to my request. You will then get medical help, and survive." The request, the patient said, was from an Israeli intelligence officer looking to recruit him in exchange for treatment.
A Honduran Paradise that Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again
- Inter Press Service
SANTA ROSA DE AGUÃN, Honduras, Mar 26 (IPS) - At the mouth of the Aguán river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garífuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane Mitch has set an example of adaptation to climate change.
Pacific Islands At Sea Over Land Rights
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Mar 26 (IPS) - For many Pacific Islanders, customary land is the source of life, identity and social security. However, most island states are developing countries, and governments claim land reform is needed to improve infrastructure and economic development. Registration of customary land, the predominant tenure system, with more options for leasing to the state and developers is being promoted as the way forward.
Increased Instability Predicted for Egypt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) - International human rights groups have strongly denounced Monday's sentencing by an Egyptian court of 529 Islamists to death for a riot in which one policeman was killed.
Despite Risks, Cuban Fisher Families Don’t Want to Leave the Sea
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Mar 25 (IPS) - The road to Guanímar, a fishing village on the southern coast of Cuba, is as narrow as the future of its 252 inhabitants, who don't want to abandon the area despite its vulnerability to hurricanes, storm surges and flooding.
Putting Climate Polluters in the Dock
- Inter Press Service
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 24 (IPS) - Can Caribbean governments take legal action against other countries that they believe are warming the planet with devastating consequences?
Sri Lanka Prepares for Geneva Showdown
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Mar 24 (IPS) - As Sri Lanka steadfastly refuses any external inquiry into human rights abuses allegedly committed when the government pushed a military victory over Tamil rebels in its decades-long sectarian conflict, right groups say the global community is left with no option but to push for an international investigation.
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