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"Drone" a Dirty Word in the U.N. Lexicon
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 07 (IPS) - The "drone", one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed by the United States in its war against terrorism, is obviously a dirty word in the U.N. lexicon.
Think Tank Urges “More Ambitious” U.S.-Mexican Agenda
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 06 (IPS) - The electoral and political stars are aligning in ways that offer the United States and Mexico major opportunities to substantially deepen their cooperation, particularly on trade, energy, and immigration, according to a report released here Wednesday by a special commission of the Inter-American Dialogue (IAD).
World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of Forest Policy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 06 (IPS) - Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution's decade-long forest policy, expressing their "strong disagreement" with some assertions in the report.
Northern Mali Faces Food and Currency Shortages
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Feb 05 (IPS) - Communities in northern Mali are in need of humanitarian intervention following the recent military intervention in Gao and Timbuktu, leading non-governmental organisations to call for deliveries of food aid, fuel and even currency notes.
In Mali, Driving Out Rebels but Not Fear
- Inter Press Service
DIABALY, Mali, Feb 02 (IPS) - "We know they are close. We do not feel safe," mutters Allassane Traoré, as he stares down the road on which the Islamists entered the town of Diabaly in central Mali, almost two weeks ago.
New U.S. Biofuel Proposals Could Draw Heavily from Food Sources
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 01 (IPS) - New biofuel requirements proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are being met with concern by a spectrum of interest groups from environmentalists to the oil industry, with some warning that a gap between the proposal and existing law could force the government to draw on food-based alternative fuels.
Malians Digging Deep to Support War Effort
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Feb 01 (IPS) - Malians, including students and businesses owners, are donating money to their military's costly war against armed Islamic groups that have occupied the north of this impoverished West African country and committed atrocities against local populations.
Missing Reform Deadline, IMF Nears “Credibility Cliff”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it will miss an internal deadline to agree on a new formula by which to apportion voting rights in the 188-member institution.
The Open and Rocky Road Post-2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 31 (IPS) - What values does a Yemeni journalist who fuelled the Arab Spring hold in common with a former principal of the U.S. National Security Council? And how in turn will they see eye to eye with a Jordanian queen, or the president of Indonesia?
Diamonds are Not Forever, But the Land Is
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Jan 31 (IPS) - In the village of Makonkonde in western Sierra Leone, Mabinti, who no longer knows her age, sits on a low wooden stool in the dappled shade of several palm trees. She clutches a solitary papaya fruit in hands toughened by a lifetime of hard manual work.
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