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News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 37
Injured Struggle in the Sahara
- Inter Press Service
KUFRA, southern Libya, Oct 20 (IPS) - Safia’s six-year-old body is riddled with scars from the rocket that hit her home in February. With her immediate family all killed in the violent attack, this sole survivor smiles shyly as she visits the medics that fought to save her life.
U.S.: On Eve of Foreign Policy Debate, Voters Sour on Arab Spring
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (IPS) - On the eve of Monday’s foreign policy debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the electorate appears increasingly disillusioned with the so-called Arab Spring, according to a new survey released by the Pew Research Center here.
Syria Stands Between Egypt and Iran
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 15 (IPS) - The election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi to the presidency this summer was followed by a flurry of conjecture that the restoration of Egyptian-Iranian diplomatic relations – frozen since 1979 – was in the offing. Yet despite some initial indications to this effect, local analysts now say such speculation appears to have been premature.
Caged in the Great City
- Inter Press Service
AR-RAM, Occupied East Jerusalem, Oct 15 (IPS) - Ali Shuruf turns on the lights, that shine into a gaudy living room. Beyond the window, the dominant colour is uniformly grey: the house stands literally against a wall. Not just any wall – the infamous eight-metre cement wall separates Palestinians from Israelis.
The Key to Damascus Could Lie at the Borders
- Inter Press Service
MASHEREE AL-QA'A, Lebanon-Syria Border, Oct 14 (IPS) - A group of six men listen as voices crackle through a walkie-talkie. They are sitting in a farmhouse in the north of Lebanon less than a kilometre from the Syrian border. The sound of gunfire and shelling in the distance sporadically punctuates the atmosphere. One of the group returns to the room after taking a telephone call. “Good news from the battle,” he exclaims with a smile.
Experts Urge Focus on Microeconomics in Maghreb
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - A failure to focus on small-scale economics could be the most significant obstacle to stability in North Africa in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, economists, diplomats and development workers warned here on Friday.
Tribal War Simmers in Libya’s Desert
- Inter Press Service
ZWEILA, Southern Libya, Oct 11 (IPS) - A group of Tabu fighters with mud-splattered trucks rest on the outskirts of Zweila, a small historic slave-trade stop in Libya’s southwest Sahara.
Q&A: Global Economy, Meet One Billion Co-op Members
- Inter Press Service
QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Oct 09 (IPS) - The international rally to take the global cooperative movement to the next level is in full swing at the International Summit of Cooperatives here, which kicked off on Monday.
U.S.: Romney Assails Obama’s “Passivity” in Foreign Policy, Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 08 (IPS) - In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday assailed Barack Obama for “passivity” in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that it was “time to change course” in the Middle East, in particular.
World Forgetting Palestinian Rights
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 07 (IPS) - The annual debate has just wrapped up and, already, the certainty is that if last year Palestinian statehood auspiciously dominated the international agenda, this time, the issue vanished from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and will vanish even further from world affairs.
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