Peace Activists Push for Nuke Abolition Summit in 2015
A coalition of anti-nuclear peace activists and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) is launching a global campaign for a summit meeting of world leaders calling for the total elimination of one of...
View ArticleIsraeli Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities Easier Said Than Done
Despite renewed media speculation regarding possible Israeli attacks against Iran's nuclear facilities as early as this spring, scepticism that such a campaign could actually be successfully carried...
View ArticleSPAIN: Conservative Government's Reforms Draw Fire
In its less than two months in office, Spain's new conservative government has begun to introduce sweeping educational and reproductive health reforms, prompting protests from the opposition and from...
View ArticlePolice Raids on Media Threaten Press Freedom in Trinidad
Four months before the island hosts the World Congress of the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), the Trinidad and Tobago government finds itself on the defence in the wake of police...
View ArticleWhile Israel Blames Iran for India, Georgia Bombings, U.S. More Reserved
While Israel and its allies here blamed Iran for Monday's two nearly simultaneous car bomb incidents in the capitals of India and Georgia, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama echoed...
View ArticleEUROPE-INDIA: Trade Deal Threatens 'Pharmacy of the Developing World'
Behind closed doors, a trade deal affecting a fifth of the world's population has been quietly in the works for years.
View ArticleLatin American Migrants Flee Crisis in Spain
"What on earth is happening to Spain?" asks Hernán Bocchio, a 43-year-old Argentine architect with three children who has been unemployed for four years and is considering a job offer from Brazil.
View ArticleTRINIDAD: Training the Leaders of "Generation Climate"
With climate change advancing to the forefront of the most urgent issues facing the islands of the Caribbean, young people – who arguably have the most to gain and lose in future scenarios – are...
View ArticleScientists Find Link Between La Niña and the Flu
Weather patterns could have an influence on the spread of epidemics like that of the H1N1 influenza virus, initially known as swine flu, which broke out in Mexico and the United States in 2009.
View ArticleU.S.: Obama Requests Slightly Higher Aid Levels for 2013
Despite strong pressure to reduce the yawning federal deficit, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a slight increase in funding for the State Department and...
View Article"A Catastrophic Year" as Hunger Crisis Looms over Sahel
Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel – the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south – have taken the unprecedented step of declaring emergencies...
View ArticleSomali Women Say "Consider Us for the Country's Leadership"
As Somalia's transitional government and various stakeholders meet Wednesday to discuss the inclusion of the country's clans in the new government, women politicians have called for a greater role in...
View ArticleBangladesh Braves Climate Change With Community Radio
"Welcome to Krishi (farming) Radio. You are listening to FM 98.8 megahertz and I am your hostess Shahnaz Parvin," the local community radio crackles over the mobile phones and transistors of residents...
View ArticlePoles Apart in These Online Wars
Many people are appalled by the anti-Polish website established recently by the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV). The site encourages complaints against migrant workers from Central and Eastern Europe,...
View ArticleSyrian Crisis Spills Over Into Lebanon
Chants erupt from the second floor of a decrepit building in Tripoli in the Sunni stronghold of Bab el-Tebbaneh. Young voices loudly sing "Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar," or "Come on, leave, Bashar," directed...
View ArticleGUATEMALA: "Only the Mayor Will Benefit from the Mine"
"No one will pay for the damages when work at the mine has finished," says María del Rosario Velásquez, who lives in a town near the Oasis mine 100 km southeast of the Guatemalan capital.
View ArticleThailand Charges Iranian Suspects Over Blast
Two Iranians have been arrested and charged with plotting a bomb attack in Bangkok, according to Thailand's foreign minister.
View ArticleDrug Trade Will Weather Peruvian Rebel Chief's Capture
The capture in Peru of the last major leader of the Maoist rebel group Sendero Luminoso is a mortal blow to the movement that managed to survive thanks to its connection with the production of coca...
View ArticleFormer Combatants in El Salvador Demand a Place in Society
Sporting an olive green combat jacket and a beret, civil war veteran Carlos Hernández prays at the tomb of slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero at the Metropolitan Cathedral of El Salvador, which a...
View ArticleFinland Joins Call for Financial Market Tax
In the midst of the debt and financial crises plaguing key European countries, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has joined a growing international chorus calling for the introduction of a...
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