Fresh Clashes in Syria Ahead of U.N. Mission
Fierce clashes have been reported between Syrian government forces and opposition fighters in Douma, near the capital Damascus, and in other parts of the country, amid doubts over the government's...
View ArticleOP-ED: The Internationalisation of Tahrir Square
In the last week of July, the United Nations held its High Level Meeting on Youth as part of the closing of the International Year of Youth 2011 in the General Assembly. This year was definitely a...
View ArticleTuareg Fighters Declare Mali Ceasefire
A spokesman for the main Tuareg rebel group, which recently seized the three largest areas in Mali's north, says it has declared a ceasefire, one day after the United Nations Security Council called...
View ArticleOil Drilling Threatens Spain's Renewable Energy Paradise
Environmentalists and local authorities are opposed to prospecting for oil in the waters off the Canary Islands, one of Europe's leading tourist destinations and an area with great potential in the...
View ArticleEurope Urges More Development Aid for Women
Though United Nations experts agree that governments should focus on empowering girls and women as a key to managing a world of seven billion people, not enough is being done for women's rights in...
View ArticleTAJIKISTAN: Using Force to Maintain a Standing Army
Hunger, unheated barracks, beatings and regular outbreaks of disease: it could be life in a penal colony. But in this case, it describes the existence of a fresh military conscript in Tajikistan.
View ArticleWhere Bees Reform Gangsters
In the Kamanabe area of the rural Eastern Highlands in Papua New Guinea (PNG), a village gang has relinquished crime and is striving to contribute to the sustainable future of the local community with...
View ArticleCommunity Radio Tunes Into Ad Revenues in India
Community Radio (CR) broadcasting in India, long bound by red tape, has received a fillip with the government announcing a hike in advertising tariffs and the auction of licenses.
View ArticleThe Battle over Development-Led Globalisation
Industrialised countries have mounted an unprecedented campaign to stop the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from providing policy advice to the poorest countries in Africa and...
View ArticleUzbekistan Takes Hardline Approach on Containing Turkish Soft Power
Religion is a wedge that is driving Uzbekistan and Turkey apart.
View ArticleYoung Ivorians Fishing Big Profits out of Small Ponds
Mathieu Djessan looks over the four-hectare expanse of fish ponds with satisfaction. The aquaculture enterprise the 29-year-old runs here near the town of Tiassalé in southern Côte d'Ivoire is quickly...
View ArticleLibya Faces a Health Check
At a crowded corner of the Tripoli Medical Centre, people gather every morning to submit paperwork for medical treatment abroad, or worriedly scan new lists of approved names plastering the walls.
View ArticlePut Food Crisis on G8's Plate, Group Urges
Days before the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, anti- poverty advocates staged their own egg hunt in Lafayette Park to urge President Obama to "find political will to end global hunger" during the...
View ArticleWill Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green...
View ArticleU.S. Withdrawal a Blessing and a Curse for Afghans
Though the United States' announcement to pull its troops from Afghanistan by 2014 was celebrated by most Afghans as the imminent end of a protracted and controversial foreign occupation, there are...
View Article"A New Dawn Rises over Malawi"
It would be too simplistic to think that Malawi's problems have ended with the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. But it is an opportunity for newly appointed President Joyce Banda, who is also...
View ArticleIsrael-Iran Matters Get Worse in Verse
A lyrical attack by Germany's acclaimed novelist and essayist Günter Grass in which he labelled Israel's alleged atomic arsenal and looming pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear installations a threat...
View ArticleWorking to Cope with Climate Change, Jamaica Calculates Costs
Jamaican authorities are aiming to transform an island that experts say faces one of the worst climate risks in the world into a nation "equipped to prepare for and respond to the negative impacts of...
View ArticleRadioactive Mushrooms Cloud Compensation Plans
The discovery of radioactive contamination in ‘shiitake' mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 300 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has raised...
View ArticleOP-ED: Indonesian Youth in the Post-1998 Era of Democratisation
May 1998 was a terrible and magical moment in the history of Indonesia's youth movement.
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