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IPS Inter Press Service - Environment - Feb 28, 2007
NIAMEY, Feb 28 (IPS) - Stretching over more than 4,000 kilometres, the Niger is West Africa's longest river, and greatly threatened in the country of the same name by environmental degradation that is causing the water …
IPS Inter Press Service - Conflict Prevention Africa - Feb 28, 2007
N'DJAMENA, Feb 28 (IPS) - Leaving the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, isn't what it used to be.
IPS Inter Press Service - Middle East - Feb 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (IPS) - The U.S. government should account for all "ghost prisoners" detained by the Central Intelligence Agency in secret prisons around the world, urges a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Feb 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (IPS) - An Iraqi World Bank staffer has been wounded in Baghdad, according to an inside source in the Bank and an email message from a source on the ground in Iraq, the first casualty for an …
IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Feb 28, 2007
TRINIDAD, Bolivia, Feb 28 (IPS) - Seen from the air, the capital of the Bolivian department of Beni is surrounded by an enormous stretch of water. Local residents are hoping that the polluted floodwaters, only 40 …
IPS Inter Press Service - Feb 28, 2007
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 28 (IPS) - Nearly two months since U.N. troops began launching heavy attacks that they say are aimed against gang members in poor neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, roadblocks and barbed wire remain …
IPS Inter Press Service - Feb 28, 2007
MEXICO CITY, Feb 28 (IPS) - Mexico's Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for the military to expel HIV-positive members, a practice that is habitually followed by the armed forces.
IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Feb 28, 2007
NEW YORK, Feb 28 (IPS) - In stark contrast to last week's U.S. court decision upholding the Military Commissions Act, Canada's court has unanimously struck down a law that would allow the Canadian government to use …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Feb 28, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 28 (IPS) - An open letter demanding "an immediate halt to the deforestation of the Amazon jungle" has been released by Brazilian television stars taking part in the Globo Network series " Amaz- nia …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Feb 28, 2007
OAKLAND, California, Feb 28 (IPS) - The history of the modern U.S. conservative movement -- circa 1964 to the present -- is replete with its share of hucksters, snake oil salesman, rhetoricians, mudslingers, marketers …