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IPS Inter Press Service - Africa - Mar 31, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 31 (IPS) - South Africa has joined the race to find alternative sources of energy: government has already approved a 'Draft Biofuels Industry Strategy', and called on stakeholders to discuss it.
IPS Inter Press Service - Mar 31, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 31 (Tierramérica) - Brazil is working towards producing enough ethanol to substitute 10 percent of the gasoline consumed worldwide within 18 years. That would mean increasing its current production …
IPS Inter Press Service - Mar 31, 2007
MOSCOW, Mar 31 (IPS) - Foreigners engaged in retail trade and food product markets face a ban on doing business from Sunday.
IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - Mar 31, 2007
BLANTYRE, Mar 31 (IPS) - Tobacco prices and production levels are dropping amid pressure from the anti-smoking lobby and the general downturn in agricultural produce markets. But Malawi has still not made adequate …
IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport - Mar 31, 2007
NEW DELHI, Mar 31 (IPS) - India's Supreme Court has thrown a spanner in the government's plan to promote affirmative action by reserving 27 percent of admissions for them in central (federal) institutions of higher …
IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport - Mar 31, 2007
WASHINGTON, Mar 31 (IPS) - With full European Union (EU) membership on hold, the Middle East the focus of global attention, and both China and India on the rise, Turkey has begun to turn to the East.
IPS Inter Press Service - Mar 31, 2007
GENEVA, Mar 30 (IPS) - The United Nations Human Rights Council's fourth session wrapped up Friday with good results, particularly because developing countries "regained the initiative," said Swiss academic Jean …
IPS Inter Press Service - Mar 31, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 30 (IPS) - Hopes that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would be taken to task this week over human rights abuses in his country have been dashed -- this after regional leaders reaffirmed their …
IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Mar 30, 2007
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 30 (IPS) - The Argentine government has taken a tougher stance in its claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands. At the same time, it has approved an investigation into serious crimes …
IPS Inter Press Service - Education - Mar 30, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 30 (IPS) - The Brazilian government has a total of 45 different programmes targeting young people, according to the National Secretariat of Youth. Nevertheless, young people face high unemployment …