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IPS Inter Press Service - Aug 31, 2007
PISCO, Peru, Aug 31 (IPS) - "We have come here because God sent us," says pastor Pedro Leyva Díaz. He looks tired after distributing food, clothes and sweets in dozens of poor communities devastated by the earthquake …
IPS Inter Press Service - Aug 31, 2007
BROOKLIN, Canada, Sep 1 (IPS) - As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to climb shrubs and other woody plants will likely dominate grasslands, altering pastoral lifestyles around the world, a U.S. study has found.
IPS Inter Press Service - Aug 31, 2007
HATO GRANDE, Colombia, Aug 31 (IPS) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s efforts to broker a humanitarian agreement for the release of hostages held by Colombia’s guerrillas have already begun to bear fruit.
IPS Inter Press Service - Aug 31, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 31 (IPS) - Political interests and specialist lobby groups appear once again to have stalled plans to dam the Cunene River where it forms the border between Angola and Namibia. After years of …
IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean - Aug 31, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) - In an eerie echo of the 2000 Elian Gonzalez case, a custody battle is raging over the fate of a four-year-old Cuban girl who is currently living with a foster family in Miami but whose father …
IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - Aug 31, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) - Energy producers waste about 40 billion dollars every year by burning off gas released at oil fields, says a new study commissioned by the World Bank.
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Aug 31, 2007
QUITO, Aug 31 (IPS) - A solution to the ongoing confrontations between mining companies and rural communities in Ecuador is likely to be left up to the constituent assembly that will begin to rewrite the country’s …
IPS Inter Press Service - Population, Refugees - Aug 31, 2007
LA PAZ, Aug 31 (IPS) - In the crowded Bolivian barrio of Achachicala, Salvation Army pastors and volunteers are fighting malnutrition by feeding 500 children on less than 50 cents of a dollar per meal.
IPS Inter Press Service - Africa - Aug 31, 2007
LUSAKA, Aug 31 (IPS) - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), an international conservation organisation, has launched an initiative to protect Zambia's Kafue River from pollution: the 'Save the Kafue …
IPS Inter Press Service - Europe - Aug 31, 2007
BRUSSELS, Aug 31 (IPS) - Poverty in the Palestinian territories has reached "unprecedented levels" because they have been held under an "economic siege" for almost seven years, a United Nations body has found.